MWB 4 DOF Simulator

@bruce stephen, your rig looks wicked mate, and thanks for all your help with Simtools, so far!!!

Np gives me something to do. Plus people here really helped me. All I had to do was read, Ask a few questions. The heavy lifting had already been done, so I like to give back.

Nice one bud

Can you do a video showing the lower half,. I would love to see how the arms move.

More testing! Only using the front two motor at the moment.

Nice one its up and running

Hows the power on those IBT things are they getting hot/shutting down ?

edit: never pressed the brake once

They are getting hot, I put some thermal paste on the main heat sinks and fans, put a little stick on heat sink on the front of the power chips and I can feel that they are getting hot because I don't have a fan on them. Back ones not so much but it's hard to tell because of the fans, Set the PWMmax to 200, and have the max travel at about 40% and about 10% smoothing, just to squeeze as much as I can out of them. Shutting down wise, if you crash and start putting big spikes in to them then yes! And they are noisy (high bitch whistle on the motor windings) I've ordered a 50A shunt resistor from eBay so that I can monitor exactly how much current is being supplied to the motors, also when they shutdown. This should help me decide whitch Sabertooth to choose. If I use SM3 set to sinewave, sit in the seat and put both my arms out either side, the motor on that side stalls, but with arms in its fine! Also the motor body's only getting marginally warm, so I think I could definitely drive them harder!

So yesterday I revived my Sabertooth 2x60,
Big thanks to @SilentChill for the recommending it!
Overkill I know but I wanted to future prof. Well what can I say, night and day the difference, that and the new Simtools 2.0 never really got going on the old Simtools so it's hard for me to really know the difference. The Sabertooth is the way to go!
I've got a problem with one of my motors, Seems to be the brushes, I think the brushes may have been changed for the wrong type at some point, because they seem smaller the brush carrier. One lap of Nürburgring in PC and one lap in AC And I've got smoke coming out the back of the motor
Body of the motor was 90 deg c and the commutator was 115 dec c, wear as the other motor, seeing the same load and rated the same was only 30deg c
Got some tweaking to do in SMC3 because at one point my sim started kangoing across the back of my garage, any tips are most welcome!
Also big thanks to @BlazinH for his tutorial on the setup of the Sabertooth.

https://www.xsimulator.net/community/posts/117616/


More testing and setting up tonight.

Awesome !!

They are really good, they come at a cost but they are pretty much powerful enough for anything. You won't have to worry about drivers again that's for sure

What power supply would be good to use with that?

I use 6x 40 amp psu's and a battery for the back current

How many sabertooth? 3? 6?

3 2x60's

Als

I'm using two car batteries and a £10 24v 11A psu from eBay, 1580A from the car batteries. My systems 24v, so I've set my psu to 26v to trickle charge the batteries.
Dimension Engineering recommends went using a psu to also have a battery connected as well due to the Synchronous regenerative drive, Which I'm sure is just a fancy name for back EMF.
It basically puts power back into the battery under breaking. This can upset some power supply's. Also the Sabertooth 2x60 can drive two motors, 60A continuously and a peek of 120A for a couple of seconds. (Each motor)

https://www.dimensionengineering.com/datasheets/Sabertooth2x60.pdf

I got a really weird fault, The sim starts out fine I get about 1 min into driving and then I get a really high speed oscillation, I haft to shut down the game and start SMC3 to get the oscillation to stop, has anyone had this fault? @SilentChill , I've having the same problem in AC and Dirt Rally.

I have had motors suddenly going up & down by themselves - just when they are overloaded.

On some car games they allow replay. I suggest running a replay but without you sitting on it.
For me problem disappeared without my weight on it.

Ok that makes sense, I'll give that a go, Thanks

That is a Bandaid to a Problem,



@MWB do you have all 4 motor's up and running at least now ?

@MWB try setting FPID in SMC3 utility to 4. It sounds like a similar issue I had but not exact;y the same. Can you try that and see if it helps and report back

Hi @Nick Moxley,

No I'm only running the front two motors until I'm happy I've got everything working correctly, and then I will start on the back two. Can't wait to get all four motors working!