Professional Simulator in Australia

yes, just make it to the size you need.

if you are worried about power bills, bin the sim idea pronto. My 12v sim with screen, PC, speakers, etc, uses near 1kw power.

What would the power bill be let's say for a 2dof 5 hr/week use?

My computers + the beamers consume by far more power than the motors.

A balanced 2DOF consumes surprisingly low power: 2x 12V x 25A = 600W
600W x 5 h = 3kWh = $0.60/week – less than a dollar.

That is good to know. Does anyone have any suggested plans or can anyone recommend servos (is this the best way / most straight forward way to create a motion platform, similar to the CKAS 2dof?) Are there any Australian suppliers?

Like Value1, I've measured my electrical consumption as follow:
100W average for my Game Computer (PSU 650W)
220W average for 2DOF wiper motor 12VDC (PSU server 575W 12V 47A)

there are plenty of ways to create a better system than CKAS. Firstly, look at 24v Dc, as 240v is not covered here. Too dangerous and I have seen a few 24v motors that would do you an injury.
Secondly, for frame design, are you looking at copying an existing design or do you have something in mind?

1kw = 0 .35 cents per hour . 5 hrs = $1.75 per week. But as said, if you are that worried about power costs , forget a sim. Its like owning a V8 car but not pushing the gas pedal. Waste of time having such a car.

Lol a power struggle going on here, Mines a feather wieght , PC consumes more than sim. lol - 850W SIm runs a 12VDC battery with a trickle changer on which is only on when sim is on, which is 50W, keeps the sim running all night going hard, but 2x 200w motors not really a big draw on the 12plate battery. But I do put it outside once every 2 weeks and give it a hard charge over 10 hours to keep the Battery in its peak as a precaution.

Can you get the weight down, 500kg your looking at 240v , money. Can be done for less if you can source a proper controller. About 4k for the platform then build your top. As they did don't make it so high off the the ground, like a ckas, higher you go the stronger the motor required, gravity is a killer and cost rises too. Now been thinking for a while on this subject and an idea pops into the mind and that's using AC Servo motors , used in the bigger DIY CNC setups might be a method, a lot of info available and normally micro controller driven. Don't think this has been explore if you want to have a look.

I would seriously look at minimizing the design to start with, use 2 screens or a projector, and save weight for the first one, while working on the research to build the dream one. You can always sell it later to finance the dream one a little, Values1 joyrider would be a nice design to start with and you will be able to balance the weight of you and screens plus add counterweight to fine tune the balance off both axis. Take a look around.

bsft,
I have all my steel, u-joint, 230V AC Inverter Motors, Boston Gearheads, well, I have all the components, excluding the 3 VFD's, and the electronic hardware to build a ckas "type" of platform.
From your thread above, are you saying that this forum does not deal with my unit??? Just want to clarify.
Thanks

Nobody has documented a 240v design here onsite, been a couple shown, the main issue is to have a controller sorted out that can drive the VFD's , there was a proposed setup using the SimAxe to control two other boards that will drive the VFD's , just time has not allowed this to progress. So some research and care is needed for this to be accomplished.

eaorobbie,
Thanks for your reply. I had a conversation by pm with youbuddy and he sent a diagram and felt highly confident that the SimAxe control board, board's, with opto-isolators and pwm's would drive
the VFD's. As I'm fabricating, I will post pics of progress, here, and when I'm close to electronics, youbuddy said he/you folks would help me out to make this baby run. I know it's doable from the
past "other" forum with the 1.6 - I just don't go there anymore - (not banned or anything, just got tired of listening to fights about coding, which I don't know squat) - This is the ONLY sim forum I
use.
When it comes to the electronics, I am not a newby, but just plain ignorant. We had a discussion earlier about the safety of using 230V ac....and again, you and I are on the same page.
Have a blessed day.

Yea I got a bad habit to break myself, Yes this is the ONLY sim forum No1 for sure.
Lets make this baby rock.

eaorobbie,
Yea Baby - It WILL and DOES ROCK!
Thanks my friend.

the duke says"yeah, lets rock".

I would like to copy a design - something simplistic, affordable but yet flexible. There are a few videos online of someone in France who copied the CKAS 2dof design successfully (I believe his posts are on the motion sim .de forum website). If I could achieve something like that it would be great!

Hi Earobbie - I am estimating the weight of 2 individuals to be 200 kg (max), flight sim equipment and computers will come up to around 150 kg. so perhaps a 350 kg load?

I am unable to mount a flight deck on a joyriders so I don't think that might work.

Do you know of any plans available for a 2dof motion platform?

And is this new software launching in a few days an interface for motion hardware? Will it be freely available?

Cheers

The new software will possibly be able to interface with new hardware of today as it has the abilities to control interfaces from either a comport or network interface opening up heaps of unexplored areas of motion controllers and hardware's. Quite easy to adapt a micro controller to SimTools and have it run the interface for you as well - 240v/110v is being explored too with a SimAxe too.

Plans, no I have never venture that that weight, I would lay it all out in something like SketchUp, find the foot print you will need then you need to decide how you can drive it, my earlier suggestion was for a one man rig, Sorry didnt think you were going that big,wow. Be sweet to see.
I mainly focus on one man racing rigs, I have a joyrider in steel too, but need to re motion it with DIY actuators so I can have a flight rig too. Tried this on my racing rig, SimTools motion in flight is nice and quite profile and get flying.

Start a new build thread mate and we all can suggest and help you plan through to finish.

Take a look at this mate, http://www.xsimulator.net/community...º-yaw-pulley-actuator-system.4868/#post-46950
Might be an idea where you could drive it with 24v or 12v maybe.