Simulated Wind using MonsterMoto and ArduinoUno

why not a Vortex Cannon?
Ha, ha !!

Here is my video on the effects of the air flow straightener on the wind simulator.

You see about a 30-50% increase depending on where the Anemometer is.

Silent Chill, just when I thought I had seen it all, someone can create something totally new. I am amazed. Just like you added wind I wonder if things like smoke could be added?

Yes with the correct values from a game you can create anything

My air straightners were designed a bit different Richard. The honey comb side also has a 10,5mm straight pipe, with a small edge on it. This way i can snap them right over the fan outlet and there fixed. For safety i will add a screw or some tape, but it's not necessary.

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I did some testing myself today and i totally agree with your findings in the video. At 60cm the wind is noticable stronger. It's more a beam and less spread out. Great find


My airstraighters are 60,5 mm long : 25mm honeycomb + 25mm straight pipe + 10,5 mm mouting (over the oulet)
If anyboy is interested, you can download them here below:

@Avenga76 : when we are using ultrasonic PWM with Motomonster, we cannot stack it anymore on the arduino
The clock tweak can only be applied on some pins (which are not compatible with MM).

Do you have any idea to make your beautiful box accept un-stacked boards?
Thanks!

I still had to rewire my rig to accomodate the windsimulator. I made a stupid mistake and blew up both my motoshield and arduino

Luckily i had a spare motoshield in stock and a replacement arduino arrived today. I got everything installed in arduino box (designed by richard )

So tonight i was ready to go and feel some wind, but gamedash kept crashing all the time. It took me all night to diagnose the issue and it looks like some of my USB ports are not compatible with Simtools and i needed to replace a USB cable. The strange thing is that my GS4, DSD shifter and CSP HB which where all connnected to the same hub/cable/port worked perfectly fine.

On the Iracing forum there's also a programm for the wind simulator in Iracing, which works without any problems on that same usb port/cable/hub.

I had the honeycomb airstraighters installed, but while in theory they should perform better, i took them off and prefered the turbulent wind more.




Will have another go after re-alining the fans to make a final decision to race with or without.


My friend Martin, who has started the same project, had another problem: As soon as he switched on the power on the motoshield one of the transistors exploded




A lot of trial and error

Blown Caps like that usually 99.9% of the time mean wrong 12v polarity in my experience . Simple mistake to happen but it does and I have too lol

Thanks I got pcars working but could not get Dirt Rally to work. I tried both options, but in gamedash the vehicle speed stays at 000.


Am I missing something? I need some help here guys.

First of all: @SilentChill for writing the code, sharing it with us and starting this topic. It's another great addition to my rig.



MOTOSHIELD

Actually we both got our MM at one of the recommended buyers on that list : http://www.ebay.com/itm/191674295987

My friends MM exploded, but mine has flaw too. Today i found out that at full speed one half side puts out 9,5v and the chip get really hot, much hotter than the good working side. The fan connected to that side runs noticably slower.

The chip on that side seats higher on the board. Which is probably the cause of the problem. This makes 2 out 3 ordered board faulty. I ordered another one, but it's starting to feel like a lottery.


GAMEDASH CRASHES

Gamedash crashed everytime i loaded a race game, but it worked fine with nolimits2. At first i thought it was usb related or even perhaps the com port of my GS4 was the problem. If i ran nolimits 2 once, the other games worked fine too, untill i closed gamedash.

Turns out that the gamedash crashes were not USB related, but due to wrong settings in gamedash. I did put the math values in every game, but forgot to adjust the settings in the output tab for each game.

Though i post it here if in case anybody runs into the same problem




DIRT RALLY STILL NOT WORKING

What ever i do i just can't seem to get dirt rally working with the windsimulator. When i run the game i the speed in gamedash remains at zero. I have edited the hardwaresettingsconfig.xml and tried port forwarding in SC4, but still no go.

Here's a screenshot while the game is running



What am i doing wrong here? If any of you guys could help me out that would great.

Hey guys.

I just thought I would share the latest addition to my controller box.

A total redesign of the lid with a 50mmx50mmx15mm fan





Here are some photos, ignore the wires hanging out because I haven't wired it up fully yet.







Here is a shot of it running



And here is a shot looking down through the spinning fans. Right over the heatsinks. I even lined up my supports with the ones in the fan so there is 0% obstruction.



The side vents are working really well also. You can feel a blast of cold air coming out each side.

Yeah, I will upload the files tomorrow hopefully. I just want to do some tweaking. The fan sits about 0.5mm above the caps and I am not sure if that is too close. I might pop in up another half a mill to allow for a bit of extra clearance.

I also want to try it with the fan wires in place, just so I can make sure I have enough clearance for them.

When I am all happy with it and finished tweaking then I will upload the file.

Made some VERY minor changes and printed out a new lid.

I am a bit of a perfectionist so I probably didn't need to make these changes and they aren't even noticeable but they are.

-Added 0.5mm height so there is now about 1mm clearance between the fan and the top of the capacitor (I was worried about other peoples boards with caps that were not quite flush with the board)

-Made the little hooks on the fan 1mm smaller so it is easier to get the fan in. I thought the old hooks were a little too long.

It 100% perfect now. The fan fits like a glove, it is so tight that you sort of need to wiggle the fan in there but once it is in then it ain't going nowhere. It is toight, toight like a toiger

@HoiHman : maybe your friend could use Red & Black wires instead of blue & brown wires... it could help preventing reverse polarity

Thanks. I have some other stuff that I have designed sort of along those lines that I will be announcing soon. I have been really busy designing stuff

Tested the fan on my test box running the 10A TMC blowers.

With no fans I stopped my tests at around 70-80 degrees.

With the 50mm fan it hangs around the 30 degree range. This is even lower than the 42 degrees with the 6A Seaflo blowers without a fan.

Plus it has this awesome red glow from the LEDs on the MM. Looks really awesome