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The stick length from pivot to middle of grip; on the direct drive one it is about 46cm and gets nearly 3kg of force at max power, at the grip (30mm motors) I fly with it set at 70% power on the geared up one it is about 53cm and gets about 6.5kg of force at max power, at the grip (25mm motors) I set it to 30% power If you don't need the extreme force, but want something stronger than rhino and moza, low to the ground and a very simple to build design, the direct drive one could be the way to go - and only $330 aud in total plus using a bit of scrap angle iron. The controller is in the black box (box is oversized for the job but was cheap). you can extend the wires and put it wherever you want. A power supply to run them is about $20 aud off ebay. (Used HP server power supplies)

Hi @BoundaryLayer is it possible the last time you used VR in DCS, it was still single threaded? When it moved to MT, it introduced stutters for me that required 'turbo mode' to be enabled in openxr toolkit. I still require it to this day.

it looks the business

The broom handle and metal stick ar e 1 metre in total. Both 30mm magnet motors running at 60% power. Overall smoothness is similar to the other build which is a good thing. No real difference in feel between the two axis even with the motor weight / mass Basic FFB Stick.mp4 p.s i take back what i said about winwing being limited to smaller motors if they attach one to an axis

low budget, zero prestige ffb joystick no.2 approx $300 aud to build (all parts and license) just waiting for the controller board to arrive

@VR Flight Guy in PJ Pants https://qr4rigs.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=45_14&products_id=243 i think this must be for the new yoke? https://qr4rigs.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=1_29&products_id=248

if it was specifically a moza profile, it might have been someone else's post you're thinking of, but glad you got use from it

I enjoy flying the huey without any force trim (unless shooting at stuff). I'm certainly not saying the below settings are accurate to the huey, but just how i enjoy them Joystick - I use some damper, a tiny bit of centre spring to stop the stick drifting when it's tilted right over. I add some Main Rotor shake, vortex ring state shake and translational lift shake. Rudder and Collective - I add damping, Main Rotor shake, some vortex ring state shake and translational lift shake. I don't use any force trim on these at all. p.s to disable force trim on the rudders and pedals, I need to use the ffbeast "Direct X effect" parameters turned down, otherwise their force trim turns on along with the joystick, when turning it on via the switch on the huey centre console.

here in aus the 5090 is more than double the cost of what the 4090 sold at, for 30% improvement. australia's gone totally totally nuts but for $1000 aud more, you can buy a complete 5090 gaming PC (probably with the cheapest additional components)

do you see these anywhere? null null

if you turn this on, does it reveal any extra settings? I'd be surprised if there aren't more options hidden away null a quick look in the manual i see this. maybe there are presets you can select to change the curve, if not being able to create a custom in /out curve? null

its not the ab9, but this is what ive done to increase the centre breakout force while not over applying force at full deflection

there are others who it would have had a far greater impact on, but thanks Max it was from a shared passion for windsurfing that we knew each other.

these were all questions i always wanted to ask a friend who was an f18 growler pilot, especially now i have a ffb setup that he could have tried. he tragically died in a car accident not too long ago during one of our chats about sims, he did remark that dcs and msfs2020 looked a lot better graphically than what they trained on

thanks Silverdevil and Max. agree it does seem like permissions. All looks normal under security settings. it's strange how all guid values match and should just work (being same PC etc) Anyway, got there in the end by keeping the old folder and dumping stuff into it

kind of a solution - It seems that if I keep the old DCS folder and delete everything from it except the config folder, then copy everything else from the fresh dcs folder into the old one, it all works but not the other way around This is the first time Ive needed to copy over my controller bindings on a win 11 machine. I wonder if windows is changing hidden attributes or something during the file copy? Ive also tried zipping the config folder and just the inputs folder then moving them over too without success.

Hi, I'm using the steam version. After experiencing some strange pauses during multiplayer after the last update, I renamed my user/saved games/DCS folder and let the game generate a new one (it cured the pauses). I've tried copying only the old input folder contents and then entire config folder contents across to the new DCS i(deleted all existing first) but the sim doesn't see the mappings. The device ID's and naming of the old configurations matched what was in the new input (after mapping some new buttons to test). Replacing the entire new DCS folder with the old one works fine. I'm fairly sure this worked for me previously. Any thoughts as to what might be happening? Cheers

Calibration.mp4

yay, built the three devices for under $1000 aud FFB Collective.mp4

I thought the same thing Even though they’ve pushed the yoke back and the right rudder forward probably to make the photo look better

has anyone seen any dimensions documented for this?

my hopes are melting away for a normal size ffb stick like msffb2 or logi g940. I am not a torque chaser. just wanna have it for helis. the vpf folk on discord must have re invented the wheel dozens of times over and used some smaller motors and smaller gimbals, albeit everything plastic i think, but that wouldn't matter for what you are looking for. I'm pretty sure someone there could build something compact for what you need, or guide you through it. Would something this size be acceptable? if you want a lower profile base (though it would have a bigger footprint) you could do what i did and put the motors level or slightly higher than the gimbal. I've got 3 vkb gunfighter bases that are now pretty much redundant. I was considering using some small motors and experiment with modifying one of them (belt and rod arrangement) to use ffb with no stick extension, as a challenge. might be enough force for trim in a chopper or some gentle feedback in jets

i think this could be DIY-ed with hoverboard motors directly driven, while maintaining the thin profile. would look slightly different but still close they are having a go which is great imo

it wouldn't be a chinese ad if there wasn't at least one overhyped detail or something totally misleading

have you tried tweaking the effect curves to give it a boost around centre at lower speeds (or vise versa)? I did that with mine and it's helped it to re center accurately without being overly firm at the outer limits