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VO101_MMaister

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  1. Thank you. How much gearing is acceptable without risking a sloppy stick reaction in you opinion? What is the max RPM of the motors?
  2. Hats off! Great engineering! I truly admire people who are ready to learn completely new skills just to reach their goal. :) How hard would it be to increase the torque for a long shaft stick (lets say 20Nm)? In addition to the obvious replacement of components like gimbal, gear, motor, is it straight forward?
  3. From the video it is obvious that the refraction will shift the position of the objects. Just look at the white bar at around 4:34. My question is, how it would compromise the aiming? The revi is on the inside of the glass, and you aim on a shifted picture presented though the refraction. It sounds like your aiming will be way off.
  4. This is absolutely stunning. You could literally wrote that the pictures were taken in a real aircraft`s cockpit. I am looking forward to see the rest of it:)
  5. The early E models didn`t have the tailwheel lock, it came later. And it certeanly was a nice addition considering safety especially on paved runways. In many aspects the Spitfire was quite an oldschool aircraft for its time. The Bf109 was more modern and revolutionary when it came to cockpit ergonomy, system automatisation and pilot load. The British often chose the good old way over the new solutions. The spitfire was manageble without tailwheel lock so it was good enough for them.
  6. I am really looking forward to see your finished stick. I would like to do the same with an MSFFII but with a much higher output torque for a full length stick. I wonder if it was possible.
  7. Nice:) Designing and working assembly lines is a great field to pick up both mechanical and electrical knowledge.
  8. That`s a sweet printer you got there. You have quite a skillset considering all the work you have done . Can I ask what do you do for living?
  9. Wow this looks like a terrific product for 500USD, considering those large aluminum castings and those dampers/gas springs as resistance component, which is a Huuuge pluss! Let`s hope the material quality is not totally crap as usual with TM`s high end flight products.
  10. With this Pittman motor that would mean a crazy around 1:200 gear ratio to land at 50Nm with a resulted output speed of 14RPM :P It doesn`t look good. I would need a much larger motor to achieve this high torque, but then the FFB2 control board is the bottleneck. I am a glider pilot in RL and I love Condor as well. Flying gliders in condor doesn`t require a very high torque indeed. But I would like to build a stick which can be cranked up for higher loads to fly warbirds as well.
  11. Hi Thadiun, I like your concept about building a solid solution based on the FFB electronics, however I would like to build a full scale control column with higher torque. Would it be possible to connect even bigger motors with higher gear ratio to to the FFB2 electronics with some modding? I am still dreaming about 50Nm :)
  12. Actually I sent them an enquiry last summer regarding their CLS-E cyclic. Here is their answer: "unfortunalely we do not have experice with ED DCS yet.we directly support X-plane, prepar3D and MS FSX with our CLS2SIM Sw enviroment. https://www.brunner-innovation.swiss/product/cls2sim-software/" I don`t find this very appealing. Even if they decide to support DCS, you still cannot use your high end stick with other sims like CloD, BoB, Condor or whatever comes up. The CLS-E cost 8000EUR by the way :cry:
  13. Yeah, and it is a beast. I barely see it maxed out with anything at 4,9Ghz. With DCS +VR the bottleneck is still the VGA.
  14. :) cheers I will certainly give it a go, but only after the delid. Good tip about the watts. I will post it here if I have new results.
  15. Thank you BM, currently I use my CPU at 4,9Ghz and 1,32V. I tried that auto oc feature but for me these Vcore values over 1,4V were too scary. I think I will just delid the CPU as well to make some headroom for oc. I have done some reading about Vcore fineadjustments in this bios but it looks really complicated to begin with:)
  16. Hi BitMaster, I have the same board and cpu as you. What Vcore do you apply to make the 5,2Ghz? I am not too experienced with oc and this asus bios gives me more settings than i can handle:)
  17. ok, finally I found the solution:) I deleted the entire C:\Users\User\Saved Games\DCS.openalpha folder and it did the job. Now the game starts again.
  18. Hi, I have a strange issue with the new 2.2 version. It worked fine (well beside the usual midgame crashes) until two days ago when it started the following symptom: after I launch the game: DCS logo comes up normally It starts the loading process normally It stops at 57% and always precisely at 57%. In the background the hangar with the Sukhoi comes up and even the Oculus is active and I can look around but the loading process in the foreground won`t move from 57% and the game won`t start. I tried to repair even to reinstall but it didn`t help. Do you have any idea? :cry:
  19. I would like to clarify some basic terms around cnc and laser ect... CNC means a computer controlled machining tool. It can be a lathe, a milling a 2D cutting laser or water jet machine or even a metal sheet bending tool (and many more). The common with these machines is that they are not manually operated but a computer controls the manufacturing process. This automation minimizes the sample variation over a serial production. But CNC itself doesn`t guarantee a high quality product it is only a production method. As i can see the original VPC gimbal is made of milled aluminum parts while the BRD is made of cutted and bent sheet metal (steel). The later is a cheaper production method, but both are CNC controlled. Just because something is made of sheet metal it doesn`t mean that it is subpar compared to a milled one. It all depends on the designer`s skill and the quality of the production. It can be milled from Gr.5 titanium by a 5 axis CNC machine but it can still be a baaaaad design and product.:) Baur is quite an artist of sheet metal part design so I wouldn`t worry about it
  20. Try to move the USB connector of the sensor into another port. I had the same issue. It turned out that the sensor interferred with the USB soundcard which was used to feed my buttkicker. Plugging the sensor into another port solved it.
  21. Actually torque is everything. Especially when we are considering full length control columns with somewhat realistic loads. An ffb wheel has 15-20cm lever arm, while a control column has 40-50cm, so you need 2-3x more torque for the same force on the grip. Some gearing is necessary because a direct mount woud require some crazy huge and expensive motors with monster consumption and footprint. I think in this case motors with high 5-6000RPM should be preferred so even with high gear ratio the output rpm is acceptable.
  22. When it comes to reasonable gearing it is important to find out what is the minimum output RPM which is responsive enough. Maybe the much bigger DIY FFB steering wheel community has some numbers on this.
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