Pedal damper

[algherghezghez]

Hi guys, I have the MFG crosswind with the official pedal damper mod.  I've had it for years now and I love it, but I was wondering if I could improve it.

I have kind of a dead zone in the damper, I'll explain myself better: this happens when I fly helos and I disengage the spring to have "free" pedals. When I move the pedals the first cm or so is undampened, then the damping action starts taking place; I've always had this problem but with time it feels it's getting worse. Is it a fault of the damper? Is it just a normal and expected behaviour? Thanks

[MAXsenna]

Hi guys, I have the MFG crosswind with the official pedal damper mod.  I've had it for years now and I love it, but I was wondering if I could improve it.
I have kind of a dead zone in the damper, I'll explain myself better: this happens when I fly helos and I disengage the spring to have "free" pedals. When I move the pedals the first cm or so is undampened, then the damping action starts taking place; I've always had this problem but with time it feels it's getting worse. Is it a fault of the damper? Is it just a normal and expected behaviour? Thanks

You probably need to refill/top it off with more oil. There instructions for how to do it on YT.

Cheers!

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[Hiob]

...and there is quality differences in dampers. Some have a quite pronounced direction-change "hole". The one I used to have had this issue more pronounced the stronger the damping was set.
If you want the "best-of-the-best", use a motorcycle Steering Damper (a quality one obviously) or apply a FFB mod to your Crosswinds (expensive).

But first try Max' suggestion. It'll probably improve the issue.

[algherghezghez]

28 minutes ago, Hiob said:

...and there is quality differences in dampers. Some have a quite pronounced direction-change "hole". The one I used to have had this issue more pronounced the stronger the damping was set.
If you want the "best-of-the-best", use a motorcycle Steering Damper (a quality one obviously) or apply a FFB mod to your Crosswinds (expensive).

But first try Max' suggestion. It'll probably improve the issue.

Oh, you got me at FFB mod, how expensive are we talking?

[MAXsenna]

Oh, you got me at FFB mod, how expensive are we talking?

That's the way! 500+?

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[algherghezghez]

20 minutes ago, MAXsenna said:

That's the way! 500+?

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Oh, we're talking expensive expensive 

might be worth waiting for winwing then...

[MAXsenna]

6 minutes ago, algherghezghez said:

Oh, we're talking expensive expensive 

might be worth waiting for winwing then...

Are they releasing FFB rudder? 

[algherghezghez]

They announced both FFB stick and rudder, almost one year ago, hopefully in the next year we'll see something

[Hiob]

1 hour ago, MAXsenna said:

That's the way! 500+?

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Nah, the proprietary Motor and Circuit Board are 179,- +VAT (€). When you can print yourself, you may add 50-100 for Mounting Hardware and Filament.

Still expensive though!

[MAXsenna]

Nah, the proprietary Motor and Circuit Board are 179,- +VAT (€). When you can print yourself, you may add 50-100 for Mounting Hardware and Filament.
Still expensive though!

Oh, that wasn't too bad.

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[Dogmanbird]

4 hours ago, algherghezghez said:

Oh, you got me at FFB mod, how expensive are we talking?

About $300 aud if you can find an old hoverboard to take the motors from and use the ffbeast configuration

[freehand]

I use a motorcycle Steering Damper on my thrust master pedals works a treat the last time I used one was on my TL1000s about 130mph the bike would try to go into a tank slap.