Hardware

This is a list of all known interfaces used by the different output solutions of the profiler 2 application.
For detailed pneumatic, hydraulic or electric setups read the profiler output setup section.

Interface

controlled by

Interface name

Interface description

hw2

USO

Rock’n’Ride

This is the original Rock’n’Ride interface. It is controlled by a special serial cable that can set the chair in 7 positions per axis. There are some addons from different developers which will increase the reachable positions by a extra micro controller like displayed on the left side (green extra board)

hw9

USO

AMC 1.5

Tronicgr’s external intelligent DC motor control board can control a DC actuator like wiper motors or door actuators with its own pot feedback input. So you only need to transfer the ingame data with the USO dialog to the interface.
More information’s about current firmware and revisions you will find in the forum.
This interface is combined with a DIY H-Bridge which is able to drive powerful DC engines.

hw10

USO

Pololu
Micro R/C servo board

This is a R/C servo controller board to control gauges or sample simulators in scale 1:100. It is very cheap and easy to use.

hw11

USO

SCN5/SCN6

The SCN5 are equipped with a electrical stepper motor and will use their own intelligent microprocessor. They will receive the ingame data’s and will do the rest. A actuator with 100 mm length can access 13000 positions with a accurate encoder system. They are also very fast with maximal 400mm/second. Steppers are good in lower speeds and cannot move large weights in higher speeds. The SCN5 with 100 mm stroke length is the most used simulator actuator in the racing frame solution. It can simulate vibrations. This is at the moment the high end actuator for small racing frames. [read more...]

hw3

Synaptrix

Velleman
K8055D USB
VM110

This is a experimental interface from velleman which includes analogue / digital outputs and digital / analogue inputs. It is sold all over the world in good sorted electronic shops. (i.e. Conrad electronic)

hw4

Synaptrix

Every LPT
parallel port on
a normal PC

The printer port is a 8 bit digital output port on most of the personal computers. Since some years these normal ports are excluded by the cheap main board companies. However you can insert a LPT card in a free PCI slot of your computer. There are many relay boards out there which will connect up to 8 relays direct to that ports. This can be useful for the profiler to control some actuators or other related things.

hw5

Synaptrix

Conrad
serial relais
card

This is an old and outdated relays card from the electronic shop conrad electronic in Germany. It uses special commands to control the relays. This interface has only outputs, no inputs.

hw1

Synaptrix

RnR USB 1.3
X-Sim
Rock’n’Ride
interface

This is a DIY (do it yourself) interface designed to be exchangeable with the original Rock’n’Ride interface. It has two analogue inputs and eight transistors to control eight valves. It is nearly the same as the velleman interface without any digital output. (Same microprocessor)
You will find the assembly manual and build instruction on the old page.
[read more...]

hw8

Synaptrix

All DirectX
game input devices

You are able to use any windows compatible game controller as a pot input feedback for the use in the synaptrix control. So you are able to mix a simple joystick with a simple output interface like the parallel port relays card. Also joystick from logitech or other leading game device developer have very accurate pots and a good input electronic equipped. So you can avoid a bad ADC of a interface by using a professional joystick pot. The Force Feedback output is not used for any synaptrix output. It is also possible to use a Wii accelerometer with pee glove software as yaw, pitch and roll feedback with this plugin.

hw16

Synaptrix

USB eight 10bit analogue input device

This interface has eight accurate 10 bit analogue input for pots. It is provided by conrad electronic in Germany.

hw13

Synaptrix

Velleman K8061

This is a simple 7.1 digital display which is used as gear indicator.

hw15

Synaptrix

Serial port Virtual IO tracker

This is a plugin for the virtual IO head mounted display head tracker. It will read out the accelerometers and therefore represents the current pitch, roll and yaw value. This could be used for a simulator turn feedback.

hw14

USO

Mini SSC II R/C servo interface

Control interface for 16 hobby R/C servo engines.

iow40start

Synaptrix

Codemercs
IO-Warrior 40

USB interface with 32 outputs on a breadboard. This interface is very popular and good to buy over eBay or LCD modding shops. You are able to solder some MOSFET transistors or relays on the breadboard.