Simulator Help

[elvisowned]

Hi
My Name is David Collins and I live in Tampa Fla and I need some advice on * my Simulator. I want to run your software and have the chair react directly to the inputs for the game and not just the joystick. The chair turns 360 degrees and tilts and rolls. The 4th motor moves the chair up in height about 1ft at startup.
The chair runs via 4 electric motors that are controlled by 4 Mitsubishi s500 inverters, the inverters are ran via a motor control board that handles all the limit switches and takes inputs to drive the motors via the joystick. The joystick in constructed of micro switches and puts out a 5v signal to the control board to run the selected motor forward or reverse.

I need advice on how to run your software to output position data from the new computer directly to the motor control board instead of using the joystick for this 5v signal.
Thanks in advance, David Collins 813-240-6590

Video of My Chair. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRBV0hRHSSo

[prodigy]

Sorry, I don't know how to help you with this but I just want to say that I would love to see how it moves

[elvisowned]

Hi
Here is a quick video of the chair moving. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRBV0hRHSSo

[motiondave]

what is the control board you are using?
Then we may be able to assist more.
It looks like a former arcade sim you have there.
What software are you using currently?

[sirnoname]

Hi David,

there is no support for your installed interfaces. If you have a command protocol data sheet that is running over serial cable you can perhaps work with the USO dialog. Else you have to remove the boards and use other boards. This means you have to wire the new boards. You need good knowlege before you are doing such things. Without such data sheets you can try to hack into the protocol by using pass through RS232 diagnostic software (i.e. run "free serial port monitor" on the control PC to log the existing software that currently works).

[elvisowned]

what is the control board you are using?
Then we may be able to assist more.
It looks like a former arcade sim you have there.
What software are you using currently?

The control board is original to the game. Right now the game computer and the chair work off the same joystick independantly of each other. If I move the joystick right it tell the chair to move right and on a seperate usb cable it give the game program a right input from the same joystick. Im trying to find a way to have a joystick control the computer and then have the computer send outputs to the existing control board to operate the correct motor, roll, yaw, ect. I want to match the action on the computer screen to the exact movement of the chair.
The joystick now sending 5v to the existing control board over six color coded wires. Is it possiable to have the new computer send the same type of voltage to my original control board. I didn't know if there was a interface board that would work between my new computer and the original control board?

[tronicgr]

I think you could replace entirely the control board you have with this or even use the analog 0-5v stage on it, replacing your joystick inputs. But you must find out if the motors can provide some kind of position feedback for the position otherwise the platform may be positioned in wrong angles and positions.

Thanos

[motiondave]

Looks like you will have to do a complete re-wire. If you dont know whats in there, take it out and start again from scratch, almost.

[elvisowned]

Looks like you will have to do a complete re-wire. If you dont know whats in there, take it out and start again from scratch, almost.

I found the diagram for my Mitsubishi s500 inverters.

[elvisowned]

Can ya send us a better pic on Mitsubishi s500 inverters or a link, if this only requires a 5v signal to operate than , Im gunna get shot for this, I would trail a k8055 in place as the controller. It has the capabiles of controlling two motor, this is not your best option we could proberly do a lo better as the k8055 is a little slow but clever profile wrinting ya will have it back to a pc controlled arcade machine and in the future with a real controller it could become a kick arse simulator.

Hi Bob
Here is the link the Mitsubishi inverters.
http://www.allied-automation.com/pdf/S5 ... Manual.pdf

Thanks for the help. David