Building my own pedals ( need some suggestion )

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I plan to build my own pedals to replace the LWFF pedals. I don't really have much experience in building things but i have some ideas on how to do it. I will take the pots with complete wiring out of LWFF so i won't have to plug the pedals into serial port + all games that work with LWFF will work with that combo, too. I will need some sort of steel or wooden frame. I will probably have it made by an expert ( hope it won't be very expensive ). Now to the hardest part: pedal travel and resistance of the pedals. This is very important! The throttle pedal should have a neutral ( not progresive or regresive ) resistance through the whole travel. Finding an appropriate spring will be quite hard in my opinion. For the brake pedal i wan't progresive resistance and relatively stiff. Just imagine syringe with air in it and you prevent the air to get out and compress it. I think that gives a good approximation of a real-life-brake pedal. I need you guys to tell me how to do that. Are there any dampers like this? Remember, it has to give progressive resistance when compressed and than uncompress as quickly as possible! Thanks for your answers and feel free to point out some other problems i might be facing in my enterprise. TIA, Borut.

For basic design and implementation, check out Lew's Wheels: www.tiac.net/users/ten10ths/

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> I plan to build my own pedals to replace the LWFF pedals. I don't really > have much experience in building things but i have some ideas on how to do > it. I will take the pots with complete wiring out of LWFF so i won't have to > plug the pedals into serial port + all games that work with LWFF will work > with that combo, too. I will need some sort of steel or wooden frame. I will > probably have it made by an expert ( hope it won't be very expensive ). Now > to the hardest part: pedal travel and resistance of the pedals. This is very > important! The throttle pedal should have a neutral ( not progresive or > regresive ) resistance through the whole travel. Finding an appropriate > spring will be quite hard in my opinion. For the brake pedal i wan't > progresive resistance and relatively stiff. Just imagine syringe with air in > it and you prevent the air to get out and compress it. I think that gives a > good approximation of a real-life-brake pedal. I need you guys to tell me > how to do that. Are there any dampers like this? Remember, it has to give > progressive resistance when compressed and than uncompress as quickly as > possible! > Thanks for your answers and feel free to point out some other problems i > might be facing in my enterprise. > TIA, > Borut.

-- Bob Curtin Worcester Area Strategy & Tactics Exchange http://www.tiac.net/users/ten10ths/ "If God had intended men to join the Army he would have given us green, baggy skin"

Also try http://www.gunpowder.freeserve.co.uk/wheels Bob Curtin wrote in message <[email hidden]>...

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>For basic design and implementation, check out Lew's Wheels: >www.tiac.net/users/ten10ths/ > >Borut Srebotnik wrote: > >> I plan to build my own pedals to replace the LWFF pedals. I don't really >> have much experience in building things but i have some ideas on how to

do >> it. I will take the pots with complete wiring out of LWFF so i won't haveto >> plug the pedals into serial port + all games that work with LWFF willwork >> with that combo, too. I will need some sort of steel or wooden frame. Iwill >> probably have it made by an expert ( hope it won't be very expensive ).Now >> to the hardest part: pedal travel and resistance of the pedals. This isvery >> important! The throttle pedal should have a neutral ( not progresive or >> regresive ) resistance through the whole travel. Finding an appropriate >> spring will be quite hard in my opinion. For the brake pedal i wan't >> progresive resistance and relatively stiff. Just imagine syringe with airin >> it and you prevent the air to get out and compress it. I think that givesa

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>> good approximation of a real-life-brake pedal. I need you guys to tell me >> how to do that. Are there any dampers like this? Remember, it has to give >> progressive resistance when compressed and than uncompress as quickly as >> possible! >> >> Thanks for your answers and feel free to point out some other problems i >> might be facing in my enterprise. >> >> TIA, >> >> Borut. > > > >-- >Bob Curtin >Worcester Area Strategy & Tactics Exchange >http://www.tiac.net/users/ten10ths/ >"If God had intended men to join the Army he would have given us green,

baggy >skin" > >