DIY SEATMOVER 8 UPGRADE

Upgrading your motion simulator with BIGGER MOTORS.
One of the biggest mistakes when building your own DIY motion simulator is not getting big enough motors. I wanted to upgrade this 2 degree of freedom seatmover with some really big motors just to see what would happen and see if I can get them to plug into the wall AC powered so we dont need to use a battery that's going to be really helpful.
I ordered the motors off of EBAY really inexpensive $65 bucks for two of them and they are probably going to be awesome, if they work, fingers crossed! If your new here, I'm Dave and I run this 3 degree of freedom 3DOF rig and I have several videos on how to build it and I just finished up this series on how to build a 2 degree of freedom seatmover using windshield wiper motors and even though I got it to work, it's just not quite powerful enough for me. So that's why I'm upgrading and we're going to do it as cheap as possible.

On a lot of forums and Facebook pages, Sim Racers want a motion rig but they are very expensive. In this video I am showing them how they can modify their existing static rig for motion using cheap windshield wiper motors, Arduino, IBT2 motor controllers and software like SMC3 and simtools. This video is the start of a bigger motors upgrade to the 2 DOF seatmover project using the Jazzy wheelchair motors and we are going to be using a AC to DC inverter for power!

So to be clear, I am showing you how to modify your static rig for motion. This is a motor upgrade from the WW wiper motors to more powerful motors.

When I was building my motion rig, I looked on the internet everywhere for a video guide on how to how do it how all these different components and stuff hook together but I couldn't fine one.
So that's what this video is going to be. We're going to take two motors and connect them together with some hardware and some software and we're going to make a seat mover. seat mover seat mover

take your basic sim frame - wheel, pedals. were going to add a U-joint for side to side turning or back and forth for acceleration and braking.

we're going to use two motors and an Arduino uno and IBT-2 IBT2 motor controllers.
The hall effect potentiometers connect to the motor shaft to read the position of the motor. The position of the potentiometer sends a reading back to the Arduino so it knows what position the motor is in.

The equipment we need windshield wiper motors we need two of the motors to make the motion. The motors are controlled by these IBT-2 motor controllers.. All are controlled by the Arduino uno or an Arduino uno clone. The last thing we need are hall effect potentiometers.

I will link the parts I ordered in the description below once I get them all in.. So far I just have the Jazzy wheelchair motors and the AC to DC inverter.

00:00 start
04:00 electrical parts needed
06:00 isolating ground on windshield wiper motors
10:00 building test stand for motors
11:00 hall effect potentiometer mounting


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Amazon link for 24VDC 25amp power supply. 24V 25A 600W LED Driver Switching Power Supply （SMPS） Monitoring Power Supply Industrial Power Transformer 110/220VAC-DC24V
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07...

Jazzy Wheelchair motors on Ebay.. Since Ebay links change all the time, just search for Jazzy Wheelchair motors. There are a few different kinds. Just look for the ones in the video for reference. They cost me $65 for both plus $20 shipping.

50:1 12volt motors just search Ebay for GEAR MOTOR 12 VOLT GREAT FOR SAWMILL/CRAB POT PULL/FEED/SIMULATOR 75-80RPM 50:1 (sold by PGSAW in Canada)

Hall Effect Potentiometers DIGI-Key and others PN 987-1392-ND
https://www.digikey.co.uk/en/products...

Arduino UNO R3 - amazon. I have also used the cheaper ELEGOO clone.
https://www.amazon.com/Arduino-A00006...

IBT-2 motor controllers up to 43amps (which is a lot!)
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00WSN98DC?...

other motor controllers you could consider using are JRK12V12 or Sabertooth but I use IBT-2's

XSIMULATOR forum - Info specifically for arduino/IBT-2 for 1 to 3 Motors. You can use up to three motors per arduino. But you each motor needs it's own IBT-2 controller.
https://www.xsimulator.net/community/...

DMAX motion sim build posts on XSimulator
https://www.xsimulator.net/community/...