Hello all,
Long story short, I have a project in mind and not sure how to get there, hoping to get some insight or advice.
I have a sim racing setup with a steering wheel that's getting long in the tooth and I'm trying to get a little more mileage, pardon the pun, out of it.
The problem is the wheel uses a 24v dc brushed motor to control force feedback and it will not return the wheel to center fast enough to correct an oversteer situation. I would like to give it more voltage to get more rpm out of the wheel. Clear as mud? Everyone still here?
My thoughts are to provide a separate power supply, probably an adjustable 0-46VDC to dial in max wheel speed, intercept the existing power leads to the force feedback motor and use them to regulate the new power supply to the motor. I do not know at this point how the SIM wheel provides voltage to the force feedback motor, pulse width or variable voltage. I am familiar with Arduino's and c++ so I could build an Arduino to read the wheels intended voltage and apply voltage from my new power supply. But I was wondering if it's possible to just wire in a pair of transistors or MOSFETs and a couple flyback diodes to control the motor.
Any help is appreciated, and if any of my rambling has been incoherent I can try to explain better.
Long story short, I have a project in mind and not sure how to get there, hoping to get some insight or advice.
I have a sim racing setup with a steering wheel that's getting long in the tooth and I'm trying to get a little more mileage, pardon the pun, out of it.
The problem is the wheel uses a 24v dc brushed motor to control force feedback and it will not return the wheel to center fast enough to correct an oversteer situation. I would like to give it more voltage to get more rpm out of the wheel. Clear as mud? Everyone still here?
My thoughts are to provide a separate power supply, probably an adjustable 0-46VDC to dial in max wheel speed, intercept the existing power leads to the force feedback motor and use them to regulate the new power supply to the motor. I do not know at this point how the SIM wheel provides voltage to the force feedback motor, pulse width or variable voltage. I am familiar with Arduino's and c++ so I could build an Arduino to read the wheels intended voltage and apply voltage from my new power supply. But I was wondering if it's possible to just wire in a pair of transistors or MOSFETs and a couple flyback diodes to control the motor.
Any help is appreciated, and if any of my rambling has been incoherent I can try to explain better.