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Old October 29th 11, 06:28 PM posted to rec.autos.simulators
Mario Petrinovic
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Mario Petrinovic:
> Mario Petrinovic:
>> GaryR:
>>> >Mario Petrinovic:
>>>> I just went to Lime Rock with Legends, and saw a lot of people
>>>>spinning. The difference between Damper and Centering Spring induces
>>>>those spins, so I would suggest to make those two the same.
>>>
>>> And here I have been thinking a spin is caused by too much speed, bad
>>> use of throttle, or wrong steering inputs!

>>
>> You can spin like that, or you can spin just turning into a corner
>> at normal speed, because wrong FFB fools your senses into doing wrong
>> things.
>> BTW, I still didn't find time to test (I am too tired now, coming
>> back from work), but from little test of Spring the previous day, it
>> could
>> very well be that the right setting for Spring on my system is 128%. If
>> this is the case, then this would mean that iRacing locked Spring also at
>> 75%, because 128 x 0.75 = 96. We know that Damper was also locked at 75%,
>> but iRacing reverted it back to 100%.
>> This 75% lock only confused things, because with this lock the
>> right settings for my system should be 128/128/96 (because Centering
>> Spring wasn't locked at 75%), and this is far from the default
>> 100/100/100. I am looking forward in a few days to find out if this is
>> so.

>
> Ok, here it is what happened.
> It looks like Spring isn't locked at 75%. It looks like, for the
> most "realistic" feel Spring and Damper should be both at 100%. Centering
> Spring, while it worked well at 96% when Spring and Damper were 0/96, it
> doesn't work well at 96% when Spring and Damper are both at 96%. It does
> work well though at the setting I determined with Damper and Spring both
> at 0%, and this is 22% on my system. So, now I am using 100/100/22. I also
> matched the Overall with what I like, so now I have 118/100/100/22
> (Centering Spring unchecked, and everything else unchecked).
> Well, this is it, I tried everything, and I cannot do better than
> this. Now I will start to race, I hope it will be "truetful" to me when I
> start to work on car setups (which I will not do right now, first a little
> bit rookie racing, : )), which is the main reason why I tried to find the
> most "true" FFB settings in the first place, so that I can feel the best
> what is happening within the car.


Actually, I still have something to do. I'll try different Spring
with 100/22 of Damper and Centering Spring.

Mario

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