Derek Speare Designs | Official support Thread

[Brian Clancy]

This is the home for all questions about Dereks great products!

 

[Hampus Andersson]

You didn't offend me, I just think this forum could do with a little nicer tone, especially after the pCars banned thread debacle ><

Although i never had anything to do with that thread other then posting information that PCARS had supplied themselves i agree. Thanks for slapping me in the face
I´ll keep it straight from here.

 

[Jim Cole]

Not sure about when the pedals are connected to the wheel, but if you use a Leo Bodnar USB adapter for the G25/27 pedals you will have at least 1024 resolution, still a long ways off those pedals though.

 

[Hampus Andersson]

Not sure about when the pedals are connected to the wheel, but if you use a Leo Bodnar USB adapter for the G25/27 pedals you will have at least 1024 resolution, still a long ways off those pedals though.

Yea travel wise i´m sure there´s some difference as well.

 

[Niels_at_home]

For throttle and clutch, having more than 1 calibration step per millimeter pedal travel is useless. That means 100 steps is enough. Your foot and leg is NOT super accurate, tell it to move 1 mm and you can't reproduce that reliably. It is nice that you can have 4000 steps but thinking that it is better means you completely forget about the human factor.

 

[Hampus Andersson]

For throttle and clutch, having more than 1 calibration step per millimeter pedal travel is useless. That means 100 steps is enough. Your foot and leg is NOT super accurate, tell it to move 1 mm and you can't reproduce that reliably. It is nice that you can have 4000 steps but thinking that it is better means you completely forget about the human factor.

Surely telling the foot to stand still then push 1mm is different then telling the foot to go from 0-6,5cm of travel?
Inevitably you will move your foot through smaller distances then 1mm when pushing in a continuous motion.

 

[Derek Speare]

Hello folks - what's this thread about again?

 

[Paul Mullins]

It's about sim racing stuff Derek..

 

[Hampus Andersson]

It's about sim racing stuff Derek..

it was most likely a rhetorical question

 

[Jim Cole]

Sorry Derek, hehe, I was just putting that out there so people would have something to compare against. Didn't know the discussion would go where it did.

 

[Derek Speare]

Hi friends,

If you're a member of iRacing, then you've probably seen all the stuff below as I'm pretty active there. The render below is the seventh redesign of my pedals. The "Bull Pup" design saves 50% in materials and 66% in CNC time. Less machine time and materials = less cost.

This is my newest design, the Velocity:

And everyone knows my Track Boss

 

[Hampus Andersson]

Do you have any measurement on the height?
And did you shorten them a little due to no footplate?

 

[Derek Speare]

No real details on the height except that they're around 12" or so. The arms in the render are an older version, and the recent photos of the steel arms (the thinner ones) are what I'd use in a production version.

This is the last prototype I made - it's 3/8" 6060 aluminum with the steel arms:

 

[Chronus]

These look quite sturdy, Derek. Good finishing also.

 

[William Geuze]

Looking pretty good, like it can take a beating

 

[Hampus Andersson]

Something like this was a good solution to the lack of wheel plate,

will look good with these

 

[Paul Mullins]

Hampus - what are the UFO's on each side of your rig? Bass Shakers?

 

[Hampus Andersson]

Hampus - what are the UFO's on each side of your rig? Bass Shakers?

No idea, not my rig, it´s from iRacing. Posted it here because he had solved the foot plate issue pretty neatly.
Probably some form of speaker as you say.

Back on topic, these are just pure sex. They are not in development yet, it´s merely a thing for the future, maybe.
Had to post them still,

 

[Hampus Andersson]

First forum where the inverted pedals above got no reaction... that´s funny.

Here are some renders on Derek´s pedals.

I might do a Dubai version in pure gold

 

[Derek Speare]

Hampus, you really have some superb talent All gold...as if the price isn't going to be enough as they are

Like I mentioned on the iRacing forums, I am making this final design one which can be inverted without anything major. The other design was a preliminary one, but the "Bull Pup" design is one which lends itself to being inverted fairly easily.

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[Hampus Andersson]

I simply drag and drop materials but i do have a 900 dollar renderer
It's truly amazing this renderer, i did one with chrome black and regular chrome with some copper springs and it looked absolutely insane.
Will post tomorrow,

Sounds good! Hitting two flies with one stone is always nice
Need to upgrade my rig so i can easily switch if i want