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Pads would be worn differently with heavy braking, they should feel ok again once they ware a bit under normal braking.
Fluid should be changed every 1-2 years because it absorbs humidity, it's another of those things that never gets done though, like gear oil changes
Pads would be worn differently with heavy braking, they should feel ok again once they ware a bit under normal braking.
Fluid should be changed every 1-2 years because it absorbs humidity, it's another of those things that never gets done though, like gear oil changes
Power supply is the likely, lots of other things could be causing it too though. Processor heatsink blocked up is a common one, as is failing ram. There should be something in system logs, if not there should be logging software to see the reason for the shutdowns.
Not trying to tell you where to shop but PC world is on a lot of folks blacklist after they refused warranty on an ASUS laptop with a broken hinge a few years ago. They refused because the owner had installed a different operating system. ASUS where exchanging the model even outside warranty because it was a known problem and wrote to the owner saying it would be honoured but PC world still refused. Sorry for going off topic.
EDIT It might be worth running memtest to check for RAM errors.
http://www.memtest.org/#downiso
Not trying to tell you where to shop but PC world is on a lot of folks blacklist after they refused warranty on an ASUS laptop with a broken hinge a few years ago. They refused because the owner had installed a different operating system. ASUS where exchanging the model even outside warranty because it was a known problem and wrote to the owner saying it would be honoured but PC world still refused. Sorry for going off topic.
EDIT It might be worth running memtest to check for RAM errors.
http://www.memtest.org/#downiso
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Ye gods, what the hell is that thing?? Doesn't exactly conform to the KISS principle and if its only intended for single speed use as a generator I can't see it doing much a turbine doesnt do.
There actually was a 2 stroke perfect for the same job (efficient generator) called the Petter Harmonic, used exhaust and intake resonance instead of crankcase compression or forced induction. Didn't use oil (wet crank) and only ran at a very narrow rev range but there was an engine in the USA using the same principle and between them they made it impossible for the system to ever be used commercially due to patent issues.
I was trying to get back on topic, really I was but the camshaft got replaced by cats balls somehow and then again by ball shaped engines.... oh well.
There actually was a 2 stroke perfect for the same job (efficient generator) called the Petter Harmonic, used exhaust and intake resonance instead of crankcase compression or forced induction. Didn't use oil (wet crank) and only ran at a very narrow rev range but there was an engine in the USA using the same principle and between them they made it impossible for the system to ever be used commercially due to patent issues.
I was trying to get back on topic, really I was but the camshaft got replaced by cats balls somehow and then again by ball shaped engines.... oh well.
Police hassling folks with tuned cars is a waste of public funds. I'm on a motorcycle most of the time and you quickly notice who the safe drivers are when your that vulnerable. Articulated truck drivers and folks with tuned cars are by far the most observant and courteous drivers on the roads here, the most dangerous are cars bringing kids to/from school closely followed by white van man.
A minor drawback, experts are working on it and promise a solution will be found any day now. Maybe worth trying to make a 2 stroke sound before the rush starts, a tom cat undergoing castration would be a good starting point 
Nice one, hats off to the guy. Imho this is the dying breath of a dinosaur made obsolete by the internet.
Often more than anything else including the product, the TV is unwatchable with BS adverts, magazines are full of BS adverts, folks are turning to the net for info and entertainment and they cant find a way to ram BS adverts down our throats here
Often more than anything else including the product, the TV is unwatchable with BS adverts, magazines are full of BS adverts, folks are turning to the net for info and entertainment and they cant find a way to ram BS adverts down our throats here
Porsches system is nice, tensioners both in front and behind the cam belt to swing timing. Anyway, they all suck, 2 strokes rule
http://www.richersounds.com/information/hifisystems
About half way down the page is a budget amp/speakers set (Hi-Fi System 1). Over your budget but great sound quality, you would get used setups like this for well under 80 euro from folks upgrading.
A better set of stereo speakers is another option, use your current pair as rear speakers. An off the shelf 5.1 setup will sound better but any surround system needs to be set up properly to work well. Imho getting seperates would be the way to go, after the initial cost you can upgrade components as needed and I dont think you can beat big speakers for sound quality (neighbors might not feel the same way )
About half way down the page is a budget amp/speakers set (Hi-Fi System 1). Over your budget but great sound quality, you would get used setups like this for well under 80 euro from folks upgrading.
A better set of stereo speakers is another option, use your current pair as rear speakers. An off the shelf 5.1 setup will sound better but any surround system needs to be set up properly to work well. Imho getting seperates would be the way to go, after the initial cost you can upgrade components as needed and I dont think you can beat big speakers for sound quality (neighbors might not feel the same way
)Tried to find highest recorded speeds but nothing much over 140mph. Should be somewhere around 200mph, aerodynamics plays a bigger part than outright power and most had the aerodynamics of a very high downforce brick Was wrong about the F1 output, it was around 900hp for the race and 1400-1500hp qualifying.
Was wrong about the F1 output, it was around 900hp for the race and 1400-1500hp qualifying.LFS lacks glitter. It doesn't put on the same kind of show as the big name motorsports games, no train of flashy splash screens, intro videos, twinkly menus, all of it giving more priority to marketing than development. Many expect a show and want to be fooled into believing they drove an exact replica of a Porsche around an exact replica of Donington and beat the fastest times of the worlds best drivers through their own skill while the game secretly smooths out the bumps, gives them a little more grip when they pass the point of no return, maybe even presses the brakes for them.
Showed LFS to a few folks and heard the same comments 'but there not real cars.... not real tracks... it doesn't look nice...'. Screw 'em, it's the best sim I've tried by far, all piled up at the first bend on Monza is the best place for most of them. Just my humble opinion as a noob to LFS.
Showed LFS to a few folks and heard the same comments 'but there not real cars.... not real tracks... it doesn't look nice...'. Screw 'em, it's the best sim I've tried by far, all piled up at the first bend on Monza is the best place for most of them. Just my humble opinion as a noob to LFS.
Got on a bus thinking it would be cheaper than driving and nearly as quick, lol. It took 3 times as long, cost about 50% more and when I got there the ba$tards didn't have the parts I went in for.
Hell yes. There are still a couple of 6R4's here doing hillclimbs, rallycross etc here. Don't think they are turbo's but still shocking fast and great to see in action. Both group B and 80's turbo F1 where putting out 1100bhp official and several rally teams where caught adding nitrous to that.
Would have thought floats should be avoided whenever possible on the Arduino, there is no floating point unit on AVR's and software based floating point calcs waste a hell of a lot of cycles.
Sounds like your missing some parts, imho you would be better compiling the full kernel as you would know for sure everything is as it should be.
Read through the discussion on oversteer and countersteering a few pages back, just throwing in my 2c with a couple of thoughts.
The pacejka formula can sometimes do wierd stuff further up the graph crossing well over the center line with some input values.
A large castor angle would in theory reduce the load on the outside rear wheel during opposite lock.
Doubt either are causing the problem but hadn't seen them mentioned.
The pacejka formula can sometimes do wierd stuff further up the graph crossing well over the center line with some input values.
A large castor angle would in theory reduce the load on the outside rear wheel during opposite lock.
Doubt either are causing the problem but hadn't seen them mentioned.
Coolermaster have had very good reviews in the past but its been about 5 years since I bought a PSU. Using an enermax, very quiet and stable but expensive compared to other brands. Toms hardware is the best I can recommend for unbiased hardware reviews.
I'll second that for the PSU, a failure can wipe out every bit of hardware so its worth getting good quality from a reputable brand, they can last you through several upgrades so really its cheap insurance.
Modular cost quite a bit more than the equivalent quality with a rats nest hanging out the back, you can save money here, cable ties are cheap
Modular cost quite a bit more than the equivalent quality with a rats nest hanging out the back, you can save money here, cable ties are cheap
When screwing around with core parts of the system I agree but not when screwing around with user space applications running on that system.
Thats the kind of thing you would accept from some ancient 16bit OS with no space for error handling, even then it would hard to accept unless the hardware was seriously limited.
Cant find a link for this, think it was a voyager probe coder that managed to fit in some extra code to recognise a moon of jupiter, turn the camera and take a shot of it. The main code to fly the thing to the other side of the galaxy collecting data all the way is fully duplicated in case of memory errors, has full error checking and can continue with half the onboard sensors out of order. This was written in the 70's in a total of 4k memory, the extra code to take the photo fit in the few dozen bytes of space left over.
If a system with over a million times the resources is brought down for ANY reason it's a crap system.
Again, my knowledge of joystick drivers on linux isn't great. A joystick needs a driver, the usbhid driver contains everything they should need but manufacturers like to be awkward and do things their own way through their own drivers. The basic functionality of your wheel is supported by usbhid, force feedback is supported through MadCatX implementation, I'm not even sure where he added it (I'm using an older kernel) but I'm guessing its now part of usbhid.
$ modinfo usbhid
filename: /lib/modules/2.6.32-30-generic/kernel/drivers/hid/usbhid/usbhid.ko
license: GPL
description: USB HID core driver
author: Andreas Gal, Vojtech Pavlik, Jiri Kosina
srcversion: 84CAE6E46ACCA3B9F140D12
alias: usb:v*p*d*dc*dsc*dp*ic03isc*ip*
depends: hid
vermagic: 2.6.32-30-generic SMP mod_unload modversions
parm: mousepoll:Polling interval of mice (uint)
parm: ignoreled:Autosuspend with active leds (uint)
parm: quirks:Add/modify USB HID quirks by specifying quirks=vendorID
roductID:quirks where vendorID, productID, and quirks are all in 0x-prefixed hex (array of charp)
The last line gives details of how to pass parameters to the driver (this doesn't apply to all modules and its not always visible with modinfo). In this case the vendor and product id's passed to usbhid when loading enable different functions, usually when the manufacturer hasn't used the standard signals defined in the USB HID specifications but has made use of the vendor defined signals. This is still covered by the USB specifications but it make life difficult
Thats the basics of whats happening, I think usbhid has more ways of passing parameters, I kind of remember something about the 900deg function of your wheel being separate to the force feedback function but you will need to either read through the source (not that difficult, just takes a bit of getting used to) and/or check with MadCatX.
$ modinfo usbhid
filename: /lib/modules/2.6.32-30-generic/kernel/drivers/hid/usbhid/usbhid.ko
license: GPL
description: USB HID core driver
author: Andreas Gal, Vojtech Pavlik, Jiri Kosina
srcversion: 84CAE6E46ACCA3B9F140D12
alias: usb:v*p*d*dc*dsc*dp*ic03isc*ip*
depends: hid
vermagic: 2.6.32-30-generic SMP mod_unload modversions
parm: mousepoll:Polling interval of mice (uint)
parm: ignoreled:Autosuspend with active leds (uint)
parm: quirks:Add/modify USB HID quirks by specifying quirks=vendorID
roductID:quirks where vendorID, productID, and quirks are all in 0x-prefixed hex (array of charp)The last line gives details of how to pass parameters to the driver (this doesn't apply to all modules and its not always visible with modinfo). In this case the vendor and product id's passed to usbhid when loading enable different functions, usually when the manufacturer hasn't used the standard signals defined in the USB HID specifications but has made use of the vendor defined signals. This is still covered by the USB specifications but it make life difficult
Thats the basics of whats happening, I think usbhid has more ways of passing parameters, I kind of remember something about the 900deg function of your wheel being separate to the force feedback function but you will need to either read through the source (not that difficult, just takes a bit of getting used to) and/or check with MadCatX.
As far as I'm aware yes, everything you need is loaded. MadCatX would know the inner workings of joystick drivers better though, I think in some cases extra functionality can be added either by extra modules or different parameters passed to the modules already being used.
True, thanks for pointing that out. Maybe one day when you install python on a debian box it will be a dependancy
Technology in motorsports is important, huge advances have been made in automotive tech due to it and it can only improve further. However, it kills any motorsport it becomes a major part of and we end up with 'push to pass' systems just to get some action back.
I don't see this as an error in technology or in motorsports but in promotion, there are plenty of balls out mad ba$tard sports where the guy (or gal) with the biggest tackle wins and the crowds are on the edge of their seats from start to finish. The internet is taking power away from the promoters, after seeing a youtube clip of Russian tractor racing I'm more likely to get on a plane to see that live than buy an extortionately priced ticket to watch F1 cars go around and around.
Tech has its place and does good things but I don't believe it will ever give better action than pure unassisted balls and adrenaline.
I don't see this as an error in technology or in motorsports but in promotion, there are plenty of balls out mad ba$tard sports where the guy (or gal) with the biggest tackle wins and the crowds are on the edge of their seats from start to finish. The internet is taking power away from the promoters, after seeing a youtube clip of Russian tractor racing I'm more likely to get on a plane to see that live than buy an extortionately priced ticket to watch F1 cars go around and around.
Tech has its place and does good things but I don't believe it will ever give better action than pure unassisted balls and adrenaline.
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