Hi eRaptor, its not a Momo Force sadly . Its just a Logitech Formula Force USB (red wheel, but quite a few years old now - came out before the Momo line of Logitech wheels).

I will try and put some pictures on here if I get the chance. It is still for sale though.

Thanks,

Chris

Hi,

All of the act-labs stuff has now been SOLD.

Thanks.

Chris

Hi axus,

I'd be willing to consider it, but I'll be honest and say I doubt it would be economic for him as I'd have to send it via some kind of insured / tracked delivery and they weigh nearly 4 kilos!

From my experience of shipping larger / heavier items just to Europe the insured shipping costs would probably be more that the cost of the pedals themselves .

I limited the auction to UK bidders as from previous experience people never bother reading the listings even when you warn them items are heavy / bulky, and must be sent via insured delivery, and then decide they don't want to pay the postage once they have won . I have to insist on the shipping being insured as I can't take the chance of not covering myself if they get damaged / go "missing".

Still for the right price I'd be willing to consider it. I'd suggest pricing the delivery up yourself based on the 4kg weight and someone like http: //www.parcelforce.com.

Thanks,

Chris

Thanks

Fair enough - everyone has different experiences, maybe you just had a duffer.....

Personally I have never had any problems with this wheel, and the general consensus last time I looked was that the wheel and the FF got pretty good reviews for the price. Granted the Logitech pedals aren't that great, but then thats what the Act-Labs ones are there for .

Like I say I am open to offers, so if you think I am asking too much and are interested then make me an offer!

Chris

NOW SOLD


Hope its OK to put sim racing hardware for sale ads in here . If not mods please feel free to remove relocate somewhere more appropriate.

Sadly I no longer find myself with the time to play LFS as much as I was a year or so ago and all my sim racing gear is sitting in the attic gathering dust so I've decided to sell it and free up some cash.

The performance pedals and USB shifter are already up on ebay along with an act-labs 3-into-1 USB adapter that runs the whole lot off a single USB socket. Everything is in perfect working order, although cosmetically the pedal base case was altered slightly to fit a BRD race frame at one point (see pics on ebay for details).

The USB shifter is fitted with a genuine leather Momo shift knob which reduces the length of the stick a little and gives a better feel to the shift.

When Act-labs announced they were discontinuing both these products I bought a small stash of spares just in case, so for the pedals I have 7 spare springs (new type) as well as a spare rubber ball stop for the brake pedal. For the shifter I have 2 spare sets of shifter springs plus about 7 spare microswitches - so plenty of spares just in case .

The Logitech wheel is quite a few years old now, but still an excellent wheel as it has cable driven force feedback rather than geared which gives a smoother more realistic feel imho. Its the red Formula Force with pedals.

To be honest I don't really know what the going rate for this gear is. I know Act-Labs have re-released the USB shifter, but it seems a lot pricier than before (about 130USD including the USB adapter + shipping from Canada). I think the pedals are being re-released too, but are not yet available and I suspect will not be cheap..

The act-labs stuff is up on ebay here:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayI ... wItem&item=8811773919

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayI ... wItem&item=8811780889

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayI ... wItem&item=8811788212

I have put a BIN on the stuff, but there is no reserve, so potentially a bargain to be had if you are lucky.

Looking for about 25GBP + shipping for the Logitech wheel, but open to offers.

I can price up shipping abroad for this stuff, but to be honest due to the weight I doubt very much whether its economic to send outside of the UK.

Thanks for reading this and if you have any questions feel free to drop me an email.

Cheers,

Chris

Last edited by ChrisBsim, Fri, 19 May 2006 19:07. Reason : item sold

I've been away from LFS for quite a while, but saw this Matrox announcement about the TripleHeadToGo2 and thought of LFS .

I have a Parhelia that I used to use a lot for LFS racing with 3 17inch Hitachi 16ms LCD panels, and for LFS it was one of the best ways of improving the realism imho. Once you have tried 3 screens you won't want to go back!

However the Parhelia is showing its age now, (it never really was a contender in the power / fps stakes anyway). The problem I was having is that I would really miss the 3 screen setup, so this new offering from MAtrox finally gives me an upgrade path while keeping access to the 3 screens.

To echo others comments though, don't expect the prices to head south anytime soon. Matrox seem to have little understanding of pricing for the home / gaming user. I think the Parhelia's are still hideously expensive given how outdated they are now.

On the VGA / analogue output quality, I think this is one are where Matrox historically seem to do very well. Sure its not as good as DVI, but I suspect you won't be able to tell the difference on moving images. The current Parhelia uses a VGA cable splitter for left and right monitors from a single DVI socket and the quality is as good as the DVI only centre screen.

The other nice thing about this solution is you are free to choose from other manufacturers graphics cards. A huge bugbear for me has been the almost complete lack of driver development on the Parhelia. Updates took forever to come out and there was no Matrox developed driver support under Linux.

According to the Guru3D review the NVidia cards are the way to go at the mo as ATi cards don't seem to work well with the Matrox offering, and ATi don't seem interested in offering any help anytime soon to fix it by the sounds of things.

You need a beefy card to get good framerates though (7800 or better) seemingly.

For what its worth I think its a smart move by Matrox. This has a much wider market than their cards, and I suspect involves less development costs than trying to bring out a card to compete with the like of ATi / NVidia.

Interesting to hear what LFS-ers think of it.

Cheers,

Chris