Nah, he's abandoning the production to focus on family and mental health, and also issuing a full recall on shipped devices and kits due to an issue with the motors.
anyway of copying my thrustmaster warthog stick profile and pasting to the VP Rhino profile in msfs , there is an option to duplicate but only for the same controller, weird?
I don't have the 16ex, but I have their f-18 grip and I'm pretty sure overall height is the same / very similar. I have the winwing adjustable extension on and I have it adjusted as short as it will go at the moment. Overall height from the floor is almost exactly 26 inches / 66 centimeters. Winwing adaptor plus the extension is 6 inches / 15 centimeters.
Hoping this helps a bit. My DIY Rhino setup on on a SimFab rig, with the base about as low as possible on their metal mount plate. I can use the 16EX with no extension, but it is a bit too low. After some experimenting, I printed a 60mm extension, and that's about perfect with the height of the WW adapter as well. Happy to provide more details of measurements if you want.
Telemffb is optional if you want extra effects such as engine vibrations, deceleration forces pulling the stick forward, gun vibrations etc. Configurator is for configuring the "global" settings for the Rhino base and, should one need it, creating per-aircraft profiles (different stick movement ranges, Rhino-based force trim etc.)
Winwing is another easy option, only requiring the adapter, while vkb needs both adapter and one of their black boxes. Benefit for vkb is that you retain their software to program the stick rather than utilizing walmis' application
Quick question about the Rhino - has Walmis suggested he’d build a version with higher peak force? Some competitors are getting up to 35 Nm of peak force which seems a fair bit higher than what’s on offer with Rhino.
Man, I wish I could test it all out. Rhino seems like it’s quite polished for such a small operation. I’m worried about the motors getting too hot under decent load. If there are other motors that produce 5x peak torque I’d think that’d make them run cooler and provide more longevity.
The Rhino has fans which kicks in when it starts getting hot. For me they rarely turn on for normal use, only when pushing hard for long time do the fans enable at all. So I think temperature is well under control with the Rhino
I'm too dumb/lazy to figure this out but if I limit the throw of the Rhino to 70% in each axis with a 15 cm extension. What % would that equate to if you changed it to a 10 cm extension?
To solve the geometry, you need to know what the length is from the gimbal pivot to the extension. I don’t have a Rhino, so I don’t know what that number is. If you measure from the center of the pivot to the top of the stub or to the top of a known extension length, I can figure it out pretty quickly with a CAD sketch.