worked generally fine during the tech alpha last month. AFAIK, it is working generally fine for those rhino owners who may be on development teams and have been participating in the dev alpha. Neither of those are "complete builds" though, so its anyones guess what we'll see on release day.
Quick question on USB hubs. Im intending using 2 hubs (not daisychained). For everything but the Rhino and my Crosswinds I have a TP link hub that has already served me well. So , For the Rhino and pedals am I better with a USB 3 hub? Does it need to be powered and if, ultimately Im plugging in the crosswinds, the FFB crosswind kit and the Rhino, do I need some overhead in terms of unused ports or will a 4 port hub be fine? Thanks. Noob at all this.
From experience USB3 is usually somewhat better, I've encountered less problems with them. Cheap USB2 hubs often use knockoff chinese chips and are somewhat quirky. YMMV
Quality is a different concern. It is true (unfortunately) that some hubs work and others don't. I was just talking in principle. It is good advise to go with somewhat reliable brands and don't buy the cheapest one you can get.
RSHTECH USB Hub Aktiv 3.0 mit Netzteil, Aluminium USB 3.0 Hub mit 7 USB 3.0 Ports, USB 3.0 Port Verteiler für Datenübertragung mit 10W (5V/2A) Netzteil, RSH-518-2
Wanted to try the new beta software, but I cant update my firmware, "no compatible devices found". The stick works fine, and connects to vpforce configurator, its running firmware 1.0.16. Tried various browsers, tried USB2 and 3 ports on my motherboard and a USB3 PCIe card. Not sure what else I can do?
One more question. Max PSU current is for some reason set to 4A. I have the "stock" PSU that came with my rhino, it says 19.5A @19V. Can I just set that PSU current to 19.5A or am I misunderstanding something?
You could drive more than one device of certain PSUs, then you need to limit the per device draw. In your case, you can safely put that to 10 Amps. That is more than you will ever need probably.
4A may(!) become a bottleneck if you pull diagonally and both motors draw maximum power at the same time, Kind of an edge case, but the only scenario I can think of.
I‘m driving three motors from a 15A PSU and set the Rhino Stick (2 Motors) to 10A and the pedals (1 Motor) to 6A. Pretty unlikely that all three will pull max A at the same time.
@walmis regarding the current beta of the VP configurator. Don’t know if bug or feature. When you enable the hardware trim and offset the center, it stays offset when you disable the hardware trim again. And another thing I encounter. When opening the VP config, it doesn’t always read and display the current config from the stick without forcing it. With the last release version, that worked reliably as far as I can tell.
Im having some issues with oscillations when using software endstops. I think this issue is new in 1.0.17b, but Im not positive. If I move the stick towards the software endstop (with no other forces being active, or master gain to zero) it can induce oscillations, with or without holding the stick. I tried a few things, like low pass and notch filters, but nothing seems to cure it.