Calculated Brake Pressure

[boggie1688]

Hi Everyone,

Is it possible to create a calculated brake channel based on negative g acceleration in the forward direction?

I'm open to doing this post run via excel. Or alternatively via a calculated math channel in LUA.

I'm clueless as how I might correlate negative G to brake pressure.

Has anyone tried this?

[Mustangkev]

Here is a way that it has been done.

http://www.jameshakewill.com/brake-trace.pdf

I wrote a script that included it which is in the second post here:

viewtopic.php?t=5227

[boggie1688]

Thank you!!!

[boggie1688]

Here is a way that it has been done.

http://www.jameshakewill.com/brake-trace.pdf

I wrote a script that included it which is in the second post here:

viewtopic.php?t=5227

I found some time tonight to integrate your brakeg script. I ran into two issues; see bold. The first was the missing parentheses. Easy enough. The second was that brakeG was displaying acceleration Gs. I removed the sign switch and that fixed the issue.

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brakegId=addChannel("BrakeG",10,2,0,1.5,"G") 
totalgId=addChannel("TotalG",10,2,0,1.5,"G") 

local g1=getImu(0) 
local u3=getGpsSpeed() 
local b2=([b]-1*[/b]g1)-((u3^2/10000)[b])[/b]
if b2>0 then 
setChannel(brakegId,b2) 
end 
local g2=getImu(1) 
local g3=((g1^2)+(g2^2))^(0.5) 
setChannel(totalgId,g3) 

Now that I have brakeG I assume I point RaceRender at this channel as my brake input. How did you scale it from 0 to 100 for brake input? Can you set 0 Gs = 0 and my highest brake G as 100? This doesn't necessarily represent the brake pedal input. Am I missing something or is this as good as it gets without a brake pressure sender?

[Mustangkev]

Yes, I did miss a parenthesis.

I haven't really played with this too much but your suggestion of scaling the result from 1-100 seems reasonable.

[MrBlahh]

boggie what did you decide to do about scaling the data?

[wizrd54]

This worked great. Really good document to explain everything as well. Thank you.

I scaled it 0-100 and ended up needing to use 200000 instead of the 50000 called out in the PDF. Our 318ti chump car is a bit less aerodynamic than a Formula Ford used in the documentation haha.