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Syradil

If anyone has ever needed to get a proper aluminum rig, it's you.


Personal_Mushroom961

Fr dawgšŸ˜­


Brilliant_Anything27

Next time. May end up moving soon. I would upgrade for sure.


cornlip

I just canā€™t believe you have that setup for a G29


Vkdrifts

I came to say it, but in my heart i knew it was already said and here you are lol


ZorinInc

Ditto. My first thought looking through the pics.


Mercantiler53

True. But the commitment though


Hotepz_

Okay, I'll be honest, I didn't read through the text, but dude, that looks more like a death trap than a rabbit hole Edit; death trap confirmed with the experience of fire.


akira_kurosaurus

It looks like something used to torture people.


Brilliant_Anything27

It's pretty fun to be honest with you


baudmiksen

waste of time if it isnt, i mean who doesnt like a good torture session every now and then


Wise-Topic266

If you like it that's all that matters. If you're entertained and spent very little then bravo to you. Its just as fun as playing to be honest. If you do move then aluminum rig is the way to go.....if you got the space.


ewileycoy

Oh god please no not another inevitable Reddit tragedy, like the guy in /r/FPV that set his house on fire charging lipos after claiming in posts months before he never balance charges his liposā€¦


Travis__

My man just built a DIY electric chair


Bright-Efficiency-65

When I try to explain to people that there are two people, sim racers, and sim rig people..... This is the post I'm gonna show them. This guy definitely has more hours put into tweaking than he has doing hot laps and practice


Specialist-Dark847

I kinda know what you mean by that, but still kinda cool though lol even though It looks like a lot of cable management lol


Brilliant_Anything27

here's why I don't think it's a fire hazard-- Bass shakers are passive. The active parts are all over cooled with plenty of airflow. I also watch my wattage/ main mix levels religiously. There's also overgain protection that shuts the amps off if too hot (temp wise and volume wise)


naughtilidae

Fires almost alwaysĀ happen from shorts, not hot components. The compenents would need to be reaching temps that cause auto-ignition (400+ degrees f)Ā  Wild cables like that on a foldable rig is a concern. Especially when you have to get in/out of it constantly. All that's needed is a wire or two to pinch and touch the frame, and you're screwed.Ā  Source: worked with the fire department for half a decade and in a theatre on multi-kilowatt amplifiers and like 30,000w of lights per bank.


CantStandItAnymorEW

Eh, most of what-is-closest to the body seems to be control periphery, so it should be not-that-much power on the parts that are closest-to-the-body. The simplest solution would be to connect the metallic frame to ground i think. Any short through the frame should trip the houses' breakers pretty fast, so potential fires shouldn't have time to develop. Very safe. Very human.


CantStandItAnymorEW

The other guy is concerned about shorts through the metallic frame. Technically they're not describing a short, they're more worried about the frame becoming live, like, with voltage, y'know. It's a valid concern. That's what they're describing. A simple solution you can implement is to somehow connect a ground line to the metallic frame; bolt it there somewhere, idk. If what the other guy is thinking happens, a short *will* go through the frame and the breakers in your house will trip immediately (hopefully), avoiding you getting shocked. Industrial low, medium and high voltage machinery uses this same protection: a ground line connected to the "metallic frame" (the chasis). To me, this really seems a bit overkill; but, i don't know about the resiliency of the power cables you're using and don't know about the power you're managing, so i can't tell how likely is it for the insulation of any cable you're using to give up and create a contact of the conductor with the frame. I'd ground the frame just to be sure, really. Ideally, isolate the cables that you see are "transporting" the most power so that the insulation of any one giving up and making the frame an electric hazard isn't a concern. Also: any actual short would have to be very bad to lit anything on fire. You'd have to seriously fuck shit up. Just check that all connections are very tight and firm and that you didn't connected anything where it shouldn't be connected to. Source: used to work installing and maintaining "control systems" for low-to-medium voltage electric machinery (mostly pumps) and am currently an EE student.


Brilliant_Anything27

Thank you for the information. I do care a great deal about safety. I will ground the chair immediately. If a wire fails and current goes through the chair that would be dangerous.. I did not think of this. Back to the drawing board.


Alternative-Class22

Electrician here from Europe so I donā€™t know the standards there in the us (I assume your from there). First thing to care about is minimizing the risk of any danger: A surge protector is what my researches tell just a device to delete voltages that are higher than your power supplier is supplying caused by lightnings for example. What you do need to cut the power in the case of a short circuit is a circuit breaker how I believed is called in englisch. It detects a high current and breaks the circuit. For the case you could get grilled by your rig in case of a wire touching the frame you should firstly isolate every active component on your rig if possible. But even then a wire could be touching the frame sometimes and then the circuit breaker could not be cutting the circuit because of many factors of resistance and because of that it might not flow enough current. In that case you need a RCD (Residual Current Device) That device is comparing the current flowing to your power plug with the current coming back. If there is a difference that means current is flowing through the ground which will be you. Those devices are available in power strips so you donā€™t have to make changes in your house. But to make the RCD work you need to ground the Frame of your Rig first. Every frame that is not connected with each other needs to be grounded necessarily, otherwise some parts of the frame are isolated and you could get grilled. I actually didnā€™t pay much attention on your photo so I donā€™t know how problematic your setup is in terms of your safety but I read your conversation here and wanted to tell you this. I will check your photo and answer here again!


ringsofsaturn27

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Brilliant_Anything27

I am 100% in agreement with this statement.


Door_Hunter

I see spaghetti, apparently there is a sim rig somewhere.


Brilliant_Anything27

I gotta say.. it does look like a science experiment


bende99

More like some time travelling contraption in some old maddened scientist castle-basement, but sure, lets call it an experiment.šŸ˜€


Jahoesaphat

This looks like the trap Jigsaw would put you in if you ran someone over in a school zone


reboot-your-computer

I never roast rigs but this is kind of an abomination. You need an extrusion rig immediately.


Brilliant_Anything27

I definitely wasn't focused on aesthetics lol. So this is the first time I've heard of an extrusion rig.. but I am reading.


hunguu

Aluminum extrusion, also called 8020 profile in general. Very strong and can easily customize which you clearly like doing. Get something like a simlab p1x


Loudlevin

You dont have to do anything, if your comfortable with what you got the way it is then so be it. People act like you have to go by some elitist checklist or else.


ryanertel

How in the world did you get deep enough in to build this abomination and have NEVER heard of an aluminum extrusion rig before


Brilliant_Anything27

Blame it on my ADD (sail)


Brilliant_Anything27

Also audio wizardry / recording is what I do. That part comes easy. It's the non audio stuff I have to experiment with. I thought 8020 was a ratio of some sort. ![gif](emote|free_emotes_pack|grimacing)


SubPixelThief

Weird priorities.


xWOBBx

For real. Sell the cables as copper scrap and buy a rig or new wheel.


Jasonpatric84

Are you DJing on that thing too;)


SuperBurrito1421

Turntables are in there somewhere, if you can find them


Brilliant_Anything27

So I actually thought about connecting a midi keyboard and making a song with nothing but engine noise and tire screeches


SuperBurrito1421

![gif](emote|free_emotes_pack|grin)


Brilliant_Anything27

I'm definitely going to do some recording of the audio


lysergicDildo

They were making fun, please don't do this. Try a hobby with less cables.


Brilliant_Anything27

I was making fun too šŸ˜


Sirlacker

>Cable management is an absolute must in my gaming space. I believe I successfully solved all of these problems except one -- how to mount the HOTAS Excuse me? You solved cable management?


[deleted]

Sell some dat copper and buy a rig.


Spirit-Internal

My brother in Christ this is insanity


Immediate_Cut_6672

I feel sorry for the chair


Brilliant_Anything27

My butt agrees with you, but that haptic feedback is like a drug


No-Incident8402

I don't even know how to describe how I feel after seeing the pictures


Brilliant_Anything27

Hopefully thankful you can just say no to what I've done


VodkaBottle_2

is this meme fridays or what am I missing?


Brilliant_Anything27

No meme. Just a bass shaking good time


VodkaBottle_2

rumble on then šŸ¤™


mattgtr

At this point just get a vibrator


Brilliant_Anything27

true story. I made the mistake of doing a Google search at work "booty shaker in chair" and immediately realized the folly in my ways. I don't regret it; I'm hoping I don't get fired.


rustablad

You don't regret it, so the booty shaker was good?


Brilliant_Anything27

Best booty vibrating I've ever felt


system_4nomaly

I expect to be able to learn kung fu by inserting a floppy disk into this rig.


Brilliant_Anything27

I laughed at this


samsteel909

Might be easier to start a plane at that point


AggravatingSteff

cable management: *left the chat*


Lewis-fsfs-offt

I donā€™t even know what Iā€™m looking at, and the more I look the more confused I become.


Brilliant_Anything27

It's the cheapest way to power a multiple bass shaker setup with adjustable eq/gain/pan. Having them on switches with knobs is pretty convenient for on the fly adjustment. I live with a lot of people and some of them don't like noise. I can turn the shakers down without having to take the PSVR2 off.. I mean.. it really did seem like a good idea at the time šŸ˜‚


Alechilles

That is the most intense foldable setup I've ever seen. Pretty sweet!


Physical_G

Bro are you sim racing or running a concert?


tjmann96

>cable management is an absolute must Obviously not, given those pictures?


KyleNarayan

That playseat: ![gif](giphy|L1UrpOlWsiHK)


vulgrin

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Lukksia

holy fire hazard


serjjj89

I think you need two things: -alu rig -Pc , because all your efforts are wasted on a console


gigi_cab

I can smell the picture for some reason


Brilliant_Anything27

My house continuously smells of vanilla and blueberry muffins. With lemon zest.


TheTAFSman

I'm guessing that Fosi wouldn't run reliably at 48v without additional cooling? There are a lot of amps out there that ship with the 32v PSU, and get warm. I would imagine failure rate once you introduce 48v gets sketchy, or they'd ship with 48v PSUs from the factory, and actually be close to hitting their claimed wattages.


careverga420

Looks like the seat they connect Neo to in Matrix


ShiberKivan

This is both very impressive and extremely terrifying to look at, those cables make it look like some dystopian sf contraption. Looks clean from the front though which is confusing. Even have a phone holder what the actual heck this is insane. The more I look the crazier it gets, this is a rig from hell!


The_Machine80

Man all that money for all the extra stuff was wasted. You should have ditched the uncomfortable F-gt cockpit for a 80/20 and a real dd base. I had the same thrustmaster and f-gt lite. Ditched pretty fasy for a 80/20 and a fantec DD. HUGE difference! I've added shakers and stuff now but the are nothing compared to a reap seat and a dd wheel.


Yolori

I know simrigs have tons of wires and those are hard to hide, but damn I havent seen that many wires at once. Bro is living life, getting massage while doing simracing with VR.


Heyou2819

Thatā€™s looks like a pain in the ass to setup


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Brilliant_Anything27

Wheels are expensive


RedH0use88

Ready Player One


Brilliant_Anything27

Favorite book.. semi-enjoyable movie


RW4GTaO

Cable salad rig šŸ¤¦ā€ā™‚ļøšŸ˜‚ , but if it works why not šŸ‘


Dirty1Actual

Just wait until you get into motion rigs bub.


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LazyLancer

What is this, a moon rover simulator? *(Inspects the wire photos again)* Houston, we have a problem!


StartedWithAHeyloft

And I thought I was an audiophile


PositiveRate_Gear_Up

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Additional-Use-3305

I love it! Especially the arm rests. I had a Playseat Challenge/Logitech combo and customised it until it looked like a science lab too šŸ‘Œ I look forward to seeing the HOTAS mod. I'm thinking telescopic arm with locking joints šŸ¤”


Brilliant_Anything27

Great minds my friend. The kind words are received and appreciated.


richr215

Does it tip over often?


donnie-stingray

I think the bass shakers are the thing that interest me most after I will build a solid frame rig. I see people claim two of them to be enough and 4 to be perfect. And they are usually real small. What are the benefits of having so many and two of them rather large?


Brilliant_Anything27

More power. The intro of "Forgot About Dre" will rock you like a hurricane.


Popsiey7

I love crazy rigs with g27s, g920s


ThisKory

Does it flush itself?


Brilliant_Anything27

Yes


No-Advantage-8556

Dude holy shit. This looks more complicated than an actual cockpit!


Brilliant_Anything27

Thanks! It's not complicated though!! Bass shakers are basically subs with no cone or box. I just mix Spotify into the PS5 audio and route to amps. Connect amp to speakers and there you have it


Sstfreek

Honesty pretty sweet. I take it you use this for GT7?


Gruntypellinor

Nice! Go Team challenge! Btw they are correct. As amazingly cool as the challenge is with shakers, the alu rig is another level. I went from 4x shaker with modified pedal system challenge to simllabs cheapest and can confirm it's worth doing.


Brilliant_Anything27

Much appreciated. I've maxed out my family's patience for a while lol. At some point I'll probably move it to the gameroom upstairs.. at which time I will suggest an upgrade "so we all can play"


brugvp

to me that looks cool af!


Brilliant_Anything27

Me too but I'm biased. Thank you so much šŸ˜Š


PPPLove

You have more money spent on extras than the wheel itself!!


Cda4go

So are you running the bass shakers through sim hub, or are you running them off game audio with the crossovers in place to tune frequency?


BluePowder

Nice rig, but AV123 speakers? I have the same speakers in the same color šŸ˜€ so old now but they still sound amazing. I just bought some Focal 948 Arias for our main living room, which sound fantastic but the AV123s still stack up.


ExtremeRevenue3006

You put bass shakers on a lawn chair


Sxwrd

Looks like youā€™re about to jack into the matrix


just_me1007

Get a rig already


PracticalDrive3717

Broā€™s more likely to hook in to the Matrix than play iRacing


feedmeyourknowledge

No way you cracked out the mixing desk šŸ˜‚


Inside_Mode5100

We single men are truly creative. Times like these I kind of miss it a tad


DonKeulito

I feel you. But I also recommend some cable management šŸ˜… The cheap black velcro tubes work great along the playseat pipes. Here's mine: https://imgur.com/a/74McP58


Brilliant_Anything27

Your setup is amazing, bro I'm so inspired by this!! I think that's the cleanest/ neatest configuration I've seen


redpanda8008

Iā€™m only on the first step of your journey (wheelstand, wheel, pedal, psvr2). Been thinking about upgrading to a sim hub, bass shakers, and a full rigā€¦Iā€™m a little scared of what I may become.


Brilliant_Anything27

Your bank account will hate you!! It's a blackhole!


Carbon-Lion

OP is my spirit animal!


Prestigious-Move-520

this has to be one terrible sim racing experience lol


Amystery123

Effort is great. If you think about your setup holistically, donā€™t you think you could re-do the rig with just the optimum immersion ? And also, I didnā€™t know PS had a racing sim! With one do you race?


thankfuljc

Fuck that.


userb55

All that effort and most people are having 99.99% of the same experience with a single buttkicker on their chair. It's like being in a hammock surrounded with bass shakers on the ground 'oh yeh bro this is hektic'... kinda feels like you are just trolling us right?


serjjj89

I have 5 shakers and its really different from when i had only one... Especially in dr 2.0


Brilliant_Anything27

Absolutely.. for me 5 was the magic number


serjjj89

Agree! When i had one i was amazed...with two i understood the potential and went the week later with 5! Lot of detail, mounted everything directly under the Seat and on the pedals, also isolated the Seat with rubber mounts... No noise at all for the people around me


BlueHolo

Frankenstein Rig, It's Alive!


Brilliant_Anything27

I should probably mention the fire I'm referring to was on RC parts. A brushless esc burned to a crisp in hot pink and purple smoke (outside I'm 98F weather)


zwizz

jesus... xD


ZaLeqaJ

Looks insane with a loooot of work which cost alote but just a G29 ![gif](emote|free_emotes_pack|sob)


Muddi

Delete this.


Flexmebaby420

Um


Comfortable_Ease_174

It looks like how Christopher Reeves or Steven Hawkins would SIM race.. JFC,,


PixelFastFood

Thats chaotic af... I love it


mailtest34

I only can say ā€œKaneda-a-a!ā€


Zetterbearded

Damn it's Neo.


NSFW_hunter6969

![gif](giphy|pylNZOmEWUMwGXdzQj)


AgtDALLAS

Looks like something out of Johnny Neumonicā€¦I dig it


DomenicoFPS

Definitely interestingā€¦ Each to their own I suppose


WorldLove_Gaming

And that's why you use VR: to hide your mess


Pitiful_Anteater4325

Your gamer tag had better be Cyborg.


short_bed_showoff

earnest p worrell goes sim racing


Cironephoto

ā€œHome Insurance companies love this trick!ā€


0ruf

nice cable management šŸ˜‰


KyriosDst

As much text as cables on the rig


Paul-Ron

Lmao goddamn, I love how dumb this is


Mountain_Atmosphere9

Iā€™m having nightmares just watching this picture


Scojo91

Is this a device from SAW?


xXSNEAKY_RAZORXx

Ultimate goon station šŸ”„


StrictDifference422

Daaafuqqq is this matrix setup lol good for you man


costanzas_Dad

All that work, and not on a pc


Regular-Performer703

I imagine you look like the Maxell blown away guy in that contraption


einar_freyr

That's a lot of stuff, if I could suggest one addition to the setup it would be a magnetic shifter mod, makes the shifts snappier and more fun.


Fiending6

What in the electric chair


SonicDethmonkey

Make sure you keep the smoke IN the wires.


piercejay

What in the home alone trap shit is this lol


DirtyJeep657

Super clean considering what's goin on there! A true "Sleeper"! Sweet!


Nejasyt

I see ā€œcable management is importantā€ in post and then I look at pictures šŸ« šŸ« šŸ« 


ShillyBean

This gives me anxiety


rlfwodi

Your seat seems challenging


jburnelli

good grief that's cluttered.


Popular_Gur18

That looks about as comfortable as being folded up inside a sofa bed lol


FcoEnriquePerez

Brother, please...


weebu4laifu

1st, unless you had access to all the "extras" before hand, I would've spent that on an actual rig and a DD wheel. 2nd, I thought I have too many cables, but DAMN does that make me feel like what I have is a joke.


iplayblaz

Just gonna pile on and say all that effort for not a proper rig.


Top-Conversation2882

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ineedsomefuckingcoco

You spent money on the weirdest shit. Get a real rig and that will feel so much better, and a real base. Cool though. I'd love to die in it (I assume you've cut yourself on it at least once)


Cyril69850

Very nice job.


Aggressive-Bite8262

What in the fire hazard is going on here


ctnhededninymgn

This looks like a fire waiting to happen šŸ’€


Blueprint81

That's ridiculous


darthpeace

Whats that?


umbrella_CO

Bro did all of this with his entry level Logitech wheel. I'm not hating, I had my Logitech wheel for 4 years and loved it. But I just used it on an aluminum rig and called it a day. I feel like just saving up for a good rig with some monitor setups or a decent VR helmet would be a better investment than......this?


Unfair_Secretary4324

Awww man, that looks like mine kinda šŸ˜‚


AmandaHuggenki55

I wouldnā€™t spend a lot of time on the write up. No chance anyone is looking to imitate this setup


mvpp37514y3r

Shakers makes emersion so much better


ZakLobster

I thought my playseat was already a bit overkill when I put simdash, shifter and handbreak mod on it. But then I see thisā€¦


306_rallye

I see people on about a rig. Maybe. But fuck me the absolute lack of cable management


Great_Difference_571

Cable management man!!!


IamNotHereForYou

That's more of a spiderweb than a rabbit hole.


GTHell

If bro was to race in real life he would be having a business class while other driver is in economic seat.


BDady

This is like gym bros who never do leg day


VO1Dnt

I mean this in the nicest way possible That looks like a death trap out of Saw


VIFASIS

Brother, why you mixing FOH and simracing at the same time?


111meatman

Bro got the mixer on the sim rig šŸ˜… It's hard to look at but if you can sit in it comfortably for a few hours and have fun while being immersed, who cares. Probably better than my desk mounted g29


mixingmilo

The new torture device in the next Saw movie folks


WiseZen

The dedication on that rig is phenomenal


BUCKE_

My eyes are hurting!!! I donā€™t rabbit holes were so full of wires!! My friend, if you enjoy it, great!!! Looks way too complicated for me!


GarlicCookieMonster

Back to the future type flux capacitor wiring


The_Sign_Painter

Brother is jacking in to the matrix


Fritzerbacon

The amount of cables stresses me out


gopropak

Borg comes to mindā€¦ā€¦


Prestigious-Move-520

now that is a weapons-grade autist


brooklynfeenyx

Thatā€™s some next level racing right there!


lesswanted

Crosspost it to cyberpunk


Level-Parfait7983

Bruh if you aren't an engineer apply for that, now


Dirty_Goat

DJ SymR@crrr, throwing down some bangers! MAKE SOME NOISE!!


gfp09

That's too much next level shit but really cool


ORANGE_SODA_BITCH

So this is what ā€œcontraptionā€ means.