Alien Simracing pedals User manual
Alien simracing pedals
User manual
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Contents
Introduction 3
Setting up your pedals 4
Mounting your pedals to a rig 4
Fix your base plate to a rig 4
Mount your pedals to the base plate 4
Attach the heel rest 5
Connecting your pedals to a PC 6
Plugging in 6
Calibration 7
DIView software 7
Dead zones, special curves 11
Adjusting your pedals 12
Common adjustments 12
Pedal height 12
Initial tilt of pedals 14
Brake adjustments 16
Spring preload 16
Stiffness configuration 17
Throttle adjustments 19
Spring preload 19
Pedal travel 20
Throttle stiffness (leverage adjustment) 21
Throttle stiffness (swapping a spring) 22
Adding a side support 23
Changing to a longer pedal face 25
Clutch adjustments 27
Spring preload 27
Pedal travel 27
Clutch stiffness (leverage adjustment) 27
Clutch stiffness (swapping a spring) 27
Maintaining your pedals 28
FAQ 29
Legal information 30
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Introduction
Thank you for purchasing Alien Simracing pedals! We hope you’ll have a great time using
our set of professional simracing pedals. To get started, please read this user’s manual to
set up your pedals and adjust them to your needs. Not really into reading? You can watch
our video guide, which has some hands-on wrenching action: Video guide
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Setting up your pedals
So you’ve just unboxed your new set of pedals, right? Let’s help you set them up, so you can
get racing as soon as possible.
Mounting your pedals to a rig
Notice: it’s better to adjust your pedals before you attach them to your rig. Some parts are
better accessible in that case.
If you’re using our base plate and heel rest combo, follow this part of the manual, where we’ll
show you how to put everything together. If you plan to attach our pedals to your rig without
our base plate, that’s fine, but you’ll have to figure it out on your own.
Fix your base plate to a rig
Notice: If you’re mounting the base plate against a flat surface, you’ll want to use some
washers to lift up the base plate, so there is room for bolts that hold the pedals themselves.
The first step is to fix the base plate to your rig. There are 10 countersunk holes on the base
plate, all of which can be used to screw the base plate down to your rig’s aluminum profiles
using the included countersunk M8 bolts.
Mount your pedals to the base plate
After fixing the base plate, you are ready to mount your pedals. Line up your pedals with the
grooves and attach the pedal with four pairs of a hex head M6 bolt and an acorn nut, as
seen in the figures below. Position the pedal to your liking before you tighten everything.
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Repeat this process with remaining pedals and you should have yourself a fully occupied
base plate with pedals.
Attach the heel rest
The last part of assembly is attaching the heel rest. That’s pretty simple – just take the four
included M6 hex key bolts and screw the heel rest onto the base plate. You can adjust the
position of the base plate to match your pedals before tightening the bolts.
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Connecting your pedals to a PC
Now that your pedals are all sorted hardware-wise, it’s time to plug them in and calibrate.
Plugging in
Notice: do not connect or disconnect the throttle or clutch pedals (3,5 mm jack cables) while
the brake pedal is connected via USB.
Before plugging your pedals to the computer, you first need to connect the throttle and clutch
pedals to the main pedal (brake) using the included jack-jack cables. See figure below for
reference to plug each pedal to the correct hole.
Now you can connect the pedals to your computer with a USB cable.
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Calibration
DIView software
Alien pedals use Leo Bodnar electronics. That means you need to use Leo Bodnar software
to calibrate them. The software is named DIView and you can download it here:
Utilities & Configuration Software : Leo Bodnar, Simulator Electronics
(http://www.leobodnar.com/shop/index.php?main_page=page&id=12)
DIView is not the most friendly software on the market, but we can do it together. Follow this
manual to set things up and calibrate your pedals.
First, start the DIView program. There might be a lot of windows. 2 or 3 of them belong to
your connected pedals.
You can limit the number of windows just for your pedals. Go to Edit/settings.
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Now select your pedals (Load cell Interface LC-USB)
Now only 2 or 3 windows should remain.
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Good. It is time to celebrate and calibrate. Choose one of the windows. By the way, if you
push pedals, you should see a triangle move across the line. Go to Axis/View Raw Data.
Red numbers and a red triangle will appear.
Our goal is to set where the starting point and end point of pedal travel (measured by
pressure). Note the red initial number and then the red number at the end of pedal travel.
The number is not steady, as there is a tiny bit of movement, but that is ok. For example, if
the initial point is oscillating around 3650, note down 3700. And if the end point is oscillating
around 18 950, note down 18 900.
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Now go to Axis/Calibration
And now you have to do the math. You have to write down the starting point (for example
3700), Max point (for example 18900) and then you have to calculate the center point, which
is the average. In this example: 18900 + 3700 = 22600. Divide this number by 2 to get the
result, which should be 11300
S - starting raw value
E - Ending raw value
C - center value
(E + S)/2 = C
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