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Old 08-04-2008, 09:14 AM   #22 (permalink)
steensn
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Whew... making your own electric power steering is much more difficult than you guys realize. There may be kits to throw in your car, but making one from scratch is just too much work. You need to introduce a steeering angle sensor and logic to onlyspin the motor when the driver starts to move the wheel. In our testing for electric power steering we have run across many times where you hit a bump moving the steering wheel and the eps thinks you want to move th esteering wheel creating some "intersting" responces on a test track. It is only interesting on a test track, on the road it is downright crap in your pants scary.
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