DEM DRS Integrale – rF2 Formula Renault 3.5 test at Silverstone

DEM DRS Integrale – rF2 Formula Renault 3.5 test at Silverstone

The community asked for more video’s of the DRS Integrale Professional Steering System, so DEM Racing Simulators provided another quick preview video of their upcoming DRS Integrale wheel in action.

With this product, DEM wants to target the Sim Racing market by creating a less expensive professional force feedback wheel that will appeal to the more demanding user. To make this a reality, DEM decided to deviate from the more expensive belt driven and Direct Drive designs and opted for a twin motor solution with steal gears.

At the moment, the development team is focusing on the windows driver. The team still encountered some problems with the rFactor 2. The steering  axis was not properly recognized. After some hard work, and an extensive test session they solved the issue. In the video, we can witness a test session using the rF2 platform in a Formula Renault 3.5 at the British Silverstone circuit.

The release date and price setting is not yet announced, but DEM Racing Simulators are aiming to be ready for pre-orders by spring 2015.

DRS INTEGRALE specifications:

• 2x 24v 200W high torque contra-rotating engines, made in Italy
• 1 reduction stage with large diameter steel gear wheels made in Italy (no belts)
• engines and gear wheels mounted on large diameter bearing
• reducer box machined from solid mounted on CNC laser cut steel base, fully made in Italy
• 1 encoder with 10000 PPR mounted directly on the steering axis (steering wheel position is not influenced by the presence of the reducer)
• 14 Nm torque (to be confirmed within January)
• 1024 torque levels for each steering direction (with a resolution of 8 grams of force on a 30cm large steering wheel)
• possibility to modify steering wheel’s inertia via software to adapt it to different type of cars
• integrated electronics, with no external components
• Assetto Corsa plugin that gives you the chance to modify the force feedback response as you prefer (we are working to get this on the other main simulation softwares)
• fast customer care service thanks to products available on our national territory
• Windows driver to recognize the peripheral as a force feedback device
• USB connection
• size: 210x270x120(h) mm
• weight: 12 Kg