Inside Sim Racing – First look – DSD Wilwood Pedals

In March we posted an article about the Derek Speare DSD Wilwood Load Cell Pedal set. Now Darin Gangi of Inside Sim Racing presents his first look the DSD pedals and talks about the changes Derek Speare made in the last few weeks.  DSD uses off the shelf Wilwood racing pedals and engineered the parts and interface to make them suitable for your racing simulation.

Simulation pedals have to use either pressure or travel of the pedal to measure the drivers pedal input. For travel measurement, we usually see the potentiometer system used, while pressure is usually measured by a load cell element. The DSD pedal set makes use of the latter because it will reproduce a much more accurate data set to be sent to the PC. Especially on the brake pedal this means that with solid rugged high pressure mechanisms the feel of the brake will become more realistic.

The so-called muscle memory will enable you to brake more consistently then with a system that measures travel. For this reason the brake pedal of the DSD Wilwood combination, uses the Load cell approach. For the throttle and clutch Derek Speare uses quality potentiometers.