First few days with the Mega+, impressions so far:
- Very solid build quality and motor, can lift my fairly heavy rig without any issues. It doesn't come across from photos how solid they are.
- Still need to do a bit of cable connecting, including getting the servos installed in a 6u rack, but generally everything you need comes with the package (e.g. country specific power cables)
- Thanos Controller comes with a lot of information from Thanos, firmware upgrade was straightforward
- Sim Racing Studio needs a bit of tuning, the defaults are rough. The community rated cloud profiles are a big help, gets you up to running quickly - once it's tuned, very nice suspension feeling
- Haptics - not as pronounced as my transducers. Keep my 4 small Dayton PUCK Tactile Transducers and the buttkicker through simhub. Blends in nicely.
- Also kept the NLR v3 in the installation. Using it to primary to emphasize surge, and just a tiny bit of sway and road bumps, everything else turned off. It seems to work well. Definitely didn't feel right when using it with the regular NLRv3 settings, mega+ and NLR v3 are competing. I also don't like a too aggressive surge with the actuators, with 150 MM the nose of the rig can dive quite a bit, and making it more match a suspension and use the NLR v3 for the g-force effect seems better. I assume a belt system would do the same.
- Generally, the more you can match the actuators to be like a suspension, the better it feels. I can confirm the d-box and Sigma statement that you don't need all that travel, but I don't mind having it just in case.
- Compatibility wooden construction floor - this was the tipping point to move the rig to a concrete floor, the rapid floor pressure of the actuators and heavy rig didn't feel safe anymore, everything was shaking during an initial test.
- VR motion compensation - pleasantly surprised, the SRS system with OVRMC is very configurable, and i was able to create motion compensation covering the actuator and the seat mover.
Obviously I can't compare it with other systems, but very happy so far. I see the statements of the other system be validated as well in regards to travel needed, and the importance of haptics (d-box), but can't beat the value and satisfied with the final combination. Thanks everyone for chiming in here.