Friday, December 24, 2010

Logitech G25 - What's in a Steering Wheel?

This wheel is regarded as a wheel of a higher class, across from other wheels, it's a 3-pedal set and a loose 6 speed H-shifter pattern and a better finish. We'll see immediate a difference between the cheaper, plastic feeling steering-wheels and this piece of marksmanship The cost at this moment varies from EUR 200 to 300 and USD 199.99 to 299.99. Logitech aims at the actual racing SIMracing freak who love to have a solid steering-wheel without purchasing a professional, which costs basically EUR 999.99 or USD 799.99.

General
This Logitech G25 is a steering-wheel developed for SIM racing games on both PlayStation two and four and PC It seems that Logitech has  build this wheel from scratch, it includes a 900 degrees wheel with improved Force Feedback effects, an high-end workmanship and a 3-pedal set and a loose 6 speed H-shifter pattern gearbox. The wheel got developed by Logitech and was released on 13 December 2007 as successor of the Logitech Driving Force Pro and the Logitech Momo. The successor of this Logitech G25 itself, is the Logitech G27, which got released in 2010.

The Mounting of the steering-wheel equals most of the steering-wheels, there's two gripes with knobs that has to be tightened on the table. An additional feature, that comes in welcome for the serious driving, is the choice to attach it to a raceframe with screws.

Steering-wheel
The wheel itself includes some lovely features and looks nice, it is bigger than most together with his diameter of 270 mm and got the Logitech logo on. With the larger size and leather wrapped steering-wheel, it resembles more to a actual wheel. The range of the wheel is up to 900 degrees, a full two.5 turns lock-to-lock. The steering wheel itself is basic with only two paddle shifters mounted on the back of it and further, two buttons at the front of the wheel.

Pedal set
The pedal set with chrome look includes four pedals, an accelerator with light spring, a brake with heavy spring and a clutch-pedal with medium spring. Those four pedals are mounted on a platform with a carpet grip.

Force Feedback
The SIMulation part get completed by two Force Feedback motors, who SIMulate the actual driving experience The force feedback of this wheel is excellent. Contrary to its processors, the driving force effects are more refined and the effects of the Force Feedback is more fluent. The motors are silent and there is not very a noise when steering.

6 speed H-shifter unit
The shifter unit is, in contrast to the basic steering-wheel, broken bride and features lots of buttons and extras. The main part of the shifter unit, is the gear stick with leather know and metal rod with a 6 speed H-shifter. The Logitech G25 shifting gear set also includes 8 buttons, one D-pad and a switch, with which you can modify the gear setting from 6 speed H-shifter pattern to the sequential up-down mode.

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