The Cammus DDWB 2021 is a 15nm Direct Drive available for just $500 is it for real??
Today we take a first look at this new 15nm base and find out if Cammus are a serious competitor in the Direct Drive market and the Sim racing hardware market as a whole.
Cammus appeared on the scene in around 2008 making car parts out of China, they have since moved into the EV market building a 500hp EV supercar, and now they are stepping into Sim racing not only building Pedals, shifters, and sim rigs but now a value for money Direct drive 15 newton metre wheel base and wheels. exciting times are ahead, so lets take a look and see what they have brought to the party.
Link to Cammus Website: cammus.com/
Link to Cammus Discord: / discord
Chapters
00:00 Intro
00:22 Cammus Introduction
01:47 Buttons and switches
03:23 Quick Release
05:04 Base finish and decals
05:55 Mounting holes and measurements
07:17 Base rear view, plugs, and fan
08:03 Power Brick, Leads, Hardware
10:33 Final Thoughts? Is it any good??
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The rig hardware is as follow.
VRS Direct Force Pro wheelbase and Simline GT3 wheel
VRS Direct Force Pro Pedals
Fanatec Clubsport shifter, Sequential and H pattern switchable
Carbon Kevlar Tillet race seat from a Caterham G7.
Triple MSI MagOptix 27" monitors
SimLabs GT1 Evo Rig
PC specs:
Asus Motherboard Prime X570-Pro
AMD Ryzen 9 5900 X CPU
MSI 3080 Suprim X GPU
1tb NVME M4 SSD
Crucial Ballistic DDR4 Ram 4x8gb
Lian Li Galahad 240 AIO
Cooler Master V750 white edition
NZXT Matrix 510 case
Toshiba 4tb External Hard Drive
Shot using Huawei P30 Pro
DJI Osmo mobile 3 gimbal
Razer Kiyo webcam
Blue Yeti Nano Microhone
Edited using Davinci Resolve 16 (Highly recommended and its free!)