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Hey all! This is my personal compairison and what I had noticed with using my new CSR Elite pedals that I got about a week ago.
I will start by talking about the obvious differences externally about the pedals. The Logitech pedals use a plastic base with steel pedals and pedal arms. They use semi metallic springs that are covered by the red sheilds on the back of the pedals. The CSR Elite pedals are mostly aluminum and only the base it self is plastic. The CSR Elite pedals can also be tuned a bit for your liking right out of the box. There are two nuts on the clutch pedal spring and the accelrator pedal spring. You can adjust this by turning the nut to compress the spring thus making it stiffer. The way you change the braking is by turning a knob on the bake of the brake pedal and this changes the sensitivity of the load cell scale. I go over this in the third paragraph.(Here is a good size compairison of the pedals below)
As you can see by the photographs there is a consiterable diffence in realistate where you can put your feet on the pedal faces vs. the Logitech pedals. Both the logitech and fanatec pedals can be inverted however the CSR Elites have the availablility to be inverted and still use the stock pedal base. It costs 49.99 USD for the inversion kit. That would bring the total to about 200 USD for the pedals alone. Logitech pedals come with the wheel that costs 300 USD for the bundle. Now you may be wondering, "sounds like the CSR Elite pedals are over priced just to be made of aluminum, be able to be inverted in the base and have bigger pedals" Read the following below on what makes the CSR Elite pedals stand out from the logitech pedals.
The CSR Elite pedals use a "load cell brake" (pictured underneath) now what this technology is, is basically a very precise scale. It measures the amount of force being applied to the pedal and that is how it applies the braking in game. You can adjust how much force you want to apply in game by turning a knob on the back of the pedals and this will change the amount of force that you need to apply to the brake pedal to achive full braking potential. The logitech pedals use a potentiometer style of pedal which measure the distance traveled. This is a good methood however if you are in a "realistic" game and you are not running ABS, this may be a problem since you will most likely lock up your brakes in an emergency situation, such as a car cutting in front of you or loosing grip and trying to use the brakes to control the vehicle. G pedals have modifications available such and the "nixm" modded pedals sets wich make the brake pedal feel much better. I have not used a nixm modded pedal set yet so I could not tell you the differece personally. This is an "out of the box" compairison anyways. Brakes may be the most important part of the pedals since out breaking someone is how you win races usually.
I would appricate some feedback on how this review was. It is my first one about sim racing equipment so let me know what I could improve on for future ones.👍
I will start by talking about the obvious differences externally about the pedals. The Logitech pedals use a plastic base with steel pedals and pedal arms. They use semi metallic springs that are covered by the red sheilds on the back of the pedals. The CSR Elite pedals are mostly aluminum and only the base it self is plastic. The CSR Elite pedals can also be tuned a bit for your liking right out of the box. There are two nuts on the clutch pedal spring and the accelrator pedal spring. You can adjust this by turning the nut to compress the spring thus making it stiffer. The way you change the braking is by turning a knob on the bake of the brake pedal and this changes the sensitivity of the load cell scale. I go over this in the third paragraph.(Here is a good size compairison of the pedals below)
As you can see by the photographs there is a consiterable diffence in realistate where you can put your feet on the pedal faces vs. the Logitech pedals. Both the logitech and fanatec pedals can be inverted however the CSR Elites have the availablility to be inverted and still use the stock pedal base. It costs 49.99 USD for the inversion kit. That would bring the total to about 200 USD for the pedals alone. Logitech pedals come with the wheel that costs 300 USD for the bundle. Now you may be wondering, "sounds like the CSR Elite pedals are over priced just to be made of aluminum, be able to be inverted in the base and have bigger pedals" Read the following below on what makes the CSR Elite pedals stand out from the logitech pedals.
The CSR Elite pedals use a "load cell brake" (pictured underneath) now what this technology is, is basically a very precise scale. It measures the amount of force being applied to the pedal and that is how it applies the braking in game. You can adjust how much force you want to apply in game by turning a knob on the back of the pedals and this will change the amount of force that you need to apply to the brake pedal to achive full braking potential. The logitech pedals use a potentiometer style of pedal which measure the distance traveled. This is a good methood however if you are in a "realistic" game and you are not running ABS, this may be a problem since you will most likely lock up your brakes in an emergency situation, such as a car cutting in front of you or loosing grip and trying to use the brakes to control the vehicle. G pedals have modifications available such and the "nixm" modded pedals sets wich make the brake pedal feel much better. I have not used a nixm modded pedal set yet so I could not tell you the differece personally. This is an "out of the box" compairison anyways. Brakes may be the most important part of the pedals since out breaking someone is how you win races usually.
I would appricate some feedback on how this review was. It is my first one about sim racing equipment so let me know what I could improve on for future ones.👍
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