Variometer without SIM input - how is this possible ?
Hi Oakes,
You are doing amazing things. Apologies if I missed the threads that already provide the answer to my question below, but I have been searching on this forum information for this but could not find it. I have seen questions that were getting close to this, but could not find the links with the answers.
Basically, here is my question: referring to your youtube video on external variometer, how can you get the source data that in turn is used to command the servo ? I understood that you are using a card converter to (probably) convert a constant value into a rectangular signal that the servo can then use, but how do you obtain the initial value that you wish to display at the first place ? I would not think that for a value such as a rate of climb or rate of descent you can just use a value derived somehow from the instruments that you act on. I would think that you can probably do this for counting the number of remaining bombs on the aircraft (which I think you mentionned earlier in an example), but not for a variometer. I think I have read somewhere on one of your variometer youtube replies that you are not taking any signal from the simulator, so I must be missing something here.
I guess that the same may apply to other parameters that are meant to be translated somehow on an external display (such as the speed, that is not just proportional to the engine power for example).
Many thanks ! (and apologies for the style of my text, as I am not native english speaker).
Keep up the good work.
Claude.
