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As mvsgas qouted from the manual it lets you use toe brakes in case there is a failure to normal hydraulic system (right); Here is a shot that shows how the hydraulic system looks like Cheers Hans

Beautiful work Sir. A real inspiration there. Keep those pictures comming. Cheers Hans

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4xTACAN units Look at this on eBay http://www.ebay.com/itm/122640925671

Hi Holycat (IIAF), I am pretty sure I get the same warning everytime I start connect-serial-port without DCSW running. Just leave it and start DCSW. As soon as you unpause DCSW then you should see a lot of informations in the command prompt window. Cheers Hans

J Shepard sold some X40.849 one and a half year ago. Maybe he can help you locate the source. Not sure what the difference is between 149 and 849. Cheers Hans

Sweet Jesus that looks awesome Boltz. Really impressive work Sir. Really looking forward to see you get those gauges up and running. And good catch on those post light Cheers Hans

In case not know by all then GSS Rain are doing some instructional videos on how he is setting up his pit with DCS-BIOS. There are several but in th last one he incorprates a magnetic held toggle switch into the TM Warthog throttle; Very impressive work there Sir and keep those video comming :thumbup: Cheers Hans

Very impressive work matbog :thumbup: Keep those pictures flowing. And subscribed Cheers Hans

Bundle of Grimes cockpit light. Look at this on eBay http://www.ebay.com/itm/162606612522

IMHO 4k projectors are extremely expensive. Downside with multiple monitors are that I believe the are projected flat in the same plane so if tilted inwards for surround it looks odd. With projectors I believe that you need warpping software that allows you to make a curved screen surface. I have not idea about the cost for such software nor the performance impact. For the pit you are having then I don't see VR as solution. Cheers Hans

Thanks hansangb :thumbup: Cheers Hans

Thanks Lynx. That's a brilliant idea. i think I will replicate that solution. Cheers Hans

Looking food Lynx. Not by the pit at the moment butik seem to recall one of the real panels using about 1A at 5VDC for glow bulbs. Butik 12VDC and 10A Sound like a lot considering LED's areal under for back light ? Keep up the good work Sir Cheers Hans

Nice looking setup Sir:thumbup: Cheers Hans

Very nice solution Sir. Really thinking out/inside the box. Do you just know where the MFD's are or can you see them below the VR goggle? Cheers Hans

Thanks Ikaro Yes I am still using Helios on a second screen for MIP instruments. I did try out Ikarus but couldn't get it to work properly. I guess it's an issue with my PC which I haven't location yet. I briefly tried Windows Creator but that messed up my DCS-BIOS. The Socat wouldn't connect so back on plain Windows 10. Probably time for a complete reinstall of everything :music_whistling: Cheers Hans

I still use the B256A13's, BBI-32 and BU0836X until I get everything running DCS-BIOS Cheers Hans

Sure Mac Arduino Nano sitting in a terminal board. Beneath a prototype board which hold the MAX487 chip. The MAX487 is powered from the Nano, the Nano is powered by 12VDC On the same prototype board is situated the 74HCT20 NAND IC. On the prototype board there is also 4x IRF510 MOSFET that powers the LED's on/off There is one of these setups per panel. Not all of them with the MOSFET of cause and so far only one with the NAND IC The toggle switches I found on Ebay. Bough a bundle a while back :-) Cheers Hans

Off on summer holiday Thank you GSS Rain and thank you so much for the assistence on the Emergency Flight Control Panel trim switch. If you hadn't already solved it with a NAND circuit I am not sure what I would have done. Rep inbound :thumbup: Alright status for the first half of 2017. Following panels have been implemented using Ian's DCS-BIOS: Electrical power panel (original) Aux. Avionics Panel (my old panel layout with correct toggle switches but rotary are cheap ones) Light Control Panel (original but missing nose illumination siwtch) Fuel Control Panel (original with selvmade fuel lever) Aux. Light panel (my old panel layout but with correct toggle switches) SAS Panel ( my old panel layout but with 4x mag switches working. The Monitor test switch is not the correct type though. LASTE panel (new backplate made from dimension of the antenna panel. Real switches incl on mag switch working. No light plate on yet) Emergency Flight Control Panel (my old panel layout. Toggle switches correct type except for the trim hat. Implemented with a NAND circuit to make the hat switch work correctly) AHCP (my old panel layout. Mostly real switches except for the 3-position. Will have find some real switches at decent prices though :music_whistling:) Landing gear panel (my old panel layout where indicators are via Helios, but mag switch is running) So after first half of 2017 has gone by I am pretty happy to have all 7 mag switches in the pir working correctly. Next panels to go for is most likely IFF, Intercom panel, Antenna. Then I probably go for getting some steppers up and runnning before turning my attention to the radios. Still plenty of work but that's the fun right With that I'll bid you all a very nice summer holiday. Cheers Hans

IIRCC then hooking the red triangle and create a waypoint using copy function will give an error since DCS doesn't send elevation data correctly for SADL target. This is an old post from 476th Eddie but IMHO it's still valid; https://forums.eagle.ru/showpost.php?p=1547954&postcount=2704 For high altitude targets this will pose a problem since the red triangle is situated inside the mountain so to speak. This can be bypassed as Kimmi_uy says making a MARK POINT or using BROADCAST SPI function as the SPI does contain the correct elevation data. Cheers Hans

Hah couldn't resist so purchased one similar to yours BIGNEWY :-) The Downlock solenoid will operate down to 12VDC so will have to figure out if the state is exported for the A-10. If not then perhaps I can figure out a way to set up DCS-BIOS so that the coil will be energized if A/C is 20ff AGL. Also the 28VDC bulbs were easily changed to some 5VDC midget I had laying around (http://www.mouser.dk/Search/ProductDetail.aspx?R=7335virtualkey56040000virtualkey560-7335) Cheers Hans

Leo Bodnar and other joystick controllers send DirectX buttons inputs and will have to be mapped in DCS similar to what you do with you main joystick itself. You may also have to mod the lua code to make it to work, e.g. battery switch by default is set as On/Off. So you give an input for On and repeat this input for Off. Doesn't work well with a toggle switch but it's relatively simple to convert so that when input is high switch in 3D pit will go On and when input is not high then switch in 3D pit goes Off. Advantage with Leo Bodnar's over DCS-BIOS IMHO is that you can reuse them for a lot of aircrafts as you just need to remap them. As DCS-BIOS send the correct command then a panel for the A-10C only works for the A-10C. At least to my best knowledge. Cheers Hans

Welcome Petardo. I have been running with joystick controller boards and it has worked nicely for a long time. Recently I started to convert to DCS-BIOS as it gives a lot of options to the pit which I didn’t have before. Now take into account that I am only in the beginning of the conversion so I may have to eat some of my words later on. I can imagine there is a lot of different ways of doing this. This is my current setup idea: I aim to have one or more Arduino Mega talking to DCS via USB. Ian (DCS-BIOS’ father) has a small piece of software which to the best of my knowledge is the link between DCS and the USB port. The Mega will act as communication master for the pit over RS-485. For each of the pit panels I aim to have one Arduino Nano per panel communicating over RS-485. I may actually change some of the individual board controllers into Mega’s to get more I/O’s. Yes is should be possible to make I/O expansion but I haven't ventured into that yet. So far I have about 8 panels running on RS-485 with one Master; Electrical power panel, Aux. Avionics Panel, Light Control Panel, SAS panel, LASTE panel, AHCP, Fuel control panel and Landing gear panel. The latter still need to get a stepper drive running for the flap indication though. I have made a small communication board out of prototype PCB which holds the RS-485 chip and the connection cable. The Arduino is plugged into a small pre-manufactured pcb which has screw terminals that eases the connection to toggle switches. I also use this board for holding MOSFET’s on those boards I need output that needs more juice then the Arduino can provide. A good example of that is the SAS panel where I use 5 MOSFET’s, one for each magnetic held toggle switch (12VDC) and one for the lamp (5VDC). Bear in mind I do not hold any programming skills I find the DCS-BIOS setup fairly easy to work with. With the setup of one Arduino per pit panel allows me to remove a panel since they are individually addressed and work on it while the remaining are still functioning. Downside is if something mayor changes with DCS/DCS-BIOS. Then I have to remove all the panels to re-program them but that’s just the way it is I guess. Hope this was of any assistance. Cheers Hans

We used this one for dampening; http://www.ebay.com/itm/CNC-Steering-Damper-Motorcycle-Stabilizer-Linear-Reversed-Safety-Control-Black-/111520624771?epid=580061572&hash=item19f725b083:g:-dgAAOSw2XFUawQW&vxp=mtr With regards to the hat switch we noticed that when measuring on the end of the wires that one of the directions didn't work unless a toggle switch was in a particular position. It appeared that there was an electrical interlock in the real helicopter but since we wanted the most out of the collective with just rewired so all inputs were available. If you run into any trouble with the mapping of the switches post some pictures and you should be able to get some assistance fast :-) Cheers Hans