Boltz

Great work! Inventor is a very nice program. I use it for CAD :)

Got enough cockpits there yet Peter? :) Great to hear a bit about you and nicely edited video! F/A-18 part made me laugh Boltz

Compensating for brightness by using a peak current will not make them brighter. Since they are flashing your eyes will merge it together and they will not be as bright. That is basically a pwm circuit which is used for dimming LEDs. Flashing them will decrease brightness and correcting that with higher current will make them back to about the same level. If you do not need the matrix to decrease the controller pins then darling tons are the easiest and most customisable way to go. The current is more easily controlled, easier to debug and they are simple to implement.

If current with arduino is a problem then I would just put in a few Darlington transistor arrays. Don't require any matrix code. Just drop them in line with arduino connections.

1k seems too small. I'd use 10k With an arduino. Haven't tried dcs bios and pots yet though.

My view on Oculus is the same as Sabre-TLA. At the moment it is simply another visual system. When you can control switches and the like then you can start to compare it to home cockpits. Now it is just visuals and that is just a small (but still very important) part of home cockpit building.

Looking very good there. Crisp lettering and very professional. Looking forward to see more

Great news and at that cost I'll have to find space for a couple of them :)

As far as I can tell much of the wobble is because the arms are plastic. Milling them from aluminium should help but you are probably right on new guide rails as well. I'd have to look in more detail. Just haven't had the guts to take it apart yet :)

Hahaha! The panels look top quality Pete. Very clear text

I have been looking at that also but don't know how well the friction in the throttle will hold up.

Glad to hear that you got it working Hollywood!

Nice vid! Thanks for sharing and I like the new website. The picture on the Titan page is amazing.

Amazing work!!

I don't mind how the aces 2 is mounted. What ever is easier for you

Thanks DM! I'll get there some day

After I tore down the centre console last year and rebuilt it entirely differently I haven't had a place for the UFC. So after 6 months of using the mouse I decided to build something. Found my old glareshield that I just built as a mockup and painted it. Then I decided to build the top part of the front hood. Mounted it on a hinge for easy access to wiring and routed a dado to locate it in place and give the MIP some more rigidity. the glareshield does not match the MIP and sticks out too far but it is only an old one I found. I will make a replacement from aluminium at some point. AHCP completed. I modified the switches to remove the crimp terminals and ground them down to fit in front of the screen. 4mm spacers also helped and even then the switches rest against the screen. I added some electrical tape to prevent the scratching and it seems to have worked well. I found some footage on the camera of making the switch caps but in the end I went a different way. Basically they are just different sizes of aluminium tube ground down and knocked inside each other before a filing and sanding.

I can think of O2 regulator, TACAN, IFF. Many panels are A-10 specific so even finding them in the US is a huge challenge. For instruments a good looking ADI, VVI, Altimeter. Some smaller generic tube instruments can have face plates changed for EMI. And nearly every switch can be purchased individually including magnetic switches.

There are still many parts that are not controlled. A lot is used on other aircraft and so is available to be bought nearly anywhere.

Looking very nice hegykc!

Looks like a nice piece of kit weeb. I think a disassembly, straightening out and squaring up should get it in working order. I'll have to come over and see it working. Will be neat seeing drawings come to life :)

I have no idea what that model is like but from the pics it looks like you will have a great time with it!

Ghostraider: CAN Bus is simply a communication protocol and has nothing to do with how hardware would connect to DCS itself. CAN bus would be used to allow multiple microcontrollers to communicate which would then be sent onwards to DCS via a separate protocol.

Great to hear you got it working. Sorry I wasn't much help when you asked. busy at the moment.

Sorry HarSu I never sent you that export.lua since it is for TCP. The battery switch is part of the "ELEC_INTERFACE" device which is C1 and not C0. I had never seen lua before until I found DCS so I am still quite new to the language. I had to get a friend to help create the files for A2DCS and did not use UDP.