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Tonight I finished the Electrical panel (except LED's), and started the landing gear panel. I'm still waiting for parts for the flaps indicator, so I don't think it will be finished before the weekend. Not happy with the text in the LG panel. Have to do some modifications in the CAM software I think. LG panel has a lot of slots for 3mm LEDs as you can see. LG panel CADs i got from agrasyuk, complete with LG handle. Also I did paint the edges of the bottom and middle plate of the armament panel and fuel panel. Looks better that way. Perhaps I'll get around to do some work tomorrow, but probably I'll have to serve some quality time with the boss (wife) before I'm off on exercise Friday. I'll keep you posted.

Got the armament panel done tonight (almost). Descided to use acryllic as the bottom plate from now on. It needs to be painted black and I also need to paint the edges of the middle panel. I'll drill ø3mm holes from the bottom, 4 mm deep. Then insert 3mm green LEDs to light the panel. Tomorrow; landling gear and electrical panel (if there is time). Will be gone for over a week from Friday, as I'm scheduled for field manouvers at work the next 10 days. Hope to finish the two panels before I leave. Keep you updated :pilotfly:

The panels are not my design. I got them from a thread here. I'll have to link to it later as I can't find it right now. Will be starting with the electrical panel this evening. I'll keep you posted. EDIT: It's reactorone's design. http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=84791

Ok, first panel starting to look like something. Used aluminium for the bottom plate, white acrylic for the middle plate and a special engraving plate from http://www.cnc-plus.de. The engraving plate is 1.5 mm white acrylic with a black coating. When engraved the light shines through. Next step is to mount green 3mm LEDs inside the middle plate. Haven't figured out how I'm going to do this, but I'll think of something. Pretty pleased with the result, but now I see why chinese CNC's cost so much less than european / US machines. The accuracy isn't so good, especially with the small characters engraving. But it's good enough for me :thumbup: Next up is the electrical panel, and landing gear panel. To be continued...

It doesn't come with limit switches, so you'll have to make your own. I bought these: https://www.elfa.se/elfa3~tr_en/elfa/init.do?item=35-830-37&toc=20356. The controller card does have inputs for limits inputs.

Letters engraving went quite well. Used 3mm acryllic painted black with two layers of "bumper-paint" (From Biltema, a swedish hardware store).

First test ${1} Now I have a lot to learn about :book: EDIT: Seems like the youtube embedding has a bug. The video is here:

Ok, so now the CNC is in-house! Still waiting for the UC100 LPT/USB adapter (Windows 7 64 doesn't support LPT) So I won't have a chance to try it yet. Tried to mill some parts fully manual (by turning the motors and having the spindle spinning). It cuts like a warm knife in butter :thumbup: Tried both aluminium and acryl plates, both turned out very well. Hopefully the UC100 will be here tomorrow or monday, and I'll give you an update. :joystick:

Ok, re-install of Win7 did the trick. Things are back to normal. :) (To bad I didn't try dig_it's suggestion first...)

OK, parts starting to arrive. Got the 8" LCD's for the TM MFD's. Couple of extra Leo boards also arrived. And of course - my workbench in the shop has been expanded to house my new CNC (it was only 2,5 meters previously) :thumbup:

I was only using the extra monitors as MFD's. Using a USB2VGA adapter and attaching two 8" screens to them. It worked fine, then I was going to host a multiplayer server. Everything went down. Uninstalled the USB-adapters, tried to repair DCS. No luck... Reinstalling Win7(64) as we speak.

He did not...

Ok, now I've deleted DCS and re-installed. Same thing happens... This happened all of a sudden. I can't remember exactly what I did when it happened. Also, when I monitor the GPU-usage of my ATI graphics card, it displays 0% usage during the game. So it looks like the game runs of my integrated graphics adapter (which is disabled in the BIOS). Looking to resinstalling Win7 now.

Until some days ago my DCS install worked nice, good FPS and almost no lag. I've been fiddling with some settings and trying some multi-monitor setups the last few days and it seems like I have done something wrong. Now I get very low FPS when looking out of the cockpit, especially when I look at other units in tha game. We're talking about 2-5 fps. This problem is something that have happened all of a sudden, and I haven't done any hardware changes. Before this I had 30-50 fps all the time. Is there some way to reset lua-files? I've tried the "repair DCS" option without luck... Or do I have to do a clean install? Suggestions?

Well... seems like I will get access to a CNC afterall :) eBay is my friend and made me buy this little thing... http://www.ebay.com/itm/180833438028?_trksid=p2059210.m2749.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT

Hi there! I started flying the DCS A-10C a couple of months ago, and soon after bought the TM HOTAS system, TrackIR and some Saitek pedals. As if it wasn't enough, I now decided to build my own pit. I have been reading a lot here in the forums and got a lot of help by reading what others do. I also found a couple of blueprints which have helped me a lot. Now, I've just started and my first thing is to work on the front panel. I had an ambition to build it as realistic as possible, but due to the fact that I don't own a CNC or have access to one, I had to lower my ambitions. Anyway, I have just started and have a *LOT* on order from different eBay sellers (Ardunio board, Leo Bonard boards, switches, buttons, rotary encoders and so on). Currently I have the landing gear panel partially finnished, just need a flap indicator and a gear indicator. And I have the armament panel complete. I have some 8" and 5" LCD modules on order. 2 of the 8" will go to the MFDs (Have the TM MFD frames). the 5" will go to the CDU. Haven't decided yet if I'm going to build analouge engine gauges yet, but I'm thinking of making one with servos and an Ardunio board). Next steps will be the electrical and fuel panels. Then I have to find out if I'm going to have a screen as the HSI and nav instruments. As far as I can tell, the process of building your own HSI looks pretty complicated.. And of course, a UFC is pretty far up the list as well :) Will be posting my process as it evolves.