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And the screenshot...

Use HawgTouch - it is a great alternative to Helios, and it has a profile for the 109 and here is how it looks like. I don't have that module so I can't verify that all gauges are working properly, but you should definitely give it a try. Software can de found here: https://github.com/s-d-a/HT And needed export files here: https://github.com/s-d-a/DCS-ExportScripts

We need to start a DCS fan club :music_whistling:

The only problem with the picture is that the plane should be flying approximately one or two thousand meters below ;)

I know that there can't be a huge current in the Cat5 cables. However I used the same sort of cable (without the RJ45 connectors obviously) when I installed security equipment, and then we used double wires when something (like sirens) needed some more power. So, I will use double wires for 5V, 12V and GND. The 5V line will power the MAX circuits and the 12V will be for the Nanos. None of the Nanos will power anything, since that will be handled by the driver boards. And if neede one can always add a second cable to the last board in the chain to add some power. Of course, there can't be a infinite number of boards per bus. I have use ITEAD previously (and Seedstudio) and I am happy with their services. There might be others that are cheaper and better so I might try that one as well if you recommend that. From the very beginning I tried both Eagle, Target and Designspark without doing anything serious. Eventually I found some excellent tutorials (in Swedish) for Diptrace and that is the software I use ever since.

I just had to try something out on my own. Still WIP though. Will be 15 USD for 10 boards at ITEAD (max 5cm*10cm 2 layer) plus 10 USD for shipping. Haven't made any final decision yet about the IDC connector for in- and outputs. But it is leaning in that direction. Pretty cheap and easy to crimp etc. As you ca see, I'm going with RJ45 as well for the communication and power (5V (Max) and 12V (Arduino)). Pretty convenient with pre-made and cheap cables. For outputs I will design a driver board with ULN2803 circuits that will have a separate power distribution.

Here are some pics I have posted previously (in case you didn't see them). http://forums.eagle.ru/showpost.php?p=2606347&postcount=610 http://forums.eagle.ru/showpost.php?p=2606358&postcount=611 http://forums.eagle.ru/showpost.php?p=2606365&postcount=612

Another thing missing in the HT MIG-21 profile is the "1000" indicator in the IAS instrument. However I can't find anything in the lua file, but that should be easy to implement anyway perhaps (if IAS > 1000 then 1kflag = true). -- INSTRUMENTS == == == == == == == == == == == == == == == == == == == == == == == == == == == == == == == == == == IAS_indicator = CreateGauge("parameter") IAS_indicator.parameter_name = "IAS_indicator" IAS_indicator.arg_number = 100 -- 0 300 600 900 1199 1500 2000 IAS_indicator.input = { 0.0, 83.33, 166.67, 250.0, 333.34, 416.67, 555.55 } IAS_indicator.output = { 0.0, 0.15, 0.30, 0.45, 0.60, 0.75, 1.0 } TAS_indicator = CreateGauge("parameter") TAS_indicator.parameter_name = "TAS_indicator" TAS_indicator.arg_number = 101 --TAS_indicator.input = { 0.0, 167.0, 278.0, 417.0, 555.0, 833.0 } TAS_indicator.input = { 0.0, 166.0, 273.0, 413.0, 551.0, 829.0 } TAS_indicator.output = { 0.0, 0.20, 0.309, 0.49, 0.67, 1.00 } M_indicator = CreateGauge("parameter") M_indicator.parameter_name = "M_indicator" M_indicator.arg_number = 102 M_indicator.input = { 0.0, 0.6, 1.0, 1.8, 2.0, 3.0 } M_indicator.output = { 0.0, 0.202, 0.312, 0.6, 0.66, 1.00 }

Here are extracts from hat file that I believe is relevant. --ALCOHOL, COMPRESSED_AIR other similar stuff == == == == == == == == == == == == == == == == == == == == == == == == COMPRESSED_AIR_main = CreateGauge("parameter") COMPRESSED_AIR_main.parameter_name = "COMPRESSED_AIR_main" COMPRESSED_AIR_main.arg_number = 413 COMPRESSED_AIR_main.input = { 0.0, 130 } COMPRESSED_AIR_main.output = { 0.0, 1.0 } COMPRESSED_AIR_aux = CreateGauge("parameter") COMPRESSED_AIR_aux.parameter_name = "COMPRESSED_AIR_aux" COMPRESSED_AIR_aux.arg_number = 414 COMPRESSED_AIR_aux.input = { 0.0, 130 } COMPRESSED_AIR_aux.output = { 0.0, 1.0 } --/N/ KSI subgroup (NPP) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- KSI_course_indicator = CreateGauge("parameter") KSI_course_indicator.parameter_name = "KSI_course_indicator" KSI_course_indicator.arg_number = 111 KSI_course_indicator.input = { 0.0, math.pi * 2.0 } KSI_course_indicator.output = { 0.0, 1.0} KSI_course_set_needle = CreateGauge("parameter") KSI_course_set_needle.parameter_name = "KSI_course_set_needle" KSI_course_set_needle.arg_number = 68 KSI_course_set_needle.input = { 0.0, math.pi * 2.0 } KSI_course_set_needle.output = { 0.0, 1.0 } -- RSBN subgroup ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- RSBN_NPP_kurs_blinker = CreateGauge("parameter") RSBN_NPP_kurs_blinker.parameter_name = "RSBN_NPP_kurs_blinker" RSBN_NPP_kurs_blinker.arg_number = 587 RSBN_NPP_kurs_blinker.input = { 0.0, 1.0 } RSBN_NPP_kurs_blinker.output = { 0.0, 1.0 } RSBN_NPP_glisada_blinker = CreateGauge("parameter") RSBN_NPP_glisada_blinker.parameter_name = "RSBN_NPP_glisada_blinker" RSBN_NPP_glisada_blinker.arg_number = 588 RSBN_NPP_glisada_blinker.input = { 0.0, 1.0 } RSBN_NPP_glisada_blinker.output = { 0.0, 1.0 } RSBN_NPP_kurs_needle = CreateGauge("parameter") RSBN_NPP_kurs_needle.parameter_name = "RSBN_NPP_kurs_needle" RSBN_NPP_kurs_needle.arg_number = 590 RSBN_NPP_kurs_needle.input = { -1.0, 1.0 } RSBN_NPP_kurs_needle.output = { -1.0, 1.0 } RSBN_NPP_glisada_needle = CreateGauge("parameter") RSBN_NPP_glisada_needle.parameter_name = "RSBN_NPP_glisada_needle" RSBN_NPP_glisada_needle.arg_number = 589 RSBN_NPP_glisada_needle.input = { -1.0, 1.0 } RSBN_NPP_glisada_needle.output = { -1.0, 1.0 } RSBN_KPP_kren_blinker = CreateGauge("parameter") RSBN_KPP_kren_blinker.parameter_name = "RSBN_KPP_kren_blinker" RSBN_KPP_kren_blinker.arg_number = 567 RSBN_KPP_kren_blinker.input = { 0.0, 1.0 } RSBN_KPP_kren_blinker.output = { 0.0, 1.0 } RSBN_KPP_tangaz_blinker = CreateGauge("parameter") RSBN_KPP_tangaz_blinker.parameter_name = "RSBN_KPP_tangaz_blinker" RSBN_KPP_tangaz_blinker.arg_number = 568 RSBN_KPP_tangaz_blinker.input = { 0.0, 1.0 } RSBN_KPP_tangaz_blinker.output = { 0.0, 1.0 } RSBN_KPP_kurs_director = CreateGauge("parameter") RSBN_KPP_kurs_director.parameter_name = "RSBN_KPP_kurs_director" RSBN_KPP_kurs_director.arg_number = 565 RSBN_KPP_kurs_director.input = { -1.0, 1.0 } RSBN_KPP_kurs_director.output = { -1.0, 1.0 } RSBN_KPP_glisada_director = CreateGauge("parameter") RSBN_KPP_glisada_director.parameter_name = "RSBN_KPP_glisada_director" RSBN_KPP_glisada_director.arg_number = 566 RSBN_KPP_glisada_director.input = { -1.0, 1.0 } RSBN_KPP_glisada_director.output = { -1.0, 1.0 } --/N/ ARK subgroup ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ARK_RSBN_needle = CreateGauge("parameter") ARK_RSBN_needle.parameter_name = "ARK_RSBN_needle" ARK_RSBN_needle.arg_number = 36 ARK_RSBN_needle.input = { 0.0, math.pi * 2.0 } ARK_RSBN_needle.output = { 0.0, 1.0 }

That looks more like some cheap vinyl. It's defenitely not the original paint.

This one should have the John Player Special logo and it would look like Ronnie Peterson's car :)

Well, the tv/monitors are like to old indian saying... "Red man make a little fire and sits close to it. White man makes a big fire and is sitting far away" ;)

I believe it is always deployed together with the landing gear, regardless if needed or not.

Amen to that :music_whistling:

Well, we are a lot of cockpit builders that beg to differ :music_whistling: Personally I would like better support for multi screen rendering.

Correct. Some more details about this discussed previously: http://forums.eagle.ru/showpost.php?p=2606388&postcount=613

Aha, I didn't know that. just assumed that all where out of service permanent today. Great news. Back to Viggen topic. Found some buttons that will be, if not a perfect match, pretty close to the original autopilot mode buttons (for my future cockpit build) :)

Welcome to the club! I really hope you get the opportunity to see it IRL some day. That experience will blow you away - in many aspects =) As stated previously in this thread, there is one active AJS-37 that is doing frequent shows in Sweden and some parts of Europe. Unfortunately they haven't released any schedule for 2016 yet. Here are some recent films with this particular aircraft: [ame] [/ame] Including all other SAAB fighters (unfortunately there is no flying Lansen any more): [ame] [/ame] Swedish Airforce Historic Flight youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/swafhf

Very interesting indeed. Thanks for doing this, it will help me a lot since I’m about to buy and build a new dedicated system for DCS. So, this really confirms that 1 monitor option is preferred if you have multiple monitors. Nice to have some hard facts, and not just opinions. Hopefully the final 2.0 engine will perform better for high end gfx setups. As it is now it feels similar to MS FSX where the CPU definitely was the bottle neck making powerful gfx cards a waste. Even though not as bad. It would be interesting to have some more comparisons with i5 versus i7 CPU’s.

Amazing work :thumbup: To bad I'm not doing a A-10 pit anymore ;)

Having a fuse in the circuit is never a bad idea.

I did exactly this in FSX (standard option), using a second soundcard for radio/headset and all the other sounds through the primary soundcard. It would be really nice to be able to do this in DCS as well.

Do you really need the 3.3V? If not, a standard 4pin molex connector (that one that is used for harddrives etc) is the only thing you need (i.e no need to hack the PSU).

Well, not sure what kind of pit you will have but a single led typically needs 20mA. Then you can have 750 of them in parallel on 15A. If you have several in series you could have a multiplier of 3-5. So, a couple of thousands of LED's won't be any problem :) If you are going for real light bulbs it will be less of them, since they require more power. Not sure what the power usage is for a magneto switch, but it can't be that much. Servos doesn't require much either.