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Sorry, long time away from simming, and just slowly planning comeback after F/A-18C, so I apologize if this is already common knowledge... My question is if there is any way to export the throttle levers position from the sim. If that is possible, it would enable some cool trick for a DIY hotas setup. I'll explain: When ATC is disabled, just read the position sensors from the HOTAS, and send them back as axis to the sim/O.S. (I am actually thinking of a custom HID device implementation) When ATC is engaged, disregard reading from the position sensors. Just take sim output, and actuate on motors to move the levers to that position I think it would be quite cool to have a HOTAS setup where your throttle is moving on its own if autothrottle is engaged. Well, I hope I managed to explain what I have in mind. Thanks in advance to anyone that cares to read and shed some light into this topic, as I am quite noob into DCS inport/export magic :P

Hi all, Due to time constrains because of work and family, I am ditching the idea of my ever running homepit, and will probably settle for a desktop-pit or VR, whenever I have any spare time again, if at all :( So, I am parting with my jewel: 2 original MPDs from a F/A-18. If you are interested, please make a serious offer via PM, I'd love to see those in somebody's full pit :) They were really hard to get, and I've never seen the chance again. Here are the pictures:

Gremlin, out of curiosity... Are you using pwms to dim backlighting of panels? If so, I would de xpect I2C to be more prone to picking noise on the data lines (as it is a single ended bus). RS-485, on the other hand, is a robust bus conceived for industrial environment: being differential, has a bigger immunity to common mode noise, and was specified for longer distances than I2C. From my personal experience, you may runinto some problems with I2C when using long wires, so pull-up resistors might need to be adjusted. However, noise might be more difficult to address... That being said, I fully understand your reasons to go I2C, and also think it is the easiest way so, if it's working, don't touch it!!! ;) I only wanted to lnow if you were using it with backlighting-pwm. As I said, just curious :)

Just for the looks, you could try something like this: http://www.adafruit.com/search?q=splice Anyway, I tend to prefer soldered joints, based on past experience. Just use heat-shrink tubing instead of electrical tape ;)

Thank you, Warhog. Very informative and a lot of good ideas :)

Hey Warhog, would you consider opening a thread for that? Also interested here :)

Actually I'm not sure if it is a rotary control like the Cougar throttle one, or a momentary up/down like in Suncom throttle. I thin it is the latter

Just Look in RS components, P/N: 0419665 :thumbup:

Hey, you can take a look at photobucket and search for my album (raus_5js). I'm at work and cannot give a link, since photobucket access is denied from here, but the link should be something like http://i281.photobucket.com/albums/kk206/raus_5js/ IIRC I put some photos of a legacy Hornet's DDI besides a metric tape. Anyway, I could take the measures you want and send them to you :)