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What material are you using to skin it?

I have access to one.

I plan on keeping the ADI and HSI stock... but I have real ones not trainer versions which will need 115v 400hz I believe.

Sweet! Those look great!

Depends on the type of gauges. Mechanical ones like the VVI take direct input. For example the VVI is ported to outside air pressure. Inside it was essentially a barometer with some prints and gears which made the needle move as a function of air pressure change over time. Other gauges are run off synchro's primarily. There are more like 360 degree servos that run off 115v 400hz power usually and are much more complicated to interface with for direct computer control. I didn't take pictures of the "dis-assembly" process where I removed the original guts, but do have pictures of my new assembly and how it attaches to the existing frame. One note it be VERY careful when removing the bezel. the glass in this one is actually two wedges shaped pieces of glass. Obviously mine hadn't been opened in many many years and took some force, unfortunately I chipped the lower glass when it game apart as I wasn't expecting the glass to be in two pieces. I'm working on getting a blog on line where I'll have more detail about each piece of work. Should be online by the end of the week.

E-bay spoils have started showing up. I'm half way through converting the VVI to a stepper motor. Should finish it tomorrow night.

Very cool. What material and power laser was that?

It's not out of the box that it works, but it has a full plugin mechanism that someone could use simconnect of fsuipc and turn them into Helios triggers / actions. It would require some C# programming. Contact me and I can work with you on the API.

The HSI I got is a ID-1013, which is similar in that it has the 2 bearing needles. It's going to take forever to get working. There are 8 synchro receivers in it (bearing 1, bearing 2, azimuth, heading command differential, course command differential, hundreds, tens, units). There are two synchro transmitters (course and heading).

I have the specs on the ADI and HSI. I opened up the altimeter and mapped it out so now I just need to order the parts to start building the 400hz power supply and DTS boards.

Working on redoing my website and I'll get it posted up there. It's basically a RS-485 bus using a protocol roughly based on the ROBIN protocol. I'm using AVR instead of pic and have a setup of Arduino compatible libraries to quickly assemble new controller board designs.

Actually you need to contact me if you're going to use it in a commercial scenario. If you read the Helios license it's only for personal use.

Thanks. I nabbed it. Have to update the mip for it now :)

Made some more progress on the MIP. Pulled out the Mil Specs and got all of the gauges cut outs to spec. Need to design my AHCP, NMSP, CMSC and Fuel Panels before cutting to verify but I'm getting close.

You got it. I don't think one exists, but I was not looking for it specifically. I have been over most of the export related lua files with a fine tooth comb though. Secondary note... anyone have any leads on pin outs for a Type H6L Part No SLZ9145 Vertical Velocity indicator?

It's been a while since I counted but I think there was about 115 inputs in main instrument panel including the UFC.

The default DCS interface has two functions for Mag Switches. It has a Press and Release event and then you can read the current state of the argument. In the case of a mouse you would click on the switch it would do a press event. This would trigger the argument to go on. Next when you release the mouse button the release event triggers the sim to check for mag state. If the magnet is on the argument stays on... if it's off the argument goes off. Problem is with a physical switch I have no way of knowing when the user releases there hand from the switch, second the sim doesn't export the setting to tell you the magnet is on it only sends out it's thought on the current state of the switch. You could theoretically put your own interface layer in which would do the logic about when the mag should be on based on other factors that are exported. In this case you just call the press event with out calling the release events and DCS will leave the switch in the state you tell it to. The same way you would do a momentary position on a switch.

Thank you for helping me find some of them!! Not sure my wife feels the same :music_whistling:.

Thanks. I'm going to be shooting some questions your way when I get them. I'm going to have to see about merging some of your DTS circuits with the EOS bus I've been working on. Figure that's going to be easier than trying to retro fit the ADI/HSI with steppers.

Please do post up what you have so far. Much easier to crib off yours rather than start from scratch. Even if it's "not ready" for public consumption I'd love to have it via e-mail, as I'm going to probably modify it anyways.

Wow over a month and little to update. Work and CMSP building have been the forefront for a while. I have cut out a fixed middle ribs for my rail setup, but have not had the chance to install them. I also have the inside right set of rails finished and the parts to do the outside right rails. My current focus has been getting the center panel designed and cut so I can start flying again. To do this I have been spending a lot of CAD time. I got all of y2kiah's side consoles into Alibre and I'm working on my CP now. I've also got the ACES II in so I can get the seat mount designed. Anyways can't have an update with out pics. First and I'm very excited about this one!!! A real landing gear panel. I'll be rewiring and converting over to LEDS to be driven by an EOS board. I'll be replacing the magnet switch for the anti-skid switch since it's not really possible to drive that from DCS at this time. Here are a few shots of the cad work. I can take little credit for this as it's mostly Flim and y2kiah's design work, I'm just tweaking to fit my scenario. I have tweaked the cut out for the landing gear to match the real panel and interpolated the rest. The CP will end up with some thin areas and I'm not sure how well 1/2" birch plywood will handle only having 1/4" wide sections. I may have to look at other materials, although I fear the cost of those. If anyone has suggestions of a good material let me know. I have been looking at some 1/2" sheets of HDPE which I should be able to cut out on the CNC. My CP design work will be on hold though for the next few weeks, as I have some new goodies on the way. This weekend was a good ebay weekend, but bad for the bank account. I now have an ADI, HSI and Altimeter on the way which the CP will have to mount. I'll turn my attention to the seat mount while I impatiently wait for those to arrive.

They are full 3d Camera's into the game world (TGP and Maverick Cameras), which would normally reside in video card memory. Copying them to main memory for a shared memory area is very expensive. Reading from video memory is not very optimized (drivers / hardware are optimized to write pixels not read them), also I imagine that bandwidth to / from the video card would be the biggest bottleneck.

As far as I know it's never worked in DCS A-10C. It did work in DCS Black Shark 1, but only the raw 3D scene for the shkval and only the map portion of the ABRIS came through. The text overlays did not, in addition the colors where off. If I remember correctly the headers where off on the export as well, it did not contain the right size bitmap header. I never resolved the issues as the performance hit was to great to make it worth while, at least in Black Shark at the time. I have not tried with Black Shark 2 as I assumed it would not work at all since it back ported the DCS A-10C engine.

Ahh. I see your not having the lightning in the panel itself, but behind the switch plate shinning through it? Where are you going to place your electronics / wiring to prevent shadows?

Ack. Sorry to hear about the duties charges! I'm glad you like it, I of course have many nit picks with them still and feared people would be disappointed. Let me know if you need help getting the driver installed.