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Thank you, everything is working well. I just let out the first row over the Commons. There is the hack :)

 

I have my UFC now up and running, only the cover is missing, but at least all functions are available.

 

All the ebst to you Brydling, it seems that moving is your second hobby beside sims ;)

 

 

Cheers

Tom

 

But you paid for 256 inputs, not 240 :) We will solve it when you feel the need.

 

This move is not out of free will. We rent an apartment in second hand and thought that we would be allowed to stay a few years at least, not six months. Now we have bought our own and will live there without worries of when we have to leave :)

 

All the best to you too!

Digital-to-Synchro converter for interfacing real aircraft instruments - Thread

 

Check out my High Input Count Joystick Controller for cockpit builders, with support for 248 switches, 2 POV hats and 13 analog axes. Over 60 units sold. - B256A13

 

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Just send me 7,55 dollar back and we got it :lol:

 

No, If I am in need, I will come back to you. I just measured out that the whole row is linked/connected on the pcb.

Meanwhile I am an pro in reflashing the card and mostly that helps. The card dont like connectors put in while in Helios. Therefor I fu*'Ä*' something up.

 

Now my UFC is working with the fuelpanel and more panels are to come.

 

Have a nice move ! From my days in Denmark I know that you do not have a kind of tax for buying a house as we have in germany. So buying a house is not a decision for live.

 

Cheers

 

Tom

  • 2 weeks later...
Posted (edited)

Me again ....

 

after adding a third panel the B256A13 shows no more up as two joysticks ... now its only a USB-device "B256A13 bootloader" which will not show up in Helios :cry:

I plugged it in different USB ports ... it is detected as the bootloader-device.

 

Will reflash it again ... so there is something strange with the board. It worked for several weeks, suddenly it stops ...

 

 

Any idea ??

 

Cheers

Tom

 

 

 

Edit: After reflashing working well ... maybe I need a script reflashing the unit every time before use ;-)

Edited by TomDK
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Just send me 7,55 dollar back and we got it :lol:

 

No, If I am in need, I will come back to you. I just measured out that the whole row is linked/connected on the pcb.

Meanwhile I am an pro in reflashing the card and mostly that helps. The card dont like connectors put in while in Helios. Therefor I fu*'Ä*' something up.

 

Now my UFC is working with the fuelpanel and more panels are to come.

 

Have a nice move ! From my days in Denmark I know that you do not have a kind of tax for buying a house as we have in germany. So buying a house is not a decision for live.

 

Cheers

 

Tom

 

It is not an issue that the whole row is interconnected. That is the way it should be. There must be another issue.

 

Me again ....

 

after adding a third panel the B256A13 shows no more up as two joysticks ... now its only a USB-device "B256A13 bootloader" which will not show up in Helios :cry:

I plugged it in different USB ports ... it is detected as the bootloader-device.

 

Will reflash it again ... so there is something strange with the board. It worked for several weeks, suddenly it stops ...

 

 

Any idea ??

 

Cheers

Tom

 

 

 

Edit: After reflashing working well ... maybe I need a script reflashing the unit every time before use ;-)

 

It sounds like you may have a board with the bootloader bug? Look in the "official" B256A13 post for info. The first post in the thread at the For Sale-section of the forum. Boards with a serial below A0037 (I think it was) suffer from it and there is a simple workaround.

Digital-to-Synchro converter for interfacing real aircraft instruments - Thread

 

Check out my High Input Count Joystick Controller for cockpit builders, with support for 248 switches, 2 POV hats and 13 analog axes. Over 60 units sold. - B256A13

 

www.novelair.com - The world's most realistic flight simulators of the J35J Draken and the AJS37 Viggen.

Posted

Lucky me :music_whistling: ... yes, I have board #022 with the bootloader bug.

 

Can you make me a special price on an later vevision of the board ? So I have to watch out for the "bootloader bug" , watch out not to use the first pins on each plug. This becomes uncomfortable while adding panels to the whole pcb. So far I use 3 slots .. more to come :)

 

 

Other topic: Do you have an idea how to control a step motor for a working flaps gauge ?

 

 

Cheers and thanks again ...

 

Tom

Posted
Lucky me :music_whistling: ... yes, I have board #022 with the bootloader bug.

 

Can you make me a special price on an later vevision of the board ? So I have to watch out for the "bootloader bug" , watch out not to use the first pins on each plug. This becomes uncomfortable while adding panels to the whole pcb. So far I use 3 slots .. more to come :)

 

 

Other topic: Do you have an idea how to control a step motor for a working flaps gauge ?

 

 

Cheers and thanks again ...

 

Tom

 

I can make you a special price on a new chip. There is no need to buy a whole new board. However I think you misunderstood a little bit. The row is still usable and functional, and it's the fourth row, not the first. The thing is you can only use pushbuttons on these 16 inputs. I guess all panels you are about to wire up have at least a few pushbuttons, so you just need to make sure you wire them to these inputs.

 

You can use opencockpits' USB stepper board. It has some basic problems when used for more advanced instuments, but it should be perfectly fine for a simple flaps gauge. However an USB servo board and an RC-servo would be even better for the task.

Digital-to-Synchro converter for interfacing real aircraft instruments - Thread

 

Check out my High Input Count Joystick Controller for cockpit builders, with support for 248 switches, 2 POV hats and 13 analog axes. Over 60 units sold. - B256A13

 

www.novelair.com - The world's most realistic flight simulators of the J35J Draken and the AJS37 Viggen.

Posted
Thanks for the information !

 

No, I understood with the pushbutton but while soldering have to remember not to use the 5. row due, not the first 4 commons and the 4. row from top only with pushbuttons ... and watch out for the POV-Switches :)

 

Cheers

Tom

 

My feeling is we should get you a whole new set of chips. I'd strongly suggest you really check your wiring to make sure the new chips aren't destroyed as well :-) Do you feel that the description in the manual on how to wire things up is crystal clear or is it something that you are not sure about?

 

/Niclas

Digital-to-Synchro converter for interfacing real aircraft instruments - Thread

 

Check out my High Input Count Joystick Controller for cockpit builders, with support for 248 switches, 2 POV hats and 13 analog axes. Over 60 units sold. - B256A13

 

www.novelair.com - The world's most realistic flight simulators of the J35J Draken and the AJS37 Viggen.

Posted

Hi Ho to sweden ....

 

Yes, will see ... Maybe I will get an other controller from you to devide my panels in 2 sides of the simpit with one controller on each side and only one USB cable to the main unit. Then we can make that with the chips.

 

I understood your manual so far that I have now 6 panels up and working. I have in mind 2 switches which must be off while booting the pc due to the bootloader-error. I have also a phidgets board up and running for my causion panel, landing gear, T/O trim and warning light on UFC. TFS3 is also up and running. So far no problems.

 

I am only to stupid to connect potetiometer to your board. I tried one poti but it is not moving the knob in the sim, only a flattering. In helios editor and the win joystickcontroller overview it works well.

Do you have an ides ?

 

Cheers

Tom

 

Last pics will be found here:

 

http://bilder.einzelart.de/thumbnails.php?album=74&page=9

Posted

Hi Ho to Germany! :)

 

Sounds like a good idea. I will wait and see then.

 

You have got a lot working I see. I get a little bit jealous now! ;)

 

That sounds really strange. Are you sure you are looking at the right controller in DCS? Since there are two of them I mean.

 

Nice pics!

 

/Niclas

Digital-to-Synchro converter for interfacing real aircraft instruments - Thread

 

Check out my High Input Count Joystick Controller for cockpit builders, with support for 248 switches, 2 POV hats and 13 analog axes. Over 60 units sold. - B256A13

 

www.novelair.com - The world's most realistic flight simulators of the J35J Draken and the AJS37 Viggen.

Posted
Yes .. the potiometer is working in helios configurator but I can not bind it ...

 

Will start a new thread for this problem .. maybe a Helios-User might help. So the " slider0" is working well but the binding will not work ...

 

 

Cheers

Tom

 

With great info from another B256A13 user I think I have found an issue with the board that may be the reason you are experiencing problems with the last row before the commons. Are you available for testing a new firmware?

Digital-to-Synchro converter for interfacing real aircraft instruments - Thread

 

Check out my High Input Count Joystick Controller for cockpit builders, with support for 248 switches, 2 POV hats and 13 analog axes. Over 60 units sold. - B256A13

 

www.novelair.com - The world's most realistic flight simulators of the J35J Draken and the AJS37 Viggen.

Posted
Sure .... but need some days due to work. Next week I have some hours for my pit and a test.

 

Cheers

Tom

 

Sounds great!

Digital-to-Synchro converter for interfacing real aircraft instruments - Thread

 

Check out my High Input Count Joystick Controller for cockpit builders, with support for 248 switches, 2 POV hats and 13 analog axes. Over 60 units sold. - B256A13

 

www.novelair.com - The world's most realistic flight simulators of the J35J Draken and the AJS37 Viggen.

Posted

New batch available now.

Digital-to-Synchro converter for interfacing real aircraft instruments - Thread

 

Check out my High Input Count Joystick Controller for cockpit builders, with support for 248 switches, 2 POV hats and 13 analog axes. Over 60 units sold. - B256A13

 

www.novelair.com - The world's most realistic flight simulators of the J35J Draken and the AJS37 Viggen.

Posted
Sure .... but need some days due to work. Next week I have some hours for my pit and a test.

 

Cheers

Tom

 

I managed to re-create the problem with my board using a really long cable and the new firmware fixed it, so I am feeling confident it will fix your board too.

Digital-to-Synchro converter for interfacing real aircraft instruments - Thread

 

Check out my High Input Count Joystick Controller for cockpit builders, with support for 248 switches, 2 POV hats and 13 analog axes. Over 60 units sold. - B256A13

 

www.novelair.com - The world's most realistic flight simulators of the J35J Draken and the AJS37 Viggen.

Posted (edited)

Spurious inputs - Possibly crosstalk

 

I have a B256A13 board that I have installed in a homebuilt A10 cockpit. With one 40-way idc cable connecting it to a number of input switch panels it works fine. However, when I connect several idc cables to the additional header plugs I seem to be getting spurious button inputs, which I can only ascribe to crosstalk among the many cables linking acros the sim.

 

Has anyone experienced similar problems, and has anyone got any ideas as to the cause or a suggested solution. I dont fancy linking a couple of hundred buttons and switches using shielded cabling!

 

Flyco

 

(Moved from 'For Sale' thread)

Edited by flyco
Moved from a previous thread
Posted

I will give the same answer here so that others can see. A firmware problem has been detected. The matrix is scanned too fast which can give ghost inputs with longer cables. A new firmware that fixes the issue has been developed, but I don't have an Internet connection at home right now because of broken hardware. As soon as I get the new modem (today or on monday) I will post the new firmware along with update instructions in the official thread (For Sale-section).

Digital-to-Synchro converter for interfacing real aircraft instruments - Thread

 

Check out my High Input Count Joystick Controller for cockpit builders, with support for 248 switches, 2 POV hats and 13 analog axes. Over 60 units sold. - B256A13

 

www.novelair.com - The world's most realistic flight simulators of the J35J Draken and the AJS37 Viggen.

Posted

The first post in the thread over at the For Sale section has been updated with info on this bug and instructions for how to update the firmware!

Digital-to-Synchro converter for interfacing real aircraft instruments - Thread

 

Check out my High Input Count Joystick Controller for cockpit builders, with support for 248 switches, 2 POV hats and 13 analog axes. Over 60 units sold. - B256A13

 

www.novelair.com - The world's most realistic flight simulators of the J35J Draken and the AJS37 Viggen.

Posted

Got to give people what they paid for :)

Digital-to-Synchro converter for interfacing real aircraft instruments - Thread

 

Check out my High Input Count Joystick Controller for cockpit builders, with support for 248 switches, 2 POV hats and 13 analog axes. Over 60 units sold. - B256A13

 

www.novelair.com - The world's most realistic flight simulators of the J35J Draken and the AJS37 Viggen.

  • 3 weeks later...
Posted

Me again ;)

 

I soldered my second B256A13 this days and have a strange behavior:

 

32/32, 63/64, 47/48, 112/112 and 79/89 are closed both if I use a switch on this connectors.

I changed the boards and also the RAM-chip for veryfiing, reloaded several times the firmware. I checked also my soldering for bridges between pins with no luck so far.

 

Do you have any idea for me ? Bad Soldering on an other place ?!

 

Also Helios is confused, the boards do not popup as A0022 and A0042, they appear as A0022 1 , A0022 2, A0022 3 and A0022 4. This is a little confusing but I got them both working fine with Helios ... expect this "doubled pins".

 

Any help is welcome ! I am not a master in soldering, maybe there is the bug ...

 

 

Cheers and thanks

Tom

Posted

Hi Tom!

 

I don't understand which inputs are closed and when?

 

The naming of the boards is a Windows issue. Windows can't successfully read the name of two different interfaces on the same device. It can't even read the name of two identical controllers with different names, it just gives the same name to all of them. I guess it can only save one name for every VID/PID-combination.

 

Best regards,

Niclas

Digital-to-Synchro converter for interfacing real aircraft instruments - Thread

 

Check out my High Input Count Joystick Controller for cockpit builders, with support for 248 switches, 2 POV hats and 13 analog axes. Over 60 units sold. - B256A13

 

www.novelair.com - The world's most realistic flight simulators of the J35J Draken and the AJS37 Viggen.

Posted

Hi Niclas

 

Thanks for your fast reply ... as always ! :thumbup:

 

I mean, if I connect a panel with several switches and push button 31 , also 32 is pushed. I contril this via Helios (Add interface / A0022) and see all buttons graphical. I push 32 and 31 is also pusehed. And the same thing with all the others.

 

It is only on this self soldered board, on the other board everything works well. therefor its not a diode or something with the button.

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