brydling Posted January 17, 2013 Posted January 17, 2013 (edited) I have built the second prototype of my digital-to-synchro board and tested it with good results. I am about to design the final solution and order real PCB's. Will probably have something to sell in april or slightly before. It will require a separate 400 Hz power supply. Just wanted to tell because I know some of you are sitting on real instruments that need to be interfaced! Edit: The price will be about 800-900 SEK for one board. You will need one board for every synchro output, so for a 3-axis ADI you will need three boards. Also, this board only generates the three stator outputs from a synchro. That is not enough to control all synchro-based instruments. The ones with a synchro receiver/repeater that directly drives a needle will be fine with only this board. Instruments that just have the synchro as a position sensor that controls an AC-motor will need an extra amplifier. Some instruments have these amplifiers internally (the ARU-2B/A ADI for example) and will also be controllable with this board without any extra electronics (400 Hz supply needed of course). If you are unsure, get yourself a synchro transmitter or receiver/repeater. If you can control the instrument using only this synchro and a 400 Hz power supply, this board will be able to do it. Amplifier boards for driving the instruments that need them is my next electronics project. We need it for our standby ADIs in the Draken and Viggen simulators. Edited January 18, 2013 by brydling 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.
Gadroc Posted January 17, 2013 Posted January 17, 2013 Awesome. I'm interested! I need to enough to run my ADI (2 synchos) and Alitmeter (1 Synchro) and possibly the HSI I have. I have a couple questions about it it. Ping me on IM next time your on!
Jimbo Posted January 17, 2013 Posted January 17, 2013 I'd be interested (assuming I could interface via Helios). I have an altimeter / Mach meter i'd like to wire up!
Deadman Posted January 17, 2013 Posted January 17, 2013 :thumbup: I am all so very interested thanks https://forum.dcs.world/topic/133818-deadmans-cockpit-base-plans/#comment-133824 CNCs and Laser engravers are great but they can't do squat with out a precise set of plans.
brydling Posted January 18, 2013 Author Posted January 18, 2013 (edited) Nice to see so much interest aside from the ones I already knew needed this! Maybe I should add some info about the price before everyone gets super excited, because it will be a little pricey! Info added to first post. Edited January 18, 2013 by brydling 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.
brydling Posted January 18, 2013 Author Posted January 18, 2013 (edited) I'd be interested (assuming I could interface via Helios). I have an altimeter / Mach meter i'd like to wire up! Interfacing with Helios will be up to Gadroc I guess :-) I will develop a program that speaks IOCP, for integration with SIOC. Edited January 18, 2013 by brydling 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.
Deadman Posted January 18, 2013 Posted January 18, 2013 $420 to run an HSi is abit much https://forum.dcs.world/topic/133818-deadmans-cockpit-base-plans/#comment-133824 CNCs and Laser engravers are great but they can't do squat with out a precise set of plans.
brydling Posted January 18, 2013 Author Posted January 18, 2013 $420 to run an HSi is abit much Yeah, but it all depends on how dedicated you are. Imagine what we will spend on driving all the synchro instruments in our simulators then ;) 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.
Deadman Posted January 18, 2013 Posted January 18, 2013 Just pointing out the conversion rate Will The ARU 2BAA take two or three boards . If you need to ask how dedicated I am :music_whistling::megalol: https://forum.dcs.world/topic/133818-deadmans-cockpit-base-plans/#comment-133824 CNCs and Laser engravers are great but they can't do squat with out a precise set of plans.
brydling Posted January 18, 2013 Author Posted January 18, 2013 Just pointing out the conversion rate Will The ARU 2BAA take two or three boards . If you need to ask how dedicated I am :music_whistling::megalol: Haha ;-) It will take two boards since it doesn't have a heading axis. The cost is just an indication, I haven't calculated exact material costs yet and I don't know how much time it will take to assemble and test a board. It may be cheaper, but my gut feeling is that it won't. 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.
brydling Posted January 19, 2013 Author Posted January 19, 2013 Did some test flying with FSX today using a fake synchro instrument showing heading. I used SIOC and FSUIPC. It worked really well! :) 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.
brydling Posted January 19, 2013 Author Posted January 19, 2013 What's the resolution on your controller? 12 bits or 0.088 degrees per step. 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.
3dpilot Posted January 29, 2013 Posted January 29, 2013 Hi Brydling, If you post the schematic for your design I may offer the extra bare pcb's for anybody interested for free. 3dpilot
brydling Posted February 3, 2013 Author Posted February 3, 2013 Hi 3dpilot! I really need to subscribe to my own threads so I get an update when someone makes a post :) Since we have spoken over PM I guess no harm was done this time :) 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.
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