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| Re: [simpits-tech] new update posted... [message #1281 is a reply to message #1279 ] |
Fri, 21 May 2010 08:09   |
 delor lauchang
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help!!!
lots of broken portable dvd players with working lcd screens are being sold
here for cheap. does anybody here knows how to convert the monitor to a vga
monitor? or is there an adapter or modules that can bought to convert to vga
monitor?
thanks and have a great weekend.
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 11:29 AM, Gene Buckle <geneb@deltasoft.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 20 May 2010, Roy Coates wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 20 May 2010, Gene Buckle wrote:
> >
> >>> Superb stuff as always gene :-)
> >>>
> >> Thanks Roy. How is the X1000 coming along?
> >
> > Been working hard on the mapping data. Processed something like 250
> > billion data items so far. Can produce maps that show the mailbox at the
> > end of your street if I wanted to!
> >
> Neat. :)
>
> > Curbing the size of the database without losing too much info is the big
> > issue here. Work progresses as time permits - sound familiar !?
>
> Hehe. All too familiar unfortunately.
>
> g.
>
> --
> Proud owner of F-15C 80-0007
> http://www.f15sim.com - The only one of its kind.
> http://www.simpits.org/geneb - The Me-109F/X Project
>
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| Re: [simpits-tech] new update posted... [message #1282 is a reply to message #1281 ] |
Fri, 21 May 2010 08:16 |
Rick Davis
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You might try poking around on here. I have dealt with them quite a bit and no problems.
http://sewelldirect.com/CablesandAdapters/AudioVideo/-AudioV ideoInterface-VGA
----- Original Message -----
From: delor lauchang
To: Simulator Cockpit Builder's List
Sent: Friday, May 21, 2010 12:09 PM
Subject: Re: [simpits-tech] new update posted...
help!!!
lots of broken portable dvd players with working lcd screens are being sold here for cheap. does anybody here knows how to convert the monitor to a vga monitor? or is there an adapter or modules that can bought to convert to vga monitor?
thanks and have a great weekend.
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 11:29 AM, Gene Buckle <geneb@deltasoft.com> wrote:
On Thu, 20 May 2010, Roy Coates wrote:
> On Thu, 20 May 2010, Gene Buckle wrote:
>
>>> Superb stuff as always gene :-)
>>>
>> Thanks Roy. How is the X1000 coming along?
>
> Been working hard on the mapping data. Processed something like 250
> billion data items so far. Can produce maps that show the mailbox at the
> end of your street if I wanted to!
>
Neat. :)
> Curbing the size of the database without losing too much info is the big
> issue here. Work progresses as time permits - sound familiar !?
Hehe. All too familiar unfortunately.
g.
--
Proud owner of F-15C 80-0007
http://www.f15sim.com - The only one of its kind.
http://www.simpits.org/geneb - The Me-109F/X Project
ScarletDME - The red hot Data Management Environment
A Multi-Value database for the masses, not the classes.
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| Re: [simpits-tech] new update posted... [message #1285 is a reply to message #1282 ] |
Fri, 21 May 2010 15:21 |
delor lauchang
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thank you for your quick reply, however is there a way to separate the
screen and wire it from there? i would like to use them to create glass
cockpit instruments.
On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 11:16 AM, Rick Davis <rd@ns.sympatico.ca> wrote:
> You might try poking around on here. I have dealt with them quite a bit
> and no problems.
>
>
> http://sewelldirect.com/CablesandAdapters/AudioVideo/-AudioV ideoInterface-VGA
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> *From:* delor lauchang <echotech1452@gmail.com>
> *To:* Simulator Cockpit Builder's List <simpits-tech@simpits.org>
> *Sent:* Friday, May 21, 2010 12:09 PM
> *Subject:* Re: [simpits-tech] new update posted...
>
> help!!!
>
> lots of broken portable dvd players with working lcd screens are being sold
> here for cheap. does anybody here knows how to convert the monitor to a vga
> monitor? or is there an adapter or modules that can bought to convert to vga
> monitor?
>
> thanks and have a great weekend.
>
>
> On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 11:29 AM, Gene Buckle <geneb@deltasoft.com> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 20 May 2010, Roy Coates wrote:
>>
>> > On Thu, 20 May 2010, Gene Buckle wrote:
>> >
>> >>> Superb stuff as always gene :-)
>> >>>
>> >> Thanks Roy. How is the X1000 coming along?
>> >
>> > Been working hard on the mapping data. Processed something like 250
>> > billion data items so far. Can produce maps that show the mailbox at the
>> > end of your street if I wanted to!
>> >
>> Neat. :)
>>
>> > Curbing the size of the database without losing too much info is the big
>> > issue here. Work progresses as time permits - sound familiar !?
>>
>> Hehe. All too familiar unfortunately.
>>
>> g.
>>
>> --
>> Proud owner of F-15C 80-0007
>> http://www.f15sim.com - The only one of its kind.
>> http://www.simpits.org/geneb - The Me-109F/X Project
>>
>> ScarletDME - The red hot Data Management Environment
>> A Multi-Value database for the masses, not the classes.
>> http://www.scarletdme.org - Get it _today_!
>> _______________________________________________
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| Re: [simpits-tech] new update posted... [message #1287 is a reply to message #1285 ] |
Fri, 21 May 2010 15:38 |
Rick Davis
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Good luck with that. They are all so different. Then add ribbon cables to the equation. What do you mean by broken? The cases? Or are they fried somehow electronically.
Most of those things are composite (RCA) or perhaps S-Video. Some of them even have mini 1/8" phone plugs for video in. Depending on what they are, you can either get a TV card (all in wonder etc), but I don't know how you'd interface that with X-Plane or FS. Alternative is to search for the pin-outs and try to wire them up the way you like. But if the monitor won't turn on, you have bigger issues to deal with. Stripping the screen out to operate stand-alone is paramount to asking a car to go down the road 60 miles an hour without an engine. The "screen" being the "car". There is an inverter, and a PSU and backlighting and everything else in an LCD monitor. If none of those things work, that is why they are cheap. Because they aren't useful for anything except spare parts.
R
thank you for your quick reply, however is there a way to separate the screen and wire it from there? i would like to use them to create glass cockpit instruments.
On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 11:16 AM, Rick Davis <rd@ns.sympatico.ca> wrote:
You might try poking around on here. I have dealt with them quite a bit and no problems.
http://sewelldirect.com/CablesandAdapters/AudioVideo/-AudioV ideoInterface-VGA
----- Original Message -----
From: delor lauchang
To: Simulator Cockpit Builder's List
Sent: Friday, May 21, 2010 12:09 PM
Subject: Re: [simpits-tech] new update posted...
help!!!
lots of broken portable dvd players with working lcd screens are being sold here for cheap. does anybody here knows how to convert the monitor to a vga monitor? or is there an adapter or modules that can bought to convert to vga monitor?
thanks and have a great weekend.
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 11:29 AM, Gene Buckle <geneb@deltasoft.com> wrote:
On Thu, 20 May 2010, Roy Coates wrote:
> On Thu, 20 May 2010, Gene Buckle wrote:
>
>>> Superb stuff as always gene :-)
>>>
>> Thanks Roy. How is the X1000 coming along?
>
> Been working hard on the mapping data. Processed something like 250
> billion data items so far. Can produce maps that show the mailbox at the
> end of your street if I wanted to!
>
Neat. :)
> Curbing the size of the database without losing too much info is the big
> issue here. Work progresses as time permits - sound familiar !?
Hehe. All too familiar unfortunately.
g.
--
Proud owner of F-15C 80-0007
http://www.f15sim.com - The only one of its kind.
http://www.simpits.org/geneb - The Me-109F/X Project
ScarletDME - The red hot Data Management Environment
A Multi-Value database for the masses, not the classes.
http://www.scarletdme.org - Get it _today_!
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| Re: [simpits-tech] new update posted... [message #1289 is a reply to message #1287 ] |
Sat, 22 May 2010 07:29 |
delor lauchang
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Thanks Rick,
Thought its just that easy, but going on to all those trouble, it might come
out more expensive to make them work. Its always good to seek advice from
expert simmers. Saved me from going all the troubles.
By the way, been to Taipei and got this ipad clone thats a PC for $200,
check it out Moonse e-7001 called the a-pad, it interfaced with my flight
simulator.
Again thanks for the info.
On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 6:38 PM, Rick Davis <rd@ns.sympatico.ca> wrote:
>
>
> Good luck with that. They are all so different. Then add ribbon cables to
> the equation. What do you mean by broken? The cases? Or are they fried
> somehow electronically.
>
> Most of those things are composite (RCA) or perhaps S-Video. Some of them
> even have mini 1/8" phone plugs for video in. Depending on what they are,
> you can either get a TV card (all in wonder etc), but I don't know how you'd
> interface that with X-Plane or FS. Alternative is to search for the pin-outs
> and try to wire them up the way you like. But if the monitor won't turn on,
> you have bigger issues to deal with. Stripping the screen out to operate
> stand-alone is paramount to asking a car to go down the road 60 miles an
> hour without an engine. The "screen" being the "car". There is an inverter,
> and a PSU and backlighting and everything else in an LCD monitor. If none of
> those things work, that is why they are cheap. Because they aren't useful
> for anything except spare parts.
>
> R
>
>
> thank you for your quick reply, however is there a way to separate the
> screen and wire it from there? i would like to use them to create glass
> cockpit instruments.
>
> On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 11:16 AM, Rick Davis <rd@ns.sympatico.ca> wrote:
>
>> You might try poking around on here. I have dealt with them quite a bit
>> and no problems.
>>
>>
>> http://sewelldirect.com/CablesandAdapters/AudioVideo/-AudioV ideoInterface-VGA
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> *From:* delor lauchang <echotech1452@gmail.com>
>> *To:* Simulator Cockpit Builder's List <simpits-tech@simpits.org>
>> *Sent:* Friday, May 21, 2010 12:09 PM
>> *Subject:* Re: [simpits-tech] new update posted...
>>
>> help!!!
>>
>> lots of broken portable dvd players with working lcd screens are being
>> sold here for cheap. does anybody here knows how to convert the monitor to a
>> vga monitor? or is there an adapter or modules that can bought to convert to
>> vga monitor?
>>
>> thanks and have a great weekend.
>>
>>
>> On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 11:29 AM, Gene Buckle <geneb@deltasoft.com>wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, 20 May 2010, Roy Coates wrote:
>>>
>>> > On Thu, 20 May 2010, Gene Buckle wrote:
>>> >
>>> >>> Superb stuff as always gene :-)
>>> >>>
>>> >> Thanks Roy. How is the X1000 coming along?
>>> >
>>> > Been working hard on the mapping data. Processed something like 250
>>> > billion data items so far. Can produce maps that show the mailbox at
>>> the
>>> > end of your street if I wanted to!
>>> >
>>> Neat. :)
>>>
>>> > Curbing the size of the database without losing too much info is the
>>> big
>>> > issue here. Work progresses as time permits - sound familiar !?
>>>
>>> Hehe. All too familiar unfortunately.
>>>
>>> g.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Proud owner of F-15C 80-0007
>>> http://www.f15sim.com - The only one of its kind.
>>> http://www.simpits.org/geneb - The Me-109F/X Project
>>>
>>> ScarletDME - The red hot Data Management Environment
>>> A Multi-Value database for the masses, not the classes.
>>> http://www.scarletdme.org - Get it _today_!
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> Simpits-tech mailing list
>>> Simpits-tech@simpits.org
>>> http://www.simpits.org/mailman/listinfo/simpits-tech
>>> To unsubscribe, please see the instructions at the bottom of the above
>>> page. Thanks!
>>>
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| Re: [simpits-tech] new update posted... [message #1290 is a reply to message #1289 ] |
Sat, 22 May 2010 08:08 |
Rick Davis
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I wouldn't say I was an expert simmer by any stretch of the imagination, but have just gone through what you were trying to do myself not so long ago. Only I was trying to get digital picture frames to work. Just buying another monitor was a lot cheaper. For some reason, small monitors are outrageously expensive. I even tried unsuccessfully to find a supplier for the little 7-8 inch LCD TV's they use in the seat backs of commercial airliners. They must make millions of them and probably cost dirt. Couldn't find any anywhere.
R
----- Original Message -----
From: delor lauchang
To: Simulator Cockpit Builder's List
Sent: Saturday, May 22, 2010 11:29 AM
Subject: Re: [simpits-tech] new update posted...
Thanks Rick,
Thought its just that easy, but going on to all those trouble, it might come out more expensive to make them work. Its always good to seek advice from expert simmers. Saved me from going all the troubles.
By the way, been to Taipei and got this ipad clone thats a PC for $200, check it out Moonse e-7001 called the a-pad, it interfaced with my flight simulator.
Again thanks for the info.
On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 6:38 PM, Rick Davis <rd@ns.sympatico.ca> wrote:
Good luck with that. They are all so different. Then add ribbon cables to the equation. What do you mean by broken? The cases? Or are they fried somehow electronically.
Most of those things are composite (RCA) or perhaps S-Video. Some of them even have mini 1/8" phone plugs for video in. Depending on what they are, you can either get a TV card (all in wonder etc), but I don't know how you'd interface that with X-Plane or FS. Alternative is to search for the pin-outs and try to wire them up the way you like. But if the monitor won't turn on, you have bigger issues to deal with. Stripping the screen out to operate stand-alone is paramount to asking a car to go down the road 60 miles an hour without an engine. The "screen" being the "car". There is an inverter, and a PSU and backlighting and everything else in an LCD monitor. If none of those things work, that is why they are cheap. Because they aren't useful for anything except spare parts.
R
thank you for your quick reply, however is there a way to separate the screen and wire it from there? i would like to use them to create glass cockpit instruments.
On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 11:16 AM, Rick Davis <rd@ns.sympatico.ca> wrote:
You might try poking around on here. I have dealt with them quite a bit and no problems.
http://sewelldirect.com/CablesandAdapters/AudioVideo/-AudioV ideoInterface-VGA
----- Original Message -----
From: delor lauchang
To: Simulator Cockpit Builder's List
Sent: Friday, May 21, 2010 12:09 PM
Subject: Re: [simpits-tech] new update posted...
help!!!
lots of broken portable dvd players with working lcd screens are being sold here for cheap. does anybody here knows how to convert the monitor to a vga monitor? or is there an adapter or modules that can bought to convert to vga monitor?
thanks and have a great weekend.
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 11:29 AM, Gene Buckle <geneb@deltasoft.com> wrote:
On Thu, 20 May 2010, Roy Coates wrote:
> On Thu, 20 May 2010, Gene Buckle wrote:
>
>>> Superb stuff as always gene :-)
>>>
>> Thanks Roy. How is the X1000 coming along?
>
> Been working hard on the mapping data. Processed something like 250
> billion data items so far. Can produce maps that show the mailbox at the
> end of your street if I wanted to!
>
Neat. :)
> Curbing the size of the database without losing too much info is the big
> issue here. Work progresses as time permits - sound familiar !?
Hehe. All too familiar unfortunately.
g.
--
Proud owner of F-15C 80-0007
http://www.f15sim.com - The only one of its kind.
http://www.simpits.org/geneb - The Me-109F/X Project
ScarletDME - The red hot Data Management Environment
A Multi-Value database for the masses, not the classes.
http://www.scarletdme.org - Get it _today_!
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| Re: [simpits-tech] new update posted... [message #1291 is a reply to message #1290 ] |
Sat, 22 May 2010 10:55 |
delor lauchang
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thank god someone already had the same idea, otherwise i would have
suffered. thinking might just settle with saitek instrument display, until
LCD's get cheap.
still i will try to see if any of those chinese OEM lcd manufacturers have
considered selling in small quantities.
have a good weekend.
On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 11:08 AM, Rick Davis <rd@ns.sympatico.ca> wrote:
> I wouldn't say I was an expert simmer by any stretch of the imagination,
> but have just gone through what you were trying to do myself not so long
> ago. Only I was trying to get digital picture frames to work. Just buying
> another monitor was a lot cheaper. For some reason, small monitors are
> outrageously expensive. I even tried unsuccessfully to find a supplier for
> the little 7-8 inch LCD TV's they use in the seat backs of commercial
> airliners. They must make millions of them and probably cost dirt. Couldn't
> find any anywhere.
>
> R
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> *From:* delor lauchang <echotech1452@gmail.com>
> *To:* Simulator Cockpit Builder's List <simpits-tech@simpits.org>
> *Sent:* Saturday, May 22, 2010 11:29 AM
> *Subject:* Re: [simpits-tech] new update posted...
>
> Thanks Rick,
>
> Thought its just that easy, but going on to all those trouble, it might
> come out more expensive to make them work. Its always good to seek advice
> from expert simmers. Saved me from going all the troubles.
>
> By the way, been to Taipei and got this ipad clone thats a PC for $200,
> check it out Moonse e-7001 called the a-pad, it interfaced with my flight
> simulator.
>
> Again thanks for the info.
>
>
>
> On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 6:38 PM, Rick Davis <rd@ns.sympatico.ca> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> Good luck with that. They are all so different. Then add ribbon cables to
>> the equation. What do you mean by broken? The cases? Or are they fried
>> somehow electronically.
>>
>> Most of those things are composite (RCA) or perhaps S-Video. Some of them
>> even have mini 1/8" phone plugs for video in. Depending on what they are,
>> you can either get a TV card (all in wonder etc), but I don't know how you'd
>> interface that with X-Plane or FS. Alternative is to search for the pin-outs
>> and try to wire them up the way you like. But if the monitor won't turn on,
>> you have bigger issues to deal with. Stripping the screen out to operate
>> stand-alone is paramount to asking a car to go down the road 60 miles an
>> hour without an engine. The "screen" being the "car". There is an inverter,
>> and a PSU and backlighting and everything else in an LCD monitor. If none of
>> those things work, that is why they are cheap. Because they aren't useful
>> for anything except spare parts.
>>
>> R
>>
>>
>> thank you for your quick reply, however is there a way to separate the
>> screen and wire it from there? i would like to use them to create glass
>> cockpit instruments.
>>
>> On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 11:16 AM, Rick Davis <rd@ns.sympatico.ca> wrote:
>>
>>> You might try poking around on here. I have dealt with them quite a bit
>>> and no problems.
>>>
>>>
>>> http://sewelldirect.com/CablesandAdapters/AudioVideo/-AudioV ideoInterface-VGA
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> *From:* delor lauchang <echotech1452@gmail.com>
>>> *To:* Simulator Cockpit Builder's List <simpits-tech@simpits.org>
>>> *Sent:* Friday, May 21, 2010 12:09 PM
>>> *Subject:* Re: [simpits-tech] new update posted...
>>>
>>> help!!!
>>>
>>> lots of broken portable dvd players with working lcd screens are being
>>> sold here for cheap. does anybody here knows how to convert the monitor to a
>>> vga monitor? or is there an adapter or modules that can bought to convert to
>>> vga monitor?
>>>
>>> thanks and have a great weekend.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 11:29 AM, Gene Buckle <geneb@deltasoft.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Thu, 20 May 2010, Roy Coates wrote:
>>>>
>>>> > On Thu, 20 May 2010, Gene Buckle wrote:
>>>> >
>>>> >>> Superb stuff as always gene :-)
>>>> >>>
>>>> >> Thanks Roy. How is the X1000 coming along?
>>>> >
>>>> > Been working hard on the mapping data. Processed something like 250
>>>> > billion data items so far. Can produce maps that show the mailbox at
>>>> the
>>>> > end of your street if I wanted to!
>>>> >
>>>> Neat. :)
>>>>
>>>> > Curbing the size of the database without losing too much info is the
>>>> big
>>>> > issue here. Work progresses as time permits - sound familiar !?
>>>>
>>>> Hehe. All too familiar unfortunately.
>>>>
>>>> g.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Proud owner of F-15C 80-0007
>>>> http://www.f15sim.com - The only one of its kind.
>>>> http://www.simpits.org/geneb - The Me-109F/X Project
>>>>
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>>>> A Multi-Value database for the masses, not the classes.
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| [simpits-tech] monitors [message #1292 is a reply to message #1289 ] |
Sat, 22 May 2010 14:06 |
Rick Davis
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Delor,
This is as close as I got to solving the problem. Using a 50.00 photo player with composite and/or SVHS " in " would do fine. Sometimes you can find those car DVD players with two monitors cheap too. The second monitor is ready to go, and the first can be used with a bit of jigging around as well. Total about 75.00 a screen. But only one screen per computer unfortunately. If your only looking to make two glass instrument panels that shouldn't be a problem. (only two computers)
Great video about the product a bit down the page:
http://sewelldirect.com/pc-to-tv.asp
Hey, 29 bucks? I can't get a half decent bottle of Scotch for that. ;)
R
----- Original Message -----
From: delor lauchang
Thanks Rick,
Thought its just that easy, but going on to all those trouble, it might come out more expensive to make them work. Its always good to seek advice from expert simmers. Saved me from going all the troubles.
By the way, been to Taipei and got this ipad clone thats a PC for $200, check it out Moonse e-7001 called the a-pad, it interfaced with my flight simulator.
Again thanks for the info.
On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 6:38 PM, Rick Davis <rd@ns.sympatico.ca> wrote:
Good luck with that. They are all so different. Then add ribbon cables to the equation. What do you mean by broken? The cases? Or are they fried somehow electronically.
Most of those things are composite (RCA) or perhaps S-Video. Some of them even have mini 1/8" phone plugs for video in. Depending on what they are, you can either get a TV card (all in wonder etc), but I don't know how you'd interface that with X-Plane or FS. Alternative is to search for the pin-outs and try to wire them up the way you like. But if the monitor won't turn on, you have bigger issues to deal with. Stripping the screen out to operate stand-alone is paramount to asking a car to go down the road 60 miles an hour without an engine. The "screen" being the "car". There is an inverter, and a PSU and backlighting and everything else in an LCD monitor. If none of those things work, that is why they are cheap. Because they aren't useful for anything except spare parts.
R
thank you for your quick reply, however is there a way to separate the screen and wire it from there? i would like to use them to create glass cockpit instruments.
On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 11:16 AM, Rick Davis <rd@ns.sympatico.ca> wrote:
You might try poking around on here. I have dealt with them quite a bit and no problems.
http://sewelldirect.com/CablesandAdapters/AudioVideo/-AudioV ideoInterface-VGA
----- Original Message -----
From: delor lauchang
To: Simulator Cockpit Builder's List
Sent: Friday, May 21, 2010 12:09 PM
Subject: Re: [simpits-tech] new update posted...
help!!!
lots of broken portable dvd players with working lcd screens are being sold here for cheap. does anybody here knows how to convert the monitor to a vga monitor? or is there an adapter or modules that can bought to convert to vga monitor?
thanks and have a great weekend.
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 11:29 AM, Gene Buckle <geneb@deltasoft.com> wrote:
On Thu, 20 May 2010, Roy Coates wrote:
> On Thu, 20 May 2010, Gene Buckle wrote:
>
>>> Superb stuff as always gene :-)
>>>
>> Thanks Roy. How is the X1000 coming along?
>
> Been working hard on the mapping data. Processed something like 250
> billion data items so far. Can produce maps that show the mailbox at the
> end of your street if I wanted to!
>
Neat. :)
> Curbing the size of the database without losing too much info is the big
> issue here. Work progresses as time permits - sound familiar !?
Hehe. All too familiar unfortunately.
g.
--
Proud owner of F-15C 80-0007
http://www.f15sim.com - The only one of its kind.
http://www.simpits.org/geneb - The Me-109F/X Project
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| Re: [simpits-tech] monitors [message #1293 is a reply to message #1292 ] |
Sat, 22 May 2010 14:07 |
Rick Davis
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"player with composite and/or SVHS "
OOOPS! Meant S-Video
----- Original Message -----
From: Rick Davis
To: Simulator Cockpit Builder's List
Sent: Saturday, May 22, 2010 6:06 PM
Subject: [simpits-tech] monitors
Delor,
This is as close as I got to solving the problem. Using a 50.00 photo player with composite and/or SVHS " in " would do fine. Sometimes you can find those car DVD players with two monitors cheap too. The second monitor is ready to go, and the first can be used with a bit of jigging around as well. Total about 75.00 a screen. But only one screen per computer unfortunately. If your only looking to make two glass instrument panels that shouldn't be a problem. (only two computers)
Great video about the product a bit down the page:
http://sewelldirect.com/pc-to-tv.asp
Hey, 29 bucks? I can't get a half decent bottle of Scotch for that. ;)
R
----- Original Message -----
From: delor lauchang
Thanks Rick,
Thought its just that easy, but going on to all those trouble, it might come out more expensive to make them work. Its always good to seek advice from expert simmers. Saved me from going all the troubles.
By the way, been to Taipei and got this ipad clone thats a PC for $200, check it out Moonse e-7001 called the a-pad, it interfaced with my flight simulator.
Again thanks for the info.
On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 6:38 PM, Rick Davis <rd@ns.sympatico.ca> wrote:
Good luck with that. They are all so different. Then add ribbon cables to the equation. What do you mean by broken? The cases? Or are they fried somehow electronically.
Most of those things are composite (RCA) or perhaps S-Video. Some of them even have mini 1/8" phone plugs for video in. Depending on what they are, you can either get a TV card (all in wonder etc), but I don't know how you'd interface that with X-Plane or FS. Alternative is to search for the pin-outs and try to wire them up the way you like. But if the monitor won't turn on, you have bigger issues to deal with. Stripping the screen out to operate stand-alone is paramount to asking a car to go down the road 60 miles an hour without an engine. The "screen" being the "car". There is an inverter, and a PSU and backlighting and everything else in an LCD monitor. If none of those things work, that is why they are cheap. Because they aren't useful for anything except spare parts.
R
thank you for your quick reply, however is there a way to separate the screen and wire it from there? i would like to use them to create glass cockpit instruments.
On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 11:16 AM, Rick Davis <rd@ns.sympatico.ca> wrote:
You might try poking around on here. I have dealt with them quite a bit and no problems.
http://sewelldirect.com/CablesandAdapters/AudioVideo/-AudioV ideoInterface-VGA
----- Original Message -----
From: delor lauchang
To: Simulator Cockpit Builder's List
Sent: Friday, May 21, 2010 12:09 PM
Subject: Re: [simpits-tech] new update posted...
help!!!
lots of broken portable dvd players with working lcd screens are being sold here for cheap. does anybody here knows how to convert the monitor to a vga monitor? or is there an adapter or modules that can bought to convert to vga monitor?
thanks and have a great weekend.
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 11:29 AM, Gene Buckle <geneb@deltasoft.com> wrote:
On Thu, 20 May 2010, Roy Coates wrote:
> On Thu, 20 May 2010, Gene Buckle wrote:
>
>>> Superb stuff as always gene :-)
>>>
>> Thanks Roy. How is the X1000 coming along?
>
> Been working hard on the mapping data. Processed something like 250
> billion data items so far. Can produce maps that show the mailbox at the
> end of your street if I wanted to!
>
Neat. :)
> Curbing the size of the database without losing too much info is the big
> issue here. Work progresses as time permits - sound familiar !?
Hehe. All too familiar unfortunately.
g.
--
Proud owner of F-15C 80-0007
http://www.f15sim.com - The only one of its kind.
http://www.simpits.org/geneb - The Me-109F/X Project
ScarletDME - The red hot Data Management Environment
A Multi-Value database for the masses, not the classes.
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| Re: [simpits-tech] monitors [message #1300 is a reply to message #1292 ] |
Sat, 22 May 2010 18:40 |
delor lauchang
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Thanks Rick,
Thats an idea that will work, anyways I still have four computers sitting
around, the only drawback, the heat.
Iam integrating the MFD cougar twin pack, thats why I need extra screen for
each on top of the EICAS screen, and GPS.
Again, thanks for your time.
Delor
On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 5:06 PM, Rick Davis <rd@ns.sympatico.ca> wrote:
> Delor,
>
> This is as close as I got to solving the problem. Using a 50.00 photo
> player with composite and/or SVHS " in " would do fine. Sometimes you can
> find those car DVD players with two monitors cheap too. The second monitor
> is ready to go, and the first can be used with a bit of jigging around as
> well. Total about 75.00 a screen. But only one screen per computer
> unfortunately. If your only looking to make two glass instrument panels that
> shouldn't be a problem. (only two computers)
>
> Great video about the product a bit down the page:
>
> http://sewelldirect.com/pc-to-tv.asp
>
> Hey, 29 bucks? I can't get a half decent bottle of Scotch for that. ;)
>
> R
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> *From:* delor lauchang <echotech1452@gmail.com>
>
> Thanks Rick,
>
> Thought its just that easy, but going on to all those trouble, it might
> come out more expensive to make them work. Its always good to seek advice
> from expert simmers. Saved me from going all the troubles.
>
> By the way, been to Taipei and got this ipad clone thats a PC for $200,
> check it out Moonse e-7001 called the a-pad, it interfaced with my flight
> simulator.
>
> Again thanks for the info.
>
>
>
> On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 6:38 PM, Rick Davis <rd@ns.sympatico.ca> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> Good luck with that. They are all so different. Then add ribbon cables to
>> the equation. What do you mean by broken? The cases? Or are they fried
>> somehow electronically.
>>
>> Most of those things are composite (RCA) or perhaps S-Video. Some of them
>> even have mini 1/8" phone plugs for video in. Depending on what they are,
>> you can either get a TV card (all in wonder etc), but I don't know how you'd
>> interface that with X-Plane or FS. Alternative is to search for the pin-outs
>> and try to wire them up the way you like. But if the monitor won't turn on,
>> you have bigger issues to deal with. Stripping the screen out to operate
>> stand-alone is paramount to asking a car to go down the road 60 miles an
>> hour without an engine. The "screen" being the "car". There is an inverter,
>> and a PSU and backlighting and everything else in an LCD monitor. If none of
>> those things work, that is why they are cheap. Because they aren't useful
>> for anything except spare parts.
>>
>> R
>>
>>
>> thank you for your quick reply, however is there a way to separate the
>> screen and wire it from there? i would like to use them to create glass
>> cockpit instruments.
>>
>> On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 11:16 AM, Rick Davis <rd@ns.sympatico.ca> wrote:
>>
>>> You might try poking around on here. I have dealt with them quite a bit
>>> and no problems.
>>>
>>>
>>> http://sewelldirect.com/CablesandAdapters/AudioVideo/-AudioV ideoInterface-VGA
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> *From:* delor lauchang <echotech1452@gmail.com>
>>> *To:* Simulator Cockpit Builder's List <simpits-tech@simpits.org>
>>> *Sent:* Friday, May 21, 2010 12:09 PM
>>> *Subject:* Re: [simpits-tech] new update posted...
>>>
>>> help!!!
>>>
>>> lots of broken portable dvd players with working lcd screens are being
>>> sold here for cheap. does anybody here knows how to convert the monitor to a
>>> vga monitor? or is there an adapter or modules that can bought to convert to
>>> vga monitor?
>>>
>>> thanks and have a great weekend.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 11:29 AM, Gene Buckle <geneb@deltasoft.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Thu, 20 May 2010, Roy Coates wrote:
>>>>
>>>> > On Thu, 20 May 2010, Gene Buckle wrote:
>>>> >
>>>> >>> Superb stuff as always gene :-)
>>>> >>>
>>>> >> Thanks Roy. How is the X1000 coming along?
>>>> >
>>>> > Been working hard on the mapping data. Processed something like 250
>>>> > billion data items so far. Can produce maps that show the mailbox at
>>>> the
>>>> > end of your street if I wanted to!
>>>> >
>>>> Neat. :)
>>>>
>>>> > Curbing the size of the database without losing too much info is the
>>>> big
>>>> > issue here. Work progresses as time permits - sound familiar !?
>>>>
>>>> Hehe. All too familiar unfortunately.
>>>>
>>>> g.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Proud owner of F-15C 80-0007
>>>> http://www.f15sim.com - The only one of its kind.
>>>> http://www.simpits.org/geneb - The Me-109F/X Project
>>>>
>>>> ScarletDME - The red hot Data Management Environment
>>>> A Multi-Value database for the masses, not the classes.
>>>> http://www.scarletdme.org - Get it _today_!
>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>> Simpits-tech mailing list
>>>> Simpits-tech@simpits.org
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