<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><HTML><FONT SIZE=2 PTSIZE=10 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">In a message dated 6/13/04 10:54:55 PM Pacific Daylight Time, Steverdiamond@aol.com writes:<BR>
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<BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">hi guys,im starting to test out some panel switches,one strange one,?ive wired in the landing lights to the saitek board (one of the push buttons)it works ok going on,but to turn it off in have to turn it off,then on again????im gonna get a keyboard encoder soon so this will solve it,but wondered if anyone can shed any light,the start switches are wired in to another button and work just fine</BLOCKQUOTE></FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" BACK="#ffffff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=3 PTSIZE=12 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"><BR>
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When you turn on a switch connected to a button, you send a 'make' signal to the computer. usually a light switch for a sim is a on/off toggle. If you imagine you were still using a keyboard, you'd hit say the "L" key to turn the lights on, and hit "L" again to turn them off. That's what you're doing by turning the switch off then back on - sending another keypress.<BR>
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If you can use FSUIPC you can change the commands to have turning it on send a "lights on" signal, and have turning it off send a "lights off" signal. <BR>
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Richard</FONT></HTML>