[simpits-tech] ICP

[Mark Doran]

Hang on a sec...

The following things on the ICP cannot be made to work with Falcon4 (Block
50/52 answers):

- Raster Brightness thumb wheel 
- Raster Contrast thumb wheel
- WX button 
- FLIR up/dn rocker 
- Gain/level/auto toggle in FLIR section 

In all cases I believe these are not used in the Block 50/52 aircraft
anyway.  Falcon4 certainly has no code for them.  We've wired them with a
view to using them as sim gear control buttons (like a switch to call the
EPIC INIT() function for example).

All other controls can be mapped without great trouble to EPIC switch and
analog controls.

What we are doing is mapping the HUD brightness command to the symbology
intensity thumb wheel (upper left).  Since that command in the game only has
6 states (i.e. 5 steps up and down) it works quite well mapped to an analog
axis input to EPIC with the keystrokes bound to the travel of that axis.
Same deal for the manual reticle control on the upper right thumb wheel with
the reticle up/down game commands.

Everything else on the ICP is a straight data bit switch as far as EPIC
inputs are concerned.

Actually the hard part with the ICP is finding the right switches -- a
viable four-way bat switch for the DCS and the on-off-(on) [momentary to one
side only] switch for the drift cutout are not the easiest things to
find...ebay highly recommended!!  Oh and we were able to acquire a couple of
actual ICP panels -- they have the "tile" switches built right in...once
you've played with one of these, nothing else will do ;-)

Cheers,

Mark.



-----Original Message-----
From: simpits-tech-admin@simpits.org [mailto:simpits-tech-admin@simpits.org]
On Behalf Of Marv De Beque
Sent: Monday, April 21, 2003 4:07 PM
To: simpits-tech@simpits.org
Subject: Re: [simpits-tech] ICP

One is logistical.  How do you plan to make them?  Rotary encoders are
probably the best solution, but it depends on your design.

EPIC has a rotary encoder module, but it isn’t cheap.

In other words, it is do-able, but at a price.  Then you have to consider
what is gained by making them work.

Marv


On 4/21/03 5:54 PM, "Frank Riedel" <frank@rezultat.dk> wrote:
Okai !
But when you say that those tumbwheels could probably work too...
Could you please explain what the prob. is ?
and how too make them work too ??

All the best
Frank
----- Original Message ----- 
From: Marv De Beque <mailto:mdebeque@woh.rr.com>  
To: simpits-tech@simpits.org 
Sent: Monday, April 21, 2003 11:34 PM
Subject: Re: [simpits-tech] ICP

You should be able to do them all, except the thumbwheels, but you could
probably do those too if you wanted.

On 4/21/03 3:58 PM, "Frank Riedel" <frank@rezultat.dk> wrote:
Hi All !
Will all the ICP funcktion be able to funcktion in my PIT ????
Using EPIC....

Frank