[simpits-tech] Controlling synchros

[Simon Bennett]

That's exactly what I was suggesting. Do you know where to get the 
transmitters? I've only seen one or two pop up on eBay, and I wouldn't know 
where else to look.

>From: Gene Buckle <geneb at deltasoft.com>
>Reply-To: Simulator Cockpit tech list <simpits-tech at simpits.org>
>To: Simulator Cockpit tech list <simpits-tech at simpits.org>
>Subject: Re: [simpits-tech] Controlling synchros
>Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2005 18:44:49 -0700
>
>Simon Bennett wrote:
>>Since I've got a remote attitude indicator coming in the mail any day now 
>>(my first real aircraft instrument), I've been thinking a lot about how to 
>>drive it. Almost everyone seems to think driving synchros is an almost 
>>impossible task, but I'm not so sure. Trying to generate the signals to 
>>control them would definitely be a hell of a challenge, but I'm wondering, 
>>wouldn't it be possible, and much less frustrating, to wire the indicator 
>>synchro a torque transmitter, the rotor of which is controlled 
>>mechanically by a stepping motor or the like? I'd rather not gut the 
>>indicator if I can find any way to use it in its original state.
>
>The cheapest method I've seen to drive these things is by coupling a 
>stepper motor to the shaft of a synchro transmitter.  You then wire up the 
>transmitter to the resolver in the instrument and you've got a bargain 
>basement "digital" to synchro converter.
>
>g.
>
>
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