[simpits-tech] 0..5VDC DAC output...

[Gene Buckle]

On Fri, 13 Aug 2010, David C. Allen wrote:

> At 02:29 PM 8/13/2010 -0700, you wrote:
>> On Fri, 13 Aug 2010, David C. Allen wrote:
>>
>>> At 02:00 PM 8/13/2010 -0700, you wrote:
>>>> On Fri, 13 Aug 2010, David C. Allen wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>  David, what you driving that requires such a tiny current draw?
>>>>>> g.
>>>>>
>>>>> d'Arsonval type analog meter movements
>>>>>
>>>> Ahh, glideslope needles and INOP flags, etc?
>>>
>>> I am actually driving the 2" instruments, like Fuel Temp, Oil
>>> Pressure etc. I converted all the 2" instruments to  0-5vdc
>>>
>> Did you rebuild them to use those movements?  I've got 10 brand new
>> air-core motors that I'm going to be using in the F-15.
>
> I found a common Lewis 2" instrument, that was easy to convert to 0-5vdc.
> Then I removed the dial faces from the original 737 Lewis 2"
> instruments and placed them on the converted common Lewis 2" instruments.

Ahh, there you go.  What kind of rotation are you getting out of them? 
(degrees)

g.

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