[simpits-tech] Working turn coordinator and other coolness

[Cris Harrison]

On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 1:18 AM, <dabigboy at cox.net> wrote:

> I have been quietly making big progress on the sim stuff! Tonight I finally
> more or less figured out my audio panel....seems a hangar fell on a Navion
> not long ago, and I've got the AMR-350 audio panel out of it. It's kind of
> old school, but the price was right. Tonight I made the pleasant discovery
> that it has the auto-silence function. For instance: if you have COMM1
> enabled and also NAV1 audio, NAV1 sounds loud and clear until there is audio
> coming through COMM1, then NAV1 goes to a lower volume. Cool! I had
> initially thought I might have to gut the AMR350 and just wire directly into
> the switches, but it looks like I'll be just fine actually running my
> various audio sources through the stock unit. This means the audio panel
> itself has zero modifications: it will be literally a direct swap of a real
> audio panel from the real plane into my sim. I still can't figure out how to
> get sound over the SPK (speaker) leads, nothing seems to work. Not a huge
> issue anyway, headphones a
>  re working correctly.
>
> I've also managed to convert a real turn coordinator to my sim. I gutted
> the internals and used two servos with a Phidget servo board, and some fun
> code in the X-Plane SDK. From the bezel/support structure forward, there are
> no more mods to the TC, meaning it appears in my setup exactly as it did in
> the real plane. Here's a video of the action during testing:
>
> http://68.12.225.136:81/pics/sim/tc.mov
> (You can also see my custom instrument display software running on a
> separate PC here.)
>
> I also managed to get the computer installed into my sim that will run the
> instrument display, analog instruments, and some of the inputs and
> instrument audio. It's an old socket A board with 512m RAM on a tiny 13g HD,
> running Linux. It will be configured to boot directly to my instrument
> system, in fact the graphical interface isn't even being loaded (I love
> Linux).
>
> Here's the motherboard tray mounted in the sim initially (old HP computers
> are AWESOME for cannibalizing these very nicely machined mini-ATX trays
> from):
> http://68.12.225.136:81/pics/sim/back_early.jpg
>
> The sim with the motherboard, HD, and PSU installed:
> http://68.12.225.136:81/pics/sim/pc_installed.jpg
>
> I am having a BLAST! There's so much cool stuff to stick in a sim....and
> this isn't even a full sim enclosure, it's just a desktop unit that mostly
> just holds the main instruments, radio stack, and controls. I still have a
> $700+ GPS annunciation unit (which I acquired for $25....ebay rocks) to
> interface into X-Plane's limited GPS somehow. :)
>
> Matt
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do you have any more pics? or info on the converted turn coordinator??? I
have a real Colins ADI but have not have had the guts to gut it..Congrats

Cris Harrison
www.phoenixcomm.net/~phnx2000/sim<http://www.phoenixcomm.net/%7Ephnx2000/sim>
www.phoenixaerospace.us
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