[simpits-tech] new update posted...

Sat May 22 10:55:02 PDT 2010

thank god someone already had the same idea, otherwise i would have
suffered. thinking might just settle with saitek instrument display, until
LCD's get cheap.
still i will try to see if any of those chinese OEM lcd manufacturers have
considered selling in small quantities.

have a good weekend.

On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 11:08 AM, Rick Davis <rd at ns.sympatico.ca> wrote:

>  I wouldn't say I was an expert simmer by any stretch of the imagination,
> but have just gone through what you were trying to do myself not so long
> ago. Only I was trying to get digital picture frames to work. Just buying
> another monitor was a lot cheaper. For some reason, small monitors are
> outrageously expensive. I even tried unsuccessfully to find a supplier for
> the little 7-8 inch LCD TV's they use in the seat backs of commercial
> airliners. They must make millions of them and probably cost dirt. Couldn't
> find any anywhere.
>
> R
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> *From:* delor lauchang <echotech1452 at gmail.com>
> *To:* Simulator Cockpit Builder's List <simpits-tech at simpits.org>
> *Sent:* Saturday, May 22, 2010 11:29 AM
> *Subject:* Re: [simpits-tech] new update posted...
>
> Thanks Rick,
>
> Thought its just that easy, but going on to all those trouble, it might
> come out more expensive to make them work. Its always good to seek advice
> from expert simmers. Saved me from going all the troubles.
>
> By the way, been to Taipei and got this ipad clone thats a PC for $200,
> check it out Moonse e-7001 called the a-pad, it interfaced with my flight
> simulator.
>
> Again thanks for the info.
>
>
>
> On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 6:38 PM, Rick Davis <rd at ns.sympatico.ca> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> Good luck with that. They are all so different. Then add ribbon cables to
>> the equation. What do you mean by broken? The cases? Or are they fried
>> somehow electronically.
>>
>> Most of those things are composite (RCA) or perhaps S-Video. Some of them
>> even have mini 1/8" phone plugs for video in. Depending on what they are,
>> you can either get a TV card (all in wonder etc), but I don't know how you'd
>> interface that with X-Plane or FS. Alternative is to search for the pin-outs
>> and try to wire them up the way you like. But if the monitor won't turn on,
>> you have bigger issues to deal with. Stripping the screen out to operate
>> stand-alone is paramount to asking a car to go down the road 60 miles an
>> hour without an engine. The "screen" being the "car". There is an inverter,
>> and a PSU and backlighting and everything else in an LCD monitor. If none of
>> those things work, that is why they are cheap. Because they aren't useful
>> for anything except spare parts.
>>
>> R
>>
>>
>> thank you for your quick reply, however is there a way to separate the
>> screen and wire it from there? i would like to use them to create glass
>> cockpit instruments.
>>
>> On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 11:16 AM, Rick Davis <rd at ns.sympatico.ca> wrote:
>>
>>>  You might try poking around on here. I have dealt with them quite a bit
>>> and no problems.
>>>
>>>
>>> http://sewelldirect.com/CablesandAdapters/AudioVideo/-AudioVideoInterface-VGA
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> *From:* delor lauchang <echotech1452 at gmail.com>
>>> *To:* Simulator Cockpit Builder's List <simpits-tech at simpits.org>
>>> *Sent:* Friday, May 21, 2010 12:09 PM
>>> *Subject:* Re: [simpits-tech] new update posted...
>>>
>>> help!!!
>>>
>>> lots of broken portable dvd players with working lcd screens are being
>>> sold here for cheap. does anybody here knows how to convert the monitor to a
>>> vga monitor? or is there an adapter or modules that can bought to convert to
>>> vga monitor?
>>>
>>> thanks and have a great weekend.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 11:29 AM, Gene Buckle <geneb at deltasoft.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Thu, 20 May 2010, Roy Coates wrote:
>>>>
>>>> > On Thu, 20 May 2010, Gene Buckle wrote:
>>>> >
>>>> >>> Superb stuff as always gene  :-)
>>>> >>>
>>>> >> Thanks Roy.  How is the X1000 coming along?
>>>> >
>>>> > Been working hard on the mapping data. Processed something like 250
>>>> > billion data items so far. Can produce maps that show the mailbox at
>>>> the
>>>> > end of your street if I wanted to!
>>>> >
>>>> Neat. :)
>>>>
>>>> > Curbing the size of the database without losing too much info is the
>>>> big
>>>> > issue here. Work progresses as time permits - sound familiar !?
>>>>
>>>> Hehe.  All too familiar unfortunately.
>>>>
>>>> g.
>>>>
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