[simpits-tech] monitors

Sat May 22 14:07:24 PDT 2010

"player with composite and/or SVHS "

OOOPS! Meant S-Video

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Rick Davis 
  To: Simulator Cockpit Builder's List 
  Sent: Saturday, May 22, 2010 6:06 PM
  Subject: [simpits-tech] monitors

  Delor,

  This is as close as I got to solving the problem. Using a 50.00 photo player with composite and/or SVHS " in " would do fine. Sometimes you can find those car DVD players with two monitors cheap too. The second monitor is ready to go, and the first can be used with a bit of jigging around as well. Total about 75.00 a screen. But only one screen per computer unfortunately. If your only looking to make two glass instrument panels that shouldn't be a problem. (only two computers)

  Great video about the product a bit down the page:

  http://sewelldirect.com/pc-to-tv.asp

  Hey, 29 bucks? I can't get a half decent bottle of Scotch for that. ;)

  R

    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: delor lauchang 

    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 
            To: Simulator Cockpit Builder's List 
            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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