[simpits-tech] New Toy for the KingAir B200 sim...

[raysot at comcast.net]

Wow if I could keep the guts and make them work, that would really be something... Don LaFontaine just finished writing a serial library to pull FSUIPC data into an Arduino, so maybe that is something worth looking into... I sure would love to use those displays... if they are still operable 




----- Original Message -----
From: "Cris Harrison" <phoenixcomm at gmail.com> 
To: "Simulator Cockpit Builder's List" <simpits-tech at simpits.org> 
Sent: Saturday, March 3, 2012 3:58:37 PM 
Subject: Re: [simpits-tech] New Toy for the KingAir B200 sim... 

On 3/2/2012 11:14 PM, dabigboy at cox.net wrote: 
> ---- Ray Sotkiewicz<raysot at comcast.net> wrote: 
>> ...and just picked THESE up for a song! $25/pair 
>> 
>> http://i.ebayimg.com/t/Sperry-ARC-Nav-Head-C-1048B-and-Head-C-1038B-/00/s/MTIwMFgxNjAw/$(KGrHqR,!i!E8Y1GchYLBPPrRcE8Vw~~60_58.JPG 
> NICE! Hummm, I think those were on my watch list! I could have sworn they went for more, maybe it was a different auction. 
> 
>> I've been out of simming for awhile but really getting the itch to get 
>> back into my KingAir. A Kitchen remodel turned my man-cave into a 
>> storage area for the new kitchen stuff.. 
>> 
>> Last year I gutted a GoFlight 166 radio to make it fit this style radio 
>> head... Should be a perfect fit.... 
> Hold up a minute, I bet those control heads use the ARINC 401 spec Cris and I have been dealing with. 
duh hey Matt - Brain Fart or Typo ARINC410 not ARINC401 
Cris 

> Before you go putting the lesser GoFlight stuff into them, have you considered just hooking them into an Arduino (or even a joystick controller like the Leo Bodnar boards) and thus keeping the high-dollar displays and rotaries? Someone here recently (I think it was Roberto) posted a video of a similar Collins head hooking into a few LEDs to demonstrate the ARINC 401 operation....it's just a big fancy switch, even on the digital units it appears all the display stuff happens entirely within the head itself. 
> 
> Any pics of the King Air? 
> 
> Matt 
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