Cockpit build electronics thread
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I converted a TM Cougar TQS' throttle pot to a HID using a super magnet (Rare Earth Neodymium strong Permanent Magnets) and Hall Effect A1302 transducer. Both are dirt cheap - forgive the pun, using this method:
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I'm doing about 150 miles more than that and we're calling it a holiday in a foreign country! You just wouldn't want to do those miles over here - too many people and cars, no fun. I can imagine sitting on a nice straight road though and enjoying it I'll shut up now - don't want to hijack the threadBubi wrote:Last Friday I made a quick turn from my house to pick up my kid from Uni 725 miles round trip. Some shots I made for CASCA as we where texting across the States whilst I was crusing the desert highway.
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You going to Scotland or Wales BunnyBunny wrote:I'm doing about 150 miles more than that and we're calling it a holiday in a foreign country!Bubi wrote:Last Friday I made a quick turn from my house to pick up my kid from Uni 725 miles round trip. Some shots I made for CASCA as we where texting across the States whilst I was crusing the desert highway.
I mean, I had fast motor cars and fast motor bikes, and when I wasn't crashing airplanes, I was crashing motor bikes. It's all part of the game — Sir Harry Broadhurst
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Worse. France
Mind you - I can understand them only slightly better than you lot up there
On a note of localised jingoism, I love the quote from Raised by Wolves (family are Brummies so it holds some fond memories for me) - said with pride by the family's mum, educating her 'babbies',
"We're not Southern twats, we're not Northern twats...we're Midlands twats."
Mind you - I can understand them only slightly better than you lot up there
On a note of localised jingoism, I love the quote from Raised by Wolves (family are Brummies so it holds some fond memories for me) - said with pride by the family's mum, educating her 'babbies',
"We're not Southern twats, we're not Northern twats...we're Midlands twats."
“It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes I-16s.” - Douglas Adams
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Best don your black and white stripy top, beret and cloves of garlic then.
To be fair, Sabre has much more of a northern accent than me. I like to think I'm a well spoken Geordie.
To be fair, Sabre has much more of a northern accent than me. I like to think I'm a well spoken Geordie.
I mean, I had fast motor cars and fast motor bikes, and when I wasn't crashing airplanes, I was crashing motor bikes. It's all part of the game — Sir Harry Broadhurst
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Back to the light switches, or rather, what I am trying to set up is a reliable, simple, "non-slotted photo interrupter switch"
http://www.utopiamechanicus.com/article ... al-switch/
The only ones I've seen so far are slotted types such as this one;
I wonder it is is possible to cut this type of common switch in half and still have it function? I need to pass a large object to break it and fire the signal.
If not this, what else? Are there other switches which will perform the same function? I don't want anything 'physical', ie like momentary push button, I need something that detects.
http://www.utopiamechanicus.com/article ... al-switch/
The only ones I've seen so far are slotted types such as this one;
I wonder it is is possible to cut this type of common switch in half and still have it function? I need to pass a large object to break it and fire the signal.
If not this, what else? Are there other switches which will perform the same function? I don't want anything 'physical', ie like momentary push button, I need something that detects.
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This one was designed for high precision. To cut it in half (and assuming no connections are shared between halves), it's ability to sense goes to zero past 3-4mm separation (see fig6). Plus their would be issues with alignment, precision, light noise, foreign object blockage, decreased precisionOsprey wrote:Back to the light switches, or rather, what I am trying to set up is a reliable, simple, "non-slotted photo interrupter...
I wonder it is is possible to cut this type of common switch in half and still have it function? I need to pass a large object to break it and fire the signal.
http://pdf.datasheetcatalog.com/datashe ... pi-574.pdf
Could use an IR beam splitter designed for slightly greater distances such as this:If not this, what else? Are there other switches which will perform the same function? I don't want anything 'physical', ie like momentary push button, I need something that detects.
https://learn.adafruit.com/ir-breakbeam-sensors
Or as I posted earlier, suggesting Hall effect sensors.
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YES! That's it, that's what I'm after, the same thing which is on the handle of the Sidewinder FFB joystick which only enables FFB when you grip the stick.
I need to span 2cm in 4 different places.
Hall effect may be easier tbh from looking at your image above, i'll have a read up on those
Thanks for your help there Bubi
I need to span 2cm in 4 different places.
Hall effect may be easier tbh from looking at your image above, i'll have a read up on those
Thanks for your help there Bubi
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A bit of reading and I'm in business I think. Hall Effect looks easier.
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This is what I used... dirt cheap and very stable
A1302KUA-T Allegro A1302 Ratiometric Linear Hall Effect Sensors
http://www.ebay.com/itm/6pcs-Original-A ... 1178595704?
8pcs 6mm x 6mm x 6mm Blocks Rare Earth Neodymium strong Permanent Magnets N35
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/8pcs-6mm-x-6 ... 1101951607?
A1302KUA-T Allegro A1302 Ratiometric Linear Hall Effect Sensors
http://www.ebay.com/itm/6pcs-Original-A ... 1178595704?
8pcs 6mm x 6mm x 6mm Blocks Rare Earth Neodymium strong Permanent Magnets N35
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/8pcs-6mm-x-6 ... 1101951607?
"Train as you fight, fight as you train"