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My original gauge controller boards were done in Eagle, long before Autodesk got their claws into them and murdered them. Fortunately, KiCAD does a pretty good job of importing Eagle projects. That got me started I ended up basically redrawing the schematic from scratch, but that was probably the better choice anyway. Here s what [ ]
Back in 2015, I began working on replicas of the Fuel Flow, FTIT, and RPM gauges. The gauge design at the time was based around an air-core motor manufactured by SimCo (specifically, https://www.simcoltd.com/products/coil-bobbin-assemblies) Air-core motors are frequently used in automotive instrument clusters for things like the speedometer, fuel gauge, etc. The units I had were [ ]
This flight simulator involves a number of different power supplies that are used to supply the panel and instrument lighting (5VDC), various indicator lamps (24VDC), the control loading system (24VDC), and the CANBus I/O interfaces and instrument controllers (12VDC). For safety and operational reasons, there s a need to be able to control what power supply [ ]
One of the final tasks I have to do with the VPForce FFB system I m using for the F-15 s control loader is to permanently connect the power supply it uses. The power supply is currently separated from the main AC buses by a structural bulkhead. I decided to use what I think was a cable-bundle [ ]
In March of 2006, a person named Steve reached out to me with the following story: First I ll tell you the story of how it was that aircraft 007 was chosen to perform at the airshow at Soesterberg (pronounced Soo-sterberg) AB in the Netherlands. Your aircraft was almost brand new to Bitburg AB. It had [ ]
Not exactly F-15 specific (F/A-18 actually ), but I figured the folks that follow my shenannigans would get a kick out of this. A year(ish) ago, I found a LAU-117/A launch rail for sale on Facebook, and before common sense could override the PayPal transaction, I d bought the stupid thing. Enjoy the video!
I decided some weeks ago that the existing AC power infrastructure that I d originally implemented really wasn t going to do the job. As a result of that decision, I pulled all of the old wiring out and replaced it all with a much neater, safer, and useful configuration. Check it out in the latest update [ ]
As I discovered in the last video, I had some flight grip switch problems during the testing of the new control loader. The Castle Up switch and the pinky switch weren t triggering inputs on the VPForce controller. Today I was able to tear into things and figure out what the issue is. The good news [ ]
Some months ago I embarked on getting a control loader installed into the F-15C. With flight simulation and air combat games , it s more commonly known as force feedback . While the VPForce FFB system I m using as the base for my simulator *can* do force feedback things, the primary task is to provide control loading similar [ ]
Before I can get the VPForce-based control loading system installed in the F-15, I needed to build a cable that connects the SFS wiring harness in the cockpit to something that can read the switch inputs from the grip. In this case, that device is the VPForce Shift Register board. It s a lot smaller than [ ]