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Power. It’s the life-blood of any sim. Not enough and you’ll end up with random disconnects, brown-outs, and potentially damaged electronics. Put too much in and you’ll fry your electronics. Worst case, you’ll start a fire.
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Chip on Board (COB) LED Strips are perfect replacements for your traditional under-dash LED light strips.
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Here’s the latest updates on what I’ve been working on the last few months. It’s a lot!
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Learn a little about various visual systems and how mine has grown through the years.
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As I’m putting my sim back together I decided it’s time to permanently mount my Weber pilot seats. I decided J-Rails were a bit too pricey/complex for me right now so I found a less expensive, yet innovative way to make something similar. The Seats I was given a set of old Boeing 747 Weber …
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A complete rebuild of my old Revolution Sim Products throttle quadrant required an overhaul of the auto-throttle mechanism. I explain what I did and how I did it in this article.
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I have been lacking a couple of major components to mostly finish out the Captain side, one of which is a set of rudder pedals (the other being seats). I have a seat already, and I’m slowly getting around to refurbishing it, but I really needed rudder pedals. They are critical to flying, no matter …
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I knew eventually I would want to make some parts for my sim, and perhaps try my hand at some simple prototyping projects, so I have been thinking about a 3D printer for some time now. Last time I looked (several years ago) they were still expensive and the technology wasn’t quite as mature as …
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Lately I have been in the process of disassembling the entire sim to paint the floor and shell, so while I had everything apart I decided to do some updates on my home-built overhead. Goals Goal #1 was to reduce the number of wires coming out the back of my overhead. Between the power adapters, …
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After I finally finished the faux riveting of my sim base it was time to start painting everything. FYI, for this iteration of base I decided not to go with under-floor yokes for simplicity sake. I’ll be building a base v2.0 out of metal in the not-too-distant future and it will be designed for real …
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I am building a F-4D Phantom simulator with real instruments. I have the complete instrument panel and all of the…
Sorry for the long delay in response. Without knowing what hardware was used to make the pedestal or the avionics…
Hi, I have a pre-assembled home B737-800 cockpit I inherited from my father. However, the center pedestal is no longer…
Hi Kevin, there shouldn't be a reason why you can't daisy chain indicators so long as your power supply has…