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Towerguys baron project part 16a (Read 859 times)
Jun 7th, 2010 at 6:28pm

Towerguy   Offline
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will break this into a couple of posts due to number of photos

have been working on some of the instrumentation lately. it is slow going and takes a long time to show any sort of progress and I got tired of waiting so decided to throw up some shots of progress so far.

setting out the locations
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setting out the layout for the transponder
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wiring up the first selector, this was a single pole that I later replaced with a double pole rotary as I wanted to control a small set of Leds at the same time
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then it was the long slow and laborious process of marking drilling and filing out the front plate.
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a plastic breadboard provides the materials for the buttons
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then I had to cut the actual front sheet that goes over the dark plastic
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like so
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these next three are of the power supply test rig I made up following plans found online so I could test the buttons.
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Reply #1 - Jun 7th, 2010 at 11:03pm

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Wow! Looks like it is coming along great!
 

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Reply #2 - Jun 11th, 2010 at 12:08am

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Towrguy, this looks really great. If you are thinking to make the Garmin gps and if you haven't seen it yet, there is a good tutorial how to make one here:

http://www.mycockpit.org/forums/content.php/125-General-Aviation-GPS-Hardware-In...

Regards,

ermias
 

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Reply #3 - Jun 13th, 2010 at 6:37am

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yes thanks I have seen this site
it is one I am referencing as I finally got hold of a PSone screen through ebay and have it ready to go when I get to the GPS.
it might take a while however
 
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