Simviation Forum - yoke wirering

Sep 15^th, 2007 at 7:10pm

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Hi J Baymore.

I wonder if you would have time to help me wirer this thing. I added a diagram of my yoke cut in half. I just have no clue at all about wirering.

Sorry bout that.

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Reply #1 - Sep 15^th, 2007 at 7:22pm

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Mike,

Be glad to help ... however the image is not enough information. Is there another picture? Or is that the incorrect title? What interface are you using to get the button presses into the sim?

Also, please upload images here to the SimV server. See the Upload Image link at he top of every forum page for rules and how to do it. Otherwise we have to keep it as a URL link.

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Reply #2 - Sep 15^th, 2007 at 7:49pm

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OK JB. I uploaded the pic and cut it down a bit. Should have read the rules.

I'm up for any kind of interface.

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Reply #3 - Sep 15^th, 2007 at 8:02pm

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Mike,

The first step in this is deciding WHAT interface you will use to get the button press into the sim. Without some way of converting the button press to information that the computer understands.... nothing happens.

For momentary contacts like you are mentioning, one of the simplest ways is to hack a joystick or joypad. Those items contain the electronics to interface to the computer. You are just then "remote mounting" the existing joysick/joypad buttons to a new location with some wire extending them.

So once you have a joystick, you take it apart (carefully) and find the two pcboard copper traces where EACH SWITCH is connected. You then solder a PAIR of wires onto those pcb trace locations and then solder the other end of the pair of wires onto the two contacts on the Momentary pushbuitton switch. Repeat for every switch. Then the new switch acts just like the OLD switch on the joystick. Each momentary switch will need TWO wires to hook it up. So a Cat5 cable with it's 8 wires will allow you to hook up four momentary buttons. (There is a way to slave the common ground and get you 7 switches per cable... but I don't want to get into that here.)

Once you have the "remote mounted" joystick buttons, you assign the functions in the sim exactly like you wouild with any joystick button.

SO,... does that help?

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Reply #4 - Sep 15^th, 2007 at 8:07pm

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You might also look at this thread for another interfacing possibility:

http://www.simviation.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1189464340

Also look in the "resources" sticky at the top of the forum.

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..................john

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Reply #5 - Sep 15^th, 2007 at 8:49pm

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thank you very much for your time.

What do you think about this? http://www.desktopaviator.com/Products/Model_2040/index.htm

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Reply #6 - Sep 16^th, 2007 at 12:21am

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Diesel wrote on Sep 15^th, 2007 at 8:49pm:

thank you very much for your time.

What do you think about this? http://www.desktopaviator.com/Products/Model_2040/index.htm

If all you really want is to connect MOMENTARY buttons to the computer (beware their misleading "toggle" reference) then that is a GREAT deal pricewise for getting 20 buttons in a compact package that is easy to hook up.

If you also want toggles..... better READ their site carefully... it takes some additional components and circuits to make that work well on EVERY toggle switch you use.

But there are a lot of places that momentaries are just fine in the sim. And if you add in some sort of "status" indicator interface to light LEDs up when a function is active or inactive (like using a Phidgets LED64 card also) then the momentary switch is actually very much like many real aircraft systems (see Airbus overheads for example).

Here's another one to look at for momentaries..... more expensive but you get more inputs:

http://groovygamegear.com/webstore/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=...

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.......................john

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Reply #7 - Sep 19^th, 2007 at 1:17am

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Sorry for the late reply JB. I;m a trucker. Sometimes I'm gone for a few days.

I orderd the one from from Desktop aviators.

Thank you very much for your time in helping me. I appreciate your help. And BTW you have a nice cockpit .

I would like to ask you again for help later if thats ok with you?

Mike

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