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Rework of Poldragonet Overhead Panel

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The Overhead Panel was purchased before Christmas and arrived 4 weeks later. I installed all switches, rotaries and fake gauges. When this was finished i realized that i might have a lot of gaps between the the switches and the holes. The first picture illustrates that problem. So i had to disassemble the complete hardware again and masked all switch holes. It took me 2 hours to disassemble and mask it.2 Hours waste time if i had done everything right the first time.

 

Gaps between the switches. Backlight shines though.

Gaps between the switches. Backlight shines though.

Disassembling the Front Panels again

Disassembling the Front Panels again

All holes have been masked and are ready for painting.

All holes have been masked and are ready for painting.

Improvement of the Visual System

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After the massive Investment of 1.200 € for 3 new 40 inch LCD Displays from Toshiba the Outside Visualization has been greatly improved. The Monitors (TV screen) are connected to the Matrox Triple Head2Go (digital version) with DVI to HDMI cables. The Screens are placed on small movable tables. This way i am flexible with the alignment of the screens and can move them out of the way if needed.

 

small field of view (approx 35 degree fov) with one projector
small field of view (approx 35 degree front fov) with one projector
wide field of view with 3 lcd screen (approx. 90 degree front)

wide field of view with 3 lcd screen (approx. 90 degree front fov)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MCP V2 – My new Mode Control Panel and how it was done…

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Of course when you do have your first MCP you are very happy. But as the time goes by you find more and more things which are are not satisfying. As you can see in an older post, the MCP Ver 1 was based on a piece of MDF material for stabilization. The LEDs for the mode selection have not been placed on the push buttons but above or next to them. No FLT intv or SPD intv buttoms were available. But the thing which was most annoying was the way the cables have been organized. Totally chaotic and a lot of hot glue was applied to provide some stability for the soldering points.Read more on the related page 

 

DIY FMC – how to do…

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Hello,

The FMC has been installed at its place.

The FMC itself consists of front panel, buttons, circuit board, psone screen holder, psone display and the related control board. You can see on the picture how it is assembled.
It is backlit with the usual 12V LED stripes put behind the front panel. It is very bright at the moment so i will control the brightness of the backlight with a LED dimmer from hongkong i pulled from ebay for 1€ per piece and 3 euro shipment fee. Read more under the related page…