Quote from Ron Rollo on May 2, 2021, 9:46 am

Wow, those CB panels look great and if I had them, I would be tempted to use them as well!  They look very close to the correct size too.

Also, the Boeing 737 and the Lear45 are very similar when it comes to equipment.  Well, more in common than say the 747 or a single prop engine.  I would bet tat they share at least 90% of the same CB labels.

Another option you have at your disposal is to use the CBs with a replica Lear45 panel.  Each one of those CBs are worth their weight in gold.

Quote from Roel on May 9, 2021, 5:08 am

I finished my glareshield.
I have created a mold from wood i used for the mip; exact radius was cut out so that's convenient.
With the mold i have created polyester glareshield parts, 2 in fact for easy removal.
On the polyester glareshield i glued skai leather.
There are some imperfections i saw which i should have fixed with bondo, but overal i am happy.

Quote from Roel on June 18, 2021, 2:58 pm

I have started with panels for the pedestral.
Trim panel is finished.
I used a joystick controller switch for the pitch trim, but had some trouble finding a switch which auto centered, so i went to work with springs and stuff.
I touches micro switches on the far ends and auto centers because of the springs.

I mounted an Arduino Nano to interface with Air Manager so it is even plug and play.

Quote from Roel on June 18, 2021, 3:03 pm

Also my CDR display is allmost finished.

I have to do some coding and connecting, but it is functioning.

I did not use seperate LED's for indication, but this is displayed on the oled screen.
Because of this the display is smaller but still looks ok.

hmm i see now i have mounted the buttons upside down...:S

Quote from Ron Rollo on June 18, 2021, 8:35 pm

Nice work Roel!  It is always cool to see other ways to make something work.  Sometimes I get ideas form work like this.  I was thinking about separating the OLED screen from the PCB too.  As a matter of fact, I did have to separate the two in order to shave off the tabs at the bottom.

It's funny, I missed that you had the buttons upside down and reversed too until I read that you missed it! LOL

 

Quote from Roel on July 14, 2021, 4:11 am

I have been busy with some panels.
My Sytem test panel with the CDR display is finished.
I have used an Arduino Mega 2560 mounted on the back.

I am planning for all pedestral panels to mount Ardduino's right on the panels, this makes them modular and only 1 USB cable is lead to the front to a PC.
According to the size of the panel and number of switches and stuff a different Arduino is used.

This panel is all coded with Arduino and uses the Air Manager messageport to interface.
In the latest version of Air Manager much more hardware is supported; also the TM1637 7 segment displays, used in my Davtron clocks,  this makes it easier to interface because there is no Arduino coding left to do.
I might change this too.

I looked the internet for a solution to create a rotary switch with push button (since a ready made couldn't be found for a reasonably pricing) , but little information was there to find.

So i created one myselve.
The entire 12 pole rotary slides along 2 m3 threaded ends with springs and touches a push button.

Oh yes, ...still waiting for a right button for the test panel

Quote from Roel on July 14, 2021, 4:39 am

Also my APU panel is finished.
This is an all Air Manager interfaced panel with an Arduino Nano mounted on the back.
I  used a modified MAX7219 7 segment panel.
Only a 3 digit module is placed on the panel and i connected wiring from the 7 segment to the MAX7219 board.
This works great!

I believe what is displayed should be the Amps, but i only can read Volts out of the sim?!
But as far as i can read in manuals it is functioning as it should be.
Only, there is also no simconnect command to set off the fire extingusher for the APU.
So for now if there is a fire only the red light on the push button is lighted .

Another thing is i have been looking a while for a solution for the switch guards.
The real stuff is hard to find and are priced ridiciously, so i found some cheap 16mm guards.
I CNC'ed the back open , painted a red edge on the front and glued it on the panel.
It is not as nice as the real guards but i am satisfied with it.

 

Quote from Ron Rollo on July 14, 2021, 6:57 am

Hi Roel,

Your project is coming along great!  You will be up and flying in no time.

I found a couple photos of my solution to the System Test switch rotary with a push function.  It was buried in this thread HERE

Here are a couple photos:

It's the same principle as what you have done.  The trick is to use a 4-40 tap into the plastic backer and thread the four rods into the backer.  I need to document this custom switch better.  By the way, this is the same method I use for the REV panels.

Your engraving looks great by the way.  It is hard to tell that your panels are engraved with a cnc compared to a laser.  Great work there!

Yes, the switch guards are a challenge.  Several of us ended up using a clear AML guard and painting it to look like a red guard.  I don't think we even had the option to buy red guards so a custom solution was the only option.

Quick question for clarity, are you using Jet45 v1 for your avionics and using Air Manager to interface?

Quote from Roel on July 14, 2021, 7:24 am

that is about the same solution for the rotary pushbutton like what i made up.
I didn't found that one on the site :S

Yes this panel also is one of the part i could take over from a guy in Germany, they are professionaly engraved.
Too bad they don't make them anymore.
Other aircraft they do, but not the lear 45.

Well when i use FSUIPC to interface to the Jet45 i still need other software, because Air Manager does not has the option to use FSUIPC.
So for that i still use Mobiflight.
But, a guy on the AM forum came with the option to use a dummy gauge in Prepar3d what you can use to create LVars and then translate that to FSUIPC.

But...didn't tried that so far.