Simple Push / Pull Break Lever For Cessna 182

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Hi,

Can anyone tell me what would be the best way to make a push / pull break lever for a C182, im thinking that a slide pot would do the job but then again it might feel like a throttle lever considering i already have 3 of these (throt,prop & mix) and there might be alittle too much friction on the slide pot as i need a simple push / pull motion without the friction, a rotary pot would work i guess too, but would rather opt out of the idea, is there a much simple way of doing this?

Any help will be much appreciated!

Cheers!

Alex


Ps. I have the LeoBodnar BU0836 I/O Board

[Jackpilot]

Break Lever?
If you mean Parking brake, what you need is a switch not a Pot.
There are all kind of lever switches which would do the trick.

[Geremy Britton]

Desktop avaiator sell the very thing you are describing if you want to go to their website for ideas if nothing else!

Regards,

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Hi, yeah i mean parking break, i want to make the parking break as mentioned on Desktop aviator, but i want to make 1 myself as ive made everything else from scratch lol..........any ideas?

The thing is, ive used all 12 switches in simple mode on my BU0836 and that means if i want more switches then i will have to rewire the whole of my panel into a matrix, and all my hard work wiring and soldering my panels goes down the drain, i have 4 spare pot inputs free on my board which idealy i would of liked to use as i dont have any more inputs unless i matrix them all !

[Jackpilot]

Just use any Joystick button, and assign the parking brake function to it, direct in FS or better with FSUIPC.
Then open your joystick get the two wires of that button and hook them to your parking brake switch.
As simple as that.

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Cheers Jackpilot!

Your giving me ideas now, i think i have an old usb joystick in my shed, i might rip that apart for the interface, i think that has 4 buttons!

My yoke on otherhand is not so easy to open up for modding, but i have ideas now! so cheers jackpilot!


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Alex

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[AndyT]

Or you can get an old style Jeep Push/Pull switch for lights and wire it up to your hacked joystick.

[ian@737ng.co.uk]

hi alex...
the DA parking brake switch uses Hall Sensors (magnetic switches) like the ones used in intruder alarms (on the doors). i may have a DA Parking Brake box in my junk pile. i
used to use one on the test rig. basically its a box with a slider running through it. on the slider is a magnet. as the magnet positions over the switch it closes it, same as pressing a button.
PM me your home address and if i can find it, you are welcome to it for free.
connect it to your interface card and in FSUIPC buttons and switches page assign the switch for FS Control. in the dropdown menu, select offset byte set and in the 'when button pressed' in the offset box enter 0BC8 and parameter 1. in the 'when button released' boxes again use offset 0BC8 but this time, the parameter is 0. that gives you a distinct ON/OFF state with the parking brakes instead of a 'toggle'.
go for it .... regards from wales ... ian

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Hi Ian,

I sent you a private message, so check you inbox!

Again, many thanks to you!

[Trevor Hale]

Even a better idea, may be a Headlight switch out of an old car. Just go to your local auto shop and grab an old push pull headlight switch and modify the handle to look the way you want it to look.

Trev

[Geremy Britton]

What a great result. :) That's what i like to see.

Though I paid a tenner for one of those last year! lol. I think Ian can be too nice for his own good sometimes :D

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I first joined MyCockpit.org a few months ago in 2008, and only had a flight yoke and a copy of FS2004, i was a novice, knew nothing about simming and building, although im quite clued up on general aviation as a whole, i wanted to start from the bottom and work my way up with a sim project and thought that the Cessna 182 would be an ideal aircraft to start with as i didnt want to just jump in to the bigger stuff, hence i need experience with sim building first, something the C182 will give me plenty of in terms of building experience, i asked so many of even the basic questions when i started out, i just asked everyone "how do you do this?. how do you do that? where do you buy this? how do you make that? etc", and all the time IAN replied to more or less all my questions, IAN saves the day i call it! Without IAN'S response and replies, i prob wouldnt have half of what i have now, although people like Michael Carter / Trevor Hale are invaluable for advice (oh my god i know thier full names off by heart, i must be addicted!). Upto now my setup is: avionics toggle switch panel, ignition switch, yoke, 3 lever throttle quad, flaps switch, trim wheel & rudder redals.....and a nice parking break on the way from Ian (top man!), just dreading the 1000 pound price tag for the usb guages from simkits, i dont want to pay it but i need guages now, it seems ive built everything exept the guages (the most expensive), anyway enough of me waffling on, again cheers ian and all the guys who have got me where i am now!

All the best

Alex

[AndyT]

Ian is good for helping. Many of the members here are. Most of us want to be we just don't always have an answer for the question, even if we already did it ourselves. A weird thing you will discover as you build.

Congrats Ian and Alex!

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Yeah your right, everyone is excellent on here!

Im going to post pictures of my sim on the sim builders update maybe today or tommorow, so look out!

Cheers for the advice guys!

Nice one!

[ian@737ng.co.uk]

hi guys...
we all started somewhere and it's good to help out somebody just getting into a project.
it's a long learning curve and i would have loved to have had the support that is available here when i started.
and to gez...flattery will get you everywhere ... good man.
enjoy what you do and take pleasure in not only getting it working, but also in discovering how to get it to work....then share it.
have a great weekend chaps....
rgds ... ian