A couple of weeks ago I ordered a BU0836X from Leo Bodnar, that same day I bought a copy of "Electronics for Dummies" and tonight I soldered up my first switch and watched it raise and lower the landing gear in Fs9 a couple of dozen times. :) I'm right pleased with myself and am now really looking forward to putting this to work in my cockpit. Initially I was going to build a simple switch box but after seeing the possiblities I'm starting to think bigger. :D
This is the box I was initially going to wire up...
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I have one question regarding the soldering of the switches. The SPST momentary switches I bought have a very small hole in the lead so I can't thread the 22 guage wire I am using through the hole. I placed the wire along side the lead, soldered it and then used shrink tubing on top. Is this an acceptable method for wiring this switch (it did work) and if not, what's a better way?