Onto the slippery slope....

Hi everyone,

In direct opposition to being happily married, I am taking up another hobby and want to start building a sim pit. :D

I am torn as to what I will build as I like both the civilian and military sim worlds. I have my RL PPL, so I am really leaning towards a military pit since that's something I can't do in RL.

Currently I am considering either a KA-50 pit or A10C pit (both aircraft that DCS have/are simulating).

The first thing I want to tackle and where I really need some advise is in designing/building my flight controls. I gave thought to modifying an old joystick, but now I think I would prefer to build something from the ground up. I need to know how I could use hall effect sensors to register to axis movement. I know it has something to do with magnets, but that's it.

Thanks for any help!!

Dave

Welcome aboard,and good luck with those projects! Both are very ambitious.
Cannot help with the Hall effect sensors, but I seem to remember talk about them in the stick building section at the il2 forums at ubi.com.

Thanks AK! I'll see if I can locate that.

Dave

Try www.leobodnar.com/products/BU0836X/ he's one of the guys on this forum and the products are very good. There is also a guy on this forum that had some good info on building a control stick around a U.J . His article as well as being interesting has very useful pictures on how the sensors can be mounted and used. Check out http://www.mycockpit.org/forums/cont...ake-a-joystick Here's a picture on how I used one on my rudder pedals after the original pot gave in (connected via a Bodnar board) .
http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i2...allsensor1.jpg
http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i2.../web/Hall2.jpg

Thanks! I think I found the document you're referring too and it helped a lot with my understanding. I may have to pick up one of Leo's boards and give this a try.

Dave