Rotary Encoders

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Originally Posted by iwik

Hi All,
Ian: Your comments were valuable,im now getting good results.Your key words were ENCODER KEYS SEEN AS KEY REPEATS.I did not have the key repeat checked.I also noticed that i lost this reliability when Fsim went funny.Rebooted machine fs9 still ok but encoder operation poor.
So i DELETED FSUIPC.ini and let it regenerate a new one and reassign
encoder switches and all was GOOD again.

Scott: Try and delete FSUIPC.ini to see if it helps.I also noticed that
the encoders did not work wellwhen you just used the FS to assign
encoder switches to functions.My heading bug spins very fast.
Hope this helps you.

Thanks Ian you'r a saviour i can now use my surplus encoders that were
destined for the scrapp heap.
Where did you buy those Alps Dual Encoders from?

Les

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Interesting. I will try with a fresh FSUIPC.ini file to see if that is causing it. As for using just FS...what do you mean? You mean the checkbox in FSUIPC for FS? What did you do? Check both boxes?

hi Scott,
My problem was that even at slow speeds it was unreliable.The check box i refer to was to repeat keys in FSUIPC.I do get a speed limit when turning the Control extremely fast.That is the heading bug does not move as quickly when turning at extreme rates.I find it quite acceptable.
Les

Hi Les,
I'm not sure where Ian got his dual rotary encoders from but here is an online store where you can get some:
http://www.onlinecomponents.com/product/3575914/

This was suggested in the topic here:
http://www.mycockpit.org/forums/showthread.php?t=12907

And of course, if you haven't checked it out yet, Ian has a website that is very extensive and informative for us builders. http://www.737ng.co.uk

IAn,

MAny thanks for taking the time to produce a perfect description. Now it all make some sort of sense ;-)

THe links to your site were very informative. I will order a BU0836X tomorrow and start getting and FCU together for the A319/320 that is my goal.

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