korry switches.

i have all real korries for a 737 mip. i also have fds k1's on hand.

seems like a pain in the *** the wire the real ones at 28 volts etc.

i could change the bulbs over in the master caution/fire pushbuttons on the glare from 28v to something low if poss so my phidgets or sys cards can light them up. that would solve one thing.

let me get this right....i could use phidgets to run the korries, but phidgets would only be used to open a switch for higher voltage to actually run the lights.

nice to have the real stuff....but what a drama.

second question....how does one remove them from the metal mip without damage given that they are sort of pressed in and have a little lip holding them in? i might have to sell them.

anyone played with these?

All of my indicators a Korry. Pull out the light cap and use an Allen head or hex head key to unscrew the base of the assembly. DO NOT remove it!

It will come apart in three pieces. The front and rear halves and the mount.

Be sure you reassemble correctly and get the correct side up. The light cap only fits one way.

Write more when I get home.

You could replace all of the Korry 387 bulbs with 7333's operating at 5VDC, but they are almost double the price of the 387's. $0.42 compared to $0.97 each.

They also draw 60ma each; 20ma more than the 387 at 28VDC. There is no replacement LED for the Korry indicator that is under 12VDC, and those are almost $4 a pop.

If you're going to play with real aircraft equipment, you'll have to make some choices about where to spend your money. Hmmm, bulbs or 24/28 VDC power supply? Power supplies are dirt cheap compared to replacing every bulb in every Korry indicator in your cockpit.

I've been down this road more than a few miles.

FDT and OC cards can use external supplies to illuminate these indicators. I do not know anything about Phidgets. Relays can be used, but that's a lot of relays for a 737 cockpit. More than 130 Korry's aboard.

think ill flog em if i can get em out.

thanks for the help mike. love that seven twenty seven mate, as a kid i loved those babies...the noise the shape, that high tee shaped tail, just...everything.

727 is the glory days of airline travel i reckon. you had to dress up, the food was awesome, the hosties were hot, you got treated like a king.

now..backpackers with dreadlocks wear their pijamas on the flight, the food is shite, the hosties are canteen ladies and if you dont play their game they treat you like dirt.

oh well.

I remember all of that too. Pity it's not the same today, I miss it. Airports today look more like a downtown Greyhound bus station. :roll:

was just reading that the 16/16 cards i have can control up to 30v and 2 amps.

it seems the digital output just acts as a switch to ground.

so...each little connection on the board is just a switch (sorta relay thingy)

Depending upon which Korry Boeing used in the 737, the pins you want to use are #1 & #3. But, the wiring diagram is right on the housing.

This might help.

thanks heaps guys.

so...run with the 24 volts then psu?...for added bulb life etc?

387's are rated at 7,000 hours. You could likely get 10,000 using 24VDC. Of course that depends on how old they are now.

David,

I use 28V power supply with Phidget 16/16. Works fine.
You may want to open up Korrys, in any event, to clean up the bulb contacts. These sometimes carry a bit of oxidation from over the years.
May give intermittent illumination outage that are hard to track down.

Regards,
Alan

I use Opencockpit USB output cards with 24 V and they work really well. Since you only need the card and the power supply, that might be the chioce. However, unless I made mistakes with identifying the connections, I think that that will put the whole Korry under 24V, so if you want to use the push-switch in order to turn it off (e.g. master caution etc) that might burn your inputs card if it only uses 5V (until now I have never tried, but I think it is that way).
Greetings, Florian

i have a bunch of phidgets cards..so ill go with those.

do most people use fs offsets and plug them into fs2 phidget to get mip lights/switches going?
or is there a hidden file somewhere?

I use fs offsets with my phidgets, all simplified by FS2Phidgets (props (or jets;)) to Allen). All very simple. Power to light, ground to phidget 16/16, voila. FS2Phidgets does the rest.

Hi guys,

I have different Korrys and some have serial numbers and diagrams etc, but I have a few that are shorter and have a split legend possibly for Caution Master Caution. These are the numbers on that are on them.
TOP
KORRY
81590 9711
13789-001
13789-002

Anyone know which KORRY it is?

James