Where are all the GA builders?

[Kerbo]

OMG....its Wriley!

Where have you been pal, I havent seen you on here for atleast a year, I remember when you were showing us pictures of your home build instrument gauges that you made from mike powells book!

Hows it going? Long time no see!

What brings you back? Good to see ya!

Alex

Hi Alex,
Life kind of got in the way for a while, but now my priorities are getting back in line.

I had a job change, built a deck on our house and have been spending a lot of time with my son (now almost 3 and likes to "make airplane go"). Mike's book has been dusted off and I am getting ready to start on scratch-built instrument #2, probably the attitude indicator.

I have also started designing a Nav/Comm unit based on the King KX-165. There seems to be a real lack of affordable options when it comes to GA avionics. I think I can do the Nav/Comm for less than $50 parts cost, we'll see. There will be more details coming soon once I get a circuit near finished. Surprisingly enough, the hardest part has been sourcing some kind of affordable numerical display due to the small digit size required.

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I have also started designing a Nav/Comm unit based on the King KX-165. There seems to be a real lack of affordable options when it comes to GA avionics. I think I can do the Nav/Comm for less than $50 parts cost, we'll see. There will be more details coming soon once I get a circuit near finished. Surprisingly enough, the hardest part has been sourcing some kind of affordable numerical display due to the small digit size required.

My whole radio stack which is:

1 x KMA 24 AUDIO PANEL
2 x KX 155 NAV / COMs
1 X KT76C XPDR
1 X KN62 DME
1 X KR87 ADF
1 X Generic AutoPilot

I made the above panels for £30 (photo realistic)

Encoders and toggles cost £20

Like you, I just need to buy the digits for the readouts which costs around £20-30

So it just shows that you can build a 'complete' replica of the 'whole' radio stack for peanuts.



I will post pictures when i have finished the panel!

All the best!

Alex

[Paul Thomas]

Still working on my King Air 200 project.