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    Master Caution Light - interfacing

    Hi,

    I'm trying to use FS2Phidget to have a Master Caution Light and Warning Light illuminate when I get these in Flight Simulator.

    Is there a variable / offset in FSX for (a) illuminating each of these lights, and (b) silencing them?

    I don't use Project Magenta yet and I'm sure it's possible in PM, but hoping it will be possible within FSX.

    Thank you

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    Hi

    In FSX it is just a gauge that displays this indication that is not linked to an Offset. So there is no way to read or write to most of this gauges because they work only internal with their own variables.
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    Hi Paul,

    There are no warning or caution light offsets for FS9 or FSX. To my understanding, they are coded from within each aircraft's panel, so there is no way of grapping a light's On/Off value.

    The PM site does list all the FS and PM offsets. Master Warning and Master Caution are not listed.

    Only way to do it is to manually do the logic curcuits, such as, If Oil Pressure = 0, Then Illunimate Master Warning Light. This would be required for all the possible scenarios that would cause the lights to illuminate.

    I believe you can do this with PMSystems. Not sure about PS2Phiget.

    Hope this helps.

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    -got a way to do that

    Used a light dependant resistor fixed to a bit of the screen and a small relay circuit to drive the LED/light. Works really well. Away from home at moment but i'll post some more info when i get back if that helps..
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    Wow that's an amazing solution. I'd be very very interested to hear more. Thanks Steve

    Quote Originally Posted by steveeverson View Post
    Used a light dependant resistor fixed to a bit of the screen and a small relay circuit to drive the LED/light. Works really well. Away from home at moment but i'll post some more info when i get back if that helps..
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    Hey Tim,

    As I remember it, FS2Phidget does allow logical tests for activating outputs. For example, with the landing gear, you can have the gear in motion red light flash while the gear is mid-way, and go out or green depending on whether up or down.

    I'll work on the basis of your suggestion though. It's a shame that FSX doesn't support this but clearly there's ways around it which work satisfactorily.

    Cheers

    Paul

    Quote Originally Posted by Tim View Post
    Hi Paul,

    There are no warning or caution light offsets for FS9 or FSX. To my understanding, they are coded from within each aircraft's panel, so there is no way of grapping a light's On/Off value.

    The PM site does list all the FS and PM offsets. Master Warning and Master Caution are not listed.

    Only way to do it is to manually do the logic curcuits, such as, If Oil Pressure = 0, Then Illunimate Master Warning Light. This would be required for all the possible scenarios that would cause the lights to illuminate.

    I believe you can do this with PMSystems. Not sure about PS2Phiget.

    Hope this helps.
    VANCOUVER
    Jet fighter / single pilot sim, plus thinking of a 777 as a secondary sim.

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    Mycockpit.org My LDR system

    Made a little video to show how i did it with light dependant resistors
    Hope that helps, any questions give me a shout..



    [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fH0EmK42xQY"]YouTube - PMDG Caution and Warning[/ame]

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    Steve, that is SLICK!!!!!! Very Good!!!!!

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    Outstanding. So simple, yet so complex. Great feedback Steve,

    Thanks
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    FYI

    For the Level-D 767 there are as well FSUIPC offsets as Opencockpits SIOC variables for the Master switch and the Warning & Caution lights.

    This information is provided by the Level-D SDK and made available as offsets and vars via my free software tools FSCONV and Lekseecon.

    see www.nicokaan.nl

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