Hispapanels

[QF6228]

This is good news for me! i will be ording there FMC.....

Its worth it, and work's very well with the marius's PCB i will be uploading some pictures of my FMC soon i'll let you know when its done.

Damien

[Bob Reed]

Its worth it, and work's very well with the marius's PCB i will be uploading some pictures of my FMC soon i'll let you know when its done.

Damien

Well I have pretty much made up my mind anyways but pics are always nice!!

[garyk007]

Are we still talking about the Hispapanels?

Who is Marius and what PCB?

Sorry if this is a dumb question?

Is the PCB compatible with IO cards? if so where can I get one?

So many questions.

Speaking of LOST. There is a perfectly good DC10 cockpit lying in the jungle some where. Now if I could only find that island.

Cheers

[paulj]

Gary,
Damien is referring to a guy living in Melbourne who has designed and made a pcb for use with an Open Cockpit's keyboard encoder card that will work for making your own cdu.
To make your own cdu all you would need is the keybord card, the pcb, a PS1 screen, a Hispanel cdu panel and some pushbutton keys.
Marius is selling the pcb for Au$130 including postage(note to International buyers he sells for Euros 90 including postage)
Here is a link to his webpage
http://www.stormloader.com/users/marius/cdu.htm
Looks like a cost effective way of getting a cdu
cheers
Paul

[QF6228]

I think I will be too.
Just out of interest Damien,can you remember how much the postage to Aust was?
How long between ordering and receiving the panel?
cheers
Paul

About 1 month or there abouts, i cant even remeber how he charged for postage, sorry paul

Damien

[tiburon]

Hi,

I'm building their MCP. The panel looks great. For backlighting and components, I will make the pcb's myself. There's a .jpg of the pcb's on Manolo's site but it's a bit fuzzy, so I redrew it.
I also ordered all the components but I am still waiting for the displays (< 2 months). Also the website has been down for the last couple days, anybody knows anything about that ?

[AndyT]

Gary,
I live on that island and still cant get close to that cockpit.

[dogtanian]

Hi

I bought a Hispa MCP panel and then got an electronics friend of mine to design a PCB for it. It was a lot of hard work! I got three made in China, I have one left if anyone is interested.

It can backlight the panel and also there are some extra connections, of which we used one to power a solenoid to disengage the A/T. Uses standard 7-segs, LEDs, CTS288 and pin headers. In theory you could connect it to the interface system of your choice, I used the Open Cockpits IO cards.

I used SIOC but really it needs Project Magenta for all modes to work properly. The way the Open Cockpits MCP works with PMDG etc as I understand it is by using a keyboard emulator.

Looking for £40 plus postage, can accept PayPal. Please contact me if you want a photo of the PCB.

Thanks

Darrin

[tiburon]

Hi Darrin,

I would be very interested to see the solenoid construction for the autothrottle. Is there a possibility to post some pictures of it ?


cheers

Martin