The throttle levers are now connected to my tq. Still some finetuming to do.
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It has been some time with small progress. Too bad i had little time. Today I put my tq levers together. The buttons can now be tested and the painting of the levers can be finished. After that I will connect them to my tq and I have to calibrate the slip clutch so that the motors can drive the weight without slipping.
Tags: The left side (throttle 1 and speedbrake) is technically about to be finished. I have to tune the clutches so that they are strong enough to move the levers but to be able to override them. That takes assembling and removing panels to test it.
After that the right side will be built (throttle 2 and flaps)
Then i will work on fuel cutoff, speedbrake etc and assemble the total tq.
It will be aprox 35 cm wide. That is more then original but at the setup i choose (easy and fast disambly) it will be no problem.
Final stage will be lighting, decals and trim wheels.
Just did my first testrun of the motorized tq. The actual version will be a made from scratch but this is a demonstration that shows it will actually work!
Today I received the final parts to start building up my tq. Finally i will need some material to finish it, but technically it is possible now to start building the motorized levers.
An update of my glareshield. Today I connected the leds and switches to the oc cards. After testing i mounted the glarewings to the mip.
The last step is printing the decals on transperrant stickers and place them on the buttons.
While waiting for the last items for my tq, i am finishing my glareshield. Just have to connect the buttons and add decals to it.
Today I painted my throttle quadrant panels. After this i can start the assembly from inside to outside.
I still have my saitek tq. I thought, why not use the levers for my throttle quadrant.
So i took apart my tq. The levers are packed in a plastic housing and connected to a pot.
My plan is to drill trough the housing (other side then pot). There i connect the lever to a gear (see pic for illustration. From there i will connect it to a dc motor.
I will cut the wires of the pot and connect them to the analog input of an opencockpits dc motor card. Also i will connect a dc motor to that card. The dc motor will be connected to the gear and that should make a motorized lever.
