FlyinFrick
Heliman
Location: Illinois
| How to use cable in FMS...Hello!
ktrout153, I was hoping that you could help with settings in the simulator (FMS).
I built a cable similar to the design you shared above. I just found an S-video cable (shielded, so the ground ran through the cable) and an old parallel cable. Both were about 6 or 8 feet long, and I split each in the middle. I added the resistor and transistor onto the end of each half of the S-video, then attached the two halves of the parallel cable, hooked to proper pins. Each setup was secured using just heat-shrink tubing. I now have two functional cables, made from two old cables from the "junkbox". I had heat-shrink laying around, so the only cost for this project was for the electronic parts, which I had to get at RatShack (I live in a small town, it was my only option, forgive please...). Was 69 cents apiece for the transistors, buck twenty-nine for pack of 5 resistors. So I have less than a dollar each into these cables. Great Price!! Built exactly as detailed in your schematic.
The cables "work" fine. After getting PPJoy set up properly, I have been trying to get FMS working with the EFlite radio. I can fly around, but I cannot get the "joystick" mapped properly. I have tried extensive different setups, but cannot get the controls to match the "real world".
I think I am having possible problem with the CCPM mixing. It comes from the transmitter? The joystick axes in the simulator are not affected one-at-a-time (so to speak) when moving the sticks on the radio. I cannot map the controller in FMS when two channels (or more?) are being affected by a single stick movement. This is making me think that the transmitter is doing the mixing for CCPM control. Is this correct? Is there a way to work around this? Do I have some other problem, and I am pursuing an untamed ornithoid without just cause?
I hope I have described my problem sufficiently to muster some help from someone out there....
Thanks. |
