Onto the slippery slope....

[dphens]

Hi everyone,

In direct opposition to being happily married, I am taking up another hobby and want to start building a sim pit. :D

I am torn as to what I will build as I like both the civilian and military sim worlds. I have my RL PPL, so I am really leaning towards a military pit since that's something I can't do in RL.

Currently I am considering either a KA-50 pit or A10C pit (both aircraft that DCS have/are simulating).

The first thing I want to tackle and where I really need some advise is in designing/building my flight controls. I gave thought to modifying an old joystick, but now I think I would prefer to build something from the ground up. I need to know how I could use hall effect sensors to register to axis movement. I know it has something to do with magnets, but that's it.

Thanks for any help!!

Dave

[AK Mongo]

Welcome aboard,and good luck with those projects! Both are very ambitious.
Cannot help with the Hall effect sensors, but I seem to remember talk about them in the stick building section at the il2 forums at ubi.com.

[dphens]

Thanks AK! I'll see if I can locate that.

Dave

[Rockeyes]

Try www.leobodnar.com/products/BU0836X/ he's one of the guys on this forum and the products are very good. There is also a guy on this forum that had some good info on building a control stick around a U.J . His article as well as being interesting has very useful pictures on how the sensors can be mounted and used. Check out http://www.mycockpit.org/forums/content.php/88-Hall-Effects-Sensors-to-make-a-joystick Here's a picture on how I used one on my rudder pedals after the original pot gave in (connected via a Bodnar board) .
http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i264/gransden/web/Hallsensor1.jpg
http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i264/gransden/web/Hall2.jpg

[dphens]

Thanks! I think I found the document you're referring too and it helped a lot with my understanding. I may have to pick up one of Leo's boards and give this a try.

Dave