MCDU/FMS screen

[Wesky]

Guys,

I have started building an A320 MCDU and am thinking of how I can get a screen on to this thing.

Does anyone have any knowledge re smaller screens, USB video cards or USB monitors etc etc?

I want to try and avoid installing another video card and I only need a small screen to hook in to the MCUD panel.

Any ideas or anyone with experience. USB Video cards are becoming more common, I just wish cheaper smaller screens were readily available!

Steve.

[bindook]

Hi Steve,
have u thought about using a PS1 5" screen?



Michael

[Wesky]

Nope... definately one idea to add to the list. I was looking at some CCTV LCD screens but the firms selling them are a rip off put simply.

I have the USB video card worked out - just need a decent screen hehe. Opencockpits are selling a sony 5" but am unsure how to hook it up to the usb video card.

[Trevor Hale]

Hey Wesky, The cheapest solution, is to use any off the shelf DVD monitor etc, that has a composite video input.

Most of your video cards have a composite video out, so any of those "Travel Screens" for your car will do. and they are cheap.

Trev

[Wesky]

Thanks Trevor.

I think my biggest issue at the moment is working out what this USB Video card can connect to.

I am looking at the IOGEAR USB 2 EXTERNAL VIDEO CARD GUC2015V.

By the looks of things, most of these USB Video cards use VGA to connect the monitors. I am wondering if it is possible to convert the 15pin female VGA to say your average av-in so it could work with say the DVD player.

[Trevor Hale]

To be honest, pick up a 15 dollar PCI video card from ebay even, to go into that computer that already has a standard "AV" plug (thats called a composite video output)

And then use the screens. Why bother with a usb video card?

The FMC/MCDU looks 100% perfect when using the A/V plug. Not a lot of gain switching to VGA

[Wesky]

The only reason behind utilising a USB Video card is because I have already exhausted all of my PCI & PCIe ports (2xvideo cards) within the one computer. The next step is to get another computer, something I want to avoid. I have all of the other video outputs I need, it is just the FMC that is giving my grief and the USB GFX was an option.

But yes, do concur - PCI would be the way to go etc etc - just wish I could! hehe

[Tomlin]

To be honest, pick up a 15 dollar PCI video card from ebay even, to go into that computer that already has a standard "AV" plug (thats called a composite video output)

And then use the screens. Why bother with a usb video card?

The FMC/MCDU looks 100% perfect when using the A/V plug. Not a lot of gain switching to VGA

Trev, your response above made me curious to check something out and so I went to Newegg.com to look for one of those cards and the only ones I find are with S video outputs, not a/v or composite. Can you enlighten me to a card with a composite, or did you mean just have a S video output converted to Composite?

[Trevor Hale]

Many cards now days have what looks like an S-Video port. But really this is a Breakout box that plugs into this S-Video slot, and gives you "Component video (Rd Gg By ) output for HD TV's. But you also can use just the Rd output for single Video signal output. "This is Nvidia's way of doing it"

If you look at a card like the Radion 7000 card it just has a standard Video out.

Trev

[ruprecht]

http://lagnarok.no-ip.com/lcd.htm

Link for PSOne screen mods. I have two of them that I plan to mod for my F16 MFDs. The best part is that you can mod them for standard VGA rather than composite.