ON/OFF Position Indication for Single-Pole Switch

First, remember that not every LED located on your panels needs to be assigned as a SimVim parameter and wired to the controller! This only needs to be done if the LED is used to indicate system, not a switch state (system on, off, failures). Note that even if you see that your virtual plane...

How to make cheap Dual co-axial Encoder

If you need a dual encoder for your panel, you can make it yourself using two cheap encoders and two gear wheels of the same size, as shown in the picture. Two tubes are used as the handles for the encoder, one sliding within the other. The inner tube is solidly connected to the shaft...

Make a cheap Breakout Board

When you have to use small SMD (surface-mount) chips and there are no ready to use breakout boards to be used with HCSCI interface, you can easily make them yourself, quickly and cheaply, without the need to make or order PCBs for each device. All you need is to buy a very useful cheap "adapter"...

2-needle Instruments

If you need a two-needle instrument but don't have a suitable mechanism for one stepper or multi-shaft steppers, you can use separate steppers for each needle with additional gear wheels. Both gear wheels have to be of equal diameter, te second (bottom) stepper can have a zero-position sensor disc directly on its shaft. One stepper...

Do it simple: Push-buttons with LEDs

In the Audio panel made for Baron 58 panel, all LEDs are connected with PCB by very thin short wires as I show in this picture: Also, as I prefer to avoid using any PCBs when possible in simple projects, this can be done by way of buttons simply being attached to a piece of...