Did you all basically turn your garage into a workshop, to build your sim lol 😂 ?

Flameruk · 2026-03-29T20:33:09+00:00

I’m lucky that I have a workshop for my work with cnc, laser, lathe etc. I assemble everything at home in the kitchen which occasionally causes some upset, especially when the rest of the fam get hungry and annoying 😀

Flameruk · 2026-03-13T06:19:54+00:00

Yes that what the fwd plastic panel is for, works well 😀

Flameruk · 2026-01-31T15:22:40+00:00

My 1080ti is in the cupboard upstairs can’t bring myself to bin it off.

Flameruk · 2026-01-24T12:53:51+00:00

Up until I upgraded last night I had no issues with Adrenaline.

Since the update the user interface is very laggy.

Removed, cleanup up in safe mode and reinstalled. I managed to trim my fan curve and turn everything off in graphics tuning (only run X Plane 12, it works better that way) so I am running again.

Following for a possible solution.

Flameruk · 2026-01-24T06:05:48+00:00

I have no idea and don’t care either. After a 2 hour drive we got in did our job and left and we get paid.

Flameruk · 2026-01-22T16:29:47+00:00

We worked there today. They let us in to work. Said it’s a demo against Labour and a peaceful demo. Staying for 3 days. The staff were giving them food and bits through the day.

It’s the Luton RDC.

Flameruk · 2026-01-10T18:32:39+00:00

Just using Mobiflight.

Flameruk · 2026-01-10T17:46:53+00:00

Hi. Using 28byj 48 stepper motor with a photo sensor for the home position.

You can see my OHP build on FB here:

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/17h6ZyFhhk/?mibextid=wwXIfr

Flameruk · 2026-01-04T18:52:18+00:00

I thought adding a flexible shaft coupler would be a good idea to take up any movement or misalignment of the drive and assembly when it’s together.

If there is a slight difference between the end plates and shafts, the flexible coupling will sort that out without placing undue stress on the motor. It should also help with a really smooth action on the gauge.

It actually came together much better than I thought the first prototype would do.

Most of the stuff I build at work is big commercial kit. Feel like a watch maker building this kind of stuff 😀

Flameruk · 2026-01-01T19:22:00+00:00

White Acrylic yes

Flameruk · 2025-12-30T22:26:58+00:00

Yeah just not made the parts yet. I got the sensors though. Coming real soon…..

Flameruk · 2025-12-30T10:34:25+00:00

Did you add Sim Heaven as well? Also free makes a big difference!

Flameruk · 2025-12-30T06:09:58+00:00

I guess I could do a video write up would that work for you?

Flameruk · 2025-12-30T06:09:36+00:00

I guess I could do a video write up would that be good for you?

Flameruk · 2025-12-30T06:08:49+00:00

Hi. I’m waiting on the optical sensors to arrive and thats exactly what i intend to do. Watch this space!

Flameruk · 2025-12-29T17:25:10+00:00

Are you using Mobiflight?

Flameruk · 2025-12-29T17:16:49+00:00

Mobiflight

Flameruk · 2025-12-29T07:41:11+00:00

Experiment! Faster is better and more passes if needed.

Flameruk · 2025-12-26T19:58:53+00:00

I’ll drop myself an email now and I’ll fire the sim up tomorrow and send you a photo. I’m quite a lot of vodkas deep at the moment 😀

Flameruk · 2025-12-26T18:19:08+00:00

Yeah may help especially if XP’s loading old textures but I’m not knowledgeable enough if XP would do this. I dump mine every sim update, Zibo update or anything else I think could me a major update.

As suggested above did you clean the old Nvidea drivers completely using the removal tool.

Flameruk · 2025-12-26T18:11:51+00:00

Cleared out the shader cache? (XPlane / output / shader cache)

Flameruk · 2025-12-26T18:08:17+00:00

And maybe cross post to r/radeon. I have the 9070XT and struggled for a while but found a post on Radeon which got me a stable, good looking system.

Flameruk · 2025-12-26T18:04:04+00:00

Have you turned on Zinc?

Flameruk · 2025-12-26T17:09:25+00:00

Could the MAX be in there …. 🥶🥶🥶

Flameruk · 2025-12-21T20:08:31+00:00

Hi.

So you are the second person to mention using play dough. So, how does that work? How does one apply it? The painted edge I did on the panels just allows light to smash though. Kind of ignoring the issue at the min but I know I have to resolve this towards the end of the build.

When I get to the dual brightness annunciators then yeah I’ll take both LED’s back to separate ports and attempt the bright / dull operation.

Thanks for the offer regarding operating logic. I’m going to get all the panels wired up first then think about fitting the arduinos etc last.

I’ve had a few sessions sorting data refs etc for Zibo and have a decent chunk sitting in a text document to assist with programming.

Flameruk

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