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Re: R1155 receiver

Posted: 19 May 2025, 15:56
by alan cottrill
Hi.
Update on progress .
The type1 visual gauge known as the two drunken men.
The bmps have been reworked , and i decided to move the needles out by 10 points on each needle , this changed the gauge more than i thought it would , the needles work like a video i saw with regards to navigating to a beacon more accuratly , but do not behave correctly when you pass the beacon , but power off still parks needles correctly .
The change to the needles ment the arc of movement changed , which sofar as screwed up my amplitude and balance adjustments , and i need to improve the needle speed , so one step forward 10 back , so need to figure out why the amp/bal adjustment moves the needlles 180 deg out of wack when i used the same formula as before , when it worked , so back to head scraching on this one .
Also reworked both the bmp`s and basic xml animations on the loop antenna gauge, that also has to work wiith the type 1 visual gauge , dont know how i intend to do that yet , the antenna selector switch when i start that will just introduce failures on different parts of the R1155/visual gauge so still plugging away trying to get this beast tamed.
regards Alan. B-)

Re: R1155 receiver

Posted: 25 May 2025, 11:14
by alan cottrill
Hi.
Yesterday i had a breakthrough with the type 1 visual gauge , managed to get my amplitude and balance adjustments back , this morning i reworked the movement on these as i had to much adjustment , still cannot at this stage get it to the lower stops when beacon is behind you in ADF MODE , still lots to do but slowly progressing , i dont think i realised just what i was letting myself in for , when i started this project , i could do with knowing how to post pictures of progress in the forum to let you see what its looking like at this time .
regards Alan. B-)

Re: R1155 receiver

Posted: 24 Jun 2025, 12:14
by alan cottrill
Hi.
Update on progress , i have been trying to get the Antenna switch and Frequency selector switch communicating with each other , so if you have say comms selected on frequency switch , but have say DF selected on Antenna switch , all you get is zero`s displayed in frequency read out window , but if you have Antenna Normal or in flight trail selected then you can tune the comm`s , its taken about 3 weeks to get everything working between these two switches , i was getting all sorts of strange results and a lot of head scratching , only thing on this not yet done is some failure on Antenna trail if on ground , hopfully this will or should be simple 8) he says .
I am still in process of trying to get the frequencies to fail in tuning if using a radio panel like my saitek or click spots while still getting the mechanical tunning knobs and needle moving over the tunning dail face , still lots to do .
Also still not managed to get type 1 visual gauge ( two drunken men ) to go to fail position when you pass the NDB , but it does go to fail position if BATT or Avioncs turned off .
i do get sounds at moment if i use Flight Replicas B24 , but not got the Pete and John Dowson sounds installed yet .
LOOP Antenna gauge only has basic animation not yet done any real programming on this at this time , as i am still trying to figure out how to get this to work with type 1 visual gauge and R1155 .
The R1155 still has 3 switchs that are dummys at this time again dont know how i am going to simulate these functions if at all possible.
Regards Alan. B-)