NexGen Flight Simuator

NexGen: Component Documentation: Indicator, Stall Margin

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NexGen: Component Documentation: Indicator, Stall Margin Manufacture Conrac Instrument Div Part Number 30498047 Connector: 85102E145P50 pin A pin B pin C pin D pin E pin F pin G pin H pin K pin J ...
- 8 Aug 2024
New Tool Day Allen Wrenches Galore!

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Well, here we are again more tools. I never can find the right Allen Wrench, well never again!! I just picked up the Bondhus 69600 ball end color set for metric, and US. I also uncovered in my garage my Xcelite 99PS-40 in the case! At least now I kno...
- 7 Aug 2024
New Tool Day: Kett Power Shear

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Oh well, this orb keeps spinning and throws stuff at you some good, some well maybe not so good. I made a detour to the 25 cents shop to see if they had gotten in some more sockets. BTW they are only $5.00 each. that's about 75% off the t...
- 27 Jul 2024
Hacking the Alfie Voice Controlled Intelligent Shopper

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As this is my first foray into this sort of thing please bear with me. I picked up a brand new Alfie Voice Controlled Intelligent Shopper. I noticed the USB jack which they used for charging but I wondered if it could be see by my desktop. So I plug...
- 4 Jul 2024
NexGen Blog Post Index VI

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Monthly Projects IV: 2024 Monthly Projects II: 2020 - 2024 1/25/20/20 Acoustics Competition Sep 21, 2020 Sensors Competition: Design, Control System 1/25/2020 Nexgen: FAA Nav Aid Station Morse Code Id Sep 25, 2020 Smarthab smart thermostat ...
- 4 Jun 2024
New Tool Day Knipex Mini Bolt Cutter

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Woopie, new Tool Day here at the Lab!! I scored a Knipex Mini Bolt Cutter 71.31.200 What can I say bad about it? Nada Cuts my CAT6 like butter. I got It a great price at my network hardware distributor, It was a return so I got it at cost....
- 29 May 2024
How to add old ps/2 keyboard interface to an Arduino

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How many PS/2 keyboards do you have? More than one, I'd bet. Well, stop trying to hang them on your tree, and use them not the whole thing just the encoder. BTW that's the little black thing on the rear. 1----DATA 3----GROUND ...
- 14 May 2024
Keyboards, Keyboards, and more... a trip down the past (dim)...

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Why am I using the old image in this blog? Well, I'm going back to the dim past about a year or so before I got my job at Interdata. To the year 1975 in the past, we had a magazine called , they had an article by Carl Helmers, entitled: Deciphe...
- 11 May 2024
How to use a PS/2 Keyboard Encoder with interrupts.

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How many PS/2 keyboards do you have? More than one, I'd bet. Well, stop trying to hang them on your tree, and use them not the whole thing just the encoder. BTW that's the little black thing on the rear. 1----DATA 3----GROUND ...
- 10 May 2024
Nexgen: Documentation: Wamco Incandescent Displays (Pin Lite)

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The Pin LiteDisplays are manufactured by WAMCO you can find the complete catalog for KW Series Directt View Filament (DVF) Displays & Connectors here. Below are excerpts that I needed.
- 9 Apr 2024
QUESTION: I think the sky fell on me. I need some help please. The tail of too, too many wires.

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Ok I have been working with the NAV Computer Display Panel, for a while now an I run up to this wall. OK, this beast as there are 4 sixteen-segment alphanumeric displays and another 13 seven-segment displays, DISCLAIMER THEY ARE NOT LEDS THERE INCAND...
- 28 Mar 2024
What you can get away with on Television -Reality Strikes CSI:NY S02E23 "Heroes"

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Reality Strikes! CSI: NY S02E23 "Heroes" is set in Manhattan's Central Park, around Fleet Day, a dead body is found It turns out to be a US Marine. After the lab. The next shot is on an active (not) US Aircraft Carrier and ...
- 25 Mar 2024
How To Rebuild a Dell Precision 690 Server (From Scratch) 1.

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First, this server was donated by a friend of mine who smokes! The first thing I did was to take it completely apart, every bolt, every panel, and run them through the Dishwasher! The parts I removed were: Right Side Door Large Pla...
- 7 Feb 2024
What You Can Get Away With on TV: 2 - H&R Block "The Aircraft Carrier"

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community.element14.com/.../H_2600_R-Block-TV-Spot_2C00_-_2700_Aircraft-Carrier_2700_-_2D00_-iSpot.tv.mp4 Well, I am back at it again shouting FOUL from the Roof-Tops. We are on the USS Hornet Aircraft Carrier CV-12, moving along briskly. On the...
- 3 Feb 2024
What You Can Get Away with on Television: ZYRTEC Barcode Beat Conductor Commercial

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For giggles, I figured I would add this commercial to my little hall of shame! What happens is impossible, as the scanner is mono-tonal, not multi-tonal. See about 10 seconds in. community.element14.com/.../Zyrtec-Allergy-_2D00_-Barcode-Beat-Co...
- 25 Jan 2024
NexGen: Component Documentation: Radio, COM, NAV - Panel G-4390B

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Gables Engineering Comm, Nav Panel # Label Equipment Mate Connector J1 NAV-1 PT02A-22-55P ? PT06A-22-55 J2 COMM-1 PT02A-20-41P ? PT06A-20-41 J3 COMM-2 PT02A-20-41PY ? PT06A-20-41 J4 NAV-2 PT02A-20-41PY ? PT06A-20-41 Thes...
- 22 Jan 2024
REVIEW: TEMU Cable Sleeve

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Ok, I have had this for a couple of years now, I don't even know where I got it from mostly from some surplus crud. On Temu this stuff has a bunch of 5-star reviews... The plot thickens, I tried in vain to use this stuff to hold my AC cables behind o...
- 15 Jan 2024
NexGen: Hacking: Marker Annunciator: Refurb

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This is a ubiquitous panel indicator the images are for the unit used on a 1973 Cessna 421. My indicator was used in the military as instead of "AIRWAYS" it says "INNER" which is a VHF radio beacon and is part of the ILS, Instrument Landi...
- 9 Nov 2023
NexGen: Hacking: Master Caution Panel - part 1. - Overview

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Well, here we go again, this Master Caution Panel has been decorating my lab since the 90s', and while doing a major cleanup of my worktable, I uncovered this panel, so thought to myself, why don't I put some words to my blog? Ok so here we go. There...
- 6 Nov 2023
NexGen: Component Documentation: Master Caution Panel

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NexGen: Component Documentation: Master Caution Panel Manufacture Unknown Part Number 580-401001-11 NSN NA SPARE HSI HUD VSD RDR ACS AUX TCN ADF SPARE SPARE IFF AAI M/4 RWR CMD xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxx xxxx...
- 6 Nov 2023
NexGen: Component Documentation: Switch: Overheat - Power On

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NexGen: Component Documentation: Switch: Overheat - Power On Manufacture MSC - Master Specilitys Co. Part Number 337-8250-001 NSN 5930-00-763-5658 Blubs 2x 327
- 5 Nov 2023
NexGen: Hacking: Mode Selector Panel. part 1 -- Overview

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I have had this Mode Selector for more than a few years so I guess, "The time has come,' the Walrus said, To talk of many things:-The Walrus and the Carpenter BY LEWIS CARROLL This one should be straightforward, on my Arduino Mega I will 2 x Schmitt...
- 4 Nov 2023
How To: Build a new Server Rack (part I)

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Well, here we are again with a new project, I really need a new server/computer rack As you can see it sags, and it's a catch-all. I have had this mini rack for a long time and I want the new rack to surround it. There is a design philosophy abo...
- 30 Oct 2023
NexGen: The Lab: Compaq IEEE 1284 Test Box:

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Ok, So what is this gem, I just uncovered in my junk box, well what the heck is IEEE 1284 well not sure so I looked it up "IEEE 1284 is a standard that defines bi-directional parallel communications between computers and other devices. It ...
- 29 Oct 2023
What You Can get away with on Television: 7: RCA hearing Aids or are they?

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The history of RCA via the Wikipedia: The RCA Corporation was a major American electronics company, which was founded in 1919 as the Radio Corporation of America. It was initially a patent trust owned by General Electri...
- 25 Sep 2023