Tuesday, January 8, 2013

6DOF extension prototype boards arrived finally

First of all, Happy New Year.

After a long waiting, my 6DOF extension boards arrived from France. I wish there was a "next day" PCB service. No matter what you use, it will take at least a month to make boards (production + shipping time etc).

I made them single layer with a few jumper connections on the top side. I was going to use PCB jumpers for the data connections to the various modules but in the end I just soldered them on the bottom leaving one row for each signal set exposed for special interfacing. Since there was no option for silkscreen I had to resort placing the port labels on the connectors, but I think that it look good.

I started assembling them yesterday and I hope all will be ready by Friday for shipping all around the world. The post office lady will hate me for having to process that many custom declaration forms.

Here are some photos of the tests I performed on them as well some details:










Thanos
2013

5 comments:

  1. Dear Mr Thanos, I am blow away and exited to see your great work, can you sell me the 6DOF extension boards, and teach me how to used it?, so I can build a full moving cockpit using your technology? I am FSX user and try to build a system for my local aviation museum.

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    1. Hi Abang Chaq,

      For details you can contact me at my email: tronickod@yahoo.com


      Thanks,
      Thanos

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  2. hello thanos,

    is this board necessary with the main board AMC644USB???

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    1. Yes... The 6DOF extension just produces the appropriate analog signals and the 12 digital outputs needed to drive 6x VFD inverters. Without it the AMC644USB can only drive 2 motors in PWM mode.

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  3. is the price that you gave me, include this or not ?

    tell me about the full price to drive 6 motor>

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