Mixing analog inputs

[John Dowson]

43 minutes ago, Sandy R said:

Success!!!

Great!

44 minutes ago, Sandy R said:

I am however concerned as to why my brake lever was reversed in the first place. I hadn't really questioned it before when all I had to do was tick the 'reversed' box in the dialog before binding the control. However, I now suspect that I may have reversed the polarity of one of the magnets when I was assembling the Hall Sensor units. This means that if I were to share the script on the Authentikit forum, it's only going to work for people who've made the same stupid mistake as I when building their control columns. I think I will go back and redo this fix 'mechanically'* (ie reverse the magnet), and then verify that the original script works ok.

It is not an issue if an axis is/needs reversing - many axes work in this manner.
To handle this nicely in the script, you can add add two boolean variables - rudderAxisReversed, brakeAxisReversed, and then use those to determine whether to reverse or not. Then it is a simple matter of setting those to true or false. 

If you can attach the script you are using, I can make those changes for you.

John

[John Dowson]

Also, note other users may have an issue with the axis range, not just the reversing. As I said, the script expects each axis to be in the -16383 - +16383 range. Quite a few axes, especially those home-made using potentiometers, can have a different range. If this is the case, you would also need to calibrate the pot's range input to the script to -16383 - +16383.

John

[Sandy R]

John,
I have reversed the polarity of the magnet in the hall effect sensor arrangement on which the Brake Lever relies. This 'Un-reversed' the brake control and enabled me to test your original script and prove it worked perfectly 'straight out of the box'.

Also, I was able to check that I had built it as designed first time round so the likelihood is that anyone who's built the Authentikit Spitfire Control Column will have the brake control axis reversed same as I did! Nice to know that I'm not a complete idiot!

I am returning the two LUA scripts here should you wish to make the axis independent script you suggested.

Thank you so much for this, you wouldn't believe how much joy* this has brought me.

Regards

Sandy

*and frustration - if you thought the Spit's ground handling was challenging, try adding differential braking to the mix 

spitfireBrake.lua spitfireBrakeRev.lua

[John Dowson]

Simple update - see attached (untested!).

Glad this is working for you!

Regards,

John

spitfireBrake.lua

[Sandy R]

Thank you so much (again). I shall test this out then post it on the Authentikit forum. I hope you get flooded with FSUIPC sales from them as a result!

Reading through your script, it looks like I really over complicated things when I tried to reverse the axis! I console myself with the fact that at least it worked!

Best Regards

 

Sandy