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superbigjay:
All right! :woot

After my really unproductive night, I woke up in the morning with a flash!!

This is where my computer is in the basement

When I was trying to do the manual calibration, the laser was on when shooting at the bottom of the screen, but was "flickering" when aiming a the top of the screen, like if the guns was having trouble to see the LCD bar. seeing this, I also tried the mount the LED horizontally but got the same results (can shoot the top of the screen). I went to bed a bit puzzled and pissed off a lot :angry:

When I woke up this morning, I still couldn't explain why the top wasn't "accessible".

Then, I had Ze flash!!!
As you see on the picture above, I have a wall lamp. When aiming to the top last night, that lamp was on. I guess it was too bright in the background to clearly see the LEDs.

So tonight, I spent another hour playing with the guns, but this time, I turned the problematic wall lamp OFF and manage to install both guns and have them calibrated.

So I'll be able to mount the USB hub in the control panel afterall :laugh:

Jay :cheers:

Kaytrim:
So in other words the lights were on but nobody was home. :laugh2:

superbigjay:

--- Quote from: Kaytrim on October 29, 2007, 08:36:38 pm ---So in other words the lights were on but nobody was home. :laugh2:

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Yep that's me, after midnight I'm gone :o

Ok, So I flush mount my usb hub on the left side of the CP panel.
This gives me 4 usb ports outside (for 2 lcd topguns) and 3 inside the CP box (for the ledwiz).
The hub power supply is spec-ed for 1.5 amp. It might be enough to even drive the recoils of the topgun.
I'll see how it behaves when the time come. If the hub power is insufficient, I'll add 2 power connector next to the hub...

External view (will need a small touch up for the finish)

Internal view

Having a bit of time left before "dodo" time, I decided to do simplify the LED hole drilling process.
So I built a small hi-tech guide (with a BIC pen). I simply have to insert the pushbutton in the guide, hold it and drill the hole using the drill press. No need to do any alignment.

I should be able to drill the LED holes tomorrow night and mount the joystick (still have to stop at the hw store to get T-nuts)

So that its!

Jay :cheers:

Spyridon:
Jay,
What are you going to do with your dust covers for the joysticks? Over or under the overlay? I'm trying to figure out which way to go on mine.

P.S. Project is really looking good.

superbigjay:

--- Quote from: Spyridon on November 02, 2007, 12:43:45 pm ---What are you going to do with your dust covers for the joysticks? Over or under the overlay? I'm trying to figure out which way to go on mine.

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Hello Spyridon,

I've decided to bottom mount my joystick, so the dust washer will be on top (I would need to recess a circular area to fit the washer under the overlay/plexi).

I've look at both over/under look and I personally prefer the top, I found the under look a bit too naked...

I'm including 2 pics of what it look to give you an idea...

Maybe you'll prefer the "cleaner" look of the under version :dunno

--- Quote from: Spyridon on November 02, 2007, 12:43:45 pm ---P.S. Project is really looking good.

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hey hey!!! Thanks!
I'm mounting the CP tomorrow morning, so I should post an interresting update tomorrow.

good night... (it's 3am :cry:)

Jay :cheers:

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