Comment by Roel Offermans on April 4, 2011 at 1:07pm

Great work! I always wanted to make one of those.

I'd like to know a bit more on the subject so i tried to open the tutorial, but it says it is unable to retrieve the document, probably because you didn't set the permissions right.

Developer Comment by William Premerlani on April 4, 2011 at 1:08pm

Hi Ric,

That is super. It is going to be a big help to the community.

Sometimes when I am trying to help someone, I wish they had a scope to look at the waveforms, but the "real ones" are rather expensive. With your approach, you can get basic scope functionality without spending a lot of money.

Thank you.

Best regards,

Bill

Comment by Riccardo Kuebler on April 4, 2011 at 1:14pm

Roel,

thank you :)

About the tutorial that's very strange, because I set it public on the web. I checked it again to be sure. I checked the link in the post also and all is working for me. Please let me now if you still have problems.
The full link is this :
https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true...

Best regards,

Ric

Comment by Riccardo Kuebler on April 4, 2011 at 1:20pm

Hi Bill,

thank you very much !
Considering only the free software, this costed me the couple of servo connectors, say few cents.
It was nice to see how fast Ben was able to catch the bug after he received those files.
... and I learned something new again.

Best regards,

Ric

Comment by Hamish on April 4, 2011 at 1:26pm

I've been using smartpropoplus http://www.smartpropoplus.com/dnn/ for a while to fly sims using my Tx

It takes a PPM soundcard input and decodes everything and sends it to a virtual joystick, and comes with a couple of PPM analyses utils

 

I crudely tap the Tx ppm straight into the line-in and it works, and my soundcard hasn't been fried yet despite frequent use.

Comment by Riccardo Kuebler on April 4, 2011 at 1:44pm

Hamish,

if you read carefully instructions on the link you provided, under hardware, you can see that they say :
1) transmitters are usually overload protected by a fuse
2) sound cards are usually protected for overvoltage
3) they recommend a 1/10 resistors ratio, which steps the voltage down to 0.3V.
They are really more conserative than me :)
Up to everyone how to risk their equipments ...

Best regards,

Ric

Comment by viky on April 5, 2011 at 1:40am

wow ! great software, its working well....and good tool at ur desktop itself.

Comment by Roel Offermans on April 5, 2011 at 1:40am

Hi Riccardo,

 

Both links work perfect now. So perhaps it was me who did something wrong.

I never knew it is this simple, i will test it right away!

 

Thanks!

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