Over the past week I added a few light switches behind the overhead. Since I don’t have a working aft overhead yet, these fit perfectly!

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Another quick shot, progress has been made in the roof liners. Simple but effective. Am working on a few switches for lights now and will post pictures when all this is completed

Just a few picts I took this evening. Spent 12 hours rewiring everything, brand new usb powered hubs, longer cables, and labeled everything.

Over the last month I’ve been trying to get a chronometer (a clock) working. My first attempt was to use an old Matrox Orbital LCD screen I had. I modified an old clock insert I had from the 747 years ago and it “worked”.

The problem was, it only displayed the PC time. It would not let you display FS time/Zulu time. Sure, you can set the PC clock to zulu time, but I just didn’t want that.

The next thing I tried was a $100 LCD from Fry’s that is used with a reverse camera for a car.

This LCD has composite in, so coming out from the video card it would work great! PROBLEM.. it’s a 16:9 screen. IE Widescreen. There are no controls to change the aspect ratio, so, the chronometer from project magenta was oval shaped. Strike two.

Then, I recalled people (even FDS) using PSOne screens for their CDU’s and thought I’d give them a try. I ordered two off Ebay, about $45 each.

I went to Radioshack and bought a stereo mini 8 plug (that has 3 connectors, NOT 2…) and has a female RCA end. From there it’s just RCA to the video card, done! (You can see the connector in this photo, its the silver one)

And the result is….

WOW!

This is running another copy of the PFD project magenta software, with the chronometer on and the only thing showing. The PSOne screen has a white border around it that shows a little through the FDS clock hole. I solved that by putting a little piece of paper on the right side. When viewed straight on, you can see it (as in this photo) but from the captain’s chair you do not see it, neat!

Here’s a few pictures I took tonight! It’s coming along nicely!

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