so pretty much as the title describes. I am completely new to arduinos, and I need some pretty serious help understanding. So I am going to list in order the questions i have.
Firstly as I understand I am going to need a power supply for the stepper drivers. I understand the concept of needing power but my question is what kind of power supply? Can I use a cheap PC power supply or is there something else that would be more convenient? do I need a separate power supply for each of the drivers?
Second is the concept of mobiflight. I have only played with mobiflight a little bit. I see that Karl is using prosim but I really don't want to spend upwards of $1k on sim software. Has anybody gotten the MTU to work properly with PMDG on mobiflight or is Prosim absolutely necessary? I would also like to use this for the flybywire a320 obviously without the steppers needing to really do anything at which point im sure that would be just a simple point and shoot kinda thing in mobiflight.
Thirdly is the most challenging for me, wiring. I see that Karl hasn't finished the wiring diagram for the MTU so far as I can tell (sorry Karl if you have and i'm stupid). I think once I understand how the arduino are wired and what now I think I should be able to figure some other projects out without needing my hand held the entire way through.
Hello,
You can buy dedicated power supplies from amazon or ebay. If you are new to electrics then i can only warn you THAT THERE IS 120/240V LIVE on the same connection rail! I have had a few people electrocuted live while showing me how they connected it up while fault finding. Please be careful!
I believe the MTU buide guide has the link to these, but it states 12v and after talking to my Patreons we have all upgraded to 24v because it uses half the current.
There is another thread just before this one, where people are trying to run PMDG/MSFS with the MTU. Noone has produced a follow me guide yet so it is possible, but Prosim makes its work natively.
The wiring diagram is not finished as such, its missed all the buttons and led out. But for the levers and trim indicators its all the same! Wire each stepper as in the diagram, just to a different set of pins on the arduino.
Now im home, i will finish the heli controls, and get back to filming a proper build guide for the MTU with indepth wiring!