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Main => Builders Discussions => Topic started by: Sudden81 on January 24, 2012, 08:40:53 AM
Hi there!
I am a cockpit builder and just wanted to tell you about what I discovered with the backlight of a panel!
I have written more about it on Prosim forum!
Backlight REAL 737 Panel (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLSRlKbOOKw#ws)
http://prosim737.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=1702 (http://prosim737.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=1702)
Backlighting has been debated here and is not as easy as it may look. A search should help you to get more info.
Can be done with individual leds or bulbs or with strips, depending of the panels and their location.
Even if properly done, the results can be uneven if the panel you want to backlight has not been built properly for backlighting. (has to do with the kind of plastic , color, etching , painting etc) . Preventing light bleeding and getting an even illumination are the major challenges.
Jack
hehehehe i enjoyed that, brought me back to when I got my first ever real panel and did exactly the same as yourself, pulled it apart with the excitement of a kid Christmas morning, surprisingly simple when you look at it.
be warned though it can get addictive, buying in random parts just so you can look inside and hope to reverse engineer for your own needs.
Keep in mind the panel you have has not changed for over 30 years now, below is the modern day equivalent, dark spots on your panel?, no problem just adjust one of the many surface mount potentiometer to balance the backlighting out :)
Nice video, be useful to new builders for sure, thanks for making it :)
Seem incredibly difficult to get to such a circuit board and even panels!
How have you managed to do that?
And how does it look with the lights on and the panel of the?
In light and in darkness!
The hardest part seems to be hott spotts!
Watch five minutes into this video!
My 737 sim Sweden (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKAgqf1irr8#ws)