Building a 737-800 Homecockpit [OE-LNJ]

1st part arrived

Today the first package arrived from Opencockpits. The light section.

More pictures are available in the gallery.

Today i have ordered the complete forward Overhead kit and all switches and buttons to complete it.

During the next week i will prepare the boxes and add to them each one 56 ohm resistor to have them ready to built in when the overhead arrives.

So, stay tuned.

Today i have uploaded 3 Videos to Youtube.

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Demoboard of my overhead with some features (Engine Start, Low Pressure,…)

Today i have also tested 1 ON-OFF-ON switch which will representate later the Seat Belt Sign.

with their LEDs.

Next step is to wire them together…

Yesterday and today i have build all 112 indicator boxed together.

Each box exisits of 4 seperate plastic modules.

In some boxes i started gluing the LEDs. Per box 2 LEDs, makes 224 LEDs to get glued in and connected together.

Today i have started to build the indicator boxes.

The first of 3 steps is finished. The engraved black sockets were glued together with the white small rectangle.

All 112 sockets were finished.

More pictures are available in the gallery, as usual.

I have tested one indicator with the three Led colors.

The red ones will be replaced later with yellow indication leds.

Today i received the first part of the overhead section 🙂

All LEDs, some switches for testing and the overhead indicators.

One is shown below.

Other pictures are uploaded to the gallery.

Today i received the ordered Joystick controller BU0836X from Leo.

It’s a simple USB connected controller, where you can connect up to 32 buttons / switches, etc.
USB Joystick controller

Hopefully the order from Opencockpits will also arrive soon, so i can start connecting the switches to the controller.