It seems lots of planes are coming out with multi-function mixing/lighting boards.
This idea may simplify things by reducing the number of different boards (or at least the complexity of special boards for specific models.)
How about putting the lighting on one board and any mixing/sequencing on another?
Certainly the lighting boards would be capable of being standardized with maybe one or two jumper settings to do what is appropriate for many models
Mixing/sequencing per model could just be jumpers and/or pots to control timing.
Then those of us who don't use the sequencing/mixing, instead using advanced computer radios, can pull the other board out, removing some unwanted weight, making space for a gyro or something else we may want (like a separate RX system battery)
Goal being to help both sides (production and purchaser) reducing the number of different boards which would make the per board cost less (higher numbers of any one board makes it cheaper per board) Reducing the number of different boards you have to stock and increasing the ease of doing something different for the end users.
I'm now at the point of only light being hooked up to the multi-function board in my F-14. That's a large board doing very little.
This idea may simplify things by reducing the number of different boards (or at least the complexity of special boards for specific models.)
How about putting the lighting on one board and any mixing/sequencing on another?
Certainly the lighting boards would be capable of being standardized with maybe one or two jumper settings to do what is appropriate for many models
Mixing/sequencing per model could just be jumpers and/or pots to control timing.
Then those of us who don't use the sequencing/mixing, instead using advanced computer radios, can pull the other board out, removing some unwanted weight, making space for a gyro or something else we may want (like a separate RX system battery)
Goal being to help both sides (production and purchaser) reducing the number of different boards which would make the per board cost less (higher numbers of any one board makes it cheaper per board) Reducing the number of different boards you have to stock and increasing the ease of doing something different for the end users.
I'm now at the point of only light being hooked up to the multi-function board in my F-14. That's a large board doing very little.
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