Hello all,
My effort at a all-in-one box while the weather is naff and the scareoplane in in for 50hrs check.
The enclosure is from RS 401-9963 £4.27
I'm lucky to have access to CNC so drilled all the cooling holes, but the same effect could be made with careful use of a hand drill.
Mini 5v fan also from RS on the back face.
The audio and power connectors and RF pigtails (all from @bay) were taken out to sockets on the side of the case as well as the ADSB and P3i SMA bulk-head connectors.
I used the Pilot Aware GPS mouse and stuck this to the top of the box.
in order to do this it needed a bit of brain surgery. The mouse case was opened up, cable "hacked" to length and soldered back onto the mouse PCB. I guess it would be easier to cut and re splice the USB cable or fit a re-wireable USB plug. But while i was inside the mouses brain, i noticed it has a nice bright green LED that blinks when GPS locked. So drilled a hole in the top of the mouses 'scull' and added a clear plastic plug so that Mr blinkie led can be seen and thus the status of GPS lock.
Pot wired in series to the audio (think it was about 100 ohms?) to provide front panel volume control. It's a bit sensitive so might need to experiment with lower resistance.
Just need an aeroplane and weather to give it a flight test.
ATB
Deker
