Home Cockpit Advanced: Hall Effect Sensors & Helicopter Collectives

[@ED209no]

Hello Sir. I find your video to be one of the most explaining clips out there, simple and precise. I'm working on my own project trying to figure out how to build the collective stick itself. Your's inspired me to do it the way you did. Every other clips i've watched has been too complicated with 3D printing, which I don't have. Thank you, from Norway. 😊

[@funofflying15]

Hi there, many thanks for your very kind comments, they are truly appreciated and I’m glad that you found the video of help 😎 Good luck with your project and you need any further assistance, please let me know? Kind regards, Paul (Bedford, UK)

[@humberto367]

if knowledge about programming is very good, you have complete mastery💯

[@funofflying15]

Many thanks Humberto for you lovely comments, much appreciated 😎 Muito obrigado Humberto por seus comentários adoráveis, muito apreciado 😎

[@humberto367]

​@@funofflying15 so you will learn to speak Portuguese!😄

[@humberto367]

I walk behind a joystick using a force sensor for the F-16 which is a very difficult diy project, this Yoke with rotary is for the XPlane11 to fly in the Cessna 172, but your helicopter collective project is very good.

[@emmanuelguibe4629]

Another clear and very well explained video, thank you. I am very interested in your collective solution but would it be possible to add a box at the head of the handle to put a few buttons or switches on the same Leonardo card ? thank you for your reply

[@funofflying15]

Hi there, many thanks for your kind comments and welcome to the channel! Yes, it is possible to add a small number of pushbuttons and toggle switches in this context, subject to pin terminals on the Leonardo being available. The sketch code can also be modified to meet the same requirement. Hope this helps, but please let me know if you need any further assistance? Kind regards Paul (Bedford, UK)

[@emmanuelguibe4629]

@@funofflying15 Thank you for your answer, I also watched your video on the Cessna switches which reassured me in my project of placing a few switches in addition to the linear sensor for the collective. One more little question: why not use a rotary potentiometer for the cyclic, which would allow better travel because with the linear sensor we are limited in travel? Thank you for your response and a big thank you for your always very explicit videos.

[@funofflying15]

Hi there, yes correct, it would have been much easier to use some sort of potentiometer for the helicopter collective, but at the time, I was interested to see what I could do with hall effect sensors! Thanks again and regards, Paul :-)

[@emmanuelguibe4629]

@@funofflying15 Thank you for your answer

[@ED209no]

@@emmanuelguibe4629 As I have read on the interweb, many people (and manufacturers) are moving away from potmeters. The reason is that over time, potmeters starts to "glitch", like on an old radio when you try to turn up the volume, you get these scratching noise. A hall effect sensor reads a magnetic field without any mechanical disturbance, like a potmeter does. Sorry if my explaining is poor. Cheers from Norway.

[@humberto367]

Very good💯

[@humberto367]

👏👏🤝

[@simracer1256]

I tell you mate, you're fartin sparks!

[@funofflying15]

Thank you my friend, I think, I'm not sure if 'fartin sparks' is a good thing or bad??

[@simracer1256]

@@funofflying15 yes, it's great!

[@funofflying15]

Oh, in which case, many thanks again and welcome to the channel, kind regards Paul (Bedford, UK) 😎

[@simracer1256]

@@funofflying15 thank you. I am building a DIY collective at the moment to go on my simrig, and this is a really helpful video. I have gone the hall sensor route and am just waiting for the linear sensor to arrive from PiHut. The only concern I have is how close I have to get the magnet to the sensor and how much travel will be possible on the articulating arm. I am sure I won't need much.

[@funofflying15]

As shown in my video, I was working with a 2-3mm clearance between the magnet and linear hall sensor head. In terms of lateral movement of the sensor head across the face of the magnet, this will be no more than 10mm. Clearly the working distances between the magnet and sensor head are very finite with this type of setup! Good luck with your project 🙂