{"id":105,"date":"2009-05-30T08:54:15","date_gmt":"2009-05-30T15:54:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.f15sim.com\/?p=105"},"modified":"2009-05-30T08:54:15","modified_gmt":"2009-05-30T15:54:15","slug":"birth-of-an-indicator-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.f15sim.com\/?p=105","title":{"rendered":"Birth of an indicator II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Through some further experimenting, the design of the REPLY indicator was changed a little bit.\u00a0 It now uses two .125&#8243; diffuser layers and a single .062&#8243; Rowmark lettering layer.\u00a0 This results in a MUCH better visual result, with no hot spots or faded areas in the indicator.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_106\" style=\"width: 624px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-106\" class=\"size-full wp-image-106\" title=\"indicator parts\" src=\"https:\/\/www.f15sim.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/bezel_parts.jpg\" alt=\"The parts that make up the REPLY indicator\" width=\"614\" height=\"409\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-106\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The parts that make up the REPLY indicator<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Only the back diffusion layer has holes cut out for the LEDs.\u00a0 The LEDs themselves are shaped like flat top cylinders instead of the rounded top you normally see with LEDs.\u00a0 The two small black frames were made to more closely emulate the look of the original indicator.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_107\" style=\"width: 624px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-107\" class=\"size-full wp-image-107\" title=\"assembled_indicator\" src=\"https:\/\/www.f15sim.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/assembled_indicator.jpg\" alt=\"The assembled REPLY indicator next to the LED circuit board.\" width=\"614\" height=\"409\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-107\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The assembled REPLY indicator next to the LED circuit board.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The two LEDs used are 3.0v 180 degree FOV green LEDs.\u00a0 These LEDs can be purchased from here: <a href=\"http:\/\/myworld.ebay.com\/cece718\">http:\/\/myworld.ebay.com\/cece718<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a short video that shows the indicator in action.\u00a0 Note that the camera I use was pretty much overwhelmed by the light from the LEDs.\u00a0 It&#8217;s really not that bright in person.<\/p>\n<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BK9-v67XUFw<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Through some further experimenting, the design of the REPLY indicator was changed a little bit.\u00a0 It now uses two .125&#8243; diffuser layers and a single .062&#8243; Rowmark lettering layer.\u00a0 This results in a MUCH better visual result, with no hot spots or faded areas in the indicator. Only the back diffusion layer has holes cut [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-project-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.f15sim.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.f15sim.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.f15sim.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.f15sim.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.f15sim.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=105"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.f15sim.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110,"href":"https:\/\/www.f15sim.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions\/110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.f15sim.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.f15sim.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.f15sim.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}