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Hi, can anyone tell me if MobiFlight supports half steps ? if so how do you achieve this ?

thank you.

Sorry... I don´knwo this fact....

Do you got the Motor already ? Why not try out this ?

Maby you simply have to double or half the Step range in settings menu... Standard is 2048
Try 1024 or 4096 and look if Test is make a full turning. ( Sim Value 1000 Test Value 1000 )

Hi,
Thanks for the information, I already have the motor a Nema 8, speed and position are correct I was just looking for a more smoother precise movement.

I have now changed to the 28BYJ-48 stepper motor and this is much smoother and works great only the problem I have is this works great with an airliner or Cessna type aircraft but I'm using the JT Hawk and I have found the movement/rotation to be to slow when the aircraft is in a dive, do you know how to change the speed of the stepper motor ? can the config file that contains this information be edited to increase the motor speed ?

:-)

Cool. I just think about the Problem already in the Past.... But always thought there are no JET Pilots here in Mobiflight ( 98% build an Airliner or a Cessna)

At the moment a Full Turn tkaes maby 4 seconds.... Means 15 Turns per Minute are Posiblle and this would be 15.000 ft Climb/Descent Rate per Minute.
Enough for a Airliner but a litte to less for a Typhoon or a F35

Problem: personalised Input of Stepper speed is not impliment or planed at the moment.... Additional the Speed is for ALL Displays.... So youre Flaps Gauge is faster too for example.

Solutuon:
You can Request a personal test Version from Sebastian with a modified high Speed Setting for you ( To test this out... Maby Youre Motor itself is not be able to turn so fast !)
OR i would recomend to use a Cogwheel Gear 2:1 or 4:1 So 1 turning of Motor makes 2 or 4 Turning from Gauge.
With a modified config this should work... then youre limit increase to 30.000 FpM or 60.000 FpM

Hi Pizman,
Sorry for the late reply, work sometimes gets in the way of sim building . I took your advice and changed the motor gear to 4:1 which seems to have almost done the trick, with the speed and postion of the altimeter almost complete I decided to add an encoder for the pressure setting, but I cant seem to get the encoder to show up in mobiflight. In the setting>module tab I added the encoder pin 41 and 51, named and uploaded the config to my board and everything seems to go ok I then assign a name to my config and selected the config wizard as normal, now when I go to the display tab and select my board and then to display type I have no encoder listed ? only pins, steppers and Servo's, no matter what I try I cant seem to get mobiflight to list the encoder, any ideas ?

now when I go to the display tab and select my board and then to display type I have no encoder listed ? only pins, steppers and Servo's, no matter what I try I cant seem to get mobiflight to list the encoder, any ideas ?

Maby i understand you wrong.... But why do you try to set a Encoder as a output ??
Pin (LED) , Stepper and Servo are OUTPUTS!

Please confirm you create this Config Line in the INPUT Tab of Mobiflight.

Hi Pizman,
feeling a little stupid now, I've been so focused on the stepper motor over the last few weeks I just automatically went to the output tab, sometimes you just need someone to point out the obvious things life !

Thanks for all your help, its very much appreciated !