With this setup, I decided to use green lighting since it just felt more pleasing to my eye. It’s also right color for my F/A-18C Hornet modules for DCS that I’m going to start building.
There are currently two different types of LED lights in use:
- Background lighting for panels is made with green LEDs.
- Cockpit lighting in trims is made with LED lists.
I’m using an old second-hand 430W computer PSU to power the lighting.
There is also a full episode of setting up the power, lighting and power control panel in Youtube.
The PSU is inside the right cabinet and is connected into PSU breakout board. I can get different voltages out from the board easily; for lighting I’m using 12V.
From the breakout board, cables go to the lighting control panel. There’s both LED dimmer and separate on/off switch to control different circuits.
There are currently four circuits:
- Cabin light: basic background lighting
- Instrument lighing 1: background lighting for panels that are permanent parts of the cockpit
- Instrument lighting 2: background lighting for the modular panels
- Reading light: not currently in use, I’ll make a reading/map light here some day