cougar mfd lcd screen made in china

I purchased bare bones LCD screens from China, plus HDMI controllers from them. They"re still too wide, but without the extra plastic for a bezel they fit fine. I used 3M molding tape to attach the Cougar MFD"s to them.

I included Ebay links to what I purchased. The screens work good, but adjusting the resolution to something high enough for DCS causes the colors to bleed. You switch screens, and you can still see shadows of what was displayed. It fades quick though.

I have seen people use a screen and for a bit many years back I just double sided taped mine to small older flat panel I had. The downside to using screens is that they cause your GPU more load as you will be rendering the MFD display on the small screens AND on your main screen.

The biggest advantage to having them is any case where you feel the need to zoom in the view to use the MFD in game because with those panels acting as a repeater you take away the need to zoom the view and you can see things much more sharply.

They are a very useful controller and I have two packs (four MFD “rings” total) which covers the Hornet very nicely with the two DDI’s, one for the MPCD and the fourth acting as much of the UFC buttons.

Well, what can I say? Perhaps a little back story on my situation. I just downloaded DCS World from Steam under the assumption that I would finally have an updated version of DCS: A-10 so I could finally use my Lilliput LCD monitors as external MFCDs--I use the Cougar MFDs made by Thrustmaster.

Abouty ten years ago I was sitting in my Obutto Ozone cockpit, with three cheap 24 inch LCD monitors and a Thrustmaster Warthog HOTAS. DCS A-10C Warthog (not DCS World) was my game of choice, and VR didn"t exist.

The Ozone Obutto Cockpit setup I started with. Three 24 inch BenQ LCD monitors, a HOTAS Warthog, and the two panels i had purchased from Glider_UKon the ED Forums.

The next thing I wanted to add was a main instrument panel. I had been reading on the forums about exporting the gauges to a second monitor, so I bought a cheap Acer 19 inch LCD and bolted it onto the Obutto with the cheapest eBay VESA wall mount.

This is what Helios does- it exports the data from DCS and displays them on gauges on a seperate monitor. The same program is being used today on the monitor behind my Main Instument Panel. If you had a touch screen monitor, you could even use it to display and push all the buttons in the cockpit!

To make my first panels, I purchased 3mm thick plastic sheet from a hardware store in Australia (Bunnings). They still sell it today, its about 50 bucks for a large 1200mm sheet and used for pool fencing/screening etc, and comes in white or clear. Be aware that it is PVC and is not able to be laser cut/engraved.