Fulfilling your wish is my sworn duty as President Brettski.
If we are only talking about one control with low activation forces, this will be staightforward and above all, as cheap as I can think of.
I'm a scrounger too. As a kid, my fellow radio/electronics buddies would walk the back lanes looking for discarded TVs, radios, appliances ... anything we could strip for parts to build stuff ... the scrounging is a big part of the fun. That's why I like ham radio fleamarkets.
I'll toss together some links and a description of how to do it shortly.
Choke position info can be done too, but rather than doing by feedback, we'll do it by "dial position" which you can then calibrate to visualize the control position and provide you with smooth activation through the whole control range of throw.
I'm wondering how to disable the system for local vs remote start & operation. IE: when you're doing your tinkering by waterside.
Stand-by to stand-by.
Lee
