Recent content by Bo_Hannington

Thanks Jake, was wondering if it might be at all useful to reload the firmware, but in my experience this feels like a hardware failure. The problem is the freight costs and the time it will take to get it fixed.

I have a D180 in mt RV6A, been working fine for years. Suddenly yesterday all 4 EGTs read wrong. They all seem to read approximately the same value of 541degC, but there is a few degrees of jitter. They never read greater that 541degC. Normal cruise EGT reading has been in the 700 - 800 range...

Hi, today I started the annual on my RV6A. I installed an autopilot in 2010, and have been enjoying it ever since. During the inspection today, I noticed some lateral slack on the roll servo output shaft. I didn't have a vernier with me to measure it, but I'm guessing there was about a 0.3mm...

Hi, I have just logged on to start searching for info about exactly this problem. Maybe my experience will add to the knowledge of the problem. In my aircraft (RV6A) I have a Garmin GNC250XL panel mount, and an externel bracket on which I can mount the Garmin GPSMap 296 from my Foxbat aircraft...

My D180 has started having this white line vertically on all screens. See attached pic. It is intermittent, not always present, but always in the same place on the screen when it is there. Can you please tell me if previously this display fault was a connection issue (which I could possibly...

My D180 has started having this white line vertically on all screens. See attached pic. It is intermittent, not always present, but always in the same place on the screen when it is there. Can you please tell me if previously this display fault was a connection issue (which I could possibly...

I have an HS34 in my aircraft and I also have had intermittent problems on power-up. Until I read these posts today, I had not related my problems to temperature. I originally thought the problem was a poor connection or a momentary low voltage during start-up which would prevent the HS34 from...

I have recently installed a new panel on my RV6A including my old Garmin GNC250XL, and a D180 with all the autopilot gear including AP74 & HS34. I have connected the GNC250XL using ARINC429. The Garmin has 3 options for output on it's ARINC channel:- 1) Collins PL2; 2) King EFS 40/50; and 3) w/o...

I have an A22 Foxbat and a D180 in it. I haven't yet considered adding autopilot, but would be interested in how it goes and how you install servos if you do go this way.

I think what John says about common mode is quite likely to be right. Trying to measure a voltage difference of a few millivolts accurately (i.e to better than 1mV) between 2 wires both at around 13,700 millivolts (say) is not that easy, and common mode drift may well be part of the problem. Bo...

Thanks for all the comments guys, all useful & relevant. Yep, I'll change out the current sensor. It's just that on my other aircraft where I also installed a D180, and used the shunt in the battery circuit so it reads =+e & -ve currents, the measurement is not very good, and drifts around e.g...

I am upgrading my aircraft to D180 with autopilot, I previously have had an early version of Vision Microsystems VM1000, which I am of course removing. However some or the sensors may still be usable. How about the current sensor supplied by Vision. It is a coil through the middle of which a...

Hi, I seemed to start this coolant temp thing off, and have been patiently waiting for the next update to get this sorted. Excitedly went and installed V3 today. Sorry to say that, although I can now select type 4, it reads the same as type 3. The sensor is, as I originally mentioned, one of the...

The D180 includes the usual timers, including "Flight Timer". The manual says this timer counts the time since powerup while the oil pressure is above 15psi (and it's true, this is what mine does). Why not instead the time while the Airspeed is reading anything above 0kts? This would be a...

Thanks for your reply. To answer your first query, I have Flightdek D180, and it is running V01.08. So, if this is a bug to be fixed, what is the approximate timescale by which this will occur?