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Just for clarity, to use a GP input as a contact sensor, I should wire it from the 12V aircraft power bus, to a microswitch, (like a canopy closed switch), and then to one of the EMS contact input pins?

Okay, got it... Then the voltage at the EMS wire will be aircraft bus voltage when the three microswitches are closed, but it will be zero V (connected to ground through the Warn light) when the any of the three switches are open... Thanks! Charly

Don, Thanks much for this... I was worried about the fact that my circuit is connected to the 12 volt bus. I would never have come up with the 10k resistor idea on my own. Now just to make sure we are on the same page, may I ask this.... If I connect things as I think you are suggesting...

Mine is as you describe Don, no fuel quantity sensors, only sight gages and fuel flow sensor. Workaround of just "adding" what I calculate new total should be will work for now, but was thinking about installing fuel level sensors. Do you recommend resistive or capacitance sensors?

Since the last version update, (it was 16.2.4), When I go to the add fuel menu, the current quantity always reads as 0.0, no matter how much fuel is indicated on the fuel remaining widget.

I already have a landing gear warning light system in my Long EZ, containing a microswitch on the nosegear, an airspeed switch and a microswitch on the throttle. It is set up so that the light comes on when airspeed is below 80KIAS, throttle is below 50%, and the nose gear is not fully extended...

I have 16.2.4 and two P-Mags and am not seeing this issue.

Didn't know about that document. And in the legend on page , it says that the X means an "unterminated wire". That certainly means I must be hooked up to pin 12. I need to check the wires coming out of the DB37 for another, shorter, unused, yellow wire.

When I installed my HDX and SV-EMS-220, I used the pre-built EMS DB-37 harness designed for Lycoming 4 cylindar carbureted engines. When I look at the pinout chart for this version of the harness on page 7-19 of the install doc, for pins, it says "no connection". Does that mean that pin2 is not...

Don, I uploaded 16.2 yesterday, and I got similar behavior. Partway through the load, the screen went black and nothing else happened. Eventually, I cycled the power, and the file load picked up where it was interrupted. Eventually, it finished, and the normal screen appeared. Do you want...

Is there any way to check the continuity of the yellow wire that should be connected to pin 2? The wire is definitely connected to the place I want to measure the voltage, (the P-lead of the alternator), but in the SV config screen, where you can monitor the RAW DATA for each pin, it shows...

Marc, Yes, although, (putting the legality aside for the moment), the logic is pretty compelling. To my original question, I think it is pretty clear that in addition to checking the ident before commencing an approach, we should monitor it, at a minimum, often enough to be sure the...

NO, I could not find an FAR reference for this either. I got this from post earlier in this thread.

I think so. That's the screen that lists all the pins in sequence, and has columns FUNCTION, SENSOR, and NAME?, right? I configured it exactly like it shows on page 7-83 of the install doc, FUNCTION = VOLTS, SENSOR = VOLTAGE MEASURE, except I named it "ALT", not "MAIN". There was no SAVE button...

I am trying to add a second voltage widget to my HDX screen, to monitor the voltage output of my alternator, using pin 2 (yellow wire), on the EMS-220 DB-37. I hooked up the yellow wire from the EMS-220 DB-37 wire harness (pin 2), to the point where I wanted to monitor the voltage, (alternator...

But is it legally (FAA legal), required to be continuously monitoring the ident? I mean if you check and validate the ident with SCAN off on the primary frequency, (the one you're using to navigate, say an ILS), then can't you then turn SCAN on to monitor the standby freq and still be legal...

Ken, yes, actually, it is (perfectly clear). And, as I read the Vega manual, you can quickly toggle the Scan on and off, which means you could put the more significant frequency, (the one you are currently using for IFR navigation, like the ILS on an approach), in primary and the less important...

Well, much information there. Thanks! I was assuming that the Skyview could only display data from the primary frequency. I was assuming that the N16 had two receivers, one for primary freq and one for the Standby. I guess I should have understood the way it really works from the word "Scan"...

I made (what I now suspect was a mistake) of purchasing the VAL Nav 2000 VOR/ILS Nav radio, which integrates with Skyview like an SL30. It works great, and I am very pleased with it, but the MGL Vega with N16 remote VHF Nav radio seems like a better option, for about the same price. I can...

Tried again today, and display is still functioning normally. I am emailing you as well. Do you want logs or diagnostics files?