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Marc, I understand your response. Thanks for your input. What I am seeing makes no sense. When I dive into this again, your insistence on the wiring being the issue convinces me to once again recheck all the wiring, including the network wires attached to the A/P head, simply because, as you...

Well, thanks, i appreciate your input, but I had this apart and reassembled about six times, replaced all the cables twice, including the network cables, and never saw any indication of wiring issues, but the weird failure of the A/P panel to be recognized by the Skyview network always reoccurred.

Marc, Well, the panel only exhibited this behavior when I had the Strong pitch system wired through the A/P panel. Everything worked fine before that, and after I disconnected the DB-15 connector. I also checked with the DB-15 connector attached to the A/P panel, but disconnected from the...

Thanks Marc... FWIW, I did check the wiring thouroughly, and the hat switch would work just fine for 2 or 3 secs before it caused the A/P panel to go offline. Take a look at attached video...when i saw this is when i kinda gave up trying to diagnose the issue...Video P.S. I did send the A/P...

This thread has possibly answered a problem I had given up on solving. When I installed my electric pitch Trim ( a Strong pitch trim system), I tried to control it through the Autopilot panel, but it would not work. I did NOT install TRIMAMPs. Each time I attempted to calibrate or configure it...

I found that the buttons on the top of the stick are too easy to activate inadvertently. On my aircraft i have the A/P disengage/CWS wire hooked up to a 3 inch long lever switch mounted vertically on the front of the flight control stick just below where my pinky normally rests. That way, to...

Excuse me, I meant to say - the HDX/with Dynon ADS-B receiver can send traffic & weather data to the GPS 175 , but it already sends it to the HDX, so I don't need it to also be sent to the GPS 175.

I chose not to wire the RS232 port up, since I already have Dynon ADS-B In receiver.

Hah! They're my "work on the plane" pants... and the epoxy resin doesn't wash out...

I have modified the wiring as you outlined in diageam G, and there was a noticeable improvement in both the low, fully counterclockwise end (it's now dimmer than it was), and in the high (full clockwise) end (it's way brighter). Thanks for your time in helping with this. I would never have...

On page 12-5 of Skyview installation manual it says: For each module, Set INPUT1 to the type of device connected to the SV-ARINC-429’s ARINC-429 RX 1 A and B inputs, any of GPS 1, 2, 3, 4 or NAV 1, 2, 3, 4. Optionally, you can specify a “friendly” name for each navigation source using the...

I found this, on Wikipedia: One of the advantages of the potential divider compared to a variable resistor in series with the source is that, while variable resistors have a maximum resistance where some current will always flow, dividers are able to vary the output voltage from maximum (VS) to...

Where pin 2 is the one commonly called the slider? Right now, as I have it wired, I think I have pin 1 on the pot going to pin 25 on the Skyview HDX, and 12 volts going into the slider. I will need to reverse those to do the wiring as you recommend. But I confess, I still don't understand...

Okay, but, the way you have it depicted, the impedance to ground on the right side is a constant 2.4 ohms, the way I was envisioning it, the impedance on the path to ground would be the total impefance acriss the entire element, ( 2.4 ohms), less whatever impedance is drawn by the other, (left...

I hooked up an ohmmeter to my potentiometer, and measured the impedance across the terminals as I rotated the knob. The impedance across terminals 1 & 3 was a constant 10k. The impedance across 1&2 varied from zero to 10 k as I rotated the knob clockwise, and across 2&3 it varied from zero to...

Excellent diagrams! Thanks! But your circuit "G" is different than what I thought. I am under impression that the slider terminal is the one that brings the full 12 volts into it, and the two other terminals on the pot are attached to the ends of the resistence element. That way, the pot acts...

I apologize, but I still don't get it. If all you have is a resistance, (like a rheostat), in series with a 12v battery, and a load (like a bulb), the total voltage drop around the entire circuit must be zero, so the voltage drops across the resistance and the load must add up to 12 volts...

Two questions: In Dynon Install manual, pg 12-5, it says to set INPUT 1 to the type of device, (any of GPS 1, GPS 2, ... , NAV1, NAV2, ...). Which should I use for the GPS 175, a GPS, or a NAV? Does it matter? Secondly, I wonder about the "Allow Auto Switch: Yes (Label 100P) setting - what...

So I can attach the third wire of my potentiometer to aircraft ground and it should be consistent with the scheme you describe. But I don't understand what you mean by "Using only two wires, you take the strip completely out of the equation. " How so? It is then effectively the same as a...

Okay it's done, and it works. But I am left with some questions. First of all, I learned what a potentiometer is, and why they have three leads, instead of just two like a rheostat. A potentiometer has three leads because it's just really two rheostats in one. Where a rheostat has an input...