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    Capacitent fuel probe to Dynon HDX issues

    This is correct - no converter is necessary to use capacitance senders with the Dynon EMS unit. Just follow the manual's instructions for capacitance senders.
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    GPS175 Power Pins

    I don't know what installation manual you're looking at (GPS175 or HDX) because 5-2 of the HDX manual refers to something else entirely, and there is no 5-2 in the GPS175 install manual. But in any case, the GPS175 manual, on page 86 and 88, Figures B-1 and B-2 in Appendix B, clearly show that...
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    Vertical Glideslope intermittent

    Since an RNAV GPS approach is not dependent on any ground based equipment, it certainly wasn't the airport's issue. You don't state what GPS navigator was driving the VNAV (or HNAV), but the problem could be in one of three places - the GPS navigator, the Skyview connection to the navigator, or...
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    VNAV to Runway rather than Airport

    Fascinating. I have an HDX, and was using the HDX Pilot's Guide. Per my second bullet point of the first posting, the "Extended Runway Centerlines" section on page 5-48 says: When the Flight Plan origin, a waypoint, or the destination is an airport, an extended runway line is shown on the map...
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    VNAV to Runway rather than Airport

    Thank you very much - is that in the PIlot Guide somewhere that I missed? Is there some way go to a runway without doing a "direct" - IOW, in a flight plan?
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    VNAV to Runway rather than Airport

    This has been discussed at l east once before, but no answer was directly forthcoming. Using ONLY the Skyview (no external navigator), one can program VNAV in the MENU > MAP SETUP > VS REQ'D menu in two ways - one, to arrive at the final waypoint at a certain altitude above the waypoint at a...
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    SV-KNOB-DIMMER Questions

    Only here - you meant to say "zero volts" at the bottom (being ground, and all), not 12V at the bottom (in which case absolutely nothing would happen on any of the circuits :-).
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    lidar based altimeter

    So I use this: https://lightwarelidar.com/products/sf11-c-100-m in an automatic landing gear extension circuit on my COZY MKIV. It's part of a circuit that will lower the LG if I'm >40 KIAS, <90 KIAS, <10% throttle, and <400 ft. AGL. I'm using it as a switch, but it does have an analog voltage...
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    AP panel but only for trim?

    I do trust that I can override them, and the torque limit of the servos is set so that can be accomplished while never slipping during normal use (and I can always break the shear screw, if it comes to that). But the last thing anyone needs, as you found out, is to have someone/something...
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    SV AP panel mount install

    Ahem. If you review the Lancair ES General Wiring Document: https://documents.lancair.com/aircraft_documents/ES-ESP/General_Wiring.pdf you can see that the airplane uses "MAC" servos - now "Ray Allen". The fact that the document recommends 5A fuses/CB's to protect the WIRING to the servos is...
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    SV AP panel mount install

    Well, have you read the specifications for the TrimAmp on page 23-17 of the install manual? The maximum motor supply is 3A (not really sure what the point of the thing is, if all it does is increase the maximum motor current from 2A to 3A - that's hardly a large increase). The total current...
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    SV AP panel mount install

    Some terminology here - I think by "servos" you're referring to the trim motors, which are almost always just 12V DC motors - not "servos". I also think you're conflating two functions here - first, the "Auto-Trim", which merely trims out the force on the A/P servo, _IF_ you enable the...
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    AP panel but only for trim?

    I've never had the A/P go nuts on me (ever, in about 15 years or so between the D10A and the Skyview HDX), but still - it only needs to happen once, and you're always hand flying the takeoffs and landings anyway.
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    AP panel but only for trim?

    Sure. I have a power switch for my servos (I turn them off for takeoff and landing), so they're not on, powered, or talking on the bus. The trim system through the A/P controller panel works fine.
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    Climbing using IAS

    Interesting again. I wonder why that would be. I know that in tractor airplanes, thrust is destabilizing and in pushers (aft pushers, not on top) thrust is stabilizing, but I have no idea whether that holds true for airplanes with jets on the wings. In any case, I've got a COZY MKIV canard, so I...
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    Climbing using IAS

    Interesting. I've been performing some glide tests recently and using IAS mode for both climb and descent. On a calm day, the IAS mode will hold +/- 3KIAS in the climb, and within +/- 1 KIAS in descent. This in a COZY MKIV. In turbulence, pitch control (IAS, VS, Altitude) sucks, though - the...
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    Alternator Failure — What’s left?

    Yes. The GPS2020 antenna is powered from the EFIS, not separately, per page 8-7 of the installation manual.
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    MDA Bug selection

    I have exactly the same behavior, and it's just as annoying for me as it is for you :-). Says it's on in the menu, but isn't until you go to the menu and then come back out of the menu.
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    D10A GPS position output in NMEA format

    Interesting that that unit is not mentioned in the experimental version of the D10A installation guide anywhere. And it is both the antenna AND the receiver. They must have come out with that when the started using the D10As in TC'd aircraft. In any case, the Serial output data shown in the...
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    D10A GPS position output in NMEA format

    Since the D10A does not have an internal GPS receiver (or antenna) and only receives GPS information from an EXTERNAL GPS system (panel mount or portable), I'm not sure what you're asking here. The D10A cannot provide a GPS signal to anything, as it has no GPS functionality internally. What...
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