I am upgrading my panel for IFR. I already had a D100/120, HS34, GTX-327 transponder, and the EKP-IV GPS. Am now doing some rewiring to accomodate a GNS-480 gps/nav/com, and SL30 nav/com
Equipment:
D100 EFIS (Dynon)
HS34 Expansion Module (Dynon)
CNX80 GPS/Nav/Com (GNS-480, Garmin)
SL30 Nav/Com (Garmin)
GTX-327 Mode C Transponder (Garmin)
EKP-IV GPS (Avmap)
Connections:
D100 and GTX-327: D100 Serial Altitude Encoder
HS34 and CNX80: ARINC Rx/Tx (8 lines)
HS34 and EKP-IV: Serial Data
HS34 and SL30: Analog Connections
CNX80 and SL30: Serial Data Connection
My dilemma is that the SL30 only has one data port and I wish to connect the SL30 to the CNX80 with that data port. This would allow Com and Nav frequency list transfers as well as using the CNX80 as a DME lookup and calculating unit. It would be so much easier though if I could hookup the SL30 and HS34 digitally.
I have the following questions:
1.- Is my analog connections between HS34 and the SL30 necessary or could I somehow manage a serial connection?
2. Do the ARINC labels from HS34 transfer the Altitude encoder information from the D100 to the CNX80? I don’t think I could feed the CNX80 and GTX-327 from the same RS-232 serial port as I believe they use different mode settings.
3. Any other wiring options I did not think of?
And just to clarify, for IFR in Canada we need to have independent navigation boxes for failure redundancy, thus the need for the extra SL30 nav/com.
Equipment:
D100 EFIS (Dynon)
HS34 Expansion Module (Dynon)
CNX80 GPS/Nav/Com (GNS-480, Garmin)
SL30 Nav/Com (Garmin)
GTX-327 Mode C Transponder (Garmin)
EKP-IV GPS (Avmap)
Connections:
D100 and GTX-327: D100 Serial Altitude Encoder
HS34 and CNX80: ARINC Rx/Tx (8 lines)
HS34 and EKP-IV: Serial Data
HS34 and SL30: Analog Connections
CNX80 and SL30: Serial Data Connection
My dilemma is that the SL30 only has one data port and I wish to connect the SL30 to the CNX80 with that data port. This would allow Com and Nav frequency list transfers as well as using the CNX80 as a DME lookup and calculating unit. It would be so much easier though if I could hookup the SL30 and HS34 digitally.
I have the following questions:
1.- Is my analog connections between HS34 and the SL30 necessary or could I somehow manage a serial connection?
2. Do the ARINC labels from HS34 transfer the Altitude encoder information from the D100 to the CNX80? I don’t think I could feed the CNX80 and GTX-327 from the same RS-232 serial port as I believe they use different mode settings.
3. Any other wiring options I did not think of?
And just to clarify, for IFR in Canada we need to have independent navigation boxes for failure redundancy, thus the need for the extra SL30 nav/com.