Flight Deck D180+ Garmin 150xl

[Ron777]

I am in the process of installing the D180 and have successfully integrated the SL30 Navcom to the Dynon.
I am having problems getting the Garmin 150 Xl to talk to the Dynon. I am in the early stages of troubleshooting & will check all pin connections and output strings in the coming week. Configuration as follows:

Dynon D180 & Sl 30 OK via serial input to Pin 22 on DB25- OK
Dynon & Garmin 150xl .(Pin 19 on Dynon DB 37), and (Pin 19 via I/out 2 on GPS)- NO COMMS
Shadin Miniflow to Garmin 150 via I/Out 1 on GPS -OK

The garmin outputs on I/O 2 are:Serial position,velocity,navigation & satellite data to NMEA 0183 V2.0 compatible mapping devices or Garmin PC Software.
Before I get entangled in the wire jungle, can anyone shed light on the suitablity of the Gps 150xl output data via I/O 2, and whether the Dynon is sensitive to Baud rate.
Any help or suggestion would be appreciated.

 

[Thomas_Schaad]

When I did it with my 250XL, the local Garmin Rep told me to use I/O 1. He explained it be somewhat as the I/O 2 was to communicate with a laptop computer when doing firmware updates. I do not remember exactly, but I have it hooked up on port #1 and it works fine.

Good luck and best regards

Thomas

 

[dynonsupport]

While it doesn't look like we have any customers that have definitively reported on the 150xl, our products will autodetect 4800 and 9600 baud serial inputs.

 

[Ron777]

Further information to my original posting:
Garmin International Field Engineer advises that the 150xl will output NMEA 0183 on I/O#2 and Aviation format on I/O#1.

I have double checked all wiring and pin assignments and still cannot get the D180 to talk to the GPS 150XL. I have not been able to look at the data stream coming from the 150 and will do so in the near future and keep the forum updated.
In the interim, I am open to suggestions from forum members.

The Garmin SL 30 interface to the Dynon works beautifully in all modes.
Regards to All
777

 

[Ron777]

Re: Flight Deck D180+ Garmin 150xl+ Shadin MINI FL

An upgrade to my last posting.
I now have the 150XL communicating with the DYNON D180 as advertised on I/O#2 at 4800.
Earthing & shielding grounds were causing the problems.
I have also connected a SHADIN MINIFLOW flowtransducer to the fuel flow input which works just fine

 

[Jplaster]

I'm trying a similar setup using the dynon ap74 ,the D10a and a Garmin 150 XL. I used the I/o 2 from the Garmin and can't communicate with the Dynon D10a. The local avionics shop said that the Garmins I/o 2 needs to be switched on via the setup menu. Any ideas?

 

[jakej]

I'm trying a similar setup using the dynon ap74 ,the D10a and a Garmin 150 XL. I used the I/o 2 from the Garmin and can't communicate with the Dynon D10a. The local avionics shop said that the Garmins I/o 2 needs to be switched on via the setup menu. Any ideas?

If you have the Garmin install manual it is explained in Section 4 - basically, with power off, you press & hold down the ENT key, release it when the display activates then change display to I/O CHNL 2 set page & select output to 'plotting' - that is basically it but para 4.1 of the Garmin manual covers it in more detail

Jake J

 

[Jplaster]

I ended up using the I/0 channel 1 for the output from the 150 XL as no channel 2 was listed on my GPS setup menu.It's working great,thanks for the help guys!