Dear Dynon.......
I have a really strong request...... If I thought it would be more effective, I would call it a demand.... But you folks probably don't respond to demands any better than I do... So lets call it a reaalllllyyyyy stroooonnnnggggg request.....
Here is my story... The request is at the end.
I was flying IFR yesterday at 8000 feet fat dumb and happy. I had flown over 3 hours of actual in the preceeding two days and probably over 6 hours actual in the preceeding 7 days....
While cruising along at 8000 feet with the Ap on and the XM playing music and weather, I noticed the Dynon flicker.... I looked and I saw it was the 30 second power down warning. I hit the button and it stablilzed, but less than 30 seconds after the Dynon flickered, the G-430 died, and that sent the TT A/P chasing a magnetic heading....
I called up the buss voltage on the Dynon and it was below 11 volts.
I could not transimit on my #2 radio, so I shut off the master. and with A 396 and the dynon, I figured I would let the battery recover enough that i could transmit. It did and I cancelled my IFR and continued to my destination. No big deal....
But 3 hours earlier I was IMC at 14000 feet with the pitot heat on over the Appalacians. There was a ceiling underneath, but had it happened then I would have had some pretty tough choices......
Here is my request. It is not hard, First off, when the main buss voltage drops below 13.5 volts, I would like a warning of some sort. either a red banner warning across the bottom or the voltage page should pop up with the buss voltage yellow below 13.5 or red below 12.0
Secondly it appears that the Dynon switches to internal battery at 11 volts? it also seems to switch back to main buss voltage at 11. volts.
There needs to be a split between the cutout and cut in voltage of a couple tenths so the thing doesnt flicker back and forth as the system is dying.
Had this occurred in actual IMC where pitot heat was vital a few minutes of battery life to resolve the issue with ATC before the comm radio and the pitot heat failed could be some very precious minutes...
PLEASE!!!!!!! This really is a big deal...... that needs to be fixed and it would not be difficult.
Tailwinds,
Doug Rozendaal
BTW, the field wire broke. That was an easy fix too.
I have a really strong request...... If I thought it would be more effective, I would call it a demand.... But you folks probably don't respond to demands any better than I do... So lets call it a reaalllllyyyyy stroooonnnnggggg request.....
Here is my story... The request is at the end.
I was flying IFR yesterday at 8000 feet fat dumb and happy. I had flown over 3 hours of actual in the preceeding two days and probably over 6 hours actual in the preceeding 7 days....
While cruising along at 8000 feet with the Ap on and the XM playing music and weather, I noticed the Dynon flicker.... I looked and I saw it was the 30 second power down warning. I hit the button and it stablilzed, but less than 30 seconds after the Dynon flickered, the G-430 died, and that sent the TT A/P chasing a magnetic heading....
I called up the buss voltage on the Dynon and it was below 11 volts.
I could not transimit on my #2 radio, so I shut off the master. and with A 396 and the dynon, I figured I would let the battery recover enough that i could transmit. It did and I cancelled my IFR and continued to my destination. No big deal....
But 3 hours earlier I was IMC at 14000 feet with the pitot heat on over the Appalacians. There was a ceiling underneath, but had it happened then I would have had some pretty tough choices......
Here is my request. It is not hard, First off, when the main buss voltage drops below 13.5 volts, I would like a warning of some sort. either a red banner warning across the bottom or the voltage page should pop up with the buss voltage yellow below 13.5 or red below 12.0
Secondly it appears that the Dynon switches to internal battery at 11 volts? it also seems to switch back to main buss voltage at 11. volts.
There needs to be a split between the cutout and cut in voltage of a couple tenths so the thing doesnt flicker back and forth as the system is dying.
Had this occurred in actual IMC where pitot heat was vital a few minutes of battery life to resolve the issue with ATC before the comm radio and the pitot heat failed could be some very precious minutes...
PLEASE!!!!!!! This really is a big deal...... that needs to be fixed and it would not be difficult.
Tailwinds,
Doug Rozendaal
BTW, the field wire broke. That was an easy fix too.