red x over flap position widget

[cjohngraham]

I have the SV HDX EFIS and a VP-X Sport unit in my RV-7A. I've configured SV to take inputs from VP for the elevator trim and flap position, and the Ray Allen position sensor inputs are accordingly wired to VP. All appears to be working correctly, except there is a red x over the flap position widget.

According to VP, this problem would be due either to miswiring of serial data ports between SV and VP or a configuration issue in SV. Serial ports have been double-checked and seem to be OK since everything else VP-related displays as expected on the EFIS. In EMS sensor mapping I set the position input lines for flap and elevator to "not used" per Dynon tech support. "D37 P22" still is displayed under the flaps widget though. (Nothing under the trim widget)

The last Dynon tech I talked to wasn't familiar with VP at all and did not seem to understand their own system that well. He suggested removing and replacing the widget, and I don't know of a way to do that.

Has anyone run into something like this? VP and Dynon only know their own systems and are speculating on what happens in the interface.

 

[dynonsupport]

Did you follow these steps from the manual?

Though the VP-X’s trim and flaps calibrations are not used by SkyView Classic,
leaving any of the VP-X trim or flaps end points or neutral positions to “0” in the
VP-X Configuration program will cause SkyView Classic’s trim or flaps indications
to not display properly. To avoid this, set all of the trim and flaps end points and
neutral points to “1” in the VP-X Configurator.

The VP-X settings in the SETUP MENU > VP-X SETUP menu mainly concern how information
from the VP-X is displayed in SkyView Classic:

AILERON TRIM POSITION / ELEVATOR TRIM POSITION / FLAP POSITION: Set to SKYVIEW
EMS if your trim and/or flaps position signal input is routed to your SV-EMS-220/221
module, or to VP-X if it is connected to your VP-X system instead. If set to VP-X, the
engine page trim and/or flaps widgets will be sourced from the VP-X position
information. Note that even when using the VP-X as your trim and/or flaps position
source, you do still need to perform the SkyView-based calibration routine for the trim
information to display properly in SkyView Classic. These calibrations can be found
under SETUP MENU > HARDWARE CALIBRATION > EMS CALIBRATION. You do not need
to perform that VP-X Configurator-based calibration. However, set all of the points in
the VP-X Configurator to “1”.

Page 7-85 of the install manual covers the screen layout editor, where the "widgets" are to add/remove them. If the above doesn't work, that is worth trying in case yours somehow got mis-configured.