jdubner
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Dynon is closed for the holiday weekend so I thought I'd throw this out for help from the illuminati.
This is what my SkyView presented two hours into a 3-hour flight a few days ago:
Then it happened again four times in a half hour flight a couple of days later. Recycling power brought things back to normal -- for a short while.
After landing I phoned Dynon technical support with what I perceived to be a GPS (2020) failure. Steve in tech support support suggested checking the serial port (#5) activity and GPS fix quality, number of satellites, etc.
Not only was serial port #5 "dead" but the other four serial ports were dead too. (In retrospect, the "ADS-B IN OFFLINE" and "XPNDR FAIL" should have been a clue.)
So it appears all five serial ports fail simultaneously (on an intermittent basis) and this is not a relatively-simple GPS failure.
Normally I'd phone Dynon on Monday for an RMA but I'm 900 NM from home and I'd really like my transponder to work (so I can cruise above 10,000 MSL) not to mention the moving map and ADS-B weather.
Wish there was a SV screen available to borrow in the Phoenix area but that isn't going to happen :-(
Has anyone else seen this? Any ideas on how to proceed? Perhaps open the unit and look for an unseated internal connector or other indications of a gross fault? Anyone know how to read a proprietary Dynon Diagnostic File?
This is what my SkyView presented two hours into a 3-hour flight a few days ago:
Then it happened again four times in a half hour flight a couple of days later. Recycling power brought things back to normal -- for a short while.
After landing I phoned Dynon technical support with what I perceived to be a GPS (2020) failure. Steve in tech support support suggested checking the serial port (#5) activity and GPS fix quality, number of satellites, etc.
Not only was serial port #5 "dead" but the other four serial ports were dead too. (In retrospect, the "ADS-B IN OFFLINE" and "XPNDR FAIL" should have been a clue.)
So it appears all five serial ports fail simultaneously (on an intermittent basis) and this is not a relatively-simple GPS failure.
Normally I'd phone Dynon on Monday for an RMA but I'm 900 NM from home and I'd really like my transponder to work (so I can cruise above 10,000 MSL) not to mention the moving map and ADS-B weather.
Wish there was a SV screen available to borrow in the Phoenix area but that isn't going to happen :-(
Has anyone else seen this? Any ideas on how to proceed? Perhaps open the unit and look for an unseated internal connector or other indications of a gross fault? Anyone know how to read a proprietary Dynon Diagnostic File?