Re: EFWD Build
Thank you so much Carl. That was a terrific piece of information. So I am now home from trouble shooting my Gremlin. I can get wordy so be warned. I went to the plane and replicated the exact thing that Carl provided in the link. Perfect, or so I thought. I'll come back to that. I put the engine cowl back on after checking all my connections. Found only one problem. Remember the spring steel clips I have mentioned, the ones that hold the connector tight with the Manifold? One of them had been installed where only one half of the connector was being secured tightly. Difficult to explain but I fixed that. I ran it up without any trouble. I then turned off the master power switch to see if the panel fails the same way. It did. I then Departed the airport to a 2000ft altitude as provided by the tower for an orbit over the pattern. I lost the panel at 2000ft on downwind. All came online again as it has been doing. Landed witout any of the PFD functions operational. I must say, people are correct when they say a Kifox is easy to handle even without instruments. I also note that the LANE A light never came on. So on the transient parking ramp I removed all the connections from my VPX and reconnected them. I wiggled and shoved the connection at the back of the master power switch. There was a little play noted but it was securely fastened. I asked for the active runway and orbited for 20 min without any problem.
Back to the G3X link. What is described is perfect for those failed sensors and the like. But, what about those items that have plagued me? Intermittent errors. If you have a part like my coil that works intermittently you will not see the problem when you power down the system (G3X touch) and reboot while holding down the menu button. That is how you enter the Configuration page. So, I will skip to the Garmin phone call. I think Carl talked about this. They state that if I configure the system to down load all data to an SD card on the face of the G3X you can retrieve all of it from your laptop. I did not do that today because I did not have a clean SD card they recommended. However, I have the SD card that was in the MFD from when I updated all the Garmin software. I always leave one in the plane and one in my wallet so I just swap them as I get updates. I will need to see if the data is clear on that card. I believe I still will have one issue at the 100hr sign off though. I will need to be able to erase the codes unless you just ignore the guidance offered by Rotax, which is to erase I believe. What could the harm be if I never erase? IDK.
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