Friday, October 28, 2022

Wiring Debug

We completed some final wiring to a few of the Garmin components and now have most of the wiring complete.  We are going through some checks, debug, and system configuration to make sure everything works before doing any final bundling of the wires.  

We ran into a few issues, but no major roadblocks thus far.  Initially, the Garmin G3x system did not see the transponder, but we found that the wiring of two serial ports simply needed to be swapped which fixed the issue.  We also ran into a problem where our engine monitor was not seeing both lanes of traffic from our engine computer (It only reported data from lane B, and nothing from Lane A).  We found that two of  the CANBus lines in one of the Rotax HIC connector needed to be swapped.  This was a little trickier to find, but once we swapped the lines, our engine monitor started seeing data from both lanes of our computer.  Also, one of the Lane LED warning lights was not working, but this was a minor wiring fix.  We have some additional checks to go through, but we are feeling pretty good now that all the major flight instruments are powering up and seem to be functioning.    Hours: 22

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