Panel Upgrade

[Hotscam]

I used the same oxide button head screws, but found they get rusty within one year due to a bit of moist in the hanger. Look awful.
Since a few months Dynon sells bags of button heads as applied for fastening the SV1000 displays.
Cheap and much better quality. My panels all use these screws now with a small nylon ring under the head to protect the 3M wrap.
Indeed in the long run some "puckering" will show but dies not look bad.

[Dave12]

Tony, check pms.

[ben barron]

Tony,

You may already have this but when you get ready to turn on the Skyview the Dynon Videos on the link below are very helpful to getting started using the panel.

https://www.youtube.com/user/DynonAvionics

[Tony_T]

Yep, turned it on today. Ran the Config to find servos and modules and it found 7 items. My servos were still at D-180 Version 5.5 firmware:



When I ran the Update, SkyView fixed the servo firmware and everything reported "Ready".



But I still did not have a Map, the result of no GPS source:



The GPS is not on the "network" but is a serial connection (who knows why). So I found the serial setup menu and Van's had programed the GPS 250 so I changed that to the GPS 2020 and got the Map. Airplane was in the hangar so no GPS fix but the map was up:



That red X on the LEGT was expected, it was on the blink when I took out the D-180.

Radio and headsets work. So far so good.

I have not configured the autopilot yet because I need to put the control hookups back in; will do that next week. I'm taking the holiday weekend off from airplane work.

I do have one nit -- the switch LEDs and eyeball light do not illuminate.

[Mich48041]

I do have one nit -- the switch LEDs and eyeball light do not illuminate.

Is the dimmer pot installed and adjusted?

[Tony_T]

Yes, the dimmer pot is installed, connected but has no effect.

I'll have to open up that D-sub backshell and make sure I put the pins in the correct holes.

[ben barron]

Tony,
As I recall there is a set up option to control the dimmer between the dash control and the Skyview panel , worth confirming you are on the right one?

Happy THanksgiving to all

[Tony_T]

Thanks Ben, with your info I looked it up in the Dynon installation guide and found that option described on page 15-29 of the ver. 14 guide. This is the first thing I will check when I get back to the hangar on Monday.

[np12]

Tony, recently, I connected the dimmer control, and it did not work, nor did the LEDs in the switches. Turns out that i got tripped up by the plans. The picture in the plans show the connector with pin numbers labeled differently from the actual connector. in the plans, the numbers increase from right to left, but, the connector, has them from left to right. All worked after correcting this.

[Tony_T]

Thanks Nick, that is very likely the problem. Will post how this works out.