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11-27-2018, 10:21 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2011
Location: Kennesaw, Ga
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IFR GPS and AP on top
As others said, if you plan to fly IFR you may want to consider putting the Autopilot controller or the IFR GPS on top similar to your #2 option. I have my audio panel on the bottom in my -7 and I really like where it is. I use it all the time to monitor, switch back and forth, etc and like that it's closer. With that said, if you are in IFR and it's bumpy you want to use the glare shield to stabilize your hands as you work with the autopilot and GPS.
I have a Garmin panel but this is what I went with.

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11-27-2018, 05:04 PM
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Thank you all for the input. This is what I have come up with from all the suggestions. This version has the PSE above the Dynon for now then can move up to the top above the NAV/COM if/when that upgrade occurs. Dynon com moved to far right and will become com 2 later.

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11-27-2018, 05:19 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2011
Location: Livermore, CA
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Quote:
Originally Posted by DakotaHawk
Your plan looks a lot like my panel.
It almost never gets touched, except when swapping Comm1/Comm2 or listening to Nav for ID.
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NOT what you asked, but: Have you considered a good intercom, with lots of unswitched inputs, instead of a full blown audio panel? Plus a single DPDT switch to move from com1 to com2? "switch" everything else (VOR audio, unused com) with the volume controls. It works just fine. Of course, you lose marker beacons (what's that?!) but little else. I rarely touch my intercom, so I'm happy locating it anywhere within reach.
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11-28-2018, 04:00 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Posts: 182
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PDA360EX
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Originally Posted by BobTurner
NOT what you asked, but: Have you considered a good intercom, with lots of unswitched inputs, instead of a full blown audio panel? Plus a single DPDT switch to move from com1 to com2? "switch" everything else (VOR audio, unused com) with the volume controls. It works just fine. Of course, you lose marker beacons (what's that?!) but little else. I rarely touch my intercom, so I'm happy locating it anywhere within reach.
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I think I'll chime in. To wire an intercom so more than one radio can be connected to it, requires switches (mic hi, mic low, ptt, audio hi, audio low) that will take just as much wiring as wiring an audio panel.
There is lot to gain with an audio panel vs an intercom (this coming from a company that has been designing and building intercoms since 1985). True dimensional sound (IntelliAudio) for the aircraft radios, the flexibility of multiple entertainment sources, distribution of the entertainment, Bluetooth connectivity, 10 watt USB charger, and an extremely easy to use interface, makes the system very capable while very easy to use.
To hear audio alerts, a summing amplifier would have to be incorporated. Another thing to power, mount, and maintain. And if you ever want to hear two radios at the same time, with mechanical switches, at best, you will have two output amplifiers driving into each other, and that just is bad practice.
At the price of the PDA360EX, the benefits when compared to an intercom with external switching, are abundant. The continuous loop digital recorder is also really nice to have when you missed that last call to you.
Bob, I know you are very technical and I totally respect what you have done for the aviation community. I also very much appreciate all of the kind words you have given PS Engineering over the years. But being in the intercom/audio panel business I think taking short cuts in a system that connects to communication/navigation systems probably will present the home-builder with a less than optimal final solution.
Thank you Carlos for considering our audio panel, I would be very proud to be your audio controller provider.
Sincerely,
Mark Scheuer
PS Engineering, Inc.
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11-29-2018, 03:30 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2011
Location: Livermore, CA
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Hi Mark,
Don’t worry, I still think PS makes the best audio equipment out there. (There have been times when the competition was so bad, I don’t understand why anyone would buy their stuff. But that’s a different tale.)
I think I need to clarify my idea of an ‘good intercom’ for this use. It really differs from an audio panel only in the use of volume controls instead of switches (I do have one switch, for com 1/com2 mike and PTT selection.) Yes there are lots of wires, yes there are mixers for all the inputs and to keep two com outputs from bucking each other. Yes, there’s a fail-safe relay to route com 1 audio direct to my headset. I certainly do not have the excellent, digital frequency filtering that I think you use; I have to live with analog. There are a couple of reasons I like this approach. (1) I do a fair number of checkouts for the local flying club, and it’s not unusual to see someone select nav2 when they wanted nav1. The buttons are small and right next to each other. But I rarely see someone grab the wrong nav volume control. I have actually seen some pilots, who learned with 1970’s Cessna/ARC system, get into an airplane, punch every audio panel button to ‘on’, then turn down all the volume controls. It worked for them. (2) Passengers, especially my wife, seem to like this approach. I suppose, in the past, I discouraged her from touching the panel. But now she has 3 volume controls (radio, intercom, music) right in front of her, labeled “copilot-passenger”, which she feels free to adjust as she wants. In my ideal world, every passenger would have a small box like a TV remote, coupled via IR to the audio box, and they’d adjust all the volumes/choices from their seats. Way beyond my capability, but easy for PS?
Last edited by BobTurner : 11-29-2018 at 03:38 PM.
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11-30-2018, 07:08 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Medford, NJ USA
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Here is a similar layout in a 10. I like that the radio stack is not centered. It is shifted to the pilot side along with the second screen.

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