Dynon D10A & Autopilot

[Tim 8-A]

Save room in your panel, you will want to add it later. Its a nice addition to the auto pilot. (just my 2 cents).

[Tram]

I'm looking into adding an autopilot to our 6.. We've been looking at adding a Dynon EFIS to the bird. After adding the EFIS, is adding an autopilot to one of these units as simple as picking up some servos?

[rich]

(quote) "After adding the EFIS, is adding an autopilot to one of these units as simple as picking up some servos?"

Yes. Just mount,connect wires,and program.
You may want a disconnect switch/breaker on the stick or pannel.

[Glas467]

Dynon servos on their way, should arrive by Monday, planning to use just the D10A as the autopilot control. Also planning a separate autopilot on/off switch to depower the servos and have a disconnect/reconnect function button on the stick. Will post results when done.

Reggie

[Snowflake]

Hmm... Out of curiosity, could you post up the servos you've ordered, ie. part numbers? I'm curious what it would cost to do this to mine now... :P

[RV9A Bill]

Rob,dynon sv32 servo, $750. Each. Spruce sells them with an install kit
For $795. Install kit works well.RV9A Bill

[curtis]

ACS is cheaper. I talk to Dynon to see if the price was lower due to being older verisions, but Robert (Dynon) told me ACS has a good turnover rate and that they just elect to sell at a lower profit margin. I got my D-100 and both servos (with mounting kits) from ACS. NOTE: I did change from my original post and elected to go with the D-100. It involved redoing the L/H side of the panel, but very much worth the effort. I moved the switches down to a small channel and then made a new panel out of .063" material. I would not of had to move my switches down except for there would of been no room for the old steam gauges. The steam gauges have come in handy already when I had to remove my display for repairs.

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The wires hanging down below the panel are for the data update connector which I had not mounted yet.

[Glas467]

Dynon roll servo installed and ops tested on a 1500 mile R/T flight ... worked great right out of the box. But I'm going to do some tweaking, it was slow to correct heading changes using the heading bug mode (two s turns before it would settle on the heading), looks like I need to up the sensitivity a bit, I also changed the turn rate from the standard 1.5 degrees per second to 3 degrees per second. The default 1.5 dps seemed too slow for heading changes. But overall, it worked fine and with some tweaking, I think it will work perfect. I did not get the pitch servo installed yet, that will be the next project.

Reggie

[dynonsupport]

Originally Posted by Glas467

Dynon roll servo installed and ops tested on a 1500 mile R/T flight ... worked great right out of the box. But I'm going to do some tweaking, it was slow to correct heading changes using the heading bug mode (two s turns before it would settle on the heading), looks like I need to up the sensitivity a bit, I also changed the turn rate from the standard 1.5 degrees per second to 3 degrees per second. The default 1.5 dps seemed too slow for heading changes. But overall, it worked fine and with some tweaking, I think it will work perfect. I did not get the pitch servo installed yet, that will be the next project.

Reggie

You might try using bank angle mode as well, which many people find does a better job flying their airplane. It's also a bit more "positive" in making corrections. Assuming this is a D100 series (non-SkyView) setup, turn the turn rate down to zero, and then set the bank angle limit to the max you ever want to see (we suggest 20-25 degrees as a starting point).