Installed the 796 in my panel in place of panel mounted 496, used the exiting 496 Gizmo horizontal mount with a new plate for the 796 connector (picked the 796 in part as it has landscape mode like the 496)
https://picasaweb.google.com/dbfiggins/UKFigsRV7Blog#5783281648394018914
Flew today and the location works very well, some glare from the reflective screen which I will try to improve with a cut down ipad anti glare screen protector, but very readable even with the sun behind and on the screen. Viewing angle could be improved a bit by about 10 degrees to make it 90 degrees to my eyepoint which would make it a little better.
Touch screen works very well, very intuitive and well thought out.
Only issue I had is with the TT ADI II A/P, the RS232 link seems to work fine and drives the SL30 standby frequency but for some reason the A/P GPS guidance seemed to hunt a bit and kept dropping out (alt hold and track hold were fine). When the A/P mode dropped out the track would show a zero and then a couple of seconds later the actual track would appear.
I am using serial port 1 on the 796 with the data mode set to NEMA and VHF Out and FAST transfer.
Any input about the likely cause would be appreciated, A/P was solid with the 496 and I have hooked the 796 up the same way.
Overall though I am very impressed, waiting for the bare wire cable to hook up the GDL39 to get traffic which should make the system even better.
https://picasaweb.google.com/dbfiggins/UKFigsRV7Blog#5783281648394018914
Flew today and the location works very well, some glare from the reflective screen which I will try to improve with a cut down ipad anti glare screen protector, but very readable even with the sun behind and on the screen. Viewing angle could be improved a bit by about 10 degrees to make it 90 degrees to my eyepoint which would make it a little better.
Touch screen works very well, very intuitive and well thought out.
Only issue I had is with the TT ADI II A/P, the RS232 link seems to work fine and drives the SL30 standby frequency but for some reason the A/P GPS guidance seemed to hunt a bit and kept dropping out (alt hold and track hold were fine). When the A/P mode dropped out the track would show a zero and then a couple of seconds later the actual track would appear.
I am using serial port 1 on the 796 with the data mode set to NEMA and VHF Out and FAST transfer.
Any input about the likely cause would be appreciated, A/P was solid with the 496 and I have hooked the 796 up the same way.
Overall though I am very impressed, waiting for the bare wire cable to hook up the GDL39 to get traffic which should make the system even better.
probably would have given me a clue.
