Electronic Circuit Breakers on your EFIS

[MCA]

Vertical Power, along with its EFIS partners, is formally announcing the VP-X at Sun n Fun next month but we wanted to give you an early preview.

The VP-X uses proven electronic circuit breakers to simplify wiring and provide advanced electrical system capabilities. Monitor the status of individual devices and the entire electrical system right from your EFIS. Avionics, lights, trim, and flaps can all be controlled using standard switches or the EFIS.

The VP-X works with Advanced Flight Systems, Grand Rapids Technologies HX, and MGL Voyager/Odyssey Gen 2 EFIS products.

Click to learn more. http://www.verticalpower.com/VPX.html

[nucleus]

Looks good, no need to redo the panel to upgrade to Vertical Power!

Hans

[erich weaver]

Very cool Mark. Like it.

One question: Could you explain how use of this product negates the need for an e-bus, as is advertised? My understanding of the e-bus, as outlined in Nuckoll's Aeroelectric connection for Z-13/8 , is that in the event of a primary alternator failure, one would be alterted by a low voltage warning, prompting you to flip a switch to enable an alternate feed path for the e-bus, and one additional switch to power up a small standby alternator. This would therefore allow one to easily continue onward with all the 'essential' avionics still operating, and no significant in-flight decision making is necessary about what devices are left on and what is turned off, as those decisions have already been made by choosing which devices are hooked up to the ebuss. How does the VP-X accomplish the same?

thanks

erich

[8CW]

Marc, Plans for adding Dynon to your list?

[MCA]

Please contact Robert Hamilton at Dynon's main# 425 402-0433.

Originally Posted by 8CW

Marc, Plans for adding Dynon to your list?

[MCA]

Erich, Bob's ebus architecture provides power if the battery contactor fails (thereby causing power loss on the main bus). The VP-X Installation Manual (here) shows how to wire backup circuits in case of the same failure.

In case the primary alternator fails, you can simply switch to your backup alternator and turn off extra loads that are not needed.

And rather than hardwire devices to an ebus, you can configure in the setup menus what each switch controls.

Originally Posted by erich weaver

Very cool Mark. Like it.

One question: Could you explain how use of this product negates the need for an e-bus, as is advertised? My understanding of the e-bus, as outlined in Nuckoll's Aeroelectric connection for Z-13/8 , is that in the event of a primary alternator failure, one would be alterted by a low voltage warning, prompting you to flip a switch to enable an alternate feed path for the e-bus, and one additional switch to power up a small standby alternator. This would therefore allow one to easily continue onward with all the 'essential' avionics still operating, and no significant in-flight decision making is necessary about what devices are left on and what is turned off, as those decisions have already been made by choosing which devices are hooked up to the ebuss. How does the VP-X accomplish the same?

thanks

erich

[erich weaver]

Thanks for the reply Marc.

Your product appears to have a lot going for it, so I congratulate you on that. However, as a regular follower of Nuckoll's online forum however, I can say with some certainty that the primary purpose of the ebus is not to guard against battery contactor failure - that is simply a nice side benefit. As I indicated in my previous post, with an ebus, no decisions are necessary about what to keep on and what to turn off in what could be a stressful situation - its been thought out well in advance without any time pressures.

best regards
erich

[MCA]

Erich - The same can be accomplished with the VP-X for a lot less complexity. So you win either way you look at it.

[Jeff A]

Originally Posted by MCA

Please contact Robert at Dynon.

Marc, do you have his direct contact info?

[tdhanson]

Are there plans to add the functionality of the VP200 into this system using an EFIX as the display? I'm looking for such things as the checklists and especially the mode sensing displays such as after startup and such.