Let me first start by saying - yes, I will open a ticket with Dynon. It's the weekend so I thought maybe someone here had some experience with this issue while I wait for Dynon to get back to the office.
I took a 50 minute flight to High River today to meet up with an instrument pilot that I was connecting with to see about finishing my hours requirement. That's not all that relevant to the issue. When we went to go for a flight, I turned the master on and found that the HDX display did not start up (VP-X with the HDX as the startup EFIS). It didn't start up by holding the power button (button 1) either. I checked to make sure all of the connecters were securem which they were.We pulled the plane into the hangar and let it cool down while we went for a very enjoyable flight in his plane (RV-7A). Very strange flying from the right seat.
When we returned I checked again and still found the HDX would not power on. We pulled the harness and confirmed voltage on both power pins and ground on both ground pins at the harness. I then removed connections and usb devices one at a time until the D37 was the only one left, checking the power up each time. No joy.
I found something online that said to check the status lights on the ethernet ports. Nothing lights up.
Finally we tried powering up on the backup battery with the master off. That worked. Twice. Second time I left it on and flew my plane home. The entire flight it was annunciating that I was on backup battery (with the master on) and for the last 20 minutes it was telling me that my back battery was low - so not charging. There are no other issues with any electrical device.
I've never had any issues like this with the panel. This seems to be to be a problem with the power circuit on the HDX. Anyone run into this and can share their experience in getting it fixed? This pretty much ends my hopes of getting my instrument rating done before my trip to the other coast on Aug 15. It also casts doubt on that trip, so any ideas is appreciated.
I did capture diagnostic logs and will send to Dynon.
I took a 50 minute flight to High River today to meet up with an instrument pilot that I was connecting with to see about finishing my hours requirement. That's not all that relevant to the issue. When we went to go for a flight, I turned the master on and found that the HDX display did not start up (VP-X with the HDX as the startup EFIS). It didn't start up by holding the power button (button 1) either. I checked to make sure all of the connecters were securem which they were.We pulled the plane into the hangar and let it cool down while we went for a very enjoyable flight in his plane (RV-7A). Very strange flying from the right seat.
When we returned I checked again and still found the HDX would not power on. We pulled the harness and confirmed voltage on both power pins and ground on both ground pins at the harness. I then removed connections and usb devices one at a time until the D37 was the only one left, checking the power up each time. No joy.
I found something online that said to check the status lights on the ethernet ports. Nothing lights up.
Finally we tried powering up on the backup battery with the master off. That worked. Twice. Second time I left it on and flew my plane home. The entire flight it was annunciating that I was on backup battery (with the master on) and for the last 20 minutes it was telling me that my back battery was low - so not charging. There are no other issues with any electrical device.
I've never had any issues like this with the panel. This seems to be to be a problem with the power circuit on the HDX. Anyone run into this and can share their experience in getting it fixed? This pretty much ends my hopes of getting my instrument rating done before my trip to the other coast on Aug 15. It also casts doubt on that trip, so any ideas is appreciated.
I did capture diagnostic logs and will send to Dynon.