Were you there? No thunderstorms!We thought Sun 'n Fun had fewer pilots, or at least fewer homebuilts flew in. But we had a good and busy show anyway. And the weather was excellent. We are looking forward to seeing you at one of the airshows this summer; check out the list to the right to see where we will be. -Robert Robert Hamilton - Dynon Avionics
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New Dealer Map Pages
Ever wonder where to get installation help, or want to see a Dynon unit locally, or want to pick something up the same day? We have new dealer pages on our website with maps that answer all of these questions. This new format uses four of our most common requests which will link you to the map which answers your question. The listings include addresses, phone numbers and websites.
The categories are organized as follows:
DEALERS WITH INVENTORY
DEALERS WITH DYNON DEMOS
AVIONICS SHOPS WHICH INSTALL DYNON
SHOPS WHICH BUILD COMPLETE PANELS
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Updated Dynon Brochures & Images
Your Dynon marketing team works hard to keep literature current; we just updated everything and uploaded it to our website. The updated flyers include the SkyView System Overview, SkyView Panel Sizing Planner, SkyView Products and Pricing Worksheet , SkyView Autopilot, as well as the D6, D10, D60, D100 and D180 comparison and pricing guides.
The updated brochures are available here.
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SkyView Hands-Ons Training
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Factory SkyView Classes and
Oshkosh SkyView Classes
Have you heard about our SkyView hands-on classes? We will be holding classes at Oshkosh and at the factory during the Arlington Fly-In.
Oshkosh classes will be held in the Hilton Garden Inn hotel adjacent to the airport, July 23rd - 28th. The air-conditioned hotel conference room offers comfortable seating and a classroom-like environment with a full audio/visual presentation. Classes are structured with limited seating to ensure no more than 2 students at each SkyView display. We will hold one class per day, with 3.5 hours for basic and VFR, and a 1 hour bonus for IFR.
During the Arlington Fly-In July 11th - 14th, classes will be held at our facilities near Seattle, WA, about 30 miles south of Arlington. Included with the classes will be tours of our manufacturing operations.
To cover the cost of conference room space at Oshkosh events, the classes are being offered at $30 per person. The factory classes will be free.
Advance ticket purchase is required through "Brown Paper Tickets", an on-line event ticketing service. Even the free classes require signing up via Brown-Paper.
Tickets are available at:
Please send any questions to info@dynonavionics.com.
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| Tech Support Tips - RS-232 Serial Connections |
The RS-232 serial data communications standard is often used to communicate between SkyView and other avionics products such as GPS units and radios, like the SL-30. A SkyView display provides five RS-232 transmit (TX) and five RS-232 receive (RX) lines. One of RS-232's limitations is that while an RS-232 TX device can feed multiple RS-232 RX devices, the reverse is not true - multiple TX devices cannot feed into one RX device.
The SkyView System Installation Guide seemingly contradicts this limitation. It specifies that when there are multiple SkyView displays, ALL serial devices (such as SV-XPNDR-261/262, SV-GPS-250, third party transponders, GPS', etc.) should be connected to ALL SkyView displays! A TX from the external device connected to multiple SkyView display's RX is obvious... but why does it work to connect multiple SkyView display's TX to a serial device's single RX?
Answer: some clever engineering in the SkyView displays! Behind the scenes, only one of the SkyView displays transmits to serial devices at once! So in reality, though you have multiple SkyView TX lines connected to a single RX on your other device(s) , the "no more than one TX per RX device" is preserved by SkyView.
The reason SkyView is designed this way is to afford system redundancy in the event of a SkyView display failure. If the SkyView display that is transmitting to your other serial devices were to fail, serial communications are automatically taken over by another SkyView display. All of this happens seamlessly and transparently. In normal daily use, when all displays are working correctly, you don't know which SkyView display's TX lines are active at any time, nor do you need to. SkyView manages that automatically.
Software support was added to enable this feature with the release of v2.6 in November, 2010. Prior to v2.6, the SkyView System Installation Guide advised that in a system with multiple SkyView displays, only ONE of SkyView display TX should be connected to the devices. Beginning with v2.6, we advised to now connect ALL of the SkyView display's TX wires so your serial devices can receive communications from both displays, depending on which of them is actively transmitting at any given moment.
Additionally, it is important to ensure that all of the settings under SETUP MENU > LOCAL DISPLAY SETUP > SERIAL PORT SETUP are configured the same way on each display. Unlike many of the other settings in SkyView, none of the settings in the LOCAL DISPLAY SETUP menu are automatically synchronized across multiple displays.
Thanks!
Mike and Steve
Dynon Tech Support
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Founded in 2000 and located near Seattle, USA, Dynon Avionics is the leading manufacturer of avionics for Experimental and Light Sport Aircraft. Dynon is committed to developing innovative and high-quality avionics, using the newest technology, at affordable prices for all pilots.
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Dynon Newsletter
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April 2012
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Air Shows
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Visit us at the following shows in 2012:
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