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Jim Ellis
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 Posted: Tue Jul 11, 2006 3:50 am Post subject: Blue Mountain EFIS to TruTrak Connection |
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I have been trying to find out if anyone has ever been able to make a working gps serial connection between a Blue Mountain EFIS and a TruTrak autopilot. I have made many phone calls and searched all the web sites.
According the BMA the G3 Lite will provide a gps output through one of its two serial ports in either GPSS (UPS GPS) or standard NMEA-0183 format.
OK.
According to TruTrak their autopilots will accept and read GPSS or NMEA-0183 format (with the correct baud setting programed into the autopilot).
OK.
Now here's the strange part. None of the tech reps at either company can confirm that their units will work with the other. Nor do they know if anyone anywhere has ever made a working connection between the two systems. I find this very odd that the manufacturers don't know the basic compatibility of the equipment they sell.
Here is my question for the List. Do you know or have you heard of anyone who has ever made a working gps serial connection between any Blue Mountain EFIS and any TruTrak autopilot? If so, I would love to hear from you.
Jim Ellis
RV9-A, Flying (Yippee!)
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glastar(at)gmx.net
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| Posted: Tue Jul 11, 2006 5:08 am Post subject: Blue Mountain EFIS to TruTrak Connection |
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Jim,
log with hyperterm (or even another better terminal emulation) a
sequence of the BMA (as it is the active component) and send it to
trutrak (passive component). I had to do that 4 years ago, when my
Garmin 196 did not work with my digitrack (old SW version). They were
very helpful and sent me a new digitrack for free.
NMEA-0183 is a set of standard commands, but how the BMA does output
it's path direction is not standardized.
br Werner
Jim Ellis wrote:
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I have been trying to find out if anyone has ever been able to make a working gps serial connection between a Blue Mountain EFIS and a TruTrak autopilot. I have made many phone calls and searched all the web sites.
According the BMA the G3 Lite will provide a gps output through one of its two serial ports in either GPSS (UPS GPS) or standard NMEA-0183 format.
OK.
According to TruTrak their autopilots will accept and read GPSS or NMEA-0183 format (with the correct baud setting programed into the autopilot).
OK.
Now here's the strange part. None of the tech reps at either company can confirm that their units will work with the other. Nor do they know if anyone anywhere has ever made a working connection between the two systems. I find this very odd that the manufacturers don't know the basic compatibility of the equipment they sell.
Here is my question for the List. Do you know or have you heard of anyone who has ever made a working gps serial connection between any Blue Mountain EFIS and any TruTrak autopilot? If so, I would love to hear from you.
Jim Ellis
RV9-A, Flying (Yippee!)
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rvbuilder(at)sausen.net
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| Posted: Tue Jul 11, 2006 6:01 am Post subject: Blue Mountain EFIS to TruTrak Connection |
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<SNIP>
Now here's the strange part. None of the tech reps at either company can
confirm that their units will work with the other. Nor do they know if
anyone anywhere has ever made a working connection between the two
systems. I find this very odd that the manufacturers don't know the
basic compatibility of the equipment they sell.
<SNIP>
Not strange at all. It is very common for vendors to support
standards and yet have not tested it to all of the different equipment
out there. That is why they build to a standard, it predisposes it to
work. Of course that doesn't mean that neither of them may have made
improvements to the standard and rendering it unusable with other
equipment built to the standard. Reminds me of Microsoft. I would
concentrate troubleshooting on the part that is sending the data.
Michael Sausen
RV-10 #352 Working on Fuselage
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