PowerFLARM firmware v3.00 released (feature complete)

Andrzej Kobus wrote, On 5/16/2013 4:59 PM:
On May 16, 1:58 pm, Dave Nadler wrote:
On Thursday, May 16, 2013 12:11:24 PM UTC-4, wrote:
A friend has proposed the idea of using a fiber-optic cable to bring the
Core's LED out to the panel. I don't know whether or not that will work,
but it is an interesting idea. He's looking into it.

Paul, I've done this. You need to get good quality fiber optic
multi-strand and it works pretty well. There is some loss but under
a shadowed part of the panel, you can see it just fine. The trick is
to make a coupling for the fiber at the LED end.

Darren

Guys, you really don't need the LEDs.
Any display device *should* echo the relevant status messages.

The designers of PowerFlarm must have intended to put this LED on a
Christmas tree but they confused it with PowerFlarm brick and now we
have LED there that is not needed. Great!

My guess: one reason it's there is to give the pilot indication when
he's using a flight computer for the display, as they may not bother to
show update messages.

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