PowerFLARM choking on too many targets?

On Monday, July 20, 2015 at 10:52:41 PM UTC-4, Matt Herron Jr. wrote:
When there were more than about 5 targets being tracked by the PowerFLARM,
the FlarmView display started to reboot repeatedly and rapidly every few
seconds as if it were being power cycled. It behaved normally during the
task when there were just a few targets at most to display.
On landing there were again many targets in close proximity
and the FlarmVIew display started to reboot again.

Um, so why didn't you title your post:
"FlarmView choking on too many targets?"

Have you discussed this with LX and/or your LX dealer?
Certainly not the first time this has been reported!

On Tuesday, July 21, 2015 at 7:48:17 PM UTC+8, Dave Nadler wrote:
On Monday, July 20, 2015 at 10:52:41 PM UTC-4, Matt Herron Jr. wrote:
When there were more than about 5 targets being tracked by the PowerFLARM,
the FlarmView display started to reboot repeatedly and rapidly every few
seconds as if it were being power cycled. It behaved normally during the
task when there were just a few targets at most to display.
On landing there were again many targets in close proximity
and the FlarmVIew display started to reboot again.

Um, so why didn't you title your post:
"FlarmView choking on too many targets?"

Have you discussed this with LX and/or your LX dealer?
Certainly not the first time this has been reported!

Dave
When it initially happens there is no way to tell if it is being caused by the PowerFlarm or an issue with the Flarmview. All you see is the Flarmview cycling like it is losing power which comes from the PowerFlarm.
I was at Nephi and yes we did send info about issue to LX and spoke with dealers.
I reverted back to the previous Firmware on my Year old Flarmview and it worked fine. We tried that on a newer Flarmview and it would not work.
So as Matt indicated initially it is hard to tell if it is a Flarmview issue or a PowerFlarm one.
And up to this point I have not seen this reported anywhere and discussed in detail till now.
Hopefully there will be a fix soon

Randy

Um, so why didn't you title your post:
"FlarmView choking on too many targets?"

I fly with 10-14 PowerFLARM-equipped gliders. Our club standardized on Butterfly displays early on, one or two private owners have FLARMview. We haven't seen this behaviour.

When I had a similar problem with my Butterfly about a year ago, it manifested only with specific unit settings (imperial units - kts, nm, ft), oriented vertically. You might try changing from whatever units you use to the other (metric), and change orientation, to help troubleshoot the problem. The more the data, the easier the fix. I also took a cellphone video of the problem, posted it to youtube, and sent the link in. It took Butterfly folks about a day to fix and produce a beta version for me.

The Butterfly is not as bright as flarmview, but the support is very good, and they're (the equipment, the factory support folks, and the Canadian dealer) easy to work with.

I'm curious how many of the gliders had transponders as well as PowerFLARMs - it seems to me that might double the I/O the processor has to deal with. Only one local glider has a transponder here...