WX Works setup

I can't remember if I posted this before. A guy in my club made a nice
little package for his WX Works setup. You can see some pictures at
http://xcski.com/gallery/wxworks

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Thanks for posting. Still looks like a lot of wires!
I'm curious, what runs off the inverter and needs AC? I would have thought
that everything in the box would run off of 12 volts (though probably not off of 24
volts depending upon what plane they're in).
Max T, MCFI

Paul Tomblin wrote in message ...
I can't remember if I posted this before. A guy in my club made a nice
little package for his WX Works setup. You can see some pictures at
http://xcski.com/gallery/wxworks

--
Paul Tomblin http://xcski.com/blogs/pt/
I think it's a beautiful day to go to the zoo and feed the ducks.
To the lions.
-- Brian Kantor

In a previous article, "Max T, CFI" said:
Paul Tomblin wrote in message
http://xcski.com/gallery/wxworks

Thanks for posting. Still looks like a lot of wires!

There's only one "wire" coming out of the box, which branches off to the
USB port on the laptop, to the ships power (cigar lighter) and the single
antenna mount.


I'm curious, what runs off the inverter and needs AC? I would have
thought that everything in the box would run off of 12 volts (though
probably not off of 24 volts depending upon what plane they're in).

If I'm reading the pictures correctly, I think that rather than attempting
to engineer a DC supply for the WX Works reciever that works directly off
the ships power, he's run the ships power into the inverter and plugged
the WXWorx "wall wart" power supply into that.

Somebody willing to cut wires and make their own power supplies could
probably make it much smaller, but I think one of Dave's goals was that he
could take the expensive stuff like the WxWorx receiver out of the box and
have it be as good as new.

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tapes hurtling down the highway.
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If I'm reading the pictures correctly, I think that rather than attempting
to engineer a DC supply for the WX Works reciever that works directly off
the ships power, he's run the ships power into the inverter and plugged
the WXWorx "wall wart" power supply into that.

Somebody willing to cut wires and make their own power supplies could
probably make it much smaller, but I think one of Dave's goals was that he
could take the expensive stuff like the WxWorx receiver out of the box and
have it be as good as new.


I am pretty sure the WxWrox unit runs on DC power. At least the one in my
friend's plane is plugged into the cigarette lighter.

In a previous article, "JerryK" said:
If I'm reading the pictures correctly, I think that rather than attempting
to engineer a DC supply for the WX Works reciever that works directly off
the ships power, he's run the ships power into the inverter and plugged
the WXWorx "wall wart" power supply into that.
I am pretty sure the WxWrox unit runs on DC power. At least the one in my

Yes, that's why he has a 9 volt DC power supply plugged into the inverter.

As I said already.


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(Paul Tomblin) wrote in
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In a previous article, "JerryK" said:
If I'm reading the pictures correctly, I think that rather than
attempting to engineer a DC supply for the WX Works reciever that
works directly off the ships power, he's run the ships power into
the inverter and plugged the WXWorx "wall wart" power supply into
that.
I am pretty sure the WxWrox unit runs on DC power. At least the one
in my

Yes, that's why he has a 9 volt DC power supply plugged into the
inverter.

As I said already.



What the H@(( is it???? can someone point me to a primmer??? I googled for
pages & pages with no understanding.



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ET (avaition newbie....)


"A common mistake people make when trying to design something
completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete
fools."---- Douglas Adams

"ET" wrote in message
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(Paul Tomblin) wrote in
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In a previous article, "JerryK" said:
If I'm reading the pictures correctly, I think that rather than
attempting to engineer a DC supply for the WX Works reciever that
works directly off the ships power, he's run the ships power into
the inverter and plugged the WXWorx "wall wart" power supply into
that.
I am pretty sure the WxWrox unit runs on DC power. At least the one
in my

Yes, that's why he has a 9 volt DC power supply plugged into the
inverter.

As I said already.



What the H@(( is it???? can someone point me to a primmer??? I googled for
pages & pages with no understanding.

"primmer"??? Not "primer" either... the net police :-)

Main Entry: 2prim
Function: adjective
Inflected Form(s): prim·mer; prim·mest
Date: 1709
1 a : stiffly formal and proper : DECOROUS b : PRUDISH
2 : NEAT, TRIM prim hedges
- prim·ly adverb
- prim·ness noun



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"A common mistake people make when trying to design something
completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete
fools."---- Douglas Adams

In a previous article, ET said:
What the H@(( is it???? can someone point me to a primmer??? I googled for
pages & pages with no understanding.

What are you asking? What WXWorx is? It's a XM satellite radio system
that lets you get real time weather in the cockpit.

http://www.wxworx.com/


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Paul Tomblin http://xcski.com/blogs/pt/
"Cause geeks like us, baby we can hack the Sun" - Joe Thompson

Paul Tomblin wrote:

In a previous article, ET said:
What the H@(( is it???? can someone point me to a primmer??? I googled for
pages & pages with no understanding.

What are you asking? What WXWorx is? It's a XM satellite radio system
that lets you get real time weather in the cockpit.

http://www.wxworx.com/


No, he's asking what product gets weather using WXWorx and displays it on a
palmtop along with a moving map GPS and a backup AI. Anywhere's products
seem to do all this, but get weather with a satellite phone.

Oh, sorry...that's my question, not his.

grin.

- Andrew

In a previous article, Andrew Gideon said:
No, he's asking what product gets weather using WXWorx and displays it on a
palmtop along with a moving map GPS and a backup AI. Anywhere's products
seem to do all this, but get weather with a satellite phone.

Somebody at Oshkosh was demoing software for PocketPC that got weather
info from WXWorx. I wish I could remember who, but since I don't have a
PocketPC PDA I didn't pay that much attention.


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Paul Tomblin http://xcski.com/blogs/pt/
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