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Old November 28th 16, 09:35 PM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
Dan Daly[_2_]
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Default FLARM - No GPS

On Monday, November 28, 2016 at 2:50:59 PM UTC-5, Dan Marotta wrote:
No batteries were installed during use with external power connected
since the manual stated that alkaline batteries could leak with external
power connected and I don't have any rechargeables which are in decent
condition.

My wife compared the log file generated when the unit was working to the
log file generated after the unit failed and she found what looks like
some unexplained differences. I'm going back to square one to generate
a new FLARMcfg.TXT file and will try again with fresh batteries
installed since I'm at home and don't have access to external power.

I'll report back what I find...

On 11/28/2016 10:04 AM, Martin Gregorie wrote:
On Mon, 28 Nov 2016 09:15:15 -0700, Dan Marotta wrote:

Thanks, Tim, but I don't think so. I was shutting down the unit with
the knob when those lines were written. When I have it externally
powered for an hour it still does not receive satellites. And thanks
for taking the time to review the log.

Did you have internal batteries installed during this externally powered
trial? If so, what type were they?



--
Dan, 5J


Hi Dan. You might also want to reset the thing from scratch. See
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/rec.aviation.soaring/luke$20reset%7Csort:relevance/rec.aviation.soaring/hYQ8WNFITbA/Hzx35EMpDQAJ , in particular Luke's Aug 1 post.

I was having problems, redid firware, flarmcfg, nothing worked until I saw this and reset (obviously you have to redo firmware etc after reset. Works a treat now. Also did this for a club glider and it fixed that too. Going to do it every winter.

Dan
2D
still expect it is the antenna
  #32  
Old November 28th 16, 10:24 PM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
Dan Marotta
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Default FLARM - No GPS

I'll give it a shot, Dan. Lord knows, I've tried everything else.

Currently it's sitting out in my driveway in a zip-lock bag (since it's
snowing) and has fresh alkaline batteries installed. It has the
original CFG file and has been running for about 10 minutes with zero
satellites found. I believe it's the antenna, but will try your
suggestion in another 10 minutes...

Dan

On 11/28/2016 1:35 PM, Dan Daly wrote:
On Monday, November 28, 2016 at 2:50:59 PM UTC-5, Dan Marotta wrote:
No batteries were installed during use with external power connected
since the manual stated that alkaline batteries could leak with external
power connected and I don't have any rechargeables which are in decent
condition.

My wife compared the log file generated when the unit was working to the
log file generated after the unit failed and she found what looks like
some unexplained differences. I'm going back to square one to generate
a new FLARMcfg.TXT file and will try again with fresh batteries
installed since I'm at home and don't have access to external power.

I'll report back what I find...

On 11/28/2016 10:04 AM, Martin Gregorie wrote:
On Mon, 28 Nov 2016 09:15:15 -0700, Dan Marotta wrote:

Thanks, Tim, but I don't think so. I was shutting down the unit with
the knob when those lines were written. When I have it externally
powered for an hour it still does not receive satellites. And thanks
for taking the time to review the log.

Did you have internal batteries installed during this externally powered
trial? If so, what type were they?


--
Dan, 5J

Hi Dan. You might also want to reset the thing from scratch. See
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/rec.aviation.soaring/luke$20reset%7Csort:relevance/rec.aviation.soaring/hYQ8WNFITbA/Hzx35EMpDQAJ , in particular Luke's Aug 1 post.

I was having problems, redid firware, flarmcfg, nothing worked until I saw this and reset (obviously you have to redo firmware etc after reset. Works a treat now. Also did this for a club glider and it fixed that too. Going to do it every winter.

Dan
2D
still expect it is the antenna


--
Dan, 5J
  #33  
Old November 28th 16, 10:58 PM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
Dan Marotta
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Default FLARM - No GPS

Well, nothing has worked. Here's the GPS applicable stuff from the
latest log file:

00001.678 INFO Initializing GPS
00001.678 INFO river\lea5.c:427 Starting to scan baud rate
00001.678 INFO river\lea5.c:780 Trying 9600
00001.690 INFO river\lea5.c:435 GPS connected at rate: 9600
00002.697 INFO river\lea5.c:459 Initializing for PowerFLARM Portable
00002.697 INFO river\lea5.c:886 Applying Antenna
00002.739 INFO river\lea5.c:886 Applying Rate
00002.751 INFO river\lea5.c:886 Applying Time pulse
00002.769 INFO river\lea5.c:886 Applying Navigation
00002.787 INFO river\lea5.c:886 Applying SBAS
00002.799 INFO river\lea5.c:886 Applying POSLLH message
00002.811 INFO river\lea5.c:886 Applying VELNED message
00002.823 INFO river\lea5.c:886 Applying STATUS message
00002.835 INFO river\lea5.c:886 Applying SVINFO message
00002.847 INFO river\lea5.c:886 Applying DOP message
00002.859 INFO river\lea5.c:886 Applying TIMEUTC message
00002.877 INFO river\lea5.c:886 Applying GGA message
00002.889 INFO river\lea5.c:886 Applying RMC message
00002.901 INFO river\lea5.c:886 Applying HW message
00002.913 INFO OK

That looks to me like the GPS is working, but no satellites are being
found. Looks like I'll be sending it in...

Thanks to everyone who tried to help.

Dan

On 11/28/2016 2:24 PM, Dan Marotta wrote:
I'll give it a shot, Dan. Lord knows, I've tried everything else.

Currently it's sitting out in my driveway in a zip-lock bag (since
it's snowing) and has fresh alkaline batteries installed. It has the
original CFG file and has been running for about 10 minutes with zero
satellites found. I believe it's the antenna, but will try your
suggestion in another 10 minutes...

Dan

On 11/28/2016 1:35 PM, Dan Daly wrote:
On Monday, November 28, 2016 at 2:50:59 PM UTC-5, Dan Marotta wrote:
No batteries were installed during use with external power connected
since the manual stated that alkaline batteries could leak with
external
power connected and I don't have any rechargeables which are in decent
condition.

My wife compared the log file generated when the unit was working to
the
log file generated after the unit failed and she found what looks like
some unexplained differences. I'm going back to square one to generate
a new FLARMcfg.TXT file and will try again with fresh batteries
installed since I'm at home and don't have access to external power.

I'll report back what I find...

On 11/28/2016 10:04 AM, Martin Gregorie wrote:
On Mon, 28 Nov 2016 09:15:15 -0700, Dan Marotta wrote:

Thanks, Tim, but I don't think so. I was shutting down the unit with
the knob when those lines were written. When I have it externally
powered for an hour it still does not receive satellites. And thanks
for taking the time to review the log.

Did you have internal batteries installed during this externally
powered
trial? If so, what type were they?

--
Dan, 5J

Hi Dan. You might also want to reset the thing from scratch. See
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/rec.aviation.soaring/luke$20reset%7Csort:relevance/rec.aviation.soaring/hYQ8WNFITbA/Hzx35EMpDQAJ
, in particular Luke's Aug 1 post.

I was having problems, redid firware, flarmcfg, nothing worked until
I saw this and reset (obviously you have to redo firmware etc after
reset. Works a treat now. Also did this for a club glider and it
fixed that too. Going to do it every winter.

Dan
2D
still expect it is the antenna



--
Dan, 5J
 




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