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Flarm with External display
I have a portable FLARM that I may need to install in a loaner glider. Installation will be awkward but could be much better if I use an external display that I have surplus from my brick installs.
Has any one done this and can you advise how it worked out? Thanks UH |
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Flarm with External display
Yes you can connect any external display to the portable the same way you would connect to the core.
We just did this in our club ship, connected a portable to LXNAV S8 (which is also a powerflarm display). The portable is acting as both GPS source and Flarm source. Ramy |
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Flarm with External display
But where do you stash the portable and how do you access it to turn it
on/off?Â* I assume you can control display range from whatever display you're using. When I first got a portable, I fashioned an aluminum plate the size of the unit with an extension in the back center.Â* I used that extension to fasten the whole contraption to the top center of the glare shield (the Stemme has 4 screws holding the glare shield on and one of them is top center front.Â* Later, when I decided to keep the unit, I drilled two holes in the glare shield for mounting screws from below. My ClearNav display provides the best pictorial information but the PF display is still useful sometimes. On 4/29/2019 12:19 AM, Ramy wrote: Yes you can connect any external display to the portable the same way you would connect to the core. We just did this in our club ship, connected a portable to LXNAV S8 (which is also a powerflarm display). The portable is acting as both GPS source and Flarm source. Ramy -- Dan, 5J |
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Flarm with External display
Indeed the portable needs to be turned on, which requires pressing the button twice. I wish it would have turned on automatically with external power like core does. I wonder if this could be a firmware fix?
Ramy |
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