Thanks Richard,
We've done the cable dance so sure it's not that. Swapped the unit to
another aircraft - same result. They've all just been packed up ready
for camp, so I won't be able to look at the serial output for a few
weeks - but I do suspect the units are almost cactus as you suggest :(
On 24/12/2016 4:23 PM, Richard Frawley wrote:
The UART’s on old Flarms tend to die over time. No idea why. But a lot of
flarms have been subjected to high temps
Check the RJ45 socket and cable as well…they are easily abused over time.
If you have the means to look at the serial output of the Flarm on your PC
(using USB to serial and terminal software (I use coolterm), its pretty easy to
see if its corrupt or intermittent
I guess I have seem more than 10 units like that in the last 3 years
Richard
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