What is a UART? On Sat, Dec 24, 2016 at 4:23 PM, Richard Frawley <[email protected]> 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 > Swift Avionics > > > > > > On 24 Dec 2016, at 4:06 pm, Justin Couch <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > My club's gliders have a collection of OzFlarms in them - a separate box > from the display with GPS, Aerial and serial connectors. The display is the > original FlarmLED with the 4 status indicators on the left. About 4 months > ago one Flarm started becoming inconsistent in its outputs. Some days it > would work, others nothing at all. Then about a month ago, it started > working consistently but now has the display blinking an error that I > cannot find described in the manuals. Then a week ago, a second Flarm is > now displaying the same output.. All the other identical systems work as > normal > > > > The display has the power LED constant green. The other three LEDs - > GPS, Tx, Rx all flash synchronously together at about a 1Hz frequency. > > > > Software is current on all of them, and they are transmitting fine. > FlarmTrackers/OGN and other aircraft pick up their signal. Nothing is > showing on the display other than the status LEDs. > > > > Any suggestions on what might be wrong? > > > > -- > > Justin Couch http://www.vlc.com.au/ > > Java 3D Graphics Information http://www.j3d.org/ > > LinkedIn http://au.linkedin.com/in/justincouch/ > > G+ WetMorgoth > > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > > "Look through the lens, and the light breaks down into many lights. > > Turn it or move it, and a new set of arrangements appears... is it > > a single light or many lights, lights that one must know how to > > distinguish, recognise and appreciate? Is it one light with many > > frames or one frame for many lights?" -Subcomandante Marcos > > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > > _______________________________________________ > > Aus-soaring mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.base64.com.au/listinfo/aus-soaring > > _______________________________________________ > Aus-soaring mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.base64.com.au/listinfo/aus-soaring >
_______________________________________________ Aus-soaring mailing list [email protected] http://lists.base64.com.au/listinfo/aus-soaring
