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Post by Flocker on May 11, 2023 21:56:14 GMT
10 minutes into a 30 minute flight today my PFD went black and the autopilot disconnected. A few seconds later it re-booted and everything went back to normal. In the 7 years behind this panel I have never seen this. Has anyone else had this happen? Any idea on what happened? Perhaps it was a random one time event.  |
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Post by Ed Midgley on May 12, 2023 0:06:04 GMT
I had this problem eight years ago
G3X support said it was seeing something it didn’t like and doing restarts.
If I remember they had me install the latest software
Ed
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Post by LSA Flyer on May 12, 2023 2:52:14 GMT
Have you ever replaced the secondary battery under the instrument panel? I assume you have an Astore? There is a gell cell battery under the left side panel that prevents PFD reboots at startup. If it's dead, that might be a contributing factor. It isn't a well documented feature and a typical LSRM or A&P would never find it. I believe the P2008 has one as well, position might be different.
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Post by Flocker on May 12, 2023 13:09:38 GMT
Have you ever replaced the secondary battery under the instrument panel? I assume you have an Astore? There is a gell cell battery under the left side panel that prevents PFD reboots at startup. If it's dead, that might be a contributing factor. It isn't a well documented feature and a typical LSRM or A&P would never find it. I believe the P2008 has one as well, position might be different. I was not aware of a secondary battery under the panel. Are they easily accessible? *The reboot occurred in flight, not at start up. *I have a P2008. |
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Post by ChiMike on May 12, 2023 18:13:18 GMT
Four years or so ago I had a similar thing happen after I installed an update. Had been flying 30 minutes or so then all gone. I was pondering what I might need to do when the little circular light appears on the PFD and everything came back to where I had it. I do not recall if I was using nav-autopilot at the time.
I did not have any subsequent issues.
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Post by LSA Flyer on May 13, 2023 1:20:17 GMT
I see you have a 912is. Although my post was specific to the Astore with the 912is/G3x configuration it might apply to your 2008. Tecnam had complaints with the G3x rebooting at startup when the current drop from the electric fuel pumps and the starter motor caused the voltage to fall. They responded by adding a small gell cell battery to maintain level voltage at starting. I don't know if they did the same with the P2008 and just didn't bother to update the IPC. In the Astore it's on the left side, interior firewall. Your experience acts like a low voltage incident which could be impossible to trace unless it repeats. Could be software, battery, generator, autopilot servo etc. Since you have the 912is you might download the BUDS logs as a start.
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Post by Flocker on May 14, 2023 0:50:50 GMT
First reboot in 7 years, I'm going to chalk it up to a one time fluke. We'll see if it happens again...
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Post by Flocker on May 29, 2023 1:31:11 GMT
Flown several hours since. No hiccups.
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