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Actually Im pretty new to the Dynon forum,
and just started
browsing/contributing.. Which model anti-log are you using,
and does
your setup run on ships power or batt?
I have the "OEM"
version, rather than the boxed one. I did this because I wanted access to
the SD/MMC card that is plugged into the board, and the box doesn't allow
access. This does make it more of an electronics project, but it's a
pretty simple one. With the removable card, you can avoid
dragging a laptop out to the hanger to download data. Since the cards are
pretty cheap, I'll buy a few, then rotate them for each day of
flying.
My current plan it to
mount the board on plate to fit a standard 2-1/4" instrument
hole. The on/off switches and LED's will be mounted on the plate, and
the memory card will be removable through the center hole on the
plate. That's the plan anyway. Right now, the board is laying on my
desk with jumper wires all over the place :-)
And refresh my memory.. did you ever devise a way to capture data from
the
EC/EM combination or is that still aways off?
I'm pretty sure that the serial lines
on the EC/EM are not RS232 format, but I believe Tracy said it would be a
"simple one chip solution" to convert it. As we all know, the word
"simple" is a relative term, defined by the person you're speaking to :-)
The Antilog can have two channels of
RS232, or one of RS232, and one of "CMOS levels for direct connection to OEM
equipment". The OEM guide shows two pins for the CMOS option:
Tx2 CMOS 0 to 3V3
Rx2 CMOS 0 to 3V3
I'm not sure if this would work, but
I suspect you might be able to tie the RX2 line into Tracy's serial line,
and log everything there. Remember too that he will have to modify the
software to output all the data, rather than just what he originally needed to
share.
Fortunately, Tracy has been working
on datalogging, so it's likely that he'll have a better solution by the time I
need it for my single rotor, which has no airframe at the moment. If not,
I'll talk to him more about how to convert his serial info to
RS232.
Now, I have about a mile of white
tefzel wire waiting to be run :-)
Rusty
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