Mailing List lml@lancaironline.net Message #59698
From: Colyn Case <colyncase@earthlink.net>
Sender: <marv@lancaironline.net>
Subject: Re: [LML] Issues with Stormscope / Strikefinder on IV-P -- electrical interference (wx500)
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2011 07:49:50 -0400
To: <lml@lancaironline.net>
Mine works.   You need to inhibit when the gear pump runs and when the xponder squawks and you have to have every last thing very well grounded.

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On Sep 13, 2011, at 5:32 PM, Dico Reijers <dico@internetworks.ca> wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I just got off the phone with L3.  We have a Wx500 stormscope that displays on the Garmin 430.  However, there are all kinds of false strikes and eventually the strike rate gets up so high that the system fails.   The gentleman at L3 said that they've had some issues with composite aircraft and lancairs and thought that it may never work 100%.  Our unit is located in the tail (both the CPU and the antenna).  He suggested that I start pulling breakers until the strikes stop and that could find the issue.... but then he said that since this is a known issue, that I might just be chasing my own tail.  So I'm wondering if anyone here has any issues with their strikefinders?
>
> -Dico
>
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