4 Sierra Tango Building and flying Van's RV-7 N834ST

EFIS

Jun 2004 – Aug 2006 · 17 entries · 55 hours logged

Our Blue Mountain EFIS/1. Money? Now we're talkin'!

  1. About the Blue Mountain EFIS/1 Still in it's infancy, the EFIS1 held lots of promise. Back then, it was housed in a plastic box and was pretty much hand made. We discussed whether this was...
  2. 2004
  3. June 4 · 2 hours Today, I went by the hangar to update the E1 with the latest software release... Much anticipated event. Well, it seemed to go through the update pretty well...
  4. June 6 · 0.5 hours So, this evening I stopped by to perform jumper change. Removed the box from the plane, peeled her open and imagine my surprise when I found said jumper chan...
  5. June 12 · 1 hour After speaking with Bob Northrup on the phone last Friday, he gave me some things I could do to check my system, so today, I went down and checked it out. I...
  6. June 13 · 0.5 hours Spoke with Bob Northrup on the phone again today, and we talked about the DVD drive. I may have one of the dodgy ones from ways back. So anyways, I want to d...
  7. August 2 BMA now have my E1 in their possesion to work their magic. They will be upgrading the unit to feature multiple serial ports and a compact flash card reader....
  8. August 17 BMA called to let me know my E1 is ready to be shipped back to me. Not bad really, two weeks turn around! Turns out I'd fried the motherboard. Great. So, obv...
  9. August 22 · 5 hours Now that the E1 is back in my hands, I figured I'd get it up and running again. Everything looks great! I was hoping to start hooking it into the avionics st...
  10. September 2 · 3 hours Yesterday, I received the amplifier for the xpdr grey code output from BMA. I was a little disappointed that I had to pay another $101 for this with shipping...
  11. September 4 · 6 hours After working on the panel and the radio stack wiring, I decided to start working on the E1's gauge inputs, namely the fuel levels and volts.
  12. 2005
  13. September 2 · 13 hours No pictures, just a story. Today, I spent about three hours of my day trying to get the EFIS 1 working with the GX-60 that Mike brought around the other day....
  14. September 11 I've been chatting to Bob on the phone some this week, in an effort to figure out this strange phenomenon. He couldn't understand why the EFIS 1 was getting...
  15. September 24 · 8.5 hours Today, Carl came around from USA Jet with an avionics test set. We ran the radio stack through it's paces and watched what the EFIS 1 did. It behaved pretty...
  16. 2006
  17. January 25 · 2 hours There was a service notice a while ago on my version of the Blue Mountain autopilot servos. The clutch mounting plates were coming loose as they wore, so I h...
  18. May 16 On the way to the hangar, I stopped by a motorcycle store to buy the smallest gell cell battery they had. The other night, I'd tested the system to see if I...
  19. June 11 · 5 hours Most of my day today was spent messing about with the EFIS 1, and getting all my engine gauges working as they should. I needed to get the ammeter working pr...
  20. August 13 · 8 hours While I was at Oshkosh, I chatted with Blue Mountain and they suggested I send my unit in for a preflight check out. During this check out, they'll update me...