June 4, 2004

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, then it rebooted itdelf, and came back up and froze almost instantly. Oh deary. At first I thought maybe it was no GPS signal giving the hoo-har coz it said it was erecting. So, wheeled the plane out of the hangar to get some sunshine. I poered her down for a few mins, hooked it back up and this time, no magnetometer. Hmmm…. It’s connected… All was fine previously at the 2.14 level. I tried hitting escape to get to the shell, and it did get me to the menu, however, it was locked up again by then, so I couldn’t choose to enter the Shell.

Anyways, I decided it wasn’t going to happen, and figured I’d wrap up for the day, I did mount the back up alternator voltage regulator though.. Took all of 5 minutes.

Got back home, jumped on the web and wrote up my issues on the BMA discussion board. People on there are quite helpful, and the staff are always looking at it too, even when they’re meant to be holidaying! I remembered reading about a jumper change in an Engineering Note that mentioned a jumper change, and ‘MD’ confirmed what I figured was my problem. Greg Richter also confirmed this may be the issue a few hours later……..