REFLECTOR: Blue Mountain Avionics issue update

[Richard J. Gentil]

Hey Alex,

As an owner of a G4 Dual Screen EFIS/ONE and a G4 EFIS/Lite Plus which I 
have just about completed wiring, I thought I would go through the 
"Bells & Whistles" you mentioned.

The BMA brochure shows many great things you can do with the G4, but as 
we all know, the brochure and real life hardly ever meet.

The biggest restriction you will find with the digital (RS232) ports. 
You only get two of them along with one analog port. So when you look at 
all the wonderful things you could connect, you are limited to three things.

The Engine Pod, which comes standard with the EFIS/ONE, must use one of 
the Digital Ports. So now you are down to one Digital Port, which would 
be taken by the SL30 Nav/Com. If you put the SL30 on the Analog Port, 
you would have to control the OBS on the SL30 face plate itself and not 
be able to use the OBS on the EFIS's HSI. To me, the analog hookup of 
the SL30 is a no go since it is so impractical.

If you want to connect XM NEXRAD it needs a Digital Port. So now you 
have to drop either the Engine Pod or the SL30. My solution was to make 
my system redundancy an EFIS/Lite Plus which let me move the Engine Pod 
to the EFIS/Lite Plus and free up a port for the NEXRAD on the EFIS/ONE.

I just want to make sure that you understand the limitations in the G4 
as you go through this.

And believe me, I know how you must feel, I keep getting pushed back on 
their deliveries. I have been on the top of the list for months for 
their 70amp Power Board and their XM solution. When you can reach 
Shelia, she has not been in the office much lately, the standard answer 
is "7 to 14 days you will have it." It gets very old month after month 
after month, etc.

I wish you the best of luck, and I hope you get the outcome which will 
make you happy.

Richard

P.S. For anything wondering why BMA does not just add more ports, the 
answer is, they would have to up the CPU horsepower to run their EFIS to 
handle the additional computing power needed to handle the data from 
additional ports.

Alex Balic wrote:
>
> I have obtained the services of an Attorney here in Dallas that will 
> be pressing our case with BMA- I have the list of all who are/were 
> interested in getting what they paid for from Greg and company, and I 
> have been requested to compile a more or less official list with name, 
> address, contact phone, purchase date, serial number of the unit, and 
> price paid for the equipment. This process will begin with a demand 
> letter, and progress from there- I am confident that the Attorney- 
> who's business is 50% aviation related will be able to do the job- 
> please contact me off list at velocity_pilot at verizon.net 
> <mailto:velocity_pilot at verizon.net>   The direction at this point is 
> to get us ( best case)  a direct trade of our "old technology" for the 
> current, G4 unit which seems to have the bells and whistles that we 
> have already paid for, worst case- full refund on our gold box units 
> towards purchase of the  G4. I believe this will cause the least 
> amount of stress on everyone including BMA.
>
>  
>
> Alex
>
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