REFLECTOR: Dynon SkyView ADAHRS location

[Doug Kanczuzewski]

I just went thru the same scenario, BMA unit died at Christmas and bought the Skyview. Everything was hooked up on the Dynon unit in the baggage area, which is where I had the BMA unit. Then we noticed the problem on heading. I moved the Dynon to a long tether and started moving the Dynon around the plane to find the best  spot. The baggage area was a problem unless it was floating two feet in the air. I even looked at under the rear seats and found  discrepancies to even larger problems sliding it only 6 inches along on the open floor ( I was scratching my head on that one).  I was hoping for canard area but it also showed 30-40 degree fluctuation. Final solution for me was a platform I built over the brake fluid reservoirs in the nose. 

Doug K

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Sent: Thursday, June 02, 2011 9:24 AM
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Subject: REFLECTOR: Dynon SkyView ADAHRS location

Due to the “unique feature" of the SkyView ADAHRS of having the magnetometer built in, where are builders locating this unit?

A little background.
I have been flying for almost 4 years with a BMA EFIS-ONE (gold box), which was working good for the most part up until 2 weeks ago.  It no longer boots up.  Believe me, I’ve tested everything and it is dead.  With Dynon offering $1000 trade in value towards the purchase of a SkyView until the end of the month, I consider myself lucky to be getting that.  

I know I had some problems locating the BMA magnetometer behind the panel.  It worked, but was being influenced a little by something.  I moved it to the baggage compartment in the strake with plans to move it to the outboard end of the strake in the future.  It worked well there, so I left it.  The SkyView ADAHRS design makes it more difficult to locate in these places.  I don’t want to route pitot/static lines out to the strake.

Darrell
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