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Old October 27th 10, 07:20 PM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
Dave Nadler
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On Oct 27, 1:45*pm, Darryl Ramm wrote:
Just one point -- before the 4800 baud comment scares a bunch of
people. Existing Flarm products support 4800 baud NMEA output and I
see no reason that the PowerFLARM would not - it is an obvious need,
its the industry standard/default NMEA baud rate, and would break lots
of things if it didn't. Its easy to configure Flarm Baud rates (e.g
with the Flarm tool). The default rate on Flarm products has been
19200 baud and I assume the PowerFLARM will be the same, if you change
it to 4800 baud the device cannot put the Flarm traffic data into the
NMEA stream (4800 baud is too slow to do this) but then if you have a
device that can only work at 4800 baud it is not going to know what to
do with the Flarm NMEA traffic data anyhow.

I'll confirm this after I steal a PowerFLARM from Urs on Saturday :-)

Darryl


Correct, baud rate(s) are easily configurable...
Best Regards, Dave