S7 (formerly V7) software bugs?

Update:

I reviewed the settings on my V7 yesterday in detail. Apparently after upgrading the V7 software, some setting survived and some didn't.

I found that my Polar screen settings were completely lst. They now showed a "Default" glider type, class " unknown". It also showed stall speed at 10 Kts., the polar showed A=1.94, B=-2.9, C=1.6 glider weight --lbs, max glider weight --lbs, empty glider weight --lbs,

I have corrected these settings, but have no way of testing wether they fixed problem #3 (see first post) without doing a flight test. Stay tuned for more info.

Matt H

In my case I *did* reset the unit and set all the configuration parameters including glider polar to the correct setting. Almost all my problems were fixed after that but I still have the intermittent cruise mode craziness where speed to fly is obviously wrong. The other problem I have is audio level being random and going up and down throughout the flight.


Cheers,
Morteza

On Sunday, June 21, 2015 at 3:09:39 PM UTC-7, Matt Herron Jr. wrote:
Update:

I reviewed the settings on my V7 yesterday in detail. Apparently after upgrading the V7 software, some setting survived and some didn't.

I found that my Polar screen settings were completely lst. They now showed a "Default" glider type, class " unknown". It also showed stall speed at 10 Kts., the polar showed A=1.94, B=-2.9, C=1.6 glider weight --lbs, max glider weight --lbs, empty glider weight --lbs,

I have corrected these settings, but have no way of testing wether they fixed problem #3 (see first post) without doing a flight test. Stay tuned for more info.

Matt H

I want to clarify something just in case you don't realize it like I originally did not. The volumes for climb vario mode and cruise speed to fly mode are completely independent of one another. Even though there is only one vario volume slider in the menu section, the volumes for each mode are independent. If your volume is changing exactly the same time as the climb/cruise mode changes then that is your issue. That was never clear to me in the manual.

In my case this is not about a switch from cruise to thermal mode. While in cruise it would go up and down on its own. I never had this before and only seen it since the upgrade to the latest version.

On Monday, June 22, 2015 at 4:22:02 AM UTC-7, Greg Delp wrote:
I want to clarify something just in case you don't realize it like I originally did not. The volumes for climb vario mode and cruise speed to fly mode are completely independent of one another. Even though there is only one vario volume slider in the menu section, the volumes for each mode are independent. If your volume is changing exactly the same time as the climb/cruise mode changes then that is your issue. That was never clear to me in the manual.

First of all I would try to downgrade to a previous FW version (if that was running without issues)

On Tuesday, June 23, 2015 at 3:14:51 PM UTC-7, Eric wrote:
First of all I would try to downgrade to a previous FW version (if that was running without issues)

The RAS is a really bad place to get advice on instruments.

I would send the concerns with the Firmware Version number and the Serial number of the V7 to:



Richard
www.craggyaero.com

True. LXNAV is very coöperative and they take customer complaints serious.. Uros once even send me an "in between" firmware version, just to solve a problem I had with the white arc.

been there, done that. just get questions back...

update: june 24 2015

After correcting the trashed Polar and glider weights after a software upgrade, I flew a 6 hour flight today out of Bishop. The V7 (S7) performed without a hitch. I was able to change MC, and bugs without ill effects. The vario never changed volumes. It never pegged. It did not display the weird change in pitch in cruse.

Yay!

However, it would be very helpfull to know which parameters are preserved and which are rest to "default'" when one does an upgrade. Also, Preservation of parameters is (i think...) dependent on which of the two V7 file you update first. Do it backwards and nothing is preserved (a royal pain, as there are soon many settings to configure.)

I wil be flying all week, and will update if issues arrise

Matt H,

HOT TIP - print off a hard copy of the manual and write all your settings
in it. Saves much memory searching for settings that you did XXX time ago!

Pete

At 05:43 25 June 2015, Matt Herron Jr. wrote:
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update first. Do it backwards and nothing is preserved (a royal pain, as
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here are soon many settings to configure.)

I wil be flying all week, and will update if issues arrise

Matt H,