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Matt Dralle's RV-8 Project
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Date: 4-7-2009
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Number of Hours: 2.00
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Manual Reference:
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Brief Description: GRT HX Flash Upgrade... - Part 1
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I've been working with Mike Stewart to download all of the ILS plates for the US and format them into a "./plates" folder that is compatble with the GRT HX Horizion I EFIS units. Mike's program works great, by the way and I highly recommend downloading it and giving it a try if you have a GRT EFIS, or even if you don't. The latest version can be found here:
http://mstewart.net/super8/grtgetallplates/index.htm
The problem is that the full US database is about 4GB and there's only about 512MB of free flash in the HX. That means to you have to be pretty picky about what you put and I found that I could only fit CA and OR states in the internal flash. Yeah, you can stick an external USB flash drive in but that's kind of ugly... I thought there had to be a way to upgrade the flash in the HX, so I pulled one of my HXs apart and pulled out the Flash Module. Turns out they are a little integrated unit from Stec. STec has sizes up through 8GB! I could only find 4GB actually for sale, though. The best price on a 4GB unit was about $218. Its a parallel access, IDE drive kind of like a Compact Flash card. They even come in extended temp version for about $20 more. So if the 4GB version is $218, then the 8GB will probably be about $400. That's kind of expensive... It would be cool to have ALL of the plates IN the HX, though, you know...?
Specifically, the STec part number is "SLFDM44H-xxM1UI" where the "xx" is something like 512MB, 1GB, 2GB, 4GB, or 8GB.
Here is some information on the cards and a few prices I found on the Net:
Brochure: http://www.stec-inc.com/downloads/flash_brochures/ideflashdisk.pdf
Datasheet: http://www.stec-inc.com/downloads/flash_datasheets/SLFDM40-44_V-H-xxxM-G_M1UI_61000-04498.pdf
Availability:
http://www.neutroncanada.com/prod.cfm/491332
http://www.neutronexpress.com/prod.cfm/498780/STEC/SLFDM44H-4GM1UI
http://www.mouser.com/Search/Refine.aspx?N=7103345&Keyword=SLFDM44H&FS=True
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GRT HX - Flash Module Installed
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GRT HX - Flash Module Removed
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STec SLFDM44H-xxM1UI IDE Flash - Front
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