Alex G.

Press the button for several times until you see the dots. Also rotate the left knob to align it with the current heading. It should auto rotate but sometimes when switching from GPS to ILS too fast it doesn't auto slew.

I managed to power the aircraft from a 100 amps external power source, with no change. When they overlap, only the wingtip strobes work. However, as soon as I press the avionics button to start all the equipment, something strange is happening. Somehow, the 2 strobes magically always stay out of sync and flash one after the other, with no more issues. I did the test several times. Avionics on, strobes always flash one after the other and work with no issues. Avionics off, the strobes timing starts to shift and, as soon as they overlap, the tail one is not flashing. Avionics on again, magically they somehow sync and flash only one after the other, no issues.This is driving me crazy! The 2 strobe systems have no sync connection and do not communicate in any way. How on earth starting the avionics will always get them to flash one after the other?The only thing that happens when I start avionics is a higher overall load on the battery, which should make things even worse...I don't mind the current setup, since I always fly with avionics on, however I don't have any idea what happens, if any of you do, please let me know!

Both wingtip and tail strobes are LED. Whelen wingtip are self contained and only need a 12V supply. JPC one needs an inverter (power source) even if it's a LED. I've connected the Whelen exactly at the same point where JPC's power source gets its 12V feed. The aircraft is a Socata TB20 and I've posted here since you guys have a lot of experience with Whelen.

I have a JPC LED strobe on the tail and today I’ve installed 2 Whelen Orion 650e LED strobes for the wing tips.Since my aircraft didn’t have a dedicated wire harness for the wing tip strobes, and I wanted them to start/stop at the same button press in the cockpit, I’ve connected them to the existing tail strobe (at the wire that feeds the tail strobe inverter).Now there seems to be an issue, because whenever the tail strobe flash combine with the flash of the wing tips, the tail strobe momentarily turns off. Sometimes in the middle of the flash, if it happens for the wingtip strobes to start flashing just at that moment. When the pulses are intercalated (out of sync) there is no issue, both run ok.Is there an issue with voltage drop when peaks combine or grounding that may be somehow corrected?The system is a 12v one, the wingtip Whelen 650e draw 3.4 amps combined (peak) with no inverter needed, and the tail JPC one that uses an inverter draws 6.2 amps (peak). Actually it is rated at 75W/12V and hopefully I did the math correctly.The positive wire that feeds both seems to be an AWG20 or AWG18 standard copper multicore twisted cable. The negative wire that feeds both is taken from the aircraft chassis.Any idea on how to solve this? Thank you!