WTB KX-155 navcom

[Glen Davis]

Does anyone have a 12 volt Bendix King  KX-155 NAVCOM in good working condition, including the display, that they would be willing to sell? A friend of mine has one and several of the digits on the display are not working. He doesn’t want to buy a brand new replacement so I’m trying to help him out. 

[Ragsf15e]

31 minutes ago, Glen Davis said:

Does anyone have a Bendix King  KX-155 NAVCOM in good working condition, including the display, that they would be willing to sell? A friend of mine has one and several of the digits on the display are not working. He doesn’t want to buy a brand new replacement so I’m trying to help him out. 

Another option is to repair /replace the screen.  It use to be pretty common. Id think there are still shops that do it?

[Igor_U]

It seems these guys are doing it and selling DIY kit:

https://www.kx155display.com/

It looks like they have original plasma-gas display (I thought it was unobtanium) and new OLED displays. I have no experience with this shop but would love to hear the pirep as I have a  KX165 in my plane...

[LANCECASPER]

4 hours ago, Glen Davis said:

Does anyone have a Bendix King  KX-155 NAVCOM in good working condition, including the display, that they would be willing to sell? A friend of mine has one and several of the digits on the display are not working. He doesn’t want to buy a brand new replacement so I’m trying to help him out. 

If you want to buy one you'll need to specify whether you need a 14v or 28v model.

[MikeOH]

2 hours ago, Igor_U said:

It seems these guys are doing it and selling DIY kit:

https://www.kx155display.com/

It looks like they have original plasma-gas display (I thought it was unobtanium) and new OLED displays. I have no experience with this shop but would love to hear the pirep as I have a  KX165 in my plane...

Pretty weird website, IMHO.  YMMV

[bigmo]

Weird website, yes…but those guys know their stuff. Previous owner had my 155 rebuilt there and it looks literally brand new. Truth be told, it’s just a backup for me, but I do use the com when I know I’m on the fringe of a Center segment where my Garmin’s com seems to reach its limit. 
Mine has the original style LED, but the new OLED upgrade looks outstanding and in aviation $ seems reasonable. Not sure what he charges for a full overhaul now, but the receipt in my box said $1700 and change about 5 years ago. I have zero doubts it’ll go another 15 years.

[Jake@BevanAviation]

14 hours ago, Igor_U said:

It seems these guys are doing it and selling DIY kit:

https://www.kx155display.com/

It looks like they have original plasma-gas display (I thought it was unobtanium) and new OLED displays. I have no experience with this shop but would love to hear the pirep as I have a  KX165 in my plane...

Just as a FYI this is not an approved mod from the MFG.  We have seen a couple over the years and we will not even attempt to do a repair as the unit is modified outside MFG specs and no longer matches any approved documentation from the MFG.  Honeywell does have an approved LED mod that is still available to fix display issues experienced with the old gas discharge displays.

[Fly Boomer]

I thought the go-to guy for a KX-155 was at kx155.com, but my browser complains when I try to access that site?

[toto]

16 minutes ago, Fly Boomer said:

I thought the go-to guy for a KX-155 was at kx155.com, but my browser complains when I try to access that site?

I think it’s the same guy. They have kx155.com listed in the footer. 

[toto]

14 hours ago, LANCECASPER said:

If you want to buy one you'll need to specify whether you need a 14v or 28v model.

Looks like OP fixed this with an edit 

[MikeOH]

7 hours ago, toto said:

I think it’s the same guy. They have kx155.com listed in the footer. 

There are TWO different guys: KX155.com which is the same guy as KX155display.com and tamcoavionics.com.  The other is KX-155.com which is a different guy SOLDAN Electronics in Lucerne Valley, CA

[Fly Boomer]

Just now, MikeOH said:

The other is KX-155.com which is a different guy SOLDAN Electronics in Lucerne Valley, CA

I fear he may have timed out.  At least there is the new KX-200 which I suspect King bought from some less fortunate company.

[MikeOH]

7 minutes ago, Fly Boomer said:

I fear he may have timed out.  At least there is the new KX-200 which I suspect King bought from some less fortunate company.

His website is still up; do you have other info that he is now out of biz?

http://kx-155.com

[Fly Boomer]

Just now, MikeOH said:

His website is still up; do you have other info that he is now out of biz?

I think he may have let his web site certificates expire.  My security software won't let me go there.  I have a phone number so, if I needed him, I would try calling.

[Pinecone]

29 minutes ago, Fly Boomer said:

At least there is the new KX-200 which I suspect King bought from some less fortunate company.

Where??????

Website still says coming.  No price, but a Contact Us button.  '

Weren't they supposed to start shipping end of 2023????

[toto]

1 hour ago, MikeOH said:

There are TWO different guys: KX155.com which is the same guy as KX155display.com and tamcoavionics.com.  The other is KX-155.com which is a different guy SOLDAN Electronics in Lucerne Valley, CA

Yeah, I have no idea. I just saw that kx155.com was in the footer of the site mentioned above. I have no personal experience with any of them. 

[MikeOH]

1 hour ago, Fly Boomer said:

I think he may have let his web site certificates expire.  My security software won't let me go there.  I have a phone number so, if I needed him, I would try calling.

Interesting as I have no trouble accessing his site.  I need new security software!

[toto]

3 minutes ago, MikeOH said:

Interesting as I have no trouble accessing his site.  I need new security software!

It looks like the cert common name is kx-165.com and it’s a valid cert from Let’s Encrypt. 

There may be a SAN entry for kx-155.com that only has the ‘www’ subdomain or something idk 

[Fly Boomer]

2 hours ago, toto said:

It looks like the cert common name is kx-165.com and it’s a valid cert from Let’s Encrypt. 

There may be a SAN entry for kx-155.com that only has the ‘www’ subdomain or something idk 

I think just the cert being a different domain is enough to trigger the stop.

[MikeOH]

2 minutes ago, Fly Boomer said:

I think just the cert being a different domain is enough to trigger the stop.

http://kx-165.com ends up at the same page as http://kx-155.com

[Fly Boomer]

1 minute ago, MikeOH said:

http://kx-165.com ends up at the same page as http://kx-155.com

That kind of redirect is trivial, and the certificate may be valid, but if he is using a kx-165 cert on his kx-155 domain name, I think my software stops it.

[MikeOH]

5 minutes ago, Fly Boomer said:

That kind of redirect is trivial, and the certificate may be valid, but if he is using a kx-165 cert on his kx-155 domain name, I think my software stops it.

My lack of internet machination knowledge is showing.  What I meant is that if you go to kx-165.com that's the domain that shows but is the identical page that comes up if you go to kx-155.com domain.  Or, are the names directly to the left of the .com not really domains?

Put another way, does your software block going to http://kx-165.com as well as to http://kx-155.com?

[toto]

Both domains are on the cert.  It's pretty strange to have a wildcard in the SAN field, but anyway - they're both there.  

[toto]

Yeah, he's not redirecting - just serving the same WordPress site from both domains.  But there's a lot of cross-site objects loaded from kx-155.com if you go to kx-165.com, which might be causing your security software to panic.

[MikeOH]

4 minutes ago, toto said:

Both domains are on the cert.  It's pretty strange to have a wildcard in the SAN field, but anyway - they're both there.  

So, why is @Fly Boomer's software blocking access?