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Appreciation post: That intermittent fault on a Garmin G1000 system took me 14 hours to find
It was a single pin in a D-sub connector on the GIA 63W unit that had backed out maybe a millimeter, just enough to lose signal when the airframe vibrated. I chased it through the whole harness and LRUs before I finally spotted it. Has anyone else had a connector issue waste that much of your day?
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kareng271mo ago
I used to think connector checks were a waste of time until a single pin in an ARINC 429 coupler cost me a full shift.
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jason5241mo ago
Connector issues are the worst. A good pin drag gauge finally saved me from those all-day hunts.
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nina_knight991mo ago
What brand of gauge did you end up going with... mine seems to drift after a few months.
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