rvanstory
Well Known Member
I have a full Garmin panel with the G3X touch system. About 75% of the time my audible alerts work just fine. But about 25% of the time, my audible alerts don't work properly. Sometimes there's no sound at all, other times there is sound, but it's just distorted static instead of the voice or the "dings".
I'm convinced it's not a wiring issue, as it seems to come and go based solely upon boot up. If it works, it works the whole time. If it doesn't work, it won't work the entire flight. Flying or not flying, it doesn't matter. It either works at bootup, or it doesn't.
One person suggested it might be a "audio priority" conflict within the system. So, today I booted up and rebooted the system about 100 times to see if I could duplicate the sequence that created (or solved) the problem. Nothing I did seemed to consistently create, or solve the problem. The only thing I was able to do consistently, is that IF the alerts were not working properly (no sound or only static) I could resolve the issue by pulling the PFD breaker and rebooting the PFD by itself. Then the audible alerts would begin working properly.
My setup is for the sound to feed to the PFD (not the auto setting). Changing that setting, did not change if it would work or not.
Anyone in the brain trust have a similar issue and possibly know what the cause might be? I REALLY don't want to start running new wires unless I know what the issue is.
I'm convinced it's not a wiring issue, as it seems to come and go based solely upon boot up. If it works, it works the whole time. If it doesn't work, it won't work the entire flight. Flying or not flying, it doesn't matter. It either works at bootup, or it doesn't.
One person suggested it might be a "audio priority" conflict within the system. So, today I booted up and rebooted the system about 100 times to see if I could duplicate the sequence that created (or solved) the problem. Nothing I did seemed to consistently create, or solve the problem. The only thing I was able to do consistently, is that IF the alerts were not working properly (no sound or only static) I could resolve the issue by pulling the PFD breaker and rebooting the PFD by itself. Then the audible alerts would begin working properly.
My setup is for the sound to feed to the PFD (not the auto setting). Changing that setting, did not change if it would work or not.
Anyone in the brain trust have a similar issue and possibly know what the cause might be? I REALLY don't want to start running new wires unless I know what the issue is.