I was wondering if anyone has had any experience that one device brought down their entire system and prevented from loading?
I am not sure if my title, CAN bus failure, is correct but I had an anomaly with my GAD27 (flap issue) which Garmin decided to replace the device under warranty. The replacement GAD arrived a few days later and when I connected it to my system, the PFD would shut itself down immediately after booting up and nothing was working. My MFD would not shut down but everything had a big red X on it. Going back and forth between the old unit and the new, confirmed this is not a wiring issue as it would only do it with the new device.
They sent another replacement and that is working normal and as expected. But the fact that one device could cause the entire system to go down is not very reassuring to me.
Unfortunately, I did not pay attention to the G5 to see if I can keep that operational.
Hopefully Garmin will investigate this and see what is it with the unit that could cause such failure.
I am not sure if my title, CAN bus failure, is correct but I had an anomaly with my GAD27 (flap issue) which Garmin decided to replace the device under warranty. The replacement GAD arrived a few days later and when I connected it to my system, the PFD would shut itself down immediately after booting up and nothing was working. My MFD would not shut down but everything had a big red X on it. Going back and forth between the old unit and the new, confirmed this is not a wiring issue as it would only do it with the new device.
They sent another replacement and that is working normal and as expected. But the fact that one device could cause the entire system to go down is not very reassuring to me.
Unfortunately, I did not pay attention to the G5 to see if I can keep that operational.
Hopefully Garmin will investigate this and see what is it with the unit that could cause such failure.