8.6 Alarms
ECLIPSE continuously monitor all sensors/probes and when a measurement enter in its red zone it activates an alarm condition.
All the alarms are fully configurable as explained in chap.6.1.7; activating all available options an alarm condition is composed of
the following events:
- Onscreen message with the indication of the alarm occured, for example:
- Activation of the alarm output (if you have connected a led or lamp indicator they will be switched on flashing)
- Activation of the intercom audio output with an audio tone or with a vocal alert, depending on what has been set
To reset an alarm condition press the “RESET” button (P1).
In case of multiple alarms they will be reported sequentially: press “RESET” more times to see all the alarms occured.
Note that also after resetting an alarm, if a measure remains in the red zone, its indication will be shown in blinking red; for the
CHTs and EGTs also the graphic bars become blinking in red.
Below are reported all the possible alarm messages:
•
“HIGH BATTERY VOLTAGE !”
•
“HIGH FUEL PRESSURE !”
•
“HIGH OIL PRESSURE !”
•
“HIGH EGT NUMBER 1...6”
•
“LOW EGT NUMBER 1...6”
•
“HIGH CHT NUMBER 1...6”
•
“LOW CHT NUMBER 1...6”
•
“LOW FUEL LEVEL! LEFT TANK”
•
“LOW FUEL LEVEL! RIGHT TANK”
•
“LOW FUEL LEVEL! MAIN TANK”
•
“FUEL COMPUTER RESERVE!” : Reached the fuel reserve (calculated by the fuel computer section)
•
“MINIMUM FUEL ENDURANCE!” : Reached the minimum endurance (calculated by the fuel computer section)
•
“TANK SWITCHING!” : Alert switching tank for balancing (calculated by the fuel computer section)
•
“WARNING! OVER G”
•
“WARNING! OVERSPEED”
•
“CAUTION! LOW BATTERY VOLTAGE”
•
“CAUTION! LOW FUEL PRESSURE”
•
“CAUTION! LOW OIL PRESSURE”
•
“CAUTION! ENGINE OVERSPEED”
•
“CAUTION! MAXIMUM NO OXYGEN ALTITUDE”
•
“HIGH OIL TEMPERATURE!”
•
“LOW OIL TEMPERATURE!”
8.7 Error messages
Similar to the alarm conditions of the previous chapter, various error messages can be shown by Eclipse, for example when it
cannot find a sensor needed for a measurement: in this case the relative indication start blinking in red with the word “ERR” and
for CHT and EGT also the graphic bars become blinking red.
When this condition happen you should check possible damage to wiring or sensor itself.
The sensors taken in consideration is only those enabled in the sensor setup menu (refer to chap.6.1.1, “Sensor setup”). For this
reason you must assure to have enabled only those sensors installed in your aircraft and let disabled all the rest to avoid false
alarms.
For the main sensors it are also activated an onscreen message and a tone alert on the intercom audio output. The possible
sensor alarms are:
•
“
FUEL PRESSURE SENSOR ERROR!
”
•
“
OIL PRESSURE SENSOR ERROR!
”
•
“
OIL TEMPERATURE SENSOR ERROR!
”
•
“
CHT SENSOR ERROR NUMBER 1...6
”
•
“
EGT SENSOR ERROR NUMBER 1...6
”
Other kind of error messages, not related to sensors/probes, are:
- “
NO GPS
”: When Eclipse does not detect the GPS
- “
SENSORS TEMPERATURE OUT OF HIGH LIMITS
” and “
SENSORS TEMPERATURE OUT OF LOW LIMITS
”: When the
sensors temperature are out of the operating limits (-20 ~ +70 °C). In this case the attitude indicator does not work.
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