Kanardia EMSIS User manual

EMSIS
Installation and User Manual
© Kanardia d.o.o.
November 2021
Manual Revision 3.1

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Revision History
The following table shows the revision history of this document.
Rev. Date Description
1.0 November 2012 Initial release
2.0 February 2013 Added Installation
2.6 May 2013 Added Maps
2.12 June 2015 Added description of functions accu-
mulated in since v2.6
2.13, 2.14 July 2016 Bug fixes, red crosses on interactive
parameters, heading indicator, Lo-
Hi-NC messages
3.0 May 2020 Latex rewrite
3.1 November 2021 Figures and text updated to the lat-
est version
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Emsis — Manual CONTENTS
Contents
1 Introduction 9
2 General Information 9
2.1 CommandPanel .................... 10
2.2 Turning ON/OFF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
2.3 Updating Emsis Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
2.3.1 Downloading Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
2.3.2 Copying New Software to Emsis . . . . . . . . 12
2.3.3 Firmware Update . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
2.4 Installing New Layout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
2.5 Technical Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
2.6 CANBus ........................ 15
3 Emsis PFD 18
4 Emsis EMS 19
4.1 Engine Sensors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
5 Screens 21
5.1 Primary Flight Display Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
5.2 Engine Monitoring Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
5.3 MapsScreen....................... 27
5.3.1 ZoomLevel ................... 28
5.3.2 Activation.................... 28
5.3.3 Copying ..................... 28
5.3.4 Deleting ..................... 29
5.3.5 Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
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5.3.6 Settings ..................... 30
5.4 Emsis Setup Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
5.4.1 Logbook..................... 33
5.4.2 Engine...................... 34
5.4.3 Min/Max Values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
5.4.4 Tank....................... 39
5.4.5 Brightness.................... 39
5.4.6 Airspeed..................... 39
5.4.7 Units....................... 41
5.4.8 Pilots ...................... 41
5.4.9 Maps....................... 42
5.4.10 Service...................... 42
5.4.11 About ...................... 50
6 Installation 51
6.1 Installation to the Instrument Panel . . . . . . . . . . 51
6.1.1 Emsis Back Panel Connectors and Cable Clear-
ance ....................... 52
6.2 Connection to the Electrical System . . . . . . . . . . 54
6.3 Pitot-Static Connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
6.4 Outside Air Temperature Probe Installation . . . . . 56
6.5 Connection to the CAN Network . . . . . . . . . . . 57
6.6 Connection to the 485 Network . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
6.7 GPS Antenna Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
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7 Tank 59
7.1 SoftwareTank...................... 59
7.2 HardwareTank ..................... 60
7.2.1 Units....................... 61
7.2.2 Setting up the Channel . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
7.2.3 Tank Calibration in Steps . . . . . . . . . . . 62
7.2.4 Tank Calibration Using Known Shape . . . . 66
8 Limited Conditions 69
8.1 Warranty ........................ 69
8.2 TSO Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
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Emsis — Manual 1. Introduction
1 Introduction
First of all, we would like to thank you for purchasing our product.
The Emsis system is a set of complex electronics devices and we
strongly recommend to carefully read this manual before installing
and using the system.
Emsis is a name for a line of flight instruments which can be used as:
primary flight display (PFD),
engine monitoring system (EMS).
or both.
The introduction chapter contains some general information about
the instrument and its operation. Later chapters describe Emsis use
and reveal the details.
CAUTION: Emsis is not TSO approved as a flight instrument.
2 General Information
This chapter describes the organization of the Emsis instrument. It
teaches you about the individual buttons and their meaning. After
reading it, you will be familiar with basic operations.
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Emsis — Manual 2.1 Command Panel
2.1 Command Panel
Emsis instruments come in two physical sizes. The first one is a
standard aviation size, which is 80 mm diagonal, while the second
one is non-standard and is characterized with a 3.5” screen diagonal.
The Emsis command panel is organized according to Figure 1. It uses
six (80 mm version) or five (3.5” screen version) small push buttons
to manipulate the user interface. Additionally, it has SD card slot
for software, maps and data updates.
Figure 1: Organization of Emsis front panel. Emsis 80 mm version
(left), Emsis 3.5” screen version (right)
Here is a brief description of individual items:
1
O The up arrow button is used to move the menu selection, to
change a value or a letter within active control or some other
screen-specific function.
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