Flarm; External Flarm Or Power Flarm - LXNAV LX90xx System Installation Manual

Installation and Configuration
repeater unit, which is installed on 2
5.2.2.2

Flarm

Mostly Flarm is built inside main display unit.
antenna to the connector marked with Flarm.
Flarm antenna connector is SMA type. Normally we supply dipole antenna on approx. 1m
long cable.
For good Flarm reception, Flarm antenna must be positioned vertically, as far as possible
from metal parts, cables and instruments.
We had very good experience installing Flarm antenna in the tail of the glider.
5.2.2.3

External Flarm or Power Flarm

If main display unit has no internal Flarm, user has a possibility to connect to it external
Flarm or Power Flarm. All Flarm/Power Flarm items will be displayed on the navigation map,
with same functionality as is with built-in Flarm.
External Flarm/Power Flarm can be connected to the main display unit with LX5FLARM
cable.
On main display unit side LX5FLARM is connected to 5 pin rounded connector. On the other
side of LX5FLARM cable is 6 pin standard IGC RJ12 plug connector, which is plugged into
Flarm/Power Flarm port.
Using improper type of cable may harm your display unit or Flarm/Power Flarm
units.
For connection to the power Flarm is prepared special cable LX5PF, with RJ45 on
Flarm side.
nd
seat.
In this case we need to connect Flarm
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