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Rant: Had a weird intermittent fault on a Garmin G1000 that drove me nuts for a week
Kept getting a random AHRS failure flag during pre-flight checks, but it would clear after a reset. No codes stuck. Finally, instead of chasing the LRU, I pulled the connector at the remote magnetometer. Found a single pin slightly backed out, maybe a millimeter. Pushed it back in with a dental pick. Problem vanished. Has anyone else seen connector issues mimic a full unit failure like that?
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jade_miller621mo ago
A single pin backed out a millimeter caused all that? That's wild.
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the_sarah1mo ago
Yeah, it's crazy how such a tiny thing can cascade. Makes you wonder about the safety margins they actually build in, you know? Like, was that pin the only thing holding a whole assembly in alignment?
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