Spidertracks Spider 6, Instruction Manual

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3. Troubleshooting
3.1. Loss of Power
Intermittent power supply power issues are easily recognisable and are characterised by:
• Several short tracks which constitute what should have been one track between point
A and B
• An excessive number of 0 min tracks
• Missing tracks (last track terminates at point C, next track originates at point D)
• Last point in track is at a high altitude and/or airspeed (in the absence of a point delay
issue)
• In the case where a Spider is operating in Watch mode, an undesirable outcome of
erratic power cycling may be a tier one alert being fired
Generic Causality
• Spider is powered by auxiliary power outlet (cigarette lighter) which is subject to
interruption from bumps, knocks, and vibration
• Spider is powered by a battery pack which is unable to deliver enough current, and/or
is running flat
Spidertracks strongly recommends hard-wiring the Spider to the avionics bus in situations
where an installation is permanent.
3.2. GPS loss
If the GPS signal is lost, the GPS LED on the Spider will turn off.
3.3. Satellite LED turns off
If the Spider can not connect to an Iridium Satellite for a short period of time there will be a
transmission delay. If the delay exceeds 120 seconds, the GPS LED on the Spider 3 will turn
orange.
The Spider uses a queue and can store a maximum of 10 points, therefore even if the Spider is
struggling to send position points, it can still add points to the queue as long as there is a GPS
lock. Once the Satellite connection is re-established, the Satellite LED on the Spider will turn
back on and the Signal LED on the keypad will turn green.