Dynon Avionics SkyView System Installation Guide - Manual (Page 36)

System Planning
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Splitters and Gender Changers
Splitters (SV-NET-SPL) use aircraft-grade Tefzel® wiring, consist of a male D9 input connector
and two female D9 output connectors, are 1 foot long, and include a connector gender changer
(SV-NET-CHG). They add another module connection point in the network. An example
application for a splitter is the connection of primary and backup ADAHRS in a SkyView network
off one network cable coming from a display. These can also be used when you require more
network connections than the two SkyView connectors that are present on each display,
though the preferred mechanism for adding SkyView connections is the SkyView Network Hub
(described below).
Note that customers that purchased SkyView systems prior to March 2012 are likely to have
splitters for all SkyView network expansion needs. More recent customers are likely to have
fewer splitters (usually, just one at a dual ADAHRS installation), and one hub.
Connector gender changers allow SkyView network cables to connect to the output connector
of a splitter. This allows a cable split to occur in the middle of a long run of cable.
SkyView Network Hub
The SV-NET-HUB SkyView Network hub contains 5 SkyView Network ports. All 5 ports are
identical. In other words, any of them can be used to connect to your displays, modules, and/or
autopilot servos. Servo power should be broken out, as is normally done. See the Autopilot
Servo Installation section of this manual for more information about Servo wiring. The SkyView
Network Hub is designed to ease the distribution of SkyView Network connections to multiple
SkyView Network components by allowing easy expansion of a SkyView network without
relying on a more expensive network of individual splitters. It also allows for fewer overall
connections over the splitter-only method that was primarily used prior to March 2012 as the
hub-based method requires no gender changer connectors.
Figure 3 – SV-NET-HUB SkyView Network Hub