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Uhh, the pilot will notice that the right half of your display is black and you have to move the displayed data to the left one?
by izacus 2y ago
Uhh, the pilot will notice that the right half of your display is black and you have to move the displayed data to the left one?
- stavros 2y agoUhh, that's not "seamlessly blending two displays", that's just having two desplays. If you've seen photos of planes, they don't just have an empty screen next to a working one anywhere.
- izacus 2y agoAh, I misunderstood - it's not uncommon to have those "big" screens also put together from two different screens side by side.
- zppln 2y agoThis is actually what I meant by "merged together". They are two separate displays controlled by separate computers, with separate power supplies etc. During normal mode operation they're synchronized somehow and can draw a large image over the entire display area, but in emergency mode you can display crucial flight data on only one of them if the other stop working. I have never really thought much about it, but I guess the actual LCD thingie is manufactured in one piece and the control signals just being split between different computers somehow, but I don't know anything about how these things are made! :)
- kens 2y agoHere's a paper on a redundant display for military aircraft. Each LCD panel has redundant inputs, driver circuits, and power supplies. The two displays are built on a single LCD substrate, so there is no line between the two. https://www.mrcy.com/resourcehub/displays/dual-redundant-display-in-bubble-canopy-applications https://www.mrcy.com/resourcehub/displays/dual-redundant-dis... https://www.mrcy.com/legacy_assets/siteassets/product-datasheets/mission-computing-and-avionics/displays/2150-display-series-datasheet.pdf https://www.mrcy.com/legacy_assets/siteassets/product-datash...