Engine temps on PFD?

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   I recently purchased a 2006 Piper Cherokee 6XT (PA-32-301XTC) with the Avidyne Entegra system. Love the plane and the avionics.
I flew the plane home with my CFI. Afterwards we both thought that we had seen engine temp data (vertical bars) sometimes, but not constantly, displayed on the left side of the PFD near the dials for MP and RPM. We could not find any reference to this in the manuals. And we have not seen it since. Are we mistaken/crazy? Yes, we know they can appear in the top left corner of the MFD.

Avidyne Entegra EX5000 PFD R6.0 530-00177-000 Rev 01
Avidyne Entegra EX5000 MFD R6.2.1 530-00180-002 Rev 04

Thanks for any feedback.

Doug

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dfw11411 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 22 Oct 2019 Location: San Antonio Status: Offline Points: 25	Post Options Post Reply Quote dfw11411 Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: Engine temps on PFD? Posted: 23 Oct 2019 at 2:49pm
	I recently purchased a 2006 Piper Cherokee 6XT (PA-32-301XTC) with the Avidyne Entegra system. Love the plane and the avionics. I flew the plane home with my CFI. Afterwards we both thought that we had seen engine temp data (vertical bars) sometimes, but not constantly, displayed on the left side of the PFD near the dials for MP and RPM. We could not find any reference to this in the manuals. And we have not seen it since. Are we mistaken/crazy? Yes, we know they can appear in the top left corner of the MFD. Avidyne Entegra EX5000 PFD R6.0 530-00177-000 Rev 01 Avidyne Entegra EX5000 MFD R6.2.1 530-00180-002 Rev 04 Thanks for any feedback. Doug

AviSteve Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Admin Group Joined: 12 Feb 2018 Location: Melbourne, FL Status: Offline Points: 2244	Post Options Post Reply Quote AviSteve Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 25 Oct 2019 at 10:39am
	I asked our PFD guy and he said... There is a Piper-specific engine data popup that comes and goes, but it’s not temperature, it’s based on Oil Pressure. For a 6XT, oil pressure must be between 24 and 115 PSI. It typically appears during startup and it will show for a minimum of 3 minutes. There are no bar gauges for that airplane, the only display that comes and goes is the engine data popup. He also recommended that you get the PFD upgraded. Newer software adds logging capabilities that will help diagnose any issues you may encounter and also adds features like in-field ADU calibration, which would probably be a good thing to do at this point.
	Steve Lindsley Avidyne Engineering

dfw11411 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 22 Oct 2019 Location: San Antonio Status: Offline Points: 25	Post Options Post Reply Quote dfw11411 Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 25 Oct 2019 at 11:26am
	Thanks for the info! So, I suppose this means we're only "mostly" crazy. :)