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Altitude mode (switch in middle position): The altitiude is announced in 50 m/ 100 ft steps, but not
more often than every 4 sec.
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Selecting the altitude mode, coming from the integral mode (switch forward), and when using the
pitot-tube-sensor either together with the UniLog A1 mode or the WSTECH sensor interface with the
proper setting in Setup 10, option 3: single voice output of altitude and airspeed (km/h)
7.2.1
Selecting the Standby Mode
When selecting the standby mode (switch backward), an immediate measurement of the present voltage and
current is triggered and the following voice output initiated thereafter:
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Actual drive battery voltage in volts
•
Actual motor current in amperes
•
Actual altitude in meters/feet
•
Actual R/C supply voltage in volts
•
Flight time elapsed since the start-up of the vario, respectively since the first motor power-up,
example: “6.7 minutes”
•
Actual temperature in centigrades
These values are stored and announced after the following start-up of the vario:
•
Flight time, see above
followed by the
maximum
values of
•
Altitude in meters
•
Speed measured either by GPS or with the pitot tube sensor
•
Consumed battery capacity in Ah
•
Motor current in amperes
•
Temperature in centigrades
and followed by the
minimum
values of
•
R/C battery voltage in volts
•
Drive battery voltage
8
Alarms and Alarm Thresholds
8.1
Receiver Battery Voltage Check and Alarm
The actual receiver voltage which also supplies the vario is continuously checked by the vario electronics.
After start-up the first value is announced after the initialization phase. Later, an automatic announcement is
triggered by each step down of 0.1 volt. When the preset threshold value is passed the announcement is
preceded for 3 sec. by an alarm tone “djiu, djiu, djiu,...”. The alarm can be set in Setup 6 in the range from
4.4 to 6.0 volt.
A brief switchover to the standby mode will trigger an actual check at any time.
The receiver voltage is always checked by the vario electronics itself, even if a separate data logger is
connected into the system.
8.2
Drive Battery Minimum Voltage Check and Alarm
This feature is part of the electric drive measurements and only possible with
•
the sensor interface from WSTECH or SM-Modellbau, and
•
the current sensor from SM-Modellbau.
Setup 12
allows the setting of an alarm threshold between 5 and 50 volts. When the threshold is passed an
alarm tone will sound and the voltage is announced. This alarm will be repeated as lower voltage values are
reached, i.e. in steps of 0.5 volt in the range of up to 20 volts and in steps of 1.0 volt at voltages above 20
volt.
A manual request can be triggered at any time by a brief switchover into the standby mode.
8.3
Temperature Check and Alarm
This feature is only possible together with
•
the sensor interface from WSTECH or the UniLog from SM-Modellbau, and
