Recommended setups
For electric sailplanes:
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Setup 9 at #4 and setup10 at #0
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Setup 14: Select current sensor type: 80 A or 150 A or 400 A
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Optional: Drive battery voltage alarm in Setup 12
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Optional: Temperature threshold in Setup 11
For electric models:
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Setup 9 at #5 and Setup 10 at #0 ; all other Setups may remain in their default setting
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Setup 14: Select current sensor type: 80 A or 150 A or 400 A
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Optional: Drive battery voltage alarm in Setup 12
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Optional: Temperature threshold in Setup 11
The pitot-tube airspeed sensor may replace the WSTECH GPS groundspeed sensor for speed
measurements. Setup 4 allows the choice between a single announcement of a maximum speed reading
and a continous mode. The details are described in chapter 7.1.
All these modes and alarms can be configured in the setup procedure.
The sensor interface can either accept the temperature or the pitot-tube sensor from SM-Modellbau.
If the temperature sensor is connected there is a setting above 0° required in Setup 11 in order to activate
the temperature announcement in the vario.
In reverse, if the speed sensor is connected setup 11 must be set to 0 and Setup 10 at #3. The temperature
check and announcement is then suppressed automatically.
13.1 Important Notes about Sensor Interface Operation
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Only the special 4-pole cable is to be used for connection to the vario.
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Both connectors do not have a special assignment; they may be used either way
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The current sensor should not be connected to the motor drive battery before several seconds after
vario start-up
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Important: Always connect the negative lead first.
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The sensor interface is powered by the vario
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The default setup settings provided, there is no need for any setup changes if the sensor interface is
connected together with the GPS module only.
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With the current sensor connected, Setup 9 must be set accordingly. Otherwise there will be no
announcement of electric drive measurements.
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Setup 14 has to be set according to the current sensor. Default setting is the 150 A type from SM-
Modellbau.
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If the sensor interface and the GPS module are connected correctly, the 5
th
“beep” of the start-up
phase will last longer than the first four and it is followed by two short “beeps”. The vario thus
indicates the detection of the GPS-module and it announces ”sensor interface and GPS detected”
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When operating the sensor interface without GPS module, there is only one short beep (instead of
two) and the voice output “sensor interface detected”.
14 Notes about CS DataVario Operation together with the UniLog Data Logger
UniLog, current sensor, temperature sensor and speed sensor are products from SM-Modellbau
(www.SM-Modellbau.de) and are available in their online-shop.
The UniLog
data logger is connected to the vario with e special 3-lead cable from WSTECH. The 4-pole
COM-port is used on the UniLog side.
If the UniLog is connected, the vario has to be configured for this in Setup 10; otherwise there would be no
data exchange between both units. Even though the vario will recognize lots of settings by itself, it is
mandatory that the user takes care for the following settings when operating the vario with the UniLog:
