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User Manual XC Tracer Mini II GPS 

 

Rev 02 21.10.2018 

 

 

 

 

 

 

User Manual XC Tracer Mini II GPS 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Summary of Contents for XC Tracer Mini II GPS

Page 1: ...User Manual XC Tracer Mini II GPS Rev 02 21 10 2018 User Manual XC Tracer Mini II GPS ...

Page 2: ...ang it round your neck using a cord Position the device in such a way that the solar cell catches as much sunlight as possible during the flight Switch on XC Tracer by pressing and holding the red button until you hear beep beep The GPS will then search for a fix The vario will make some beeping sounds once the GPS has a fix and the white LED will start blinking every 2 3 seconds Don t worry if yo...

Page 3: ...e XC Tracer Mini II GPS also indicates the climb sink rate with beeping tones and the good thing is that you can modify the tone settings using the tone simulator on www xctracer com Mounting XC Tracer Mini II GPS uses data from a 9 DOF IMU 9 Degrees Of Freedom Inertial Measurement Unit and from a pressure sensor to compute the real time climb rate and altitude avoiding the undesired time lag that...

Page 4: ... or if the sky is overcast etc Perhaps the next flight might be different with enough sunshine to power the device and charge the battery however it s always a good idea to switch off the device immediately after landing Should it ever be necessary you can charge XC Tracer Mini II GPS using a Micro USB cable It takes approximately 3 hours to fully charge the battery so it s best to leave it chargi...

Page 5: ...utomatically be set in the config file supported protocols are None XCTRACER LK8EX1 LXWP0 or LXWPW Select the BLE protocol her NB Only one protocol can be selected at once Please check at www xctracer com which protocol to choose for your app LXWPW is like LXWPO but with the information of the calculated wind stringToSend LXWP0 In this case the LXWPO protocol will be will be used supported connect...

Page 6: ... beepOnlyWhenFlying yes the variometer will be silent until XC Tracer Mini II GPS detects a horizontal velocity of 4m s or more during 1 2 seconds With beepOnlyWhenFlying no the variometer will beep not only in flight but also when you walk or move setVolume 2 There are four volume settings 0 3 With this option you set the volume that the vario will use for beeping When beepOnlyWhenFlying yes is s...

Page 7: ...t Please avoid using exactly the same climb rate on adjacent tones as it will create issues tone 1 16 579 527 50 means that with a climb rate of 1 16m s the vario will beep with a frequency of 579Hz that the complete tone interval will last 527ms and that the tone will be audible for 50 of the tone interval This is a typical tone that is used when indicating climbing tone 3 00 280 100 100 means th...

Page 8: ...is now installed and the device is now ready to use Important The information about the firmware version will only be updated once the device has been started up in normal flight mode It s impossible to install incorrect firmware on the XC Tracer Mini II GPS all that happens is that the incompatible firmware will get deleted from the SD card Troubleshooting In the rare event that XC Tracer Mini II...

Page 9: ...compatible Apps for Android iOS IGC KML Logger Extremely easy operation Firmware update by Drag Drop User configurable acoustics tone setting with tone simulator at www xctracer com State of the arte electronics including a 9 DOF IMU GPS BLE and mems pressure sensor Solar cell with 22 5 efficiency Runtime with fully charged battery min 20h no sunlight Size 44 5 x 44 5 x 17 0 mm Weight 34g ...

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