User Manual XC Tracer Mini II GPS
Rev 02 21.10.2018
With this setting the vario will stop beeping when the climb rate is below 0.1m/s. You can also use
negative values here, for example -0.51m/s when you use a thermal sniffer.
SinkToneOnThreshold=-3.0
The sink tone will be activated when the sink rate is below -3m/s.
SinkToneOffThreshold=-3.0
The sink tone will be deactivated when the sink rate is less than -3m/s.
tone=-10.00,200,100,100
tone=-3.00,280,100,100
tone=-0.51,300,500,100
tone=-0.50,200,800,5
tone=0.09,400,600,10
tone=0.10,400,600,50
tone=1.16,550,552,52
tone=2.67,763,483,55
tone=4.24,985,412,58
tone=6.00,1234,332,62
tone=8.00,1517,241,66
tone=10.00,1800,150,70
You must define exactly 12 tones. Additional tones will be deleted from the configuration file, and
missing tones will be complemented with values stored in the Eeprom. The tones must be defined
ascending from tone 1 of -10m/s to tone 10m/s of tone 12.
Important: 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 that with a sink rate of -3.0m/s a tone of 280Hz will be emitted.
As soon as the sink rate changes the tone frequency also changes, depending on the configuration.
This creates a nice sink tone (not that a sink tone is ever nice!)
You can create your own tone settings using the tone simulator on
www.xctracer.com
and then
copy and paste them to the configuration file, or you can simply copy and paste other people's tone
settings to the configuration file.
XC Tracer Mini II GPS doesn't actually save the new configuration into its internal memory until it
starts up in normal flight mode. So, press the red button briefly to unmount / eject the device from
your computer, disconnect it from the USB cable, then turn XC Tracer on as normal.
