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New Gun, IR control for the microCeline - 060915 The Gun includes a charger for one 30 mAh Lipo batteries. About 40 Lipo recharges can be obtained from fresh AA batteries. Four AA standard batteries are required. Operations Normal transmit Power the transmitter switch on, leaving the joystick in the center. You get a set of flashes on the LED, and then a slow blinking. You can power the receiver plane and fly. If you do not use the joystick for 2 minutes, a decrescendo will mean you should better switch off to save the battery. The power is removed from the infrared leds anyway, so the power consumption is significantly reduced. IR power is re-established for 2 minutes as soon and everytime you move the joystick or the throttle. You can power the receiver before the transmitter. In this case, the receiver send bursts to the rudder and elevator until you power the transmitter or remove the Lipo. If the receiver loose the IR stream, its LED is on continuously and the control status does not change (unless the last received order was corrupted). Beginner's mode With the joystick pushed in front at powerup, the throttle is limited to half the power and the pitch is limited to a smaller torque downwards. This allows easy flights while getting familiar with the plane reactions. Lipo recharge The Lipo charger has its own electronics and indicator Led. The Led blinks rapidely if no battery is inserted. Insert the Lipo inside the battery slot. The LED is continuously on during charge. There is a small residue of continuous light when the battery is charged (voltage above 4.17V). When the battery is not well discharged, it happen that the charge does not starts, unless you switch off and on again the power. The Gun microcontroller check the status of the charging process. If the battery is inserted and there is no piloting, the IR transmissions will stop after two minutes, the led will blink at a low frequency as long the Lipo is being charged. As soon charged, the decrescendo every 10 second will warn you to switch off or put a new battery to be cherged. If you just want to charge, and be sure you do not transmit for 2 minutes, just power–on with the joystick on the back, against you. Special 2-user mode The Gun and the receiver on the plane allows for two users flying simultaneously. This requires a synchronization cable connected between the two Guns, a very standard audio cable with two female jacks, At power-up, if the joystick is fully right, you are considered as user #1 and the jack on the side emits a synchronizing pulse for the slave. If the joystick in on the left side at power-up, the soft is in user #2 mode and the transmission occurs only if the synchronizing cable is connected to user #1. User #1 switch on the transmitter and the receiver, so its receiver synchronize. Then it switches it off while user #2 switch on the transmitter and the receiver, so the receiver set-up a different synchronization. User #1 can then switch on again and the flights can start. Survey 4 possible modes at power-up - center for normal mode - front for advanced mode - right for user #1 - left for user #2 - back for no transmission from the beginning 3 blinking speed - 1.5 Hz normal transmitting mode - 0.5 Hz simulator mode - 0.2 Hz charging mode, no transmission An alarm sound every 10 seconds means you should switch off or put another battery to be loaded. Flight simulator When not in two-user mode, the Gun audio jack plug transmits non-stop a nega tive PPM signal identical to the one transmitted on most RC radios hahing a trainig plug. Adapting bos toward a PC are available, ask your RC store or search on Google "flight simulator ppm adapter" . Several flight simulators are available, e.g. http://n.ethz.ch/student/mmoeller/fms/index_e. html Technical data Box size 175x50x22mm. Weight - without batteries 42g – with 190g Idle current (6V) 2.5 mA IR tramsmitting average current 65 mA Lipo charging current 80 mA (full charge in 30 min) Good AA batteries allows for 20 hours of flight or 40 Lipo recharges.