Owner`s manual

B TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS

B Technical speciﬁcations

Mechanical

• Dimensions 147 x 117 x 24 mm

• Weight 480g (Altair Standard), 500g + 220g (Altair PRO + Recorder

Unit), Wiring harness 50g, 1m patch cable 50g, GPS

antenna 70g.

• Mount Instrument panel via four screws, direct to instrument panel

or via mounting brackets.

Computer

• CPU Intel XScale PXA270 at 325 MHz

• Memory (RAM) 64 Mb

• Memory (Storage) 32 Mb, approximately 8 Mb available to user

• Operating system Windows CE 5.0

Display

• Dimensions 5.7 inch (145 mm) diagonal

• Resolution 320x240 pixels

• Technology Transmissive LCD, 18 bit colour, with back light and

automatic brightness adjustment

Conﬁguration

• Software conﬁguration On-screen, built into XCSoar software

• File updates By USB memory stick using AltairSync software

• Firmware upgrade By USB memory stick using AltairSync software

Interface

• Protocol NMEA-0813 with proprietary extensions

• Serial comms RS-232 1200 - 115200 baud, 8N1

• USB host USB 2.0, Type A

• Peripheral bus Dallas Semiconductor OneWire bus

Power Supply

• Operating Voltage 12V DC (8 − 16V DC)

• Consumption 275 mA typical at minimum back light, 500 mA typical at full

back light, 250 mA additional when charging backup battery.

• Battery backup Li-Ion, 3/4h to 6h endurance

Altair has over-voltage protection which disconnects the device from the power source if the input

voltage exceeds 16V. Input voltage over 30V will blow the internal fuse. Altair is reverse voltage

protected up to -30V.

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