User manual

Exorcist User Manual

Installation

If you are the owner of a SkullTroniX revision 3 (or newer) skull you already have

installed the VSA Console program. The VSA Console is a separate product sold by

Brookshire Software especially for people who want to program their own add-on

products for VSA – like The Exorcist. In anticipation of the release of The Exorcist we

included it secretly with SkullTroniX Rev 3 and newer VSA licenses. If you are not a

SkullTroniX owner you will need to buy the $16 Console application from

http://brookshiresoftware.com and install it before proceeding.

Steps

Plug the IR receiver and USB cable into The Exorcist Input Box. Plug the USB cable

into an unused USB port on your PC.

Insert The Exorcist CD into your PC and install the software.

Open VSA and check your VSA routines to make sure they work correctly in VSA

BEFORE trying them in The Exorcist. If your VSA routines don’t work in VSA they

will be guaranteed not to work in The Exorcist. You really need to be familiar with the

operation of VSA before trying to use The Exorcist.

Open the Exorcist Manual.pdf file and read it before continuing.

Quit VSA and launch The Exorcist application

You are ready to explore some of The Exorcist’s functions now. You’ll see a row of

tabs across the top of the screen.

IMPORTANT READ THIS

It is bad practice to allow a VSA routine to stop and leave your servos powered, for

this reason the SkullTroniX Skull has a built in relay that can power up the servos at

the start of a routine and power down at the end.

Because the Exorcist has the ability to automatically terminate a routine mid stream,

this normally would leave the servos powered, however, Exorcist pulls off a neat trick

that means this doesn’t happen. It is important to know how to prepare a VSA routine

to take advantage of the power down feature when using the Exorcist.

When you send Exorcist a command to stop a routine midway, playback is stopped

immediately, but, Exorcist will then immediately play the first frame of the routine.

Because of this it is important that there are no VSA commands in the first frame of

your routine.