User Manual

USER GUIDE
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Control Surfaces – Your model’s elevator, ailerons (or elevons), flaperons, and/or rudder (if equipped).
Mode Switch – A two or three position switch on your radio transmitter which you have configured to control
the “Mod” input on the MicroVector’s Receiver Connection Harness.
Toggle – One fairly rapid movement the Mode Switch between its extents. (UP/DOWN or DOWN/UP)
Configuration Gestures – A series of toggles of the Mode Switch. The number of times you toggle the switch
determines which configuration step is performed.
PDB - Power Distribution Board. This refers the commonly available (typically 35mm x 35mm) power
supply/current sensing boards for small quadcopters.
PSU – Power Supply Unit. This refers to the Eagle Tree Current Sensor/PSU.
BEC – Battery Eliminator Circuit. This refers to a 5-6V output regulator that is either integrated into your ESC,
or is a separate module.
Toilet Bowl – When a multirotor is hovering, the condition of orbiting around the desired hover point,
sometimes in an ever increasing diameter, due to compass error or other issues.
Expo – (short for “exponential”) a setting that provides an increase in stick sensitivity as the stick is moved
from the center position.