VBar Control Device Manual
Table Of Contents
- Benefits at a Glance
- Introduction
- General Safety Precautions
- Package Contents
- Transmitter Controls and Features
- Basic Transmitter Operation
- How to turn the VBar Control on and off
- The Main Screen and the Easy Dialog System
- Basic VBar Control Setup
- Transmitter Setup
- Application Setup
- How to change the Stick Mode and adjust the Stick Tension, how to change the Stick Length
- How to use VBar Control as a USB Game Controller
- Binding a VBar Control Satellite Receiver
- Battery Charging
- Tips for using your VBar Control Transmitter
- VBar Control Satellite Receiver
- Updating and Enhancing your VBar Control Transmitter
- Recycling VBar Control and the Rechargeable Battery
- Technical Data
- Getting Support and Service for your VBar Control
- Compliance Information for the U.S., Europe and Other Countries
- FCC Grants
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■ Select USB mode
from the Transmitter Setup.
■ Connect the USB lead to your computer.
■ There is no driver needed on Windows PCs nor on
Macs. The operating system will detect VBar Control
automatically as a game controller.
■ In your preferred simulator software, select VControl as
a controller and set up/calibrate as needed.
☝ Attention: Use the Simulator’s menus to adjust the Simu-
lator to the VBar Control transmitter. Do not change set-
tings (e.g. switches) in your VBar Control transmitter; this
will affect behavior of your real-life models, too.
■ Option 1
» Turn on VBar Control transmitter.
» Make sure motor/throttle controls are in OFF position.
» Select
from the
menu.
» Turn on the VBar with the VBar Control Satellite
Receiver connected.
» Wait a few seconds for the VBar Control to scan for
available devices.
» Select the VBar Control Satellite Receiver from the list.
» VBar Control will conrm with the message ‘Connect-
ed’.
■ Option 2
» Turn on the VBar with the VBar Control Satellite
Receiver connected.
» Wait for 10 seconds for the receiver to go into bind
mode.
» Only now turn on VBar Control transmitter.
» Make sure motor/throttle controls are in off position.
» Select
from the
menu.
» Wait a few seconds for the VBar Control to scan for
available devices.
» Select the VBar Control Satellite Receiver from the list.
» VBar Control will conrm with the message ‘Connect-
ed’.
☝ Attention If the re-binding procedure is no completed, a
previously bound VBar Control Satellite Receiver remains
bound to the last VBar Control transmitter it was bound to.
The binding information is not automatically deleted by mis-
takenly powering up the model. Just turn the model off, turn
on your VBar Control transmitter, then turn on the model
again: it will re-connect at once.
■ The built-in battery will be charged every time VBar
Control is connected to a personal computer, using the
USB cable. A green light will come on in the EDS Dial
when the VBar Control is connected to a live USB port.
■ To charge VBar Control without a PC, connect the wall
charger provided to a wall outlet. Select the appropriate
adapter for your country. A red light will come on in the
EDS Dial when the VBar Control is connected to the
wall charger.
■ Connect the charger to VBar Control.
■ Charging time from the wall charger will be approx. 1.5
hours.
■ When left on the wall charger, trickle charge will keep
the battery fully charged.
■ Charging time from the USB cable will be approx. 10
hours (with the transmitter turned ON) or 40 hours (with
the transmitter turned OFF). This is due to technical
regulations of the USB power supply.
■ You may connect both the USB cable and the wall
charger at the same time. The integrated charging circuit
in your VBar Control transmitter will always use the input
with the highest power and disable the other input.
■ In case the battery is exhaustively discharged, the
charging time will noticeably increase to safely get the
battery back to life.
■ Power saving
Set the low threshold of the ambient light sensor to a low
value, so the transmitter always uses the least power
needed for the display.
■ Range check, check of antennae
Once a VBar Control Satellite Receiver is connected,
you can check the antenna status at
/
. You will see bars indicating the overall link
power as well as the signal strength of the four anten-
nae (Tx=radio, Rx=receiver).
⚠ If one of the four vertical bars falls below the indicated
threshold, stop using VBar Control and nd and remedy the
cause.
For a range check, walk around your model in a 30 ft/10 m
radius. Point the antenna of VBar Control at the model as
if you were ying it. Link power may not read below the
vertical threshold line.
⚠ If link power falls below the vertical threshold line, re-ar-
range the antennae and repeat the test.
☒ Do not place the model onto a metal surface for this test.