Selecting The Airframe Type; Accepting The Airframe Type; Telling The Vector About Transmitter Dual Surface Mixing - Eagle Tree Systems Vector User Manual

5.5 Selecting the Airframe type

The next configuration step is to select the Airframe type. Please review the chart in section 3.5.7 to determine
the airframe type you should select.
Then, invoke menu mode, select the "Change Airframe Type..." menu item
under the "New Model Checklist" menu, and follow the instructions.
Whenever the airframe type is changed, many settings, such as
controller gains, receiver settings, compass calibration, RTH settings, mode
switch mappings, and any other airframe specific settings may be changed
to their default values for that airframe type.
airframe type first, before making other settings.
Make sure the airframe type is correctly selected! If a fixed wing
airframe type is selected with a multirotor, the propellers can spin uncontrollably at high speed at
power-up! Likewise, if a multirotor airframe type is selected with fixed wing, the servos can be pushed
beyond their endpoints and be destroyed!

5.6 Accepting the Airframe Type

For safety, when you select the airframe type via the Stick Menus, the
Vector will ask you to confirm the newly selected airframe type on the next
boot-up after you change it, but only after USB is disconnected. The
Vector's outputs will not be turned on until you OK the airframe type.
The message at right will appear on the screen during boot for about 30
seconds. Toggle the mode switch to accept the new type, if it's correct.

5.7 Telling the Vector about Transmitter Dual Surface Mixing

If your traditional fixed wing model has dual ailerons/flaperons, elevators, or rudders, and the transmitter
does the mixing for these, you need to follow these steps:

If you are using a standard receiver (not SPPM or S.BUS™) make sure the "Aux" receiver
harness connector is connected to the correct secondary output channel of your receiver
(for example, the 2

If you are using a serial receiver mode, you should have enabled this mixing before
running the Serial Rx Input Learn Wizard. If you did not, you'll need to rerun that
wizard.

Invoke menu mode, and change the "Tx Mixed Dual Contrl Surfaces" menu item under the "New
Airframe Checklist" menu to correspond to the type of second channel you have.

Before flying, you will need to connect the servo for the secondary channel to the "Aux1/M5/RPM"
Vector output.
If you have two secondary channels, such as two ailerons and two elevators, and you want your
transmitter to do the mixing on both channels, you must use a serial receiver mode (SPPM or S.BUS™) since
there is only one Aux input in standard receiver mode. You can select the correct inputs and outputs for your
setup as described in section 5.8 below.
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