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  • Page 1 FDX-kit NexusRace SW Installation and Operation Manual English...
  • Page 2 NexusRace SW English...
  • Page 3 English NexusRace SW This manual is written for NexusRace SW version 1.08 Edition: January 2011...

  • Page 4: Table Of Contents

    Monitoring ....................12 5.2.2 Setup ...................... 13 5.2.3 Navigation....................13 Connection of the cables ..................... 15 Set-up the NXR instrument via Nexus Race SW .......... 16 Configure the NXR instruments ..................17 6.1.1 Unit settings .................... 18 6.1.2 Damping settings ..................19 Setup the NXR Multi Control Instrument ..............
  • Page 5 English NexusRace SW...

  • Page 6: Function Overview

    Each page is configurable for lead text, function, unit, dampening and update rate. When using the Nexus Race SW, it is also possible to create a page that toggles between two functions, select update rate, change the name of the function, select backlight colour etc.

  • Page 7: Part Specification

    English NexusRace SW Part specification __________________________________________________________ Items delivered with the FDX kit Qty. Description USB to RS-232 converter 3 m 9-pole serial cable Installation CD Installation manual The FDX kit comes with all NX2 Servers and contains cables and software to connect your NX2 system to your PC.

  • Page 8: Installation

    NexusRace SW English Installation Installation of the USB to RS-232 converter 3.1.1 General Universal Serial Bus (USB) port technology has emerged in response to the proliferation of external peripheral devices (scanner, digital camera, removable drives, etc.) that are increasingly being connected to the latest generation of PCs.

  • Page 9: Converter Installation

    English NexusRace SW 3.1.4 Converter Installation Connect the peripheral device with the converter first, then plug the other end into the computer’s USB port; the NEW Hardware Wizard appears; click on Next to continue. In the dialog box that comes up, leave the default choice (Search for the best drives for your device) Click on Next to continue.

  • Page 10: Usb To Rs232 Converter Issue(S)

    NexusRace SW English USB to RS232 converter issue(s) The following description applies only under Windows XP. Symptom1: The virtual serial port provided by the USB driver cannot be opened in Sail Performance or Hyper Terminal, although there is no apparent application that keeps the port opened.
  • Page 11 English NexusRace SW If the Mice and other pointing devices category looks similar to Figure 2 (i.e. more than one pointing device), identify, select and remove (by the Delete key) the fake pointing device (usually Microsoft Serial Mouse, but may vary). If the category contains a single item (the “real”...

  • Page 12: Installation Of The Nexusrace Software

    NexusRace SW English Installation of the NexusRace Software 5.1.1 General The NexusRace Software is a shareware that only works together with a FDX Server. 5.1.2 Installing the Software  Insert the CD to your computer  Open Run Software  Brows to your CD (normally D:) and click on NX2 Sail Performance ...

  • Page 13: How To Use The Nx2 Sail Performance

    English NexusRace SW How to use the NX2 Sail Performance When the Software is started and connected to the Server, you can start to use it: 5.2.1 Monitoring Click on the instrument symbol in the top left corner. A list of functions appear. Select the function from the list.

  • Page 14: Setup

    5.2.3 Navigation If you have a NX2 or Nexus navigator (GPS Navigator or Multi Center) you can create and edit waypoints and routes from your NX2 Sail Performance Software. All Waypoints and routes are stored directly in your instrument.
  • Page 15 English NexusRace SW...

  • Page 16: Connection Of The Cables

    NexusRace SW English Connection of the cables Connect the Server to your PC with the supplied 3m Serial Cable as showed in the picture. If you use the USB to RS-232 converter, the 3m cable is still needed!

  • Page 17: Set-Up The Nxr Instrument Via Nexus Race Sw

    Start the Nexus race SW Click on the connect icon Select the com port where the PC cable from the Nexus Server is connected Press OK to connect When the SW has connected to the Nexus Server, the green LED will turn on.

  • Page 18: Configure The Nxr Instruments

    NexusRace SW English Configure the NXR instruments To go to the configuration of the NXR instruments, click on Tools and select Configure The current settings of the instruments are read A list of the connected instruments in the network is displayed with their version numbers.

  • Page 19: Unit Settings

    English NexusRace SW 6.1.1 Unit settings The Unit for water speed will affect all NXR instrument in the network and change to the selected unit for: Boat speed Average Speed Speed Over Ground Drift The Unit for Air speed will affect all NXR instrument in the network and change to the selected unit for: True Wind Speed Apparent Wind Speed...

  • Page 20: Damping Settings

    NexusRace SW English 6.1.2 Damping settings The damping of the displayed data is selectable from the either the Multi Control instrument or in the Configure box. The damping can either be local (different on each instrument) or global (same damping on all instruments. The factory setting is global. The damping is selectable in 10 steps 0-9 and the damping time (for how long an average value is calculated) is as follows: raw data, no averaging...

  • Page 21: Edit Display Of Nxr Multi Control Instrument

    Show race time when started – If this box is ticked, this instrument will have the race timer to pop up when started from another instrument or from the Nexus Race SW. Show immediate messages – This function is only used for the NXR XL20 instrument Store quick configuration –...
  • Page 22 NexusRace SW English There are 14 functions in the list of main functions If you choose one of the functions, i.e. the Boat speed function you can select in which pages that function should be displayed. In this example, boat speed will be accessible from the Speed and the Plus page.

  • Page 23: Setup The Nxr Xl20 And Xl30 Instruments

    Show race time when started – If this box is ticked, this instrument will have the race timer to pop up when started from another instrument or from the Nexus Race SW. Show immediate messages – This function is only used for the NXR XL20 instrument Store quick configuration –...

  • Page 24: Edit Display Of Nxr Multi Control Instrument

    NexusRace SW English Edit display of NXR Multi Control Instrument Right click on the instrument in the list you want to edit the display for and click on Edit The following window will pop up. The settings are divided in two folders, one for main function and one for sub functions...
  • Page 25 English NexusRace SW You may select a secondary function and the display will toggle between the primary and secondary function. Rate is the refresh rate of the display. The higher the rat, the more often the display will be updated Damping is for how long time an average for the function should be calculated.
  • Page 26 NexusRace SW English Function. Here you select which function (what kind of information data) a page should display. Select from the following list: Available functions...
  • Page 27 English NexusRace SW Boatspeed Apparen Wind Speed Heading Apparent Wind Angle True Wind Speed Winddirection True Wind Angle Course Over Ground Speed Over Ground (SOG) Distance to Waypoint Time to Go Bearing to Waypoint Waypoint Closure Velocity Target Boat Speed Barometric Preassure Water Temperarure Time...
  • Page 28 NexusRace SW English Unit. Here you select unit of measurement for the function. You can also select global and then it will be controlled from the Configure start page for all NXR instrument Hint: If you always want to display boat speed on one of your instrument but you want easy access to various setting (damping and rate) of the boat speed.

  • Page 29: Secondary Function

    English NexusRace SW 6.4.1 Secondary function You may choose to toggle between two functions. With the display time you can select if you want the secondary function to be displayed 25%, 50% or 75% of the time. The total period is 4 seconds.

  • Page 30: Custom Data

    PC. This data is only displayed on the XLR Instrument and are not used in any calculations in the Nexus System. The Display is updated according to the rate setting and the header text is displayed as send by the Software providing the data.

  • Page 31: Tools

    English NexusRace SW Tools Calibration The Calibration only works when the PC is connected to the FDX Server. All calibration values are stored in the Server. The calibration may be done manually or automatic. In order to achieve an automatic calibration some minimum system requirements has to be fulfilled (see more under automatic calibration) Manual calibration...

  • Page 32: Depth Calibration

    NexusRace SW English Temperature offset If the temperature is read too high or too low, you may adjust that up or down. 7.2.2 Depth calibration Transducer offset The transducer offset is the distance from the transducer to the water surface. The value entered in this box will be added to the measured depth.

  • Page 33: Compass Calibration

    English NexusRace SW 7.2.3 Compass calibration Magnetic variation, VAR Set the deviation direction first, i.e. [+] for East or [-] for West, then enter the magnetic value in 1/10 of a degree. Adjusting Heel and Pitch If you use a HPC Compass, you need to set the mounting plane of the compass and also zero out the Heel and Pitch.
  • Page 34 NexusRace SW English When you have taken the boat through the minimum 360 turn, press Stop. If you want to pause (if waves comes up during deviation) press Pause and continue again when the waves have disappeared. Check the Autodeviation This function is used to check your Autodeviation.

  • Page 35: Wind Calibration

    English NexusRace SW 7.2.4 Wind calibration Offset Offset is the start value for the wind speed and it could be described as the friction. Normally this value is about 0,5 m/s and it will be constant at all wind speeds. Gain Gain is the calibration value for the wind speed and has to do with the shape of the propeller.
  • Page 36 NexusRace SW English Note: a mast head rigged boat requires more down wind correction than a fractional rig. When you are tacking the apparent wind angle will be distorted due to mast twist, up- wash and the fact that the boat is heeling. All this together will give an error on the apparent wind angle and also on the true wind angle.

  • Page 37: Correction Tables For Nwind

    (also a small error in wind speed will accure) For the nWind transducer of Race version (wearing a green Nexus sticker on the pole), you can adjust the wind angles by using tables for TWA and TWS.
  • Page 38 NexusRace SW English Starboard tack TWA 38.5 degrees TWD 52 degrees Difference in TWD 123 – 52 = 71 TWA port + TWA stb 38.5 + 38.5 = 77 This means that the tacking angle is 71 degrees but the wind angle says 77 degrees. That is 6 degrees too much (77-71).

  • Page 39: Automatic Calibration

    English NexusRace SW 7.2.6 Automatic Calibration Some functions may be automatically calibrated. In order to do so, there are some minimum system requirements. If you have the following parts in your system: Compass transducer, Log transducer, “Twin Fin” wind transducer, GPS Position (Antenna) GPS navigator.

  • Page 40: Controls

    English Controls 7.3.1 Timer Here you may start the Race timer at 5 or 10 minuet count down. This is only possible if a Server is connected. The information will be send out on the Nexus Network to all instruments.

  • Page 41: Steer Pilot

    Here you may select the reference and the value for the Speed trim instrument to refer This is to set the reference, to trim the speed trim instrument, click the trim icon on the control bar. Remote control All digital instruments connected to the Nexus Network may be remotely controlled from the NX2 Race SW.
  • Page 42 NexusRace SW English To add instruments in the list, click Add. Then enter the ID number for that instrument (displayed at each power up of the system) and give it any name you want. You may enter all instrument on the Network or only those you would like to be able to remote control.
  • Page 43 English NexusRace SW Then click on the instrument that you want to control and use the corresponding push buttons...

  • Page 44: Reset Trip Counter

    You May Also click the Man Over Board button on the control bar 7.3.6 Reinitialize Nexus Network This function will reinitialize the whole network and all instruments connected to it. A message Press Key will appear on all instruments and the order you press the keys is...

  • Page 45: Polar Table

    English NexusRace SW Polar table The NX2 system together with the NX2 Race SW is able to calculate target Boat Speed from a Polar Table. The polar tables looks different for different boats. The polar table is a tab- or comma-separated-values text file containing target boat speeds for specific true wind angles and speeds.

  • Page 46: Settings

    Use NMEA Boat Speed If you want to use a NMEA transducer (connected to the NMEA input, you have to tick this box. The Server will then transmit this information on the Nexus Network to all connected instruments. After you have changed this setting, you have to restart the system...

  • Page 47: Nmea

    If you want to use a NMEA navigation (connected to the NMEA input), you have to tick this box. The navigation data (Bearing and Distance to WP, XTE etc.) will then transmitted by the Server on the Nexus Network to all connected instruments. After you have changed this setting, you have to restart the system...

  • Page 48: Specifications

    1 start-bit, 8-data-bits, 1 parity-bit, two stop-bits in 9600 baud. User policy: The Nexus data bus is open for new users and applications without a licence or a licence fee. The data bus is, however, the property of the manufacturer, which means the specification must be followed in order to protect the manufacturer’s commitments...
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