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USER MANUAL Flarm LED indicator Version 1.14

Important Notices Packing Lists Basics System Description Limited Warranty 3.1 LXNAV FlarmLed display at a Glance 3.1.1 LXNAV FlarmLed display features 3.1.2 Interfaces 3.1.3 Technical Data 4.1 Description of Flarm Led Display 4.1.1 Status LEDs 4.1.2 Horizontal direction LEDs 4.1.3 Vertical direction LEDs 4.1.4 Push Button 4.2 Normal operation 4.2.1 WARNING Modus: 4.2.2 NEAREST Modus: 4.2.3 Obstacle warning 4.2.4 Undirected PCAS warning 4.3 Powering up FlarmLed display 4.4 Setting up FlarmLed display 4.5 Other indications 4.5.1 Copying the IGC-file onto SD-card: 4.5.2 Running Flarm firmware...

1 Important Notices The LXNAV FlarmLed display is designed for VFR use only as an aid to prudent navigation. All information is presented for reference only. Information in this document is subject to change without notice. LXNAV reserves the right to change or improve their products and to make changes in the content of this material without obligation to notify any person or organization of such changes or improvements. A Yellow triangle is shown for parts of the manual which should be read carefully and are important for operating the LXNAV FlarmLed display Notes with a red triangle...

FlarmLed display cable

3 Basics 3.1 LXNAV FlarmLed display at a Glance FlarmLed display is a Flarm® compatible device, able to indicate horizontal and vertical direction of a threat. Nearby traffic is displayed visually and acoustically. It’s extremely small size, low power consumption, and has very bright bicolor LED’s. extremely bright bicolor LEDs pushbutton, to adjust beep volume near mode function adjustable baud rate slave mode Low current consumption Serial RS232 input/output pushbutton 12 bicolor LEDs for direction 5 LEDs for vertical angle 3 LEDs for GPS, Rx and Tx indication LXNAV FlarmLed display...

4 System Description 4.1 Description of Flarm Led Display Flarm • • • • • led consist of 5 main parts: Status LEDs Horizontal direction LEDs Vertical direction LEDs Push button Beeper Status LEDs Status LEDs indicates if Flarm receiver receives any data, transmits data and GPS status. RX status led indicates that Flarm is receiving something from other Flarm units. TX status led indicates that Flarm is transmitting data. GPS status led has 3 different modes: • Fast blinking mode, means, that FlarmLed does not receive anything over serial bus (probably needs to set correct baud rate) • Slow...

4.2 Normal operation In normal operation with short press, we can cycle between three different volumes (Low, Medium and High). With long press, is enabled or disabled near mode. Switching of mode is also visually supported with moving light around circle. Red moving light means, that near mode is enabled, yellow moving light means, that near mode is disabled. WARNING Modus: WARNING Mode will activate a red blinking diode, if another glider equipped with Flarm will be close and a prediction for a collision risk is calculated. An audio warning will be also executed. Higher collision risk...

Undirected PCAS warning Is the FlarmLED connected to a device, which also translates transponder signals with ADS-B data into Flarm warnings, you will receive them in the same logic as above. Transponder signals without ADS-B data contain no direction for the thread therefore you will get an undirected warning with the following alternating signals: 4.3 Powering up FlarmLed display LXNAV FlarmLed is powered directly from flarm device with 3.3Volts. When gets power it passes boot up sequence with test of all LEDs and short beep, shows version of FlarmLed display firmware (yellow led...

Copying the IGC-file onto SD-card: Running Flarm firmware update from SD-card Copying the obstacle database from SD-card

Error codes from flarm Description Fault: Software out of date (needs GPS reception) Fault: Software integrity violation (only on IGC-units) Fault: Internal GPS communication Fault: Faulty GPS configuration Fault: Internal radio No operation communication Fault: General internal communication Fault: Flash memory

Fault: Pressure sensor Fault: Other fault Indication: No obstacle data bank Operation possible Indication: Flight recording not possible Operation possible Indication: Engine-noise recording not possible (only on IGC-units) Operation possible Indication: Error with SDcard configuration file Operation possible Indication: Transponder receiver mode C/S/ADS-B unserviceable. Operation possible Indication: Obstacle database out of date (alarms are still generated). Operation possible Indication: Invalid obstacle database licence. Operation possible

Indication: Invalid IGC feature licence. Operation possible Indication: Invalid AUD feature licence. Operation possible Indication: Invalid ENL feature licence. Operation possible Indication: Invalid RFB feature licence. Operation possible Indication: Invalid TIS feature licence. Operation possible Indication: Generic error. Operation possible Indication: Flash File System error. Operation possible Indication: Failure updating firmware of external display (e.g.,Butterfly). Operation possible Indication: Device is operated outside designated region. Radio performance may be degraded. Page 12...

FlarmLed pinout (output) Transmit from LXNAV FLARM LED RS232 Level (input) Receive to LXNAV FLARM LED RS232 Level 3.3V power supply (input) FlarmMouse - FlarmLED Flarm Power Supply Cable

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Date May 2013 October 2013 March 2014 May 2014 May 2018 January 2019 January 2021 Comment Initial release of owner manual Added chapters 4.2 and 4. Modified chapter 4.4 Added error codes Modified chapter 4.1.1 Updated chapter 4.4 Style update