XICOY CGMeter Basic User Manual

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CGMeter Basic

Users Guide.

Pl. Pere Llauger, nau 18. 08360, Canet de Mar, Barcelona,Catalonia,Spain

E-mail: [e-mail]. Fax: [phone] web: www.xicoy.com

Xicoy WEEE register number: ES004749 & DE 36558999

© Copyright 2017, Xicoy Electronica SL. All Rights Reserved

Manual contents & design: Gaspar Espiell. V0.9

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Welcome!

Congratulations on the purchase of your weight, balance & angle meter. Xicoy are
dedicated to the design and production of electronic controllers to the highest
standards of quality and reliability to bring you the customer the very latest next
generation designs.

Features:

The Xicoy CGMeter Basic allows both weight and balance of aero models of more than
50kg (110lb) weight, being limited by the maximum weight on a single scale of 25kg.
Each scale is made from tempered & anodized aluminum and has a resolution of 1g.
The scales can be calibrated by the end user if necessary.

The system has a standard Wi-Fi server to where the user can connect any terminal
(phone, tablet and computer) capable to connect to a Wi-Fi network and has a
standard web browser to navigate through the CGmeter Web pages. Software is self­contained and it is not necessary to install any application to the terminal. The system
has been tested with Android, IOS, Windows, Mac and Linux. Current software is
available in English, French, German, Italian and Spanish.

Optionally the user can purchase an angle meter/laser pointer to measure the
deflection angles of any surface with an accuracy of 0.1º.

This module is FCC and CEE certified.

Measuring CG and Weight:

The system consists of 3 x digital weight sensors, to be placed under the wheels of the
airplane. For easy identification, the RED unit should be placed under the LEFT wheel,
BLUE unit under the RIGHT wheel and YELLOW unit under the nose/tail wheel. The
Yellow is the main unit and has the Wi-Fi server plus control electronics.

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Electric connections:

Connect the Blue and Red sensors to the yellow main unit using the leads supplied
each sensor in its own socket. Connect a battery between 5 and 10 volt on the battery
socket as per picture.

Connecting your terminal to the CGMeter:

Inside the main unit there is a standard Wi-Fi server, like
your home router. First step is to connect your terminal
(phone/tablet/computer) to the Wi-Fi network exposed by
the CGMeter.

Select the

XicoyCGMeter

network and connect to it.
Ignore the message that warns that
this server is not connected to
Internet; we want to balance a plane,
not to surf the web!

Once your terminal is connected to the

XicoyCGMeter

network,

then open the web browser and type “cg/”. Don’t forget the “/”,
it is important.

The browser will display the initial
page where you can select the
language. Touch the button of your
preferred language, the setup finished!

The main page is divided in four sections. On first one there
are all the measures done by the system. Next allow to
entry the data from your plane, third allow managing the
internet connection and last one allows the calibration of the
sensors.