Tuesday, October 3, 2023

HOW TO Configure the ECM Panel

For ECM pcb description, options and how to configure the expander address, see PSCockpit Quick Guide V.7 – ECM PCB. You can access the Quick Guide from Help/Quick Guide menu in the PSCockpit software.

The ECM pcb must be configured both digital expanders.

ECM-LIGHTS DIGITAL EXPANDER

To configure the PSCockpit ECM-LIGHTS panel select the correct option from the Expander pull down list in the IOLayout page of the PS Cockpit Software at the correct I2C channel:





In case of there is some data already in the selected expander, the software will prompt you for continue:




The software will prompt you to setup the ECM panel in our Airplane model:


If you accept, the Airplane page will show up and the lights of the ECM indicator will be configured. 


The software will also prompt you to add the standard BMS commands for the ECM Lights pushbuttons:



If you accept, the software will prompt you to search for your BMS .key file, typically in ..\Falcon BMS vX.X\User\Config folder, and will automatically search for the keystrokes you have set in your .key file for the ECM Lights pushbuttons:


If any of the commands hasn't been set, you will see a warning indicating how many commands haven't been set and the Commands page of the PSCockpit software will appear:


Once the ECM panel is already configured you can modify the list of inputs/outputs as desire as well as the free I/O of the expander:



ECM-PUSHBUTTONS DIGITAL EXPANDER

In the same way the expander ECM-Pushbuttons can be configured in PSCockpit IOLayout:



This expander has only pusbuttons to configure. Just follow the procedure as above.

Once the ECM Pushbutton expander is already configured you can modify the list of inputs/outputs as desire as well as the free I/O of the expander:



Regards,

Shep









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