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rAczing TECHNOLOGY
world’s first
speed controller
come with data
logging and live
view via cell
phone !
1. Support standard JAVA MIDP 2.0 or below, and Bluetooth access via BTAPI
2. Depended on cell-phone model (as tested with Motorola SLVR L7, The range is up to 80M)
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Functions The mercury delivery 50 amp3 rated current by n type mosfet with low
internal resistance, built-in logger measures and records current, voltage, rpm, throttle
level and temperature over time, then uses these measurements to calculate the maximum
power (watt) and capacity used (mah). real-time information as to live and peak current, rpm,
temperature, throttle, live and used voltage, current and maximum power (watt), as well as
existing and accumulated capacity used (mah) is transmitting using bluetooth technology.
User can use their cell-phone to read these data in real-time for their pleasure or to fine-
tune their electrical powered model. 3. Ratings are determined with 5 mph airflow on the ESC.
Benefits The mercury onboard logger and bluetooth module provides critical
information in a revolutionary way to give radio control model hobbyists a new way to fine-
tune the performance of their electrical powered model for things such as :
Features
50 amps continuous, 100 amps surge power.
3 amps bec.
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throttle type (auto, fixed, governor high or low).
electronic timing advance (standard, high or low).
start type (soft, very soft or hard).
pwm switching rate (12, 16, 24 or outrunner).
measure and record current, voltage, rpm, throttle, temperature over time.
motor-wizard help determine motor magnetic pole number.
real-time calculations of the maximum power (watt) and capacity used (mah).
displays real-time informations on java enabled cell-phone streamed via bluetooth.
PARAMETER DATA
bec 3 amp
PARAMETER DATA
operation current 60 ma
dimensions 55 x 26 x 9 mm
weight 36 g
operation range up to 80 m
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Logger Module
voltage 5 - 21 v 0.01 v
current 0 - 80 a 0.01 a
power 0 - 65535 w 1 w
throttle 0 - 100 % 1 %
temperature 0 - 300 oc 1 oc
BEC
servo type
standard or micro high torque or digital
battery type
5 - 6 ni cells 4 4
7 - 8 ni cells
2 cell lipo 4 4
9 - 10 ni cells
4 2
3 cell lipo
> 10 ni cells
disable bec disable bec
> 3 cell lipo
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Read these instruction before use
Before installing your mercury esc, take a moment to look it over. The input battery side has
a black and red wire along with a throttle lead. The motor side has three wires with color
black, white and red. The black and red wires of your mercury esc must connect to your
battery pack’s red and back with correct polarity (red wire of esc connect to red wire of
battery pack and black wire of esc connect to black wire of battery), reversed polarity may
damage your mercury esc without warranty cover.
The three wires from your motor connect to the three wire from mercury esc output. The
order of connection to the motor is not important; you can plug any motor wire to any wire
of mercury esc, in case of motor runs reverse (not your desire direction) just simply switch
both outside wires.
1. be sure to plug the throttle lead into the throttle channel of your receiver.
2. turn on your transmitter (some 2.4 g radio need to power up receiver then followed by
transmitter) and set the throttle stick to mid throttle or higher.
3. connect the power battery to the mercury esc. The esc will remain disarmed and will not
operate until zero throttle is detected.
4. When you are ready to fly, move the throttle stick to its break or lowest position.
When battery is connected to mercury esc in step 3 above, mercury esc will emit 3 short
tones immediate followed by the number of tones indicate that it is power up and number of
lipo cell is counted e.g. when 3 cell lipo is connected, esc will emit 3 short tones followed by
another 3 short tones, and both red and green leds blink indicate mercury esc is unarmed
and onboard bluetooth is ready for pairing or connect respectively, the middle yellow led
stay on indicate data flash is ready to record data.
The mercury esc will not delivery power to the motor until the throttle stick of your
transmitter is moved to its break or lowest position to arm the esc, when armed mercury esc
will emit 6 short tones and red led will be turned off.
Now yellow led is stayed on, when throttle stick is leave its break or lowest position or
throttle is applied, yellow led go blink indicate data is being written to onboard data flash.
When bluetooth mobile phone is connected, green led will be turned off.
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LED Status and Error Codes
LEDs provides error codes and status for mercury esc core, data logger and bluetooth
transceiver modules with 4 types of indication below.
LED stay on
LED blink
LED flash(es)
The following table shown the onboard led action in response to errors and system status.
type
esc data logger bluetooth
action
full throttle is
on ready n/a
detected
power on
blink data is logging ready
or unarmed
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Power ON LED Status and Work Flow
connect esc’s
throttle lead to
receiver
connect motor to
esc 3 wire output
turn on transmitter
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cell phone’s red led - off
bluetooth within yellow led - blink
range green led - off
Programming ESC
Mercury series esc offer programming via transmitter stick or usb link (sole separately) for
advanced features such as helicopter modes.
When answer either yes or no, mercury esc will emit beeps and flashes repeatedly
to indicate the answer is accepted, then move your throttle to middle
position to proceed for next setting or option. next
e.g. when entered into programming mode, it will single flash / beep and followed by
another single flash / beep repeatedly to indicate it is in setting 1 option 1 (cutoff voltage -
auto lipo), move your throttle stick to answer yes or no, if answer is yes, mercury esc will
emit beeps and flashes to acknowledge your answer is accepted, then move the throttle stick
to the middle position to proceed to next setting (double flashes / beeps followed by single
flash / beep for next setting current limiting - 45 a), if answer is no, mercury esc will emit
beeps and flashes to acknowledge your answer is accepted, then move the throttle stick to
the middle position to proceed to next option (single flashes / beeps followed by double
flash / beep for next option cutoff voltage - 4.0 v cutoff).
If you want to program some of the features without go through the rest features, you can
program it by move your stick to full position and have the acceptance tones then exit by
disconnect the mercury esc power.
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Enter Programming Mode
1. connect motor to the mercury esc in order to hear the programming beeps. Make sure
the mercury esc is unpowered, turn on the transmitter and move its throttle stick to
full throttle or highest position. For some 2.4 g transmitter you may need to power on
receiver before turn on transmitter.
2. connect battery to the mercury esc, it will beep its initialization tones (3 short tones)
and emit single flash on red led repeatedly.
3. move the transmitter’s throttle stick back to middle position, the mercury esc will beep
its acknowledge tone (3 short tones) and emit double flashes on red led repeatedly.
4. move the transmitter’s throttle stick back to full or highest position, the mercury esc
will beep its acknowledge tone (3 short tones) and emit triple flashes on red led
repeatedly.
5. move the transmitter’s throttle stick back to middle position, the esc will beep its ready
tone (9 short tones) followed by single beep and emit single flash on red led repeatedly.
Now mercury esc should emit single beep / flash followed by another single beep / flash
repeatedly indicate you are in setting 1 option 1 setting as mentioned before
Stick Action
yes no next
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Programming Setting Example
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Setting / Option Table
* = default
Setting 1 : Cutoff Voltage
option description
1 auto-lipo * use this mode for lipo cells only. after the initialization tones,
the mercury esc will flash / beep the number of cells it counted
and set the cut-off voltage to 3v per cell. if the cell count is
incorrect, please check your batteries are properly charged, and
start over again until you get the correct cell count before you
fly.
4 6.0 v cutoff 5 - 10 cell nicad or nimah packs or 2 cell lipo pack only.
5 9.0 v cutoff 5 - 14 cell nicad, 5 - 16 cell nimah packs, or 3 cell lipo pack only.
6 12.0 v cutoff up to 16 cell nicad or nimah packs or 4 cell lipo pack only.
option description
option description
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Setting 4 : Brake Type
option description
option description
3 governor low governor control power which is attempt to keep motor’s rpm
with throttle stick position / throttle percentage regardless
of how the load changes. For collective pitch helicopter 3d fly
where a constant head speed is desired. mercury esc capable to
use bluetooth java enabled cell phone act as tachometer :
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Setting 6 : Electronic Timing Advance
option description
1 low advance motor rpm decrease with less current draw. recommended
for lower pole count motor.
3 high advance motor rpm increase with more current draw. recommended
for higher pole count motor.
option description
option description
Mercury esc provides real time data streaming into any bluetooth equipped java cell-phone.
Download and copy the software to your cell-phone via either bluetooth or data cable as a
normal java game and install accordingly. Since installation methods for java applets vary
from brand to brand, they may display entire different dialog; e.g. nokia phones allow
copied java program to run directly while sony ericsson phones require you to install
copied java program to another folder ! The following example is based on a sony ericsson
k770i model.
1. download raczing mobile client from raczing website and copy to your cell phone folder.
3. run (some cell-phones need installation first) the raczing mobile client from where it is
saved or copied.
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4. press the search button on the raczing mobile client’s menu and start searching for
bluetooth device - “mercury”.
5. press ok or yes when the "allow application to create client bluetooth connection"
dialog box appear.
6. press ok or yes when the "mercury add to my devices ? " dialog box appears.
7. when ask for passcode, enter 00000 which is default passcode and can be changed via
raczing pc client later.
8. raczing mobile client display current, voltage, rpm and watt on its front page.
10. press number 5 from the keypad to create a new session that also wraps up current
recording session. e.g. measuring power of different start style like soft-start, hard
start, and exponential value without the need to reconnect the battery to reset. This
feature is especially useful when electronic components are sealed inside waterproof
compartments on boats ! (Note: the new session feature only works when the mercury
esc is in range to receive commands)
11. press exit from client menu to exit program at any time.
0 view all 4 main data on front page 4 power (watt) and it peak value 8 new session
1 current (a) and its peak value 5 temperature (c) and its peak value 9 about us page
2 voltage (v) and its minimum value 6 throttle (%) and its peak # screen saver off
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Java Cell Phone Action Mercury ESC Action
Workflow of java
cell phone
Download and copy
connection to raczing mobile client Power on mercury by
mercury esc ! connecting A 5-21v
to java enabled cell source to it
phone
example based on
Sony Ericsson
K770i
Turn on Bluetooth by
going to “Menu -
Setting - Connectivity -
Bluetooth - Turn on”
Go to the folder
where the “Raczing
Mobile Client” program
is located e.g.
Start recording to internal memory when throttle is applied and esc is armed
Application
Press
“Search”
Exit button to search
for any available
Bluetooth device,
“Exit” button
to quit
Search
Error
message
Select bluetooth
device
“Connect to “Mercury” (which is
Mercury the default name) from
error, the drivers list
Please try
again !”
Answer
“Allow
No application to
create client
bluetooth
connection”
?
Yes
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mercury
No ESC within
range and
connection
ok ?
Yes
No Answer
“mercury add to my
Start recording to internal memory when throttle is applied and esc is armed
devices ?”
Enter passcode
(default = 00000) for
device pairing
No
Passcode
matched ?
Yes
Display all 4
measurements
Current, Voltage, RPM
Communication channel is established via
bluetooth, start sending information to
and Watt
Green light off
Press
the paired cell-phone
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Press key “2” Press key “6”
New session feature is exceptionally useful when new peak value logging is needed and reset mercury esc is difficult for
Create new
RPM and its peak session
value
Wrap up current logging & start a new log without need to reset power by disconnect power source and connect back
Green light off
Press key “4” Press key “7”
Display only Display only
Power (Watt) and Capacity (mAh)
Keep
Out of range trying to
connect device /
sending
request ...
within range
Communication channel is
Green light off
established again
again.
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Raczing PC Suite
Suite function
hierarchy
Raczing PC Suite
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Step 1. Install Raclink (usb link) USB Driver (Windows 7)
1.03 1.04
go to “control panel”, click on the “device
go into “hardware and manager” for devices
sound” setting. setting.
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1.11 driver for usb name 1.12 now under device list,
“raczing usb” is you should see the usb
installed. driver is installed
under usb 1/0
controller.
1.03 1.04
in the found new select “install from a
hardware wizard dialog list or specific
box, select “yes, this location”, and press
time only”. windows will the next button to
not ask for drivers continue ...
next time when the
mercury is connected
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Step 2. Run raczing PC Suite and import your first record
2.05 click on any record and 2.06 wait for data graph is
select “chart” from being plotted.
menu “action” to view
in graph form.
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3.05 to toggle view or hide
individual data by click
to its data label.
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Step 5. Change device setting
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Step 7. Firmware upgrade (manual)
7.07 press the “ok” button 7.08 wait until the upgrade
to confirm firmware process is completed,
upgrade. do not disconnect
power at this time.
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Step 8. Firmware upgrade (automatic)
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Safety Precautions
Electric-powered rc model use high and any other person and objects.
power electrical systems may pose The mercury esc is not intended to be
dangers, and it is the user’s use by children.
responsibility to be When the battery has to
familiar with these connect to the motor
dangers and take any whilst working on the
necessary action to aircraft, it is a good safety
ensure safe use. precaution to remove the
Improper use of the propeller.
Mercury esc may starts Understand and observe
the motor without warning all local laws and
and cause the propeller regulations before
to rotate, which risk operating any remote
serious consequences control models.
including but not limited As a safety precaution for
to damage to equipment and peoples around you, please
serious personal injury. Always keep a refrain from flying over others or
safety distance between the propeller, close to a crowded area.
Caring Instruction The Mercury contains no user serviceable parts inside. It does not
require special care, just gentle wipe the mercury with a damp cloth if it gets dirty and it
can be stored anywhere other than an extreme environment or under direct sunlight for a
prolonged period of time.
workmanship for a period of 90 days starting from the date of your original purchase.
Please refer to the Raczing product warranty page for detailed terms and conditions as
well as procedures for warranty claims.
Changes The material in this manual is for owners’ information only and is subject to
change without notice. While reasonable efforts have been made in the preparation of this
manual to ensure accuracy, Raczing assumes no liability resulting from errors or omissions
in this manual or from the use of information contained herein. Raczing reserves the right
to make changes in the product design without reservation and without notification to
users. Please check out our website www.raczing.com frequently for the latest user manual.
Copyright Copyright (c) 2010 by Raczing. All rights reserved. No part of this manual may,
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