The ACR Systems Manager is our external control center.
The app is very easy to use, as I will show you in this video.
To access the beast settings via the ACR Manager, you need to connect the stabilizer to a Windows computer or a Mac using a USB cable.
Connect the cable to a free USB port on your computer.
Then, connect the small end of the cable to the USB port on the beast.
The unit will receive power and the OLED screen on the back will light up, showing various state update.
Notice that the 5V USB power is enough to access the on-board manager settings without the need to launch the whole unit.
That way you can preset various settings. The on-board manager is explained in another video.
Launch the ACR Manager after it is installed in your system. The application will detect the beast on one of the ports.
Click the connect button to access the device.
This step will show up after the connection is established. You can change the main operating modes here.
Switch between extended stabilization and follow mode, as well as choose which axis have the follow mode engaged.
The circular indicators on the right show the current camera position on each axis.
There is also additional information across the screen, including connection status, currently chosen profile, device name, firmware version, hardware version, ACR manager version,
IDC errors counter and cycle time. The two latter indicators are for maintenance purposes and are useful for troubleshooting.
The read and write buttons will either read the last saved settings from the gimbal or write any changes you make in the manager.
Remember to click the write button whenever you want the changes to take effect.
The performance tab holds important settings responsible for the unit performance.
The filter setting is helpful with heavier setups as it tries to smoothen any vibrations that may occur when handling the inertia of heavy cameras during stabilization.
Skip calibration on startup will turn off the initial gyro calibration on every launch.
Switch this on if you wish to perform gyro calibration manually from time to time.
High mobility option enhances the gimbal performance during high speed movements.
It is recommended to enable this option when you are planning to shoot from a moving car or other high speed platforms.
The motors toggle button allows you to turn the unit motors on and off if the gimbal is running and connected to the computer at the same time.
It is useful when you wish to perform settings changes on a live unit and want to notice the differences between various settings.
The follow speed sliders set the general responsiveness of each axis in follow mode.
Responsiveness is how fast each axis will try to follow your movement to the next resting position.
Low settings will make an axis follow slowly to the new position.
High settings will make the movement faster and the unit will be more responsive.
The dead bent setting allows you to set a safe zone in degrees where the follow mode will not engage.
Such window is useful if you do not want small movements to affect your framing when the unit is in follow mode.
The expo setting is used for smoothing the follow mode movement acceleration and acceleration.
Low expo setting will make the follow mode movement almost linear with crisp start and stop points.
High expo will blurs start and stop points and lengthen them in time.
The unit will feel more soft with fluent transitions between engaging in and disengaging from movement.
The control button is the big button located in the middle of the control keyboard on the back of the beast.
In this tab you can control what this button does on a varying number of consecutive clicks.
This way you can set quick access to the most useful functions like speed dial on a cell phone.
These settings apply only towards control signal from remote control devices paired or connected to the beast.
The filter setting controls the responsiveness of the control signal from an external RC device.
Low filter will make the signal accurate and responsive.
High filter will produce a noticeable delay between the exact control signal input and reaction on the gimbal itself.
Deadband and expo work the same as for the follow mode.
Deadband will set a safe zone for the RC controls where these will not affect the gimbal position.
Expo is used to smoothen the controls of the RC device thus eliminating sudden movement stops and starts when it is to be avoided.
Higher expo will make the gimbal start to move smoothly even if a corresponding control on the RC device is moved suddenly with high force.
Trim settings are usually found on RC devices and are used to zero the controls position.
Additionally these can be also set in the software.
Use trimming if you find some crawling movement of a remotely controlled axis even if the control on the RC device side is not operated.
The RC control speed tells the unit how quickly it should move depending on the signal received.
If you want precise slower movement when using an RC device set the speeds to lower values.
If you want the unit to be very responsive and move quickly when an RC signal is received set higher values.
The Profiles Management tab allows you to change an active profile, rename a profile for easy recognition,
load a profile from a file or save the profile to a file.
You can also copy or current the active profile settings to another profile replacing the other one.
Here you can set up the command channel, the fourth channel capable of being controlled via an RC device.
The command channel allows you to set up up to three functions paired with low, medium and high frequency RC signal which are then controlled through a chosen switch on an RC device.
Two way and three way switches are the most common to be used with the command channel.
For example you can set three different profiles to command channel and toggle between them on the go using a three way switch on your RC radio.
When accessing the expert tab a prompt window will appear for you to confirm that you understand that expert settings may break your configuration and performance.
Access these settings only if you are completely sure what you are doing.
The calibration tab holds the tools needed to calibrate the unit sensors.
It is very important to completely understand the calibration processes which are described in the device manual.
Wrong calibration or improper attempt to calibrate the stabilizer will most likely result in unexpected behavior of the unit along with drop in performance and precision.
Perform the calibration at your own risk or when asked by our technician.
