Appendix F – The Hardware Setup Menu
There is a special menu that allows you to program global setup functions that do not change
with flights and are not separately reported. Typically, these functions are accessed once and
set, at that point you don’t need to go into them again.
To access the Hardware Setup menu, connect to the Quasar using its SSID/passkey, and go to the
Settings menu. From the settings menu, there is a button for HARDWARE. Click it, and you
will get to the menu.
“Voltage Offset” is the difference between the reported and actual battery voltage. This setting
allows you to adjust for difference between the two, due to the voltage drop through the rectifier
the reported voltage may be higher than the actual voltage. To determine the correct value, use a
DVM to measure the voltage across the battery, then set this value to the difference between
your DVM value and what’s on the display. For example, if your Quasar reports 8.5V and your
DVM says the battery is 8.2V you would set it to 0.3V. The default value is 0.0V.
“Tone” controls the frequency of the buzzer, it is Low, Medium, and High. This allows you to
pick out your Quasar from other devices that may be in your AV bay which make similar tones;
also, some people find that the lower-pitch tones are easier to hear.
Frequency and ID control the settings of the RF Module’s radio output. See the discussion of
the frequencies later in this section.
“SSID” allows you to set a custom SSID that will be broadcast to your WiFi device. This is
very useful if you have multiple Quasars in a rocket such as a primary and a backup, because it
easily allows you to tell which Quasar is which. For example, you may want to set one Quasar’s
SSID to “Rocket_Pri” and the other one to “Rocket_BU”. The SSID is displayed on every page
so you know for sure which one you connected to. The SSID must be between 8-14 characters;
allowable characters are a-z, A-Z, 0-9, and the underscore (“_”). If you have a custom SSID and
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