Kinesis savant elite 2 - Health and Safety Tips; Foot Pedal is Not a Medical Treatment!; Adjusting Pedal Force

When you have found the VRD on your
computer, you will see the Programming
Guide PDF le that is stored there. You will
also see the “Acve” folder, which includes
the conguraon le, named pedals.txt, as
well as a backup of the default pedals.txt
le.
When the VRD is closed, any changes that
have been made and saved in pedals.txt
become acve.
Closing Programming Mode
When you have nished viewing or eding
pedals.txt, be sure to save the le to the
Acve folder if you made changes. Close
the VRD by moving the slide switch back to
“Play.”
NOTE: DO NOT PRESS ANY PEDALS WHILE
WAITING FOR VRD TO CLOSE. IF YOU DO SO
AND THE DEVICE STOPS WORKING, JUST
UNPLUG IT, WAIT 15 SECONDS , THEN RE-
CONNECT THE DEVICE.
Alternate Programming Mode Acvaon
If you have a waterproof model or prefer
not to use the slide switch, you can acvate
Programming Mode by holding down any
pedal briey while plugging the unit in to
the USB port. Or you can hold a pedal
briey while starng or re-boong your
computer.
To close the VRD aer saving any changes
in pedals.txt, simply unplug and replug
your device.
Programming by eding pedals.txt
At this point you should be using the Pro-
gramming Guide found on the virtual re-
movable drive, or downloaded from the
Kinesis website (see link page 8). However,
a brief overview of the programming pro-
cess is provided here.
Using almost any word processing (text
eding) program, you can edit one or more
of the inputs available on various Savant
Elite2 products. Each pedal or jack can
produce one or more keyboard or mouse
acon or combinaons of acons. Ped-
als.txt contains basic instrucons, but more
details (as well as examples which can be
copied and pasted into pedals.txt) are in-
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cluded in the Programming Guide. Save
pedals.txt as “plain text” or “simple text”
when you are done eding.
(see Programming Guide provided on the
virtual removable drive of the device for
details).
Health and safety ps
New Users, have realisc expectaons!
If you currently have an injury to your
hands or arms, or have had such an injury
in the past, it is important that you have
realisc expectaons of your input device.
You should not expect an immediate im-
provement in your physical condion simp-
ly because you are using a new input de-
vice. Your physical trauma has built up over
months or years, and it may take a number
of weeks before you noce a dierence. At
rst, you may feel some new fague or
discomfort as you adapt to your Kinesis
foot pedal.
Foot pedal is not a medical treatment!
The Kinesis Savant Elite2 foot pedal is not a
medical treatment or a substute for ap-
propriate medical treatment. If any infor-
maon in this guide seems to contradict
the advice you have received from a health
care professional, please follow your health
care professional’s instrucons.
Adjusng pedal force
On the underside of the pedal is a small
plasc screw which
may be gently
turned to adjust
pedal force in the
range of approxi-
mately 3.5 to 4.5 lbs.
Pedals are normally
factory congured
for low force.
Molded marks on
the cartridge indi-
cate "+" for higher
force and "-" for lower force. Using a coin
(penny or dime) or sloed screwdriver,
turn the screw gently to change the force.
Important note: Minimal force (full "-"
adjustment) reaches a hard stop. If force is
used once the stop is felt, the plasc screw
Fig 1. Underside of pedal