VP-X Configurator

I've been really excited about getting ship's power through the VP-X and thought I'd show a few pictures of the Configurator. Vertical Power's Configurator is a program that helps you with the settings for the VP-X (electronic circuit breaker system) before it's connected to the EFIS. After you connect the VP-X to the EFIS (electronic flight information system), you can access all the settings directly from the EFIS.

Connecting is easy with the supplied Ethernet cable. Just plug it into the VP-X and then your laptop. This is the screen to connect the two.

The photo of the laptop screen is a little hard to see but this shows the device configuration page for one of the installed components. It's really convenient being able to associate it with any switch you want and change it anytime. For example, I can select anything I want to turn on with the Avionics Master with just a few mouse clicks and NO rewiring!

Here's the list of everything that's powered and how many amps it's drawing. You can see one of the EFIS drawing 2.7 amps and the other drawing 2.6 which is exactly what they should be drawing.

Here's the screen for the flap settings. Very easy and intuitive but with a lot of options. First, it was really easy to wire. Two wires from the single pole switch (On) - Off - (On) into the VP-X and two wires out to the flaps. You don't even have to worry about the polarity as you can reverse it in the VP-X. You can set the flaps to operate when the switch is activated or you can have them go to a specific position with just a blip on the flap switch. You can control the retraction speed plus a bunch of other options. You can even control the flaps directly and bypass the switch via the Move Up and Move Down buttons on the screen.