When Activating Buttons the Left and Centre gauges move over and the External and Selected tank gauges will no longer be visible.

 

Yellow Needles are active/available tanks

Grey Needles are not applicable tanks for the current aircraft

The main gauge window will either show 12 tank outputs or 9 depending if the side buttons have been turned on.

 

The gauge show fuel quantity only for tanks that are valid for the loaded aircraft. Invalid tanks will show no output and a grey needle unless blanking plates has been turned on.

 

Monitors all 12 SIMCONNECT tanks:

     Left tanks (Main, Aux & Tip)

     Right tanks (Main, Aux & Tip)

     Centre tanks (1, 2 & 3)

     External Tanks (1 & 2)

     Selected Tank % (Default % of All)

When side buttons are turned on only 9 gauges can be displayed in the main gauge window, the External Tanks wont be shown in the main gauge layout.

 

If the blanking plate is used instead of the sidebar, then colour of the plate can now be changed by editing variable [FG_GLOBAL_BLANKING_COLOUR] in SPAD.neXt data monitor.

[S6] Toggle Blanking Plates:

Press to toggle off invalid tanks and replace with a blanking plate instead.

 

[L Dial] Menu value down/up:

When Mini Menu is open use [L Dial] to change the value of the selected menu option.

 

[R Dial] Menu Function Previous/Next:

Used to activate the Mini Menu and scroll between the various menu options.

 

 

Version & Info:

Turn left dial clockwise to turn on and counter clockwise to turn off current version number and other useful links.

 

Side Buttons:

Turn left dial clockwise to turn on and counter clockwise to turn off side buttons.

 

Blanking Plates:

This menu option allows you to turn off invalid tanks and replace with a blanking plate instead. Otherwise Active tanks will show with a Yellow needle and invalid tank will show with a grey needle at "0"

 

Glass Reflection:

Turn left dial clockwise to turn on and counter clockwise to turn off optional glass reflections. This is a global setting so all gauges that have this function will turn on and off.

 

Background Colour:

Left dial will change colour styles to the following

    1) Dark grey panel with dark grey clock face

    2) Dark grey panel with black clock face

    3) Very dark grey panel with black clock face

    4) Black panel with black clock face.

 

Brightness:

Turn left Dial clockwise to increase gauge brightness and counter clockwise to decrease gauge brightness. This will adjust the brightness of all gauges at the same time.

 

 

     Menu Item Index (0 to 7)

     0 = Menu Closed

     1 = Version & Info

     2 = Side Buttons

     3 = Blanking Plates On/Off

     4 = Glass Reflections

     5 = Background colour

     6 = Brightness control

     7 = Panel Lights Control

 

     Side Buttons (Off = 0, On = 1)

 

     Side Button Labels (Off = 0, On = 1)

 

     Instructions Page (Off = 0, On = 1)

 

SIMCONNECT Vars Used:

FUEL TANK LEFT MAIN CAPACITY,Gallons

FUEL TANK LEFT MAIN LEVEL,PERCENT

FUEL TANK LEFT AUX CAPACITY,Gallons

FUEL TANK LEFT AUX LEVEL,PERCENT

FUEL TANK LEFT TIP CAPACITY,Gallons

FUEL TANK LEFT TIP LEVEL,PERCENT

FUEL TANK CENTER CAPACITY,Gallons

FUEL TANK CENTER LEVEL,PERCENT

FUEL TANK CENTER2 CAPACITY,Gallons

FUEL TANK CENTER2 LEVEL,PERCENT

FUEL TANK CENTER3 CAPACITY,Gallons

FUEL TANK CENTER3 LEVEL,PERCENT

FUEL TANK EXTERNAL1 CAPACITY,Gallons

FUEL TANK EXTERNAL1 LEVEL,PERCENT

FUEL TANK EXTERNAL2 CAPACITY,Gallons

FUEL TANK EXTERNAL2 LEVEL,PERCENT

FUEL SELECTED QUANTITY PERCENT,Percent

FUEL TANK RIGHT MAIN CAPACITY,Gallons

FUEL TANK RIGHT MAIN LEVEL,PERCENT

FUEL TANK RIGHT AUX CAPACITY,Gallons

FUEL TANK RIGHT AUX LEVEL,PERCENT

FUEL TANK RIGHT TIP CAPACITY,Gallons

FUEL TANK RIGHT TIP LEVEL,PERCENT

FUEL SELECTED QUANTITY PERCENT,Gallons

 

(not all vars used in every gauge)

 

     Variable used for dial acceleration (Off = 0, On = 1)

 

     Brightness value of physical FIP's. Affects all physical gauges (20-250)

 

     Variable used when editing Global or individual Brightness (0-1)

     0 - Global Brightness

     1 - Inedividual Brightness

     Text Variable used to set blanking plate colour

 

     Glass Reflection (Off = 0, On = 1)

 

     Toggle visibility of Mini Menu LED (0 = On, 1 = Off)

 

     Background Colour (0 to 3)

     1 = Grey panel with grey gauge face

     2 = Blue grey panel with grey gauge face

     3 = Dark grey panel with black gauge face

     4 = Dark blue panel with black gauge face.  

 

     Background Colour (Black = 0, Blue = 1 )

 

     Minimum voltage before gauge electronics turns off (-1 to 150)

     -1 = Disabled

     0 - 150 = Off Voltage Level

 

     Internal Variable - Used to store off voltage value - do not edit

  

     Night Lit Mode (Off = 0, On = 1)

 

     Shared variable for switching inHg and MB (0 to 1)

     0 = inHg

     1 = Millbars

 

  Background Colour (0 to 6)

     0 = Grey

     1 = Black Dial Face

     2 = Darker Gauge & Dial Face

     3 = Black & No Gauge GFX

     4 = Grey - Original Design

     5 = Black Dial Face - Original Design

     6 = Darker Gauge & Dial Face - Original Design

   

     Internal variable used to read current voltage

 

     Text Variable used to set blanking plate colour

2.5.001 - Using New Sidebar Button and Labels Code (4 display options now also) - blank sidebar custom colour

2.5.000

     1) SPAD.neXt 0.9.15 Compatibility (Convert "PRESS" to "PRESSSHORT") Fixes short and long press both firing on long press.

     2) Menu system upgraded

     3) New gauge brightness code using SPAD brightness variables.

     4) Can control global or individual gauge brightness in gauge (Profile saved settings)

     5) Better use of button lights

     6) Added Custom Colour for blanking plate - Edit colour index for variable FG_GLOBAL_BLANKING_COLOUR

2.4.002 - SPAD.neXt 0.9.13 Compatibility (Author ID)

2.4.001 - Fixed background style only using first 2 of 7 styles

2.4.000 - New Custom Virtual Power supports ALL aircraft volt variables - See https://fipgauges.com/customfeatures.php

2.3.007 - Virtual Power Warning added to Menu

2.3.005 - Added Panel Lighting control in Mini Menu

2.3.004 - Support for NEW 4 colour hue panel lights.

2.3.003 - Tweaked voltage monitoring to better support MSFS2020. Added Monitoring for Battery Bus2.3.002 - SPAD.neXt 0.9.7.x Variable Scope Compatibility

2.3.001 - Added Brightness Control to Mini Menu

2.3.000 - Panel Lights now controlled by local variable (FG_GLOBAL_PANEL_LIGHTS) 0=Off 1=On

2.2.000 - Added optional blanking plates [S6] toggle

2.1.001 - Resized Text to become compliant with SPAD.neXt scaling changes

2.0.000 - New colour schemes available in mini menu.

1.1.000 - Improved graphics with shadows and transparency, Optional glass reflections.

1.0.000 - Beta/1st Public Release