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> General Preferences > “Preferences” greatly simplifies downloading and viewing records. Setup Preferences before downloading.
> Click for Laid-Down Transducer Geometry
> Select File, Preferences or use the shortcut (Ctrl+Shift+P).
5.2.1 Setting the COM Port In order for the ShockClock to communicate with the computer the COM Port must be selected properly. COM 1 is the standard setting and will work for most Computers with a 9 pin Serial Port. If your computer does not have a 9 pin Serial Port it probably has a USB Port. If this is the case you will need an adapter see 2.3 Installing a USB/Serial Adapter.
A complete description of the adapter and how to determine which COM Port number to use can be found in 2.4 Determine the COM Port Number. Only ports 1-9 may be used. 5.2.2 Limiting the Recording Length During Download the maximum length of the recording can be limited in Preferences. No matter what length recording is stored in the ShockClock, the end of the recording will be trimmed to the length set in Preferences. 1 min, 2.5 min, 5 min (suggested default), 10 min, and No Limit are the choices available. 5.2.3 Auto Erase ShockClock By default the ShockClock Software automatically erases the ShockClock following each download. You can override this feature by un-checking the "Auto Erase?" check box. 5.2.4 General Preferences Guidelines
> 5.2.6 Default Vehicle Preferences ShockClock Software lets you define up to six different Vehicle Types. Preferences will be automatically applied on the next ShockClock download.
> Create a Default Vehicle Type Place your cursor into one of the fields in the Vehicle List and type the description you want to use. Example: 06YZ450F or 06R6. Set the Vehicle Type to Dirt or Street.
> Select a Default Vehicle for Next Download Click the “Select Default Vehicle for Next Download” pull down menu and choose the new Vehicle you just entered.
> Setup Default Vehicle Preferences - DIRT For Street see Setup Default Vehicle Preferences - STREET Once the Vehicle Type is selected click “Setup”.
This is the most critical of all setup numbers. It affects bottoming counts, controls graph scaling and affects the Average Travel Percentage. Enter the maximum available travel for the front and/or rear wheel where the transducer is making its measurement. Check your vehicles user manual or website for assistance finding this value. Note that sometimes the manufacturers numbers include Top-Out Spring travel.
- "Hard Bottoms at" and "Soft Bottoms at" How many times the suspension bottoms as well as how hard it bottoms is critical information. We have invented something called a “Soft Bottom” and a “Hard Bottom”. The idea is that Soft Bottoms can be OK but Hard Bottoms are generally not good as this is close to metal-to-metal.
Hard and Soft Bottoming Points are setup as a percentage of maximum available travel. The standard settings are 90% for the Soft Bottom Point and 95% for the Hard Bottom point. Feel free to experiment with your own settings.
> Laid-Down Transducer Geometry - Dirt only On Dirt and Mountain Bikes with Laid-Down Transducers you must "Convert the Data to Vertical".
> Measure with a metric tape from pivot center to center and input into Vehicle Preferences (Prefs/Setup). All distances are in millimeters (mm).
>Auto-Convert Check the "Auto Convert" box to automatically convert the "Laid-Down" data into "Vertical" data upon download.
NOTE: If you did not setup the software to auto-convert upon download you can still apply the Laid-Down Transducer Geometry using the "Convert to Vert" in the File Menu. This will apply the current Default Vehicle Laid-Down Geometry in Vehicle Preferences to the data in File location 1 only. (Measure the geometry of the Laid-Down Transducer with a tape measure and input it into the current Vehicle Type in Preferences before applying.) > Conversion Test
> Setup Default Vehicle Preferences - STREET
- Bottoming - Maximum Travel This is the most critical of all setup numbers. It affects bottoming counts, controls graph scaling and affects the Average Travel Percentage. Enter the maximum available travel for the front and/or rear wheel where the transducer is making its measurement. Check your vehicles user manual or website for assistance finding this value. Note that sometimes the manufacturers numbers include Top-Out Spring travel.
- "Hard Bottoms at" and "Soft Bottoms at" How many times the suspension bottoms as well as how hard it bottoms is critical information. We have invented something called a “Soft Bottom” and a “Hard Bottom”. The idea is that Soft Bottoms can be OK but Hard Bottoms are generally not good as this is close to metal-to-metal.
Hard and Soft Bottoming Points are setup as a percentage of maximum available travel. The standard settings are 90% for the Soft Bottom Point and 95% for the Hard Bottom point. Feel free to experiment with your own settings.
- Manual Offset - Street Only Setting the Zero Point should be done before your first data run. The Software doesn’t know where the Zero Point is unless you tell it or you let it find it itself. If the slide switch is set to "Dirt", the software finds an average of the lowpoints and sets this to zero automatically but the Street setting does not. See 5.10 Set the Zero Point. - Default Vehicle Preferences Guidelines
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