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GLOG V2 Quick Guide

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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GLOG V2 Dongle 

GLOG V2 Key Features 

1.

 

Small (2” x 2” x 1”) and light weight (< 100 gm) 

2.

 

Battery operated - internal battery lasts over 20 

hours 

3.

 

Extremely easy to operate; just connect GLOG to the 

serial device via cable and hit the button; when 

done, remove the memory card and download the 

data to the PC 

4.

 

Streams serial data conveniently on to removable 

storage medium 

5.

 

Adds more memory on the go to a serial device—up 

to 16 GB 

6.

 

Uses inexpensive and reliable removable storage 

medium 

7.

 

Adds a backup data recording means to a serial 

device for extra robustness 

8. Logs Garmin raw satellite ranges for better 

navigational accuracy 

Summary of Contents for GLOG V2

Page 1: ...GLOG V2 Portable RS232 Serial Data Logger Quick Guide c 2015 Geomatics USA LLC ...

Page 2: ...GLOG V2 Quick Guide 2 GLOG V2is a battery powered compact device that logs data from RS232 serial devices It records the logged bytes in its original form on a removable storage medium ...

Page 3: ...vice via cable and hit the button when done remove the memory card and download the data to the PC 4 Streams serial data conveniently on to removable storage medium 5 Adds more memory on the go to a serial device up to 16 GB 6 Uses inexpensive and reliable removable storage medium 7 Adds a backup data recording means to a serial device for extra robustness 8 Logs Garmin raw satellite ranges for be...

Page 4: ...N POWER Button Turn power on and off Blue indicator inside a square blue blinks for annunciations and memory card activities Green indicator inside a triangle green blinks for outgoing requests Orange indicator inside a triangle orange blinks for incoming bytes DATA OUT LED DATA IN LED GLOG V2 User Interface ...

Page 5: ...o four hours Max charging input current 500 mA The USB port is also used to update the firmware see GLOG V2 firmware update Continuous groups of five slow blinks every 10 seconds on the annunciation Blue LED indicate battery voltage lower than 3 5V USB Battery Charging Port DB9 Port for RS232 Serial Data Input Memory Card Slot for Data Output ...

Page 6: ...harge or over discharge the battery Do not use input current over 500 mA Do not use unit when the battery voltage drops under 3 5V continuous groups of five slow blinks every 10 seconds on the annunciation Blue LED indicate battery voltage lower than 3 5V Charge the unit battery via its USB port either by plugging the cable to into the provided AC adapter or to a portable USB battery Battery Perfo...

Page 7: ...rld from GLOG Few flickers on the green LED followed by few flickers on the orange LED then 10 rapid flashes on the blue LED GLOG interrogating the serial device to see if it is a Garmin receiver More flickers on the green LED followed by flickers on the orange LED then 10 rapid blue flashes GLOG requesting information logs from the receiver Long flickers on the orange LED followed by three groups...

Page 8: ...the same folder as the conversion utility but it is not necessary PROCEDURES On the command prompt type in the command gar2rnx GAR File path then hit ENTER where GAR File path is the full path to the acquired binary data file Gar2Rnx creates the RINEX observation file OBS in the same GAR File path folder NOTE Gar2Rnx utility generates satellite navigation information NAV file in RINEX format if it...

Page 9: ...NUNCIATIONS After GLOG enters logging mode the annunciation LED stops flashing PROCEDURES 1 Snap a fresh memory card into the GLOG memory card slot for data recording 2 Connect the serial device to GLOG via proper serial cable LOGGING Once the serial device and GLOG are connected via serial cable both the orange and the blue LEDs flicker continuously and irregularly to indicate data reception and ...

Page 10: ...he serial device to GLOG via proper serial cable ANNUNCIATIONS 10 rapid flashes on the square blue status LED Hello World from GLOG 10 rapid blue flashes to indicate config txt file found Long flickers on the Rx orange LED followed by three groups of 10 rapid blue flashes GLOG is ready to log data LOGGING Both the orange and the blue LEDs flicker continuously and irregularly to indicate data recep...

Page 11: ...COM14 in the example make sure nothing is connected to the DB9 port Run Xloader Browse to the location of the hex file and choose it Choose Uno ATmega328 from the Device pull down menu the baud rate will be automatically populated with 115200 Under the COM port pull down menu choose the Windows assigned COM port number Click upload a confirmation message shows up in the status bar after about 30 s...

Page 12: ...erial port and or the serial bus PROCEDURES 1 If not already plugged plug in GLOG V2 and open device manager under My Computer 2 Right click the USB Serial Port and click Update Driver Software from the speed menu 3 Choose Browse my computer for driver software 4 Click let me pick from a list on my computer 5 Click have disk 6 Browse to the installed FTDI drivers folder and select an INF file port...

Page 13: ...15 05 02 03 10 00 save the file with the correct date and time to the SD card PROCEDURES insert the card with the TIME TXT file into GLOG V2SD card slot power the unit ON and wait about 10 seconds power the unit OFF then remove the SD card on a PC delete the TIME TXT off the SD card or just change its name to something else The RTC now is reinitialized with the new date and time and should report ...

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