RBR 1050 Series, User Manual

Page 1: ...27 Monk Street Ottawa Ontario Canada K1S 3Y7 613 233 1621 fax 613 233 4100 info rbr global com www rbr global com Submersible Data Logger User s Manual January 2007...

Page 2: ...ying agent 11 Repairs 11 Calibration 11 Software 12 Introduction 12 Software installation and removal 12 Installing the software 12 Uninstalling the software 12 Upgrading the software 12 Software oper...

Page 3: ...tion functions 34 View Enter Calibration Coefficients 34 Calibration History 34 View Statistics Two point calibration 35 Using the graphical display 37 Displaying only selected channels 37 Finding the...

Page 4: ...very This manual is divided into three main sections 1 A Basic operating instructions section containing instructions for opening the logger changing the battery etc 2 A Software section covering all...

Page 5: ...sts of shipment to us for repair all other costs including return shipment will be borne by RBR Ltd This warranty does not cover consumables or normal wear and tear nor does it cover damage caused by...

Page 6: ...end cap away from the body sliding the attached inner assembly out of the case XR loggers XR series loggers have two end caps the sensor end cap houses the sensors and the battery end cap covers the...

Page 7: ...he O rings not the end cap tightness TR 1060 loggers To open the TR 1060 loggers turn the logger counter clockwise from the middle Warning do NOT try to open the logger from the sensor end which will...

Page 8: ...e that they are correctly oriented the yellow markings at the end of the battery carousel indicate the direction towards which the positive terminal of the battery should be placed The logger will not...

Page 9: ...ivers must be installed before it will work When this installation is complete the correct COM port must then be chosen in COM settings in the logger operating software Refer to page 32 for more detai...

Page 10: ...le to program the logger remotely and to view and save data as it is collected The COM settings portion of the Software guide p 32 has configuration instructions for the RF modem The Real time display...

Page 11: ...precautions you should take to avoid damaging the logger 1 Heed the maximum pressure rating All RBR loggers with pressure sensors are individually rated to a maximum depth pressure This is indicated...

Page 12: ...st be undamaged and the mating surfaces free from particles of grit hair or small scratches in order to preserve a seal Before deploying the logger carefully inspect the O rings that are required to m...

Page 13: ...astic or wood tool do not use a metal screwdriver or any other tool which may scratch the surfaces of the O ring groove doing so will probably render the end cap useless Slide the O ring out of its gr...

Page 14: ...upport is always available by phone fax or e mail Please contact us immediately if you are experiencing problems with your RBR product It is very important to contact us before returning your instrume...

Page 15: ...he CD ROM e g E The installation program is labeled setup_rbrVwXX exe where V and XX represent the software version 2 InstallShield allows you to decide on the name and placement of the working direct...

Page 16: ...ting software has seven menus Setup Retrieve data File Logger functions Configuration Calibration functions Micro Salinometer and Exit The clock on the bottom right hand corner indicates the time acco...

Page 17: ...es window is shown here displaying the logger time start and end times and the sampling period The figure on the following page shows the setup window expanded to display all the Advanced features Thi...

Page 18: ...abled The minimum Sample period for the DR 1050 TR 1050 1060 2050 family and XR 420 series of loggers is 1 sample second The XR 620 series however is capable of sampling at a rate of 6 Hz At the botto...

Page 19: ...5 seconds of averaging 5 seconds of 6Hz samples are taken 30 samples and averaged into one reading The TGR 1050HT and TGR 2050 loggers take samples at 4Hz The TWR 2050 and TWR 2050HT loggers collect...

Page 20: ...le consists of a temperature reading and an averaged pressure reading which has been averaged over the Averaging time for Tide The Rate for both Tide and Wave Data defines the sampling rate for pressu...

Page 21: ...the actual depth from the measured pressure data this value will not be used post deployment TWR Tide and Wave modes configuration window On the left side of the screen are estimates of memory and bat...

Page 22: ...ry 10 seconds to check whether it has passed the threshold and to sleep in the meanwhile When the reading reaches the threshold the logger will start sampling and recording data until either the end t...

Page 23: ...e Display button is pressed Logging will continue The real time display can be restarted for some loggers while logging not a XR 620 V4 9 or lower at present When the Setup is run a Restart Display bu...

Page 24: ...eter the ranges have full scale values of 5ug l 15ug l 50ug l and 150ug l For the turbidity sensor the ranges have full scale values of 25FTU 125FTU 500FTU and 2500FTU In full auto ranging mode these...

Page 25: ...One file is named for the logger using the logger serial number i e 010083 log the second is named for the date captured from the PC host i e 20050427 log 2005 Apr 27 The first of these files chronicl...

Page 26: ...p in a valid mode originally The logger forces the time to 2000 Jan 01 00 00 00 on power up and starts logging at 2000 Jan 01 00 00 10 Timestamps are placed in the memory of the logger to show the res...

Page 27: ...can be stopped with the cancel button This function is helpful if the user wishes only to look at the first portion of a large amount of data The user will be prompted to save the data once it has be...

Page 28: ...ctory and the other in the HEX directory Both files contain a header with a record of the programmed settings start time end time sampling period calibration constants etc DAT files have data below th...

Page 29: ...d with a dat extension Screen capture The Screen capture option creates a bitmap image of the RBR software window excluding the menu bar A save to window will prompt the user to specify a filename and...

Page 30: ...nd higher the screen has been modified to show all channels at once In the most recent loggers version 6 20 and higher which are capable of averaging it is possible to display averaged readings Averag...

Page 31: ...this mode cannot be viewed on a serial terminal device such as that provided by the Hyperterminal program available in Windows Hence RBR loggers can be switched into a mode which transmits the informa...

Page 32: ...serial card is configured for the particular sensor using a meta table Meta tables are set at RBR Ltd before delivery However it may be necessary to change the meta table in the field and this functi...

Page 33: ...pth Density Anomaly Salinity Specific Conductivity Speed of Sound Dissolved Oxygen Concentration In addition a correction can be applied to the raw conductivity measurements to correct them for temper...

Page 34: ...ensity Anomaly is calculated based on the UNESCO Technical Paper in Marine Science 44 Salinity is calculated according to the Practical Salinity Scale Specific Conductivity is calculated from Standard...

Page 35: ...nt in the RF system It will vary depending on the logger deployment conditions You may need to do some experimenting in order to find the best value Contact RBR if you need assistance determining this...

Page 36: ...les Subsequent launches will provide Copy 3 and so on up to Copy 8 Multiple copies can be closed in any order The first time you launch a new copy the basic initialization file RBR ini will be copied...

Page 37: ...he logger configuration Number of calibrations 65435 6 33 x N Therefore a single channel logger can be calibrated 1 677 times A logger with 4 channels can be calibrated as many as 474 times A thermist...

Page 38: ...ation coefficients This same window will allow two point calibration of certain sensors Sensors currently supported are depth in a TGR 1050 HT logger pH and dissolved oxygen measured by an Oxyguard se...

Page 39: ...data from the logger 5 Open the View statistics Two point calibration window 6 Select the depth channel using the display cursor 7 Select the raw data view using the Change data view button 8 Use the...

Page 40: ...or its data type at the bottom left hand side of the screen Clicking any of these buttons will display readings of only that type Additional channels may be added by depressing the Shift key while sel...

Page 41: ...buttons located below the horizontal axis and the and R buttons on the left side of the screen change the readings or units per division for the horizontal and vertical axes respectively The vertical...

Page 42: ...rresponding channel plot These markers can be turned on and off using the Show range changes item in the Configuration menu Gain changes are shown in the dat file as shown Timestamp 2005 05 16 14 50 3...

Page 43: ...the storm activity and the channel spin button has been used to display the significant wave height scale on the y axis The blue vertical bars at the top of the graph indicate the locations in the da...

Page 44: ...oftware can read a logger file created in the MATLAB format The MATLAB version of the RBR Software is available in the distribution setup file as a Custom installation You can choose to install the MA...

Page 45: ...RBR Software is 7 0 The visible modification to the RBR Software is in the File menu where the two MATLAB file functions Save a MATLAB file and Read a MATLAB file are to be found From Save a MATLAB f...

Page 46: ...file rbr_openMATLABfile m is included in the RBR MATLAB directory for testing and as a template This file allows the user to read and process a MATLAB file created from the file RBR hex sample_twr hex...

Page 47: ...ftware calculates the expected battery usage in mA Hours mAH for the logger during setup see page 15 The nominal capacity of the batteries is 1300mAH at room temperature The software will warn the use...

Page 48: ...strongly suggest that the O rings be replaced regularly e g before every deployment or after change of batteries or at least once a year 1050 and 2050 series loggers Plastic End cap O ring 2 214 N70 1...