Quantum 4000 Enhanced, User Manual

Page 1: ...GPS User Manual March 2014 Manual Revision 1 32 Supported Products Quantum 4000 Enhanced Quantum 4000 Feather Lite Quantum Base Station Supported Software Collar SW v2 09 Beta Motion Collar Auto v1 4...

Page 2: ...ILABLE OPTIONS 13 2 3a Drop off mechanism 13 2 3b Collar expandability 13 2 3c User replaceable batteries 13 2 3d Wireless remote control data transfer 13 2 3e Always on Mode 14 2 3f Activity Sensor 1...

Page 3: ...GOOGLE MAPS 46 6 MOTION 47 6 1 INTRODUCTION 47 6 2 INSTALLATION 47 6 3 KEY TERMS 48 6 4 USER INTERFACE 49 6 5 ACTIVITY SENSOR 50 6 5a Keys to successfully using your activity sensor 50 6 5b Programmi...

Page 4: ...STATION 70 8 3 WATERPROOFING YOUR GPS 71 8 4 TESTING YOUR GPS 72 8 4a Different kinds of testing 72 8 5 STORING YOUR GPS 74 8 6 TURNING OFF YOUR GPS 74 8 7 CLEARING THE MEMORY 76 9 APPENDIXES 77 APPE...

Page 5: ...each chapter is a line that will indicate which products or options apply to the chapter Please refer to your packing list to determine which options and models are applicable to your GPS It is very...

Page 6: ...It connects your GPS to your PC BNC SMA cable This only ships if you purchased a UHF Yagi antenna BNC BNC cable This only ships if you purchased a VHF Yagi antenna 1 1b Waterproofing components USB po...

Page 7: ...marily with small to medium collars Its function is to protect the RTV from wear and tear after the GPS has been deployed 1 1c Brackets The brackets will vary in size and shape depending on the GPS de...

Page 8: ...onto existing VHF collars This allows you to keep using the VHF collars you trust while adding GPS positioning to your study We provide you with the brackets and necessary equipment to bolt them onto...

Page 9: ...on This is an essential component to our remote download system It communicates with your GPS collars to receive the data The Quantum Base Station requires you to have the remote download option on yo...

Page 10: ...ustom made Therefore there are only a few standard features and many optional features Check with your packing list to see which features apply to your product 2 2 Standard features User programmable...

Page 11: ...of your GPS location attempts 2 2c GPS additional time While the GPS receiver can turn off shortly after it acquires a satellite programming it to stay on longer will allow it to find more satellites...

Page 12: ...to the receiver so that you can confirm that the transmitter is off The GPS data logger is controlled by a magnetically operated on off switch Remove the magnet to turn the GPS data logger on Please...

Page 13: ...experimental unless the end user has previous experience with the design 2 3c User replaceable batteries The feature is customized based on your needs Remember the connection between your GPS and you...

Page 14: ...sful GPS location attempts output from the unit Second it may dramatically increase the battery life of the unit This is especially important for very small GPS collars and backpacks This feature is a...

Page 15: ...rechargeable battery With this option it is not possible to control the time or multitude of your GPS fix attempts Every time when there is enough solar power to do so the GPS will attempt a fix Beca...

Page 16: ...m your GPS positioning schedule and retrieve your data With the user software you may easily set up your collars backpacks or pods create a GPS program edit the unit upload program files download data...

Page 17: ...add hardware 7 Click No not this time then next 8 A new dialog box will appear reading What would you like the wizard to do Click install from a list or specific location then next 9 The third dialog...

Page 18: ...hat would you like the wizard to do Click install from a list or specific location then next 13 The third dialog box will read Please choose your search and installation options Choose don t search I...

Page 19: ...09 Serial drivers 6 Click next 7 A dialog box sometimes opens that reads has not passed Windows Logo Click continue anyway 3 2d Windows 8 The Collar SW software can install on Windows 8 However there...

Page 20: ...recognize the GPS unit this is a very easy fix 1 Click on the Start button on the lower left of the desktop In the Search Programs and Files box type in Device Manager 2 Once the Device Manager appear...

Page 21: ...o deployment to confirm this If you have any questions please contact support telemetrysolutions com NOTE If the GPS has acquired a location prior to the preset GPS timeout the unit will shut down wit...

Page 22: ...to create a new TSC file without having a GPS connected 4 Browse data This icon takes you to the data screen where you can export or preview data that you have already downloaded 3 4b Menu Bar The men...

Page 23: ...y temperature settings GMT offset and GPS additional time Exit closes the program View Menu Calendar X This will open the calendar page and display only the requested information Data From Collar Will...

Page 24: ...Station by USB Displays Base Station battery status Will always look like this if a Base Station is not connected Notification Window The notification will display errors and warnings that apply to yo...

Page 25: ...rogramming for both Repeat Mode and Template Mode 2 Calendar Window This window displays a calendar where you can apply the start date for repeat mode or apply the templates you have created to specif...

Page 26: ...window It includes a few basic descriptions to help you correctly identify each data file 2 Export Options This feature enables you to choose several different formats that you can export your data t...

Page 27: ...ow displays battery gauges current voltage charging progress if applicable current time settings and drop off trigger 2 Service options This window should be used with extreme caution It is used for t...

Page 28: ...tep is to configure your GPS There are two ways to do this If you already have your GPS device available you can connect it to your PC and open Collar SW or you may open Collar SW without the GPS conn...

Page 29: ...r 4 Calendar Settings It is in this box that you can enter basic programming information Once you have configured your GPS than you may proceed to programming it There are three programming options fo...

Page 30: ...positions must be created and applied to these days If there are any available days with no template applied there will be an error that will not allow you to upload your schedule 13 To apply this tem...

Page 31: ...ow The interval can be any time period between 2 minutes and 48 hours When using Repeat Mode the GPS will always start the repeat interval the moment the magnet is removed and the GPS is not connected...

Page 32: ...roll down to the Drop off Delay 1 text box This is the place to set the GPS positioning interval Choose 5 10 or 20 This sets the fix interval to 5 10 or 20 seconds 4 Scroll to the Drop off Delay 2 tex...

Page 33: ...highest percentage of successful fixes while allowing a large number of fix attempts If you set the GPS additional time higher it will result in fewer attempted fixes but more accurate locations This...

Page 34: ...for night Programming examples Day settings r s D01200015 With this command the GPS will attempt a fix every 120 minutes when the battery is partially charged and every 15 minutes when fully charged...

Page 35: ...step if you are using the always on programming modem are using repeat mode or if you have a solar powered GPS To do this 1 Keep the unit connected to your laptop or pc via the USB cable 2 From the C...

Page 36: ...uantum 4000 Enhanced with Drop Off 1 Open the user software 2 Connect the unit to Collar SW If your Drop Off was purchased after January 2012 you may program your Drop Off using the same USB port as y...

Page 37: ...our collar wirelessly To do this a Open Collar SW b Connect your Base Station by USB c When the Connect to Collar window loads enter your collar s address d Press Connect e Navigate to the Settings pa...

Page 38: ...on your Quantum GPS unit and plug your GPS unit into your PC with the USB cable provided 2 Open the user software and navigate to the data page 3 Click the download data button 4 The data is viewable...

Page 39: ...e programming 3 Click on the button to select the download method of your choosing If you chose the Fast download skip to 8 below 4 Navigate to the data page 5 Click the download data button A new tex...

Page 40: ...will open in notepad 4 4 Troubleshooting a wireless connection Quantum Base Station Remote Download Option While remote downloading has been tested up to 400 meters its practical range will vary great...

Page 41: ...arged regularly After enough use the base station will appear to have a charge but would not have enough power to handle the range needed to make a reasonable wireless connection A base station under...

Page 42: ...Files Collar SW data save to C Users Profile name Collar Data if using Collar SW V209 or newer After you have copied the data into this folder you will be able to use the user software to view the dat...

Page 43: ...use formats so that you may easily import it into your current GIS mapping system All lat long data is in the WGS84 format Degrees minutes seconds The export degrees minutes seconds file will not incl...

Page 44: ...dings do not line up properly with the columns of data By exporting the files and then importing the file into Excel the headings line up properly This is a list and brief explanation of each column i...

Page 45: ...licable to this product disregard this column H2 Not applicable to this product disregard this column S1 Not applicable to this product disregard this column S2 Not applicable to this product disregar...

Page 46: ...ter your username your email address and your password To obtain a password email support telemetrysolutions com 4 Click upload file 5 Choose the data file to upload 6 Click the upload button 7 Go bac...

Page 47: ...ovement of the GPS device This component is very sensitive and will produce movement data represented numerically The Motion software includes a graphical interface that will allow you to see in real...

Page 48: ...data This represents the total intensity of all movement within a delta time period Energy divider This is a filter It is the user programmable number between 30 and 255 that makes the energy output d...

Page 49: ...Smart GPS Skip function is an optional feature which comes standard when you purchase the Smart GPS This feature allows the user to program how many times the GPS unit will skip attempting a GPS posi...

Page 50: ...atically move the data into the nonvolatile memory The buffer is full when it holds 62 lines of motion data One line of activity data results from one delta time period You will not be able to downloa...

Page 51: ...e description for each field seen on the left half of the illustration above 6 Press set next to every field you changed 7 Press Go Offline and close the Motion software 8 If you are ready to deploy y...

Page 52: ...satellites and when the unit is connected wirelessly to the base station the activity sensor will not operate Recovering your data 1 Open the Motion software 2 Connect your GPS to your PC 3 Press the...

Page 53: ...he time of the data download 2 Date 3 Time The time listed is the end of the delta time period 4 Number of samples with amplitude above the threshold 5 Maximum amplitude The amplitude of the most powe...

Page 54: ...period of the strongest acceleration of any movement Please note that this output has been automatically filtered by dividing by 4 The filter is only to make the data more manageable energy This is t...

Page 55: ...sensor the GPS unit will lose its date and time which triggers GPS attempts automatically every 20 minutes Do not allow this to occur If you inadvertently do program your GPS first and the smart GPS s...

Page 56: ...he user may choose to enable but is not required This feature comes into affect when the GPS collar is skipping GPS position attempts due to Smart GPS being active and the GPS Minimum Count not being...

Page 57: ...S position m S00 disables this feature This setting can be confirmed by navigating to the Calendar tab and pressing the Calendar info button in the bottom right The box shown below will be displayed a...

Page 58: ...ackage This program is designed to automatically download the GPS data from your Quantum GPS devices without the user being present It will follow the download schedule you create and retrieve the GPS...

Page 59: ...or other audio output 7 2b Installation Run setupCollarAutoV1 4 exe This will do the initial download of Collar Auto You must then place CollarAutoH exe in place of CollarAuto exe in the C Program Fi...

Page 60: ...g a USB storage device to your PC 7 3a Interface explained Collar Auto user interface 1 Connection parameters In this window you may enter in a specific address to manually attempt a download 2 Status...

Page 61: ...3 This starts directly below line two shown in the chart below 4 Save the file While using another computer 1 Open settings csv 2 Add the lines of your new programming This starts directly below line...

Page 62: ...decimals example bad 1 50h right 90m Available values in column G short medium long Notes on this file Line 1 contains the description of each setting Do not delete this line Line 2 is an example lin...

Page 63: ...hh mm Example 03 00 15 00 Default none Connection Timeout Controls the duration of each download attempt The software is only capable of attempting to download data from one GPS at a time During the c...

Page 64: ...fore it attempts another download of that particular unit Format s m h or d Example 10m Default 1h Low Energy Postponed Time This only applies to solar powered GPS devices In the event that the solar...

Page 65: ...old settings csv file will be backed up as settings csv old The software will beep once to indicate that your USB device is connected Once it has transferred the data the software will continuously be...

Page 66: ...11 AM FILESYSTEM copying file 160168_42522709 tsd 8 27 2010 11 03 11 AM FILESYSTEM copying file 160170_63433309 tsd 8 27 2010 11 03 11 AM FILESYSTEM copying file 160172_63433409 tsd 8 27 2010 11 03 12...

Page 67: ...ming 7 7c log txt and log_service txt The log txt and log_service txt files store every function that the software executes Anytime the software downloads data detects a change in the settings csv fil...

Page 68: ...xt This file is not easy to interpret It is generated to help recover from any errors that may occur The file is used by Telemetry Solutions during the diagnosis of any issue In the event of an issue...

Page 69: ...able batteries To recharge your GPS connect it to your PC with a USB cable Open Collar SW and navigate to the Settings Page On this page you will see an indicator that will display the charging status...

Page 70: ...ation The Quantum Base Station is shipped with a charger The Base Station will not charge by USB and will not use any power from a PC when connected by USB It is very important to charge you Base Stat...

Page 71: ...xtra plugs have been provided Apply a small amount of RTV around the opening and over the USB plug This will keep water out of the USB port and GPS data logger 2 Once the RTV is applied you may coat t...

Page 72: ...r to the Programming Your GPS section to learn how to program these settings Note When testing rechargeable units please do not do anything that may help to raise the natural temperature of the units...

Page 73: ...n Base Station Test For the customers that have purchased the base station and remote function for their GPS it is important to test this connection before deployment for a couple of reasons First thi...

Page 74: ...at the magnets are in the correct location Your GPS will loose at least 2 of its battery life for every year it is in storage The actual battery loss will depend on storage temperature It is important...

Page 75: ...ff 8 Unplug the USB cable 9 To turn off the transmitter tune the frequency into your VHF receiver and replace the magnet on the VHF portion of the device Be sure to listen to the receiver so that you...

Page 76: ...is not possible to recover the erased data Always backup your data before clearing the memory To clear the memory follow these steps 1 With the GPS connected open Collar SW 2 Navigate to the Settings...

Page 77: ...not present in the Collar Auto data folder This error occurs when an entry in a particular row has an invalid value entered in a specific column The column is indicated by Column Name and the row is...

Page 78: ...d until another download is attempted after an unsuccessful download Low Energy Postponed Time s m h d 4h time period until another download is attempted after a partial download that was caused by lo...

Page 79: ...r if using the Quantum 5000 Fix this by changing your mortality minutes to be greater than 90 minutes Drop off is early This error occurs when your drop off date occurs before your battery is set to e...

Page 80: ...on plus the GPS additional time Latt Latitude Long Longitude Altitude Altitude please note that this will not be very precise your maps will have more precise altitude data Maxsnr Maximum satellite si...

Page 81: ...ecise your maps will have more precise altitude data Maxsnr Maximum satellite signal strength HDOP Horizontal dilution of precision VDOP Vertical dilution of precision Satt The number of satellites ac...

Page 82: ...ensional location V1 The GPS battery voltage at the time the location was recorded If no GPS position is recorded this voltage reading can be incorrect V2 Not applicable to this product disregard this...

Page 83: ...Satt The number of satellites acquired before the GPS module wrote the position to memory This includes satellites acquired during the GPS Additional Time Fix No means that there was no location acqui...

Page 84: ...t penetrate the unit material This product has been designed to perform the tasks for which you have purchased it Any modifications to the product without the written agreement of the manufacturer wil...

Page 85: ...the GPS unit when to attempt GPS position fixes Data transmission range The distance from which a user can successfully retrieve GPS position data that is stored in the GPS unit Datum A mathematical...

Page 86: ...st of the prime meridian measured in degrees The prime meridian runs from the North Pole to South Pole through Greenwich England Maximum number of locations The most locations that a GPS unit can acqu...

Page 87: ...oordinate system used on U S Geological Survey topographic maps WGS 84 World Geodetic System 1984 The primary map datum used by GPS Secondary datums are computed as differences from the WGS 84 standar...

Page 88: ...to Collar or Remote Station 20 Connection parameters 59 Connection Timeout 60 62 77 Create new file for Collar 21 CSV 66 76 data 52 Data 41 79 Data Download 25 Data Page 24 74 Data transmission range...

Page 89: ...ings Page 25 68 74 Settings window 59 settings csv 60 smart GPS 54 55 Smart GPS 14 Smart GPS Controls 49 Smart GPS counter 47 Smart GPS minimum count 47 Smart GPS threshold 47 Solar 15 31 Solar with r...

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