Components of the
UltraSoundGate 116Hnm
1 USB 2.0 interface
Insert here the supplied Micro-B USB cable and connect the other
end to the computer.
2 REC indicator
This amber colored LED w ill flash once the device is connected to
the PC. It w ill be sw itched off once the RECORDER USGH softw are
is running in the monitoring mode
.
In this mode, the REC LED w ill
indicate w hen the RECORDER softw are is recording the incoming
data onto disk.
3 POWER indicator
This green LED indicates that the unit is connected to the USB pow er
supply.
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Introduction
Thank you for purchasing Avisoft UltraSoundGate 116Hnm. This
bus-pow ered USB device supports single-channel high-speed
data acquisition at sampling rates of up to 300 kHz.
The accompanying recording softw are Avisoft-RECORDER USGH
provides either continuous or triggered direct-to-disk recording
w ith real-time spectrogram displays.
Getting started
The supplied RECORDER USGH softw are can be launched from
Start / All Program s
/
Avisoft Bioacoustics
/
RECORDER
USGH
On the first program start, a presets selection dialog box w ill be
launched. Select here the option “Bat Monitoring using USG
116Hnm/Hnb/Hnbm”. The
Configuration
dialog box w ill then be
launched show ing the preset settings. Click at
OK
to confirm these
settings (this can be changed later from the command
Options
/
Configuration
).
Then click at the Pause button
(
Monitoring/Pause
) and the Start button (
Monitoring/Start
).
You w ill then see the real-time spectrogram displaying the
incoming signals. For details on the operation of the RECORDER
softw are see the Avisoft-RECORDER manual and the section
RECORDER USGH Software Settings
in this guide.
Specifications
Number of channels
1
ADC type
Delta-Sigma architecture w ith
integrated adaptive
anti-aliasing filter
Resolution
16 bit
Sample rates [kHz]
300, 250, 214, 187.5, 166.6, 150,
125, 100, 75, 62.5, 50
Computer interface
USB 2.0 Micro-B connector,
isochronous high-speed mode
Supply current
(draw n from the USB)
80 mA
Physical dimensions (W/H/D) 42 x 16 x 55 mm
Weight
50 g
Avisoft Bioacoustics e.K.
Schönfließer Str. 83
16548 Glienicke/Nordbahn
Germany
Phone: +49 (0)33056 426086
Fax: +49 (0)33056 426087
w w w .avisoft.com
w w w .ultrasoundgate.com
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Installation procedure
First install the RECORDER USGH softw are either from the supplied
softw are installation media (navigate to the subfolder
RECORDER
USH
and run
setup.exe
) or from the Avisoft Bioacoustics
w ebsite (w w w .avisoft.com/dow nloads.htm or directly
w w w .avisoft.com/RECORDER USGH.exe). This installation
program w ill install both the RECORDER USGH application
(rec_usgh.exe) and the required device drivers (usgh_xx16h.inf,
usgh.sys) for the UltraSoundGate xx16H devices. When the
installation procedure has completed, the UltraSoundGate unit can
be connected to the computer. The device should then be detected
as “Avisoft-UltraSoundGate 116H” and the pre-installed driver
should be finally activated.
Under some circumstances it might happen that the silent
installation of the device driver fails. If that happens, navigate to
the
Windows Control Panel
>
Hardware and Sound
>
Device
Manager
and right-click at the entry
Other devices
>
Avisoft
UltraSoundGate 116H
and select the
Update Driver Software..
.
option. The click at
Browse my computer for device driver software,
click at
Browse
and navigate to the folder
C:\Program Files
(x86)\Avisoft Bioacoustics\RECORDER USGH\Drivers
and finally
click at Next. The completed device driver installation w ill then look
like this:
