and the actual antenna pointing in the main part of the window. The readings automatically
refresh once a second. The refresh-rate may be adjusted on the setup-page from software
version 2.1.007 or higher.
The navigation bar at the left contains a couple buttons which build the ACU's main menu:
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Pointing
: This button switches back to the main page you already
see when you connect to the ACU. This page displays the actual antenna pointing together
with some status information. You also use this page to move the antenna to a certain
pointing given as azimuth / elevation values.
Target
: By clicking to this button you switch to
the 'Target' page where you can store and recall the antenna pointing for up to eight
satellites.
Tracking
: sat-nms ACUs with the tracking option installed offer the tracking mode
and tracking fine tune parameters on this page.
Test
: By clicking to this button you switch to
the 'Test' page. The 'Test' page shows the low level I/O signals of the ACU. It helps you to
install the ACU or to identify a malfunction of peripheral components.
Setup
: This button
switches to the 'Setup' page which lets you inspect or change less common parameters
which usually are set only once to adapt the ACU to it's working environment.
Info
: After a
mouse click to this button, the ACU outdoor module shows a table with information like the
serial number of the device or the revision ID and compilation date of the software.
Help
:
Clicking to this button shows the on-line version of this user manualStep Move: Clicking to
the buttons in this area moves the antenna a small step to the indicated direction. For
azimuth and elevation 'small step' and 'large step' buttons are provided. A 'small step' is the
angle defined with the 'XX step delta' parameters at the
Setup
page, a 'large step' is ten
times this value. With the polarization axis, steps always are 1°.STOP: Clicking to the STOP
button immediately stops all motors. The ACU indicates a fault. A click to the RESET button
releases this fault.RESET: The RESET button lets the ACU acknowledge any motor diver
faults by activating the reset-circuit to the motor drivers for 800 msec. All faults internally
latched by the ACU are cleared and the target pointing values are set to the values actually
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