Face Dipstick 2200 Series, Operator'S Manual

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Tablet begins to start to drain its internal battery. The LED just above the Tablet’s “On/Off”
button will be both green and red when it is fully charged. When the Tablet is being fed by the
Handle Battery, this LED will be red. This LED will stay red so long as the computer is getting
more than about 5 volts from the Handle Battery. When the Handle Battery drops below about 5
volts, this LED will turn black.
CHECKING THE VOLTAGE IN THE TABLET:
You can see the voltage in the Tablet’s internal battery by going to the Tablet’s desktop and
tapping the shortcut to Power. This will take you to the computer's "Power Properties" window,
Where you can see the percentage of power remaining in the computer’s internal battery. To open
the battery power window, tap the icon in the Tablet’s lower right corner that looks a little like a
series of folders stacked one behind the other. When you tap this icon, a menu item “Desktop”
will appear. Tap this “Desktop” icon, and the RFCollect program will disappear behind the
Tablet’s desktop. Now double-tap the “Shortcut to Power” and you’ll see the Tablet’s power
properties. The important thing is the Remaining Power %. This tells you the percentage of a full
charge that exists in the Tablet’s internal battery.
SAFE DATA COLLECTION
The key to safe data collection is to download daily. This gives you two copies of the data, stored
on two different computers, so you have some redundancy in case something happens to one of the
computers.
OPENING AN EXISTING JOB AND MAKING A NEW JOB:
As stated earlier, the program will automatically open your last job. If you want to open a different
Job, this is similar to opening a file in any other program. Tapping FILE/OPEN will open a
selection window, showing all folders on the storage card where data are stored. Folders that
contain RoadFace data are shown with a blue folder icon instead of the normal tan color. This
makes it easy to find data, because the program has "X-Ray Vision" that allows it to know which
folders have RoadFace Data in them. You can open any Job by double-tapping it or by single-
tapping, then tap OPEN JOB on the dialog box.
Sometimes you'll want to start a new Job, rather than collect data in an old Job. To do this, just tap
FILE/NEW, then type in the name of the new Job. Let the program choose where to store the data
- on the SD (storage) Card.
HARDWARE AND RUN INFORMATION SETTINGS:
Tap
SETTINGS/HARDWARE
to open the Hardware Settings screen. This screen allows
you to set the survey speed, select or deselect the Trigger, set your Beeper louder or quieter, and
choose how you want the Dipstick to capture data. We’ll cover these one by one below.