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GSM19 Series Magnetometers - Version 7
GEM Systems, Inc. Advanced Magnetometers
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4.3.4 External Trigger Options
Those survey modes that require your intervention to take a reading, such as Mobile, slow
Gradiometer or slow modes combined with VLF, could also be triggered by external control pulses
sent to the 6-pin connector.
Auto-cycling modes, such as Base, Walk Mag or Walk Grad do not respond to external trigger
commands.
External trigger can be accomplished in three different ways:
1.
Using external relay or switch between pins A - E:
•
Keep A-E open for most of the time.
•
Shorting A - E for 10ms - 50ms is recognized as a trigger.
2.
Using external voltage on pin A with E as ground:
•
Keep A at 5V to 12V most of the time.
•
Voltage falling to 0V for 10ms - 50ms is recognized as a trigger.
3.
Using RS-232 to GSM-19 at pin B and pin E as signal GND:
•
A Carriage return byte is recognized as a trigger command.
NOTE:
Real Time Transmission must be enabled for this trigger mode to operate
properly.
For those external trigger modes involving pin A as an input, you can check the status of pin A
from the unit's screen. From main menu, press
D-test
and then
E-ext-trigger.
The screen shows
Pin
A floating
for the high-level conditions, and
Pin A GNDed
for the ground (GND) level.
NOTE:
Pin A is actually never floating. It is tied to +5v by internal pull-up resistors.