The keypad on the front of the unit has fifteen (15) buttons and two indicator lights.
This button turns the SIR 3000 on and off. To start up the system, insert a battery or connect AC
power and push the power button.
This grouping of five buttons is located right below the power button. The Enter key
is the one in the center. These buttons allow you to navigate through the menu tree.
Highlighting a menu item by pushing Up or Down on the menu tree and then pushing the Right
arrow will open any menus that are under that menu choice. Left arrow will collapse those menu
items to refresh the menu tree.
Pushing the Enter key on some menu items will cause a pop-up menu to appear so you can toggle
between two or more parameter choices.
For example: To setup data collection mode, pushing Enter when COLLECT > RADAR > MODE is
highlighted will bring up a pop-up menu which will allow you to choose from Time (continuous data
collect), Distance (survey wheel), or Point measurement. Highlight your choice and push Enter to see
your choice applied, and then Right arrow to accept and cause the pop-up menu to disappear.
This button is located below the Enter/Arrow Pad. Pushing this button while collecting data
will cause the system to set a User mark in the data.
User marks are helpful for noting distance traveled if you are not using a survey wheel and for
noting the location of obstacles such as columns, trees, pits, etc.
User marks will appear as long, dashed, vertical white lines through the data window.
This button is located below the Insert Mark button. Pushing the Run/Stop button in
COLLECT > RUN stops data collection and brings up a set of crosshairs. Clicking this button again
closes a data collection file and causes the system to ask if you want to save that file. Clicking this button
during Setup in modes other than TerraSIRch or Quick 3D will cause the system to re-initialize the gain
and position servos. This will reset the gains to the area under the antenna and could minimize clipping.
This button is located under the Start/Stop button. Pushing the Help button will bring up a menu of
help topics.
The onscreen help is only accessible from the TerraSIRch splash screen.
Use the Mark
button to highlight links and Enter to jump to a help topic. Pushing the Run/Stop button on the right hand
side of the unit will take you back to the previously viewed screen.
These six (6) buttons are located below the video screen. Pushing one of these from the
initial start screen will cause the SIR 3000 to operate in the desired software module.