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MTS600 Instruction Manual 

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CONTENTS 

PRECAUTIONS FOR SAFE OPERATION 

PRECAUTIONS 

1

  NOMENCLATURE AND FUNCTION 

 

1.1  Parts of the instrument 

 

1.2  Take out the instrument from the case and put it back 

 

1.3  Using the battery 

2

  Basic key operation and display 

10 

 

2.1  Screen and keyboard 

10 

 

2.2  Operation key 

10 

 

2.3  Method of inputting numerals and alphabets 

11 

Preparation for measurement 

13 

 

3.1  Setting up the instrument and tripod 

13 

 

3.2  Leveling and Centering the instrument 

13 

 

3.3  Focusing and target sighting 

14 

 

3.4  Power ON/OFF 

15 

 

3.5  Tilt angle display and compensation 

16 

4

  Basic measurement  

17 

 

4.1  Angel measurement 

17 

 

4.2  Distance measurement 

21 

 

4.3  Coordinate measurement   

27 

5. 

Setting-out measurement 

33 

 

5.1  Distance & Angle setting-out 

33 

 

5.2  Coordinates Setting-out 

35 

6. 

Data Recording 

38 

 

6.1  Select a JOB for recording data 

38 

 

6.2  Set instrument station and record the station data 

38 

 

6.3  Set backsight direction angle and record the direction angle data 

39 

 

6.4  Recode measurement data 

40 

 

6.5  Configuration of data recording 

41 

 

6.6  Reviewing the data in the current JOB 

42 

 

6.7  Measure  and  record  data  in  basic  measurement  mode  by 

pressing one key 

43 

7. 

Memory management 

44 

 

7.1  JOB manager 

44 

 

7.2  Management of Known Coord 

47 

 

7.3  Code manager 

49 

 

7.4  Display status of memory 

50 

 

7.5  Format memory 

51 

Summary of Contents for MTS600 Series

Page 1: ...MATO MTS600 series ELECTRONICTOTALSTATION INSTRUCTION MANUAL...

Page 2: ...p it in a convenient location for future reference Some of the diagrams shown in this manual may be simplified for easier reading No further notice will be given for any changes of technical specifica...

Page 3: ...isplay and compensation 16 4 Basic measurement 17 4 1 Angel measurement 17 4 2 Distance measurement 21 4 3 Coordinate measurement 27 5 Setting out measurement 33 5 1 Distance Angle setting out 33 5 2...

Page 4: ...Setting parameters of instrument 72 10 1 Items set and options 72 10 2 Operation of setting parameters 74 10 3 Define function of the USER key 75 11 Checks and adjustments 76 11 1 Checking and adjust...

Page 5: ...d result in the tribrach falling off while being carried causing injury Power supply l Do not use voltage other than the specified power supply voltage Fire or electrical shock could result l Do not u...

Page 6: ...the tripod collapsing causing injury l Keep hands and feet away from the tripod shoes when fixing the tripod in the ground A hand or foot stab wound could result l Tighten the leg fixing screws secur...

Page 7: ...pod because the metal tripod will shake and it will decrease the observing precision l The tribrach will affect the precision of the instrument you should check the screw on it It must be tighten in o...

Page 8: ...rument Carrying handle Telescope grip Telescope eyepiece Plate level Vertical motion clamp Base Tribrach fixing lever Sighting collimator Battery Instrument center mark Communication port Horizontal m...

Page 9: ...tery turn off the power to the instrument l When installing removing the battery make sure that moisture or dust particles do not come in contact with the inside of the instrument l Periodically wipe...

Page 10: ...er twenty four hours l If there is much electricity remains in the batteries the charger may not come in the speediness status It will charge it in the small current status If you want to charge it sp...

Page 11: ...to turn on laser plummet F1 F5 Select the function matching the soft keys ANG Enter the angle measurement mode cursor move to left DIST Enter the distance measurement mode cursor move to right COORD...

Page 12: ...of screen Press STU once display S Press STU twice display ST Press MNO twice display STN Press F5 to confirm input the cursor move to the second line Inputting numerals Example Record the station dat...

Page 13: ...45 123 ABC JOB VIEW 0K l Pressing can delete the character before cursor l When the cursor located at the first place of the frame pressing can delete all the character in frame l Pressing can move c...

Page 14: ...shoes are firmly fixed in the ground instrument tripod head bottom plate center screw Place the instrument on the tripod carefully loosen the center screw little move the instrument lightly until the...

Page 15: ...Carefully move the instrument in order to make it steady l Caution don t rotate the instrument on the tripod in order to decrease the excursion of the bubble 3 2 4 Leveling the instrument accurately F...

Page 16: ...and the software version number if the instrument is normal screen display Turn telescope prompt Rotate telescope the instrument will make a sound of beep and vertical angle index setting finished ent...

Page 17: ...fter power on Press ANG to enter angle measurement mode press to enter the second page press TILT to display tilt angle of vertical axis Press ON or OFF to turn on or off the function of compensation...

Page 18: ...ages can be switched by pressing 4 1 1 Measuring the horizontal angle between two points Use the 0 SET function to measure the included angle between two points Collimate the first target Press 0SET i...

Page 19: ...value and second value do not need to separate like 45 23 07 should input 45 2307 Setting a horizontal angle by holding the angle In the first page of the angel measurement mode press to enter the sec...

Page 20: ...of right angle and left angle is H ang L 360 H ang R Press R L in the first page of the angel measurement mode the horizontal angle mode switches to left angle mode Press R L again switches back to ri...

Page 21: ...llimate the second target and press OK The included angle between two target points is displayed l Press CE to cancel last measurement and redo it Re collimate the first target and press OK Re collima...

Page 22: ...ce 8 data bit 1 stop bit none parity baud rate 9600 Sight the target point In the second page of the angle measurement mode press OUTP the horizontal angle and the vertical angle data displayed on the...

Page 23: ...s in atmospheric conditions between two points l The instrument is designed so that the correction factor is 0 ppm at an air pressure of 1013 hPa and a temperature of 15 l The atmospheric correction f...

Page 24: ...distance measurement mode press EDM to come in the EDM setting the current prism constant value is displayed Press PC Input the prism constant press OK Distance measuring mode MTS 600 provides five ki...

Page 25: ...press OK to complete setting and exit 4 2 2 Returned signal checking This function is used to check if sufficient reflected light is returned by the reflective prism sighted by the telescope When the...

Page 26: ...the panel to start measurement When measurement starts EDM information distance measuring mode prism constant value atmospheric correction value is displayed After a short time a short beep sounds and...

Page 27: ...to set other combinations please see 10 Setting parameters of instrument 4 2 5 Outputting distance measurement data The measured distance and angle data can be output to a peripheral equipment such a...

Page 28: ...ordinate measurement the coordinate system should be established at first by inputting the coordinates of instrument station and the direction angle of backsight point this process call it station con...

Page 29: ...acksight point setting out point and so on About the memory data managing please see 7 Memory management Input the point number you want to search for and press OK instrument will start searching the...

Page 30: ...cursor to the list s beginning l Press LAST to move the cursor to the list s end l Press SRCH to input the point number and search for it l Press OK to select the record where the cursor locates 2 Dir...

Page 31: ...D Please see Reading in registered coordinate data Collimate the backsight point accurately press CHK to measure the backsight point l if no need for checking press OK directly When measurement finish...

Page 32: ...by measuring the target based on the settings of the instrument station and backsight direction angle The coordinate values of the target are calculated using the following formula N1 N0 S sinZ cosAz...

Page 33: ...t When measurement finished the coordinate value of the target is displayed l Press MODE to select distance measuring mode l Press EDM to check returned signal set the atmosphere correction and the pr...

Page 34: ...ng out data l Setting out measurement is a popular function of total station For the convenience of users there is a special function key S O on the panel of MTS 600 press the key after power on you c...

Page 35: ...target should be moved Looking from the station move the prism to the left Looking from the station move the prism to the right Rotate the top of the instrument until 0 00 00 displayed When the horiz...

Page 36: ...ing out Setting out coordinates measurement is used to set out the point whose coordinates is known After inputting the coordinates of the point to be set out the instrument calculates the setting out...

Page 37: ...Ep Zp of the setting out point press S O l If setting out plane coordinates only Zp may not be input l Pressing PT can get the setting out point coordinate in memory by inputting the setting out poin...

Page 38: ...erence between the current coordinate and the setting out coordinate Press ESC to finish this point setting out measurement and continue the next point Distance scale correction in the coordinates set...

Page 39: ...e instrument will ask you if a new job should be created l Press LIST to display JOB list in the memory and select a JOB from the list Press YES to create a new JOB and enter Recording Data menu l The...

Page 40: ...o select STN orientation According to the same steps described in 4 3 1 Station construction input backsight direction angle or input backsight point coordinates then the instrument prompt to collimat...

Page 41: ...nt results are displayed when measurement finished l if the target point situated in which a prism cannot be installed directly or cannot be sighted press OFFS to calculate the data of the target poin...

Page 42: ...sequence can be set as measure first then edit means that measure the target point first then input point number code prism height this is default setting by factory or edit first then measure means...

Page 43: ...ata recorded in the current JOB in data recording mode Enter the second page of Recording Data menu Press F3 to select View JOB then list of the data stored in the current JOB is displayed Move cursor...

Page 44: ...suring the target point When measuring finished point number of the target and name of the current JOB will be displayed 2 seconds then a short beep will sound the measured data is stored in the memor...

Page 45: ...of operating JOB list l Press to move the cursor up and down from line to line l F1 1X is a speed up key It can be set that when pressing cursor moves according to a line one page two pages or three p...

Page 46: ...see details of the point Move cursor to the desired point press VIEW to display details of the point record Press F5 to see details on the second page Press DEL Deletion confirmation is displayed l Pr...

Page 47: ...nd return 7 1 4 Rename a JOB In the list of JOB press to move cursor to the desired JOB and press OPTN to enter JOB Manager menu Press F5 to enter the second page of menu Press F1 to select Rename Inp...

Page 48: ...of known point then press OK The coordinate data is recorded in the memory and screen in step 3 is restored Point number add one automatically continue to enter coordinates of the next point Repeat t...

Page 49: ...k to the list of known points l Press NO to cancel the deletion and return back to the screen of viewing detail of the point 7 2 3 Delete all known point This operation will delete all the known point...

Page 50: ...Code in Memory Manager menu to enter Code menu Press F1 to select Input code Input code then press OK the code is stored in memory and the screen is restored Press ESC key on the panel to finish inpu...

Page 51: ...nu Press F2 to select Memory status the current status of memory will display on the screen l JOBs The number of JOB files in the memory l Known coords The number of known points in the memory l Recs...

Page 52: ...factory status Please take care to use this function to avoid loss of useful data Enter the second page of memory manage mode menu Press F3 to select Format memory A confirmation screen is viewed l Pr...

Page 53: ...none parity baud rate 1200 2400 4800 9600 19200 bps optional default 9600 bps l Before starting communication with PC please insure the parameters of communication of each other are set correctly and...

Page 54: ...the JOB then Select data format menu appears l Point coord Convert known point coordinate data coordinate measurement data station data stored in memory to simple format point number code N E Z l Raw...

Page 55: ...nge file or create a new JOB used to receive known point data e g Select creating a new JOB used to receive known point coordinate data Press FILE to enter Select A File menu Press F3 to select New JO...

Page 56: ...chapter The following will introduce other application program After power on press MENU key on the panel to enter the main menu in the second page of the menu choose F1 Program to enter the Program m...

Page 57: ...e height of the prism then press OK Procedure prompts for measuring known point 1 l Press MODE to select distance measuring mode l Press EDM to check returned signal set the atmosphere correction and...

Page 58: ...station coordinates Press SET to set the instrument station coordinates then the direction angle of the last known point as the backsight point is calculated and displayed l Pressing SKIP can leave ou...

Page 59: ...of a single circle If it occurs try to take one of the following a Move the instrument station as close as possible to the center of the triangle b Observe one more known point that is not on the cir...

Page 60: ...ion has been set up the coordinates of the target point can be calculated There are two offset measuring methods distance offset and angle offset 9 2 1 Distance offset measurement Finding it by enteri...

Page 61: ...f offset point and horizontal distance from the target point to the offset point l Press MEAS to re observe the offset point Press DIREC to select the direction of the offset point l Forward Closer th...

Page 62: ...om the included angle Install offset points for the target point on the right and left sides of and as close as possible to the target point and measure the distance to the offset points and the horiz...

Page 63: ...Press CE to return to step 4 re sight the target point l Press OK to finish the offset measurement Press CRD the coordinates of target point are displayed assuming that the instrument station has been...

Page 64: ...Measurement result can be displayed as the gradient between two points 9 3 1 Measuring the distance between 2 or more points In Program menu press F3 to select the missing line measurement The proced...

Page 65: ...en l Press 1 PT to re observe the starting point Press SD once more return to display the slope distance Sight the next target point and press 2 PT to observe it Slope distance horizontal distance and...

Page 66: ...ollowing steps 1 to 3 in 9 3 1 Measuring the distance between 2 or more points After measuring the targets press MOVE Press YES to change the last measured point to the next starting position Perform...

Page 67: ...Scos z1 Ht h1 h2 MTS 600 has two REM measurement mode use a prism height or not use When using a prism height the REM will select the prism as a reference point If no prism height is used the REM will...

Page 68: ...real time l Press MEAD to re observe the prism l Press PSMH to reenter the prism height l Press STOP to stop REM measurement 9 4 2 Without prism height input Place the prism directly under or directly...

Page 69: ...of the prism and press OK The REM measurement is started Sight the object the height from the ground to the object is displayed While rotating the telescope the height are calculated and displayed in...

Page 70: ...be correctly For example like figure above the points should be specified in the order 1 2 3 4 5 or 5 4 3 2 1 l When only measuring boundary points to calculate area the instrument station and backsi...

Page 71: ...clockwise direction When the number of the measured points is enough at least 3 the area of the polygon enclosed with these points can be calculated l Pts number of specified points Press CALC to cal...

Page 72: ...ordinate data l Press REC to record the input coordinate data in memory Input the coordinates of the first known point press OK Following the same steps as said above complete inputting other known po...

Page 73: ...angle compensation function is enabled 1 5 Min ang reading 10 Select the minimum display angle reading Zenith V angle display Vertical Select vertical angle display for zenith 0 or Horizontal 0 SD VA...

Page 74: ...600 bps Comms setting 19200 bps Select baud rate for data communication Define USER key Please see below Correction for refraction and earth curvature l MTS600 can correct the measurement error of hor...

Page 75: ...ce on the projection plane HD The distance on the ground 2 The distance on the ground HD HDg scale factor l Note When the scale factor is set it will affect all functions relate to coordinate measurin...

Page 76: ...C 4 Receive data receive known coordinate data from PC 5 Input coord input and record known coordinate data 6 Input code input and record codes 7 Resection enter the program of resection measurement 8...

Page 77: ...g and adjusting the plate level Check Place the plate level parallel to a line running through the centers of two leveling screws eg A B Use these two screws to place the bubble in the center of the p...

Page 78: ...three capstan adjustment screws on the bottom surface of the circular level with the accessory adjusting pin see diagram 11 2 Reticle Check Set the instrument on the tripod and carefully level it Sig...

Page 79: ...11 5Vertical circle index error correction 11 6 Tilt zero point error check and adjustment 11 3 Adjusting the telescope axis Check Set the instrument up with clear sights of about 50 to 60 meters of b...

Page 80: ...capstan adjustment screws Upon completing the adjustment repeat the checking operation once more If point B and C coincide further adjustment is not required Otherwise repeat the adjustment 11 4 Optic...

Page 81: ...erve the laser point if the ground point is still at the laser point it need no correction otherwise you should correct it according to the following steps Adjustment Open the mask of the eye piece of...

Page 82: ...on enter the main menu press F3 in the second page of the menu to select Instr Adjustment The screen of inputting password appears Input 1234 and press OK enter Instr Adjustment menu Press F1 to selec...

Page 83: ...efully then turn the power on press ANG to enter angle measurement mode press F5 to enter the second page press TILT Observe tilt angle in the X sighting direction displayed on the screen Sight the ta...

Page 84: ...return to Instr Adjustment menu Press ESC twice return to basic measurement mode Follow the steps mentioned above check tilt compensator zero point error again If the error exceeds the desired range...

Page 85: ...Precisely measure the horizontal distances CA and CB 10 times each and calculate the average value for each distance Calculate the additive distance constant as follows K AB CA CB K should near equal...

Page 86: ...t constant Input the new value press OK A confirmation screen is viewed Press YES to confirm the new value and return to Instr Adjustment menu Instr Adjustment F1 V ang index offset F2 Tile sensor off...

Page 87: ...y key panel and the carrying box l Store the instrument in a dry room where the temperature remains fairly constant l Often check the tripod for loose fit and loose screws when it is used for a long t...

Page 88: ...gain Offs limit exceeded During setting of the vertical circle index error or during setting of the tilt compensator zero point error the offset value measured is out of range Redo it and confirm the...

Page 89: ...TS 605R 3 0km MTS 605 2 0km Three prisms 3 MTS 602 3 0km MTS 605 3 0km Accuracy MTS 602 R 2 2 10 6 D mm 4 MTS 605 R 2 2 10 6 D mm 4 Minimum display Fine measurement 1mm Rapid measurement 1mm Tracking...

Page 90: ...ment 4 hours Lithium battery BDC40L 4 0AH Working duration 20 Distance and angle measurement 8hours Temperature range Operating 20 50 Dimension 190X210X350 mm Weight 6kg 1 When performing reflectorles...

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