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. At this point all compass designs present themselves as serial
port devices at a baud rate, 8 bits, 1 stop bit (ASYNCH).
Using a windows system open up a TeraTerm terminal emulator port to the compass
device. The factory default baud is 19200, 8, 1, N. This change has been made so
Windows OS does not mistakenly recognize the compass as a serial mouse. The baud
rate can be changed back to 9600 using the <Esc> B command
Output Sentence Formats
Figure: Compass output for each of the four supported output formats. The command
<esc>* lets you select the bit mask for the desired sentence format.
The compass is programmed with an output rate and it sends sentences at this fixed
rate. The rate is programmed with the <esc>R command. Values lower than 1 per
second use a negative number, -100 is 0.01hz, -10 is 0.1 hz, -2 is 0.5hz. Values greater
than 0 are in sentences per second, HZ. A value of 10 is 10hz, 40 is 40hz and so on. If
you program a rate of 0 the compass will cease output but still respond to <esc>
commands.
