Manual revision 017
Section 5: Operating System
SBE 33
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Firing Bottles from SBE 33 Front Panel
Instead of firing bottles in Seasave, you can fire bottles directly from the
SBE 33 if desired. Bottles fired from the SBE 33 can be in random or
sequential order, regardless of the firing sequence you input in Seasave.
Even though you are firing the bottles from the SBE 33, Seasave still receives
a bottle fired confirmation from the Water Sampler if the SBE 33 back panel
Carousel Data
and
Serial Data
are connected to the computer. When Seasave
receives the confirmation, it writes a line to an output file (same filename as the
data file) with a .bl extension. The .bl file contains the bottle firing sequence
number, bottle position, date, time, and beginning and ending scan number (to
provide 1.5 seconds of scans) for the fired bottle.
See
Acquiring Real-Time Data and Firing Bottles from Seasave
above for
setting up Seasave and starting and stopping real-time data acquisition.
Proceed as follows for firing bottles from the SBE 33:
1.
Reset the system before beginning to fire bottles:
A.
Set the
Bottle to Fire
pushbutton switch to 00.
B.
Press the
Reset
button.
2.
To fire bottles in random order:
A.
Set the
Bottle to Fire
pushbutton switch to the desired bottle.
B.
Press the
Fire
button.
C.
Repeat Steps A and B for each bottle.
3.
To fire bottles in sequential order:
A.
Set the
Bottle to Fire
pushbutton switch to
99
.
B.
Press the
Fire
button. The Water Sampler will fire bottle 1.
C.
Repeat Step B to fire each bottle; the Water Sampler will fire bottles
in sequential order.
Note:
Sea-Bird strongly recommends
that you do not
mix
firing bottles
from both Seasave and the
SBE 33 in the same cast
. That is,
use only one method to fire bottles
to ensure that each bottle is fired
only once and in the desired order.
Note:
See the SBE Data Processing
manual and/or help files for details
on processing the data.
