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TILTOMETER V1.0 

 

USER’S MANUAL 

 

 
 

 

 

 

 
 

 

 

 

 

 

Summary of Contents for TILTOMETER

Page 1: ...TILTOMETER V1 0 USER S MANUAL ...

Page 2: ... The only responsibility of Symmetron under this warranty is at its option to replace or repair free of charge any defective component of such products THE WARRANTY DOES NOT EXTEND TO AND SHALL NOT APPLY TO 1 Products which have been repaired or altered by other than Symmetron s personnel unless Buyer has properly altered or repaired the products in accordance with procedures previously approved i...

Page 3: ...Immunity ΕΝ61326 1998 Protection EN60529 1992 Description of Equipment Angle sensor Model Tiltometer Batch of product covered Serial numbers from 0 to 2000 Date and Place Pallini Attica Greece December 1 2006 Authorized signatory on behalf of the manufacturer N Hadzidakis Name N E Hadzidakis Title Director N Hadzidakis T Katsabakou Co N Hadzidakis T Katsabakou Co 54 Leontariou St 15351 Pallini Gre...

Page 4: ... QUERIES 8 3 4 CONNECTION OF THE SERIAL PORT WITH GSM MODEM 9 4 PLACEMENT POSITIONS CORRESPONDING OUTPUTS 9 5 TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS 11 5 1 ELECTRICAL CHARACTERISTICS 11 5 2 MECHANICAL CHARACTERISTICS 11 5 3 ENVIRONMENTAL CHARACTERISTICS 11 6 CONNECTING TO A DATA LOGGER 12 6 1 CONNECTIONS 12 6 2 SETTINGS 12 S UME TILT_1_0 004 4 ...

Page 5: ...angle This way a possible and expensive mast fall may be prevented The above operations are performed simultaneously with the sampling of measured data and without affecting their integrity 2 GENERAL DESCRIPTION According to the block diagram shown in Figure 1 the Tiltometer has the following characteristics Two voltage outputs one for elevation angle and one for azimuth with output range 0 2 5 vo...

Page 6: ... BAT 12V input supply 10Æ BAT SUPPLY GROUND 3 COMMUNICATION WITH THE USER 3 1 SERIAL PORT The Tiltometer has an RS232 serial port It allows local set up with a PC or data transfer Pin assignment Pin 2 Æ Receive Data Line RXD the pin 4 of terminal input Pin 3 Æ Transmit Data Line TXD the pin 5 of terminal output Pin 5 Æ Ground the pins 3 8 10 of terminal Pin 7 Æ Request To Send RTS the pin 6 of ter...

Page 7: ...command sets the output voltage range at 0 2 5 Volts RANGE HALF or 0 5 Volts RANGE FULL Output voltages represent angle output 0 provides the elevation and output 1 provides the azimuth The following figures show what you get with these settings Half Range 0 0 5 1 1 5 2 2 5 3 100 50 0 50 100 Elevation Angle Degrees Output Voltage Volts Figure 3 Half Range 0 0 5 1 1 5 2 2 5 3 0 100 200 300 400 Azim...

Page 8: ...SHAKE This command returns the handshake options setting HANDSHAKE NONE or HANDSHAKE HARDWARE depending on the command HANDSHAKE see 3 2 Settings iv viii STATUS This command returns TILTOMETER Vx x FIRMWARE Vx x UPTIME k ANGLE ALARMS l LAST ANGLE ALARM n The first line shows the hardware version number the second is the firmware version number the third is the time k in seconds which has passed si...

Page 9: ...irst SMS will not be sent until the power up time is 24 hours The SMS contains the following message Elevation Angle is X degrees Alarm Angle is Y degrees Dangerous Tilt where X is the current elevation angle and Y is the preset ALARMANGLE GSM modems from Siemens and Wavecom have been tested and perform well with this function 4 PLACEMENT POSITIONS CORRESPONDING OUTPUTS A general idea of the space...

Page 10: ...terminate Elevation 0 Azimuth 90 Elevation 0 Azimuth 0 or 360 Elevation 0 Azimuth 270 Elevation 0 Azimuth 180 Elevation 90 Azimuth indeterminate LEGEND The symbol indicates the screw terminal s position The hatch indicates the horizontal level The symbol indicates the bottom side of the Tiltometer S UME TILT_1_0 004 10 ...

Page 11: ...ut RTS Output ελέγχου ροής handshake TDA Output CTS Input ελέγχου ροής handshake TDB Output S GND Serial Ground Serial Ground Step response any value to final value 8 seconds Power Supply 6 to 15 VDC supply 8 mA typical 5 2 MECHANICAL CHARACTERISTICS Connections of input and output All user I O connections are on internal 10 position screw terminal Cable passes through IP65 PG7 gland Box Cast alum...

Page 12: ...values from 0 to 360 degrees for azimuth and from 90 to 90 degrees for elevation Data loggers with a 0 to 5V input range AZIMUTH ELEVATION SLOPE 72 0 36 0 OFFSET 0 0 90 0 Data loggers with a 0 to 2 5V input range 2 AZIMUTH ELEVATION SLOPE 144 0 72 0 OFFSET 0 0 90 0 NOTES 1 On Stylitis 101 connect the AN inputs to the GND on the screw terminal Set the input range to 0 5V Unipolar 2 For data loggers...

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