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Technical Note 

FST-040 (August 2011)

 Revised January 2012

 

 

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license exception or other approval from the appropriate U.S. Government agency before being exported from the United 

States or provided to any foreign person. Diversion contrary to U.S. law is prohibited.

 

TELEDYNE

RD INSTRUM ENTS

A Teledyne Technologies Company

Testing the DVS Post Upgrade of DSP/PIO Board Replacement 

This technical note explains how to test your DVS after replacing the PIO and DSP boards 

as described in FST-030. 

 

 

Equipment Required 

 

DVS Manual 

 

ESD safe work space 

 

IMM Surface Inductive Modem TRDI Field Test Box 

 

Laptop with a serial comport 

 

TRDI DVS Software 

 

Summary of Contents for FST-040

Page 1: ...ted from the United States or provided to any foreign person Diversion contrary to U S law is prohibited TELEDYNE RD INSTRUMENTS A Teledyne Technologies Company Testing the DVS Post Upgrade of DSP PIO Board Replacement This technical note explains how to test your DVS after replacing the PIO and DSP boards as described in FST 030 Equipment Required DVS Manual ESD safe work space IMM Surface Induct...

Page 2: ...h the DVS inductive modem and the surface inductive modem not supplied connected to a computer Figure 1 DVS Setup 2 Apply power to the DVS from either the battery pack or from an external supply via the I O cable If the DVS is sealed for deployment then power must be sup plied from the battery pack 3 Switch the Surface Modem Power switch ON Figure 2 IMM Surface Inductive Modem TRDI Field Test Box ...

Page 3: ...nu click Serial Communications 5 Select the appropriate COM port i e the port that the surface modem is con nected to For the baud rate select 9600 Serial communications with the IMM s should always be set to 9600 baud Leave the other settings at their default val ues 6 Select the Using an Inductive Modem box and click the Get Modem ID button 7 Press the OK button to close the Serial Communication...

Page 4: ...will display that the selected configuration s are completed 13 If the modem configuration process does not complete successfully check the se rial connection from the PC to the surface IMM and the connection to the DVS system if attempting to configure the DVS modem If the connections look cor rect and the modem configuration still fails test the modem connections The DVS Operation Manual describ...

Page 5: ...f the DVS is sealed for deployment then power must be supplied from the battery pack 3 Run BBTalk 4 Select 9600bds 5 Enable Echo Characters option 6 Switch the surface IMM power switch ON 7 To confirm the surface modem firmware version Send GetHD m j If you obtained the answer above this means that the Surface Inductive Modem is work ing properly and its firmware version is 1 09 If not then there ...

Page 6: ...at it is working properly Built In Tests This simple test checks that the DVS is able to communicate with the computer and runs the diagnostic tests To run the Built In Tests 1 Connect and power up the DVS as shown in Figure 1 2 Start the DVS software 3 At the DVS Wizard Startup Options screen click Test a DVS Click Next 4 On the Test DVS screen select Run All Tests includes the recorder test or R...

Page 7: ...icates the test passed If a selected test fails a red X will be placed next to the test name and a dialog box will prompt if you want to continue testing 7 Click OK to exit the Test DVS screen These tests should be run in the deployed environment to achieve good results Verify Set Temperature and HPR Sensor If you have upgraded the DSP board the Temperature and Heading Pitch Roll sensor type needs...

Page 8: ...bject to Restrictions Contained on the Cover Page 5 If the CR1 command returns the following error then send CSTOP Enter 6 Send CR1 Enter 7 Send PC2 Enter and verify that the Heading Pitch Roll and Temperature do not have an next to them and that the value is reasonable rotate tilt the DVS and send another PC2 as necessary ...

Page 9: ...age TELEDYNE RD INSTRUMENTS A Teledyne Technologies Company 8 If the Heading Pitch Roll and Temperature values do have an next to them then send C Enter At this point you are using Engineering commands it is important that you be careful with the commands used If you see an error message that there was no response from the DVS please ignore these and press OK when the window appears ...

Page 10: ...d T Enter 10 Send the value corresponding to the temperature sensor installed on the system Send 1 Enter for the TRDI temperature Sensor Send 2 Enter for the Sea Bird temperature sensor Send 3 Enter for a ISM Temperature Sensor not shown on the following screen capture This option is only available on Phase II DVS but is not used at this time 11 Send 1 Enter to save the setting ...

Page 11: ...sed January 2012 FST 040 August 2011 Revised January 2012 page 11 of 21 EAR Controlled Technology Subject to Restrictions Contained on the Cover Page TELEDYNE RD INSTRUMENTS A Teledyne Technologies Company 12 Send CSTOP Enter then CR1 Enter ...

Page 12: ...er 20 samples default When it has col lected data for all required directions the DVS computes and displays the results To calibrate the compass 1 From the Tools menu click Calibrate DVS Compass 2 On the DVS Compass Calibration screen select New Calibration 3 Set the Number of Points to 20 4 Leave the Stability Check box checked if using a fixture or un checked if calibrat ing by hand 5 Orient the...

Page 13: ...to exit the DVS Compass Calibration screen If the Calibration succeed when asked if you want to save calibration click No This way you would have verified that the compass is working properly and can be calibrated but would have not replaced the currently loaded calibration as ideally your DVS needs to be calibrated with the mounting hardware mounted and a representative section of mooring line at...

Page 14: ...tor through the DVS inductive modem and the surface inductive modem not supplied connected to a computer Power can be supplied either from the battery pack or from an external supply via the test cable If the DVS is sealed for deployment then power must be supplied from the battery pack 6 Run BBTalk 7 Select 9600bds 8 Enable Echo Characters option 9 Switch the Surface IMM Power switch ON 10 Press ...

Page 15: ...evised January 2012 page 15 of 21 EAR Controlled Technology Subject to Restrictions Contained on the Cover Page TELEDYNE RD INSTRUMENTS A Teledyne Technologies Company 13 Close BBTalk 14 Run your DVS software 15 At the wizard select Recover Data from DVS recorder and Click NEXT ...

Page 16: ...Controlled Technology Subject to Restrictions Contained on the Cover Page 16 At the next page select the target directory where to save the recovered file Select PD0 output format Select Download Entire Data Set 17 Click the Download button 18 The following window will open and the download will start ...

Page 17: ...tained on the Cover Page TELEDYNE RD INSTRUMENTS A Teledyne Technologies Company 19 Then the software will start converting the PD20 file into a PD0 file 20 The process is complete Click OK 21 Run WinADCP and open the file named TEST1_0000_000000 PD0 22 Verify that you can read the four beams correlation and intensity in either the profile area or the contour area ...

Page 18: ... Page 23 If all was verified then the DVS is ready for deployment you should now run your DVS software as usual and setup your DVS for its next deployment Before deploying your DVS please make sure to install a fresh new battery Testing can drain the battery considerably which may result in a shorter deployment period than planned with the DVS software planning wizard ...

Page 19: ...SCII is 3939 Hex For example line 17 and 18 will become P 99CState CR CR LF S2339394353746174650D0D0A To determine the DeviceID of your DVS send the following commands in BBTalk version 3 08 and greater forcecaptureline m j forcecaptureline m j id m j Script File Pforcecaptureline CR LF S666f726365636170747572656c696e650D0A D5 Pforcecaptureline CR LF S666f726365636170747572656c696e650D0A D5 tforce...

Page 20: ...S233030543F0D0D0A D10 P t 00sendbreak t 00sendbreak D2 5 P 00 CR CR LF S2330300D0D0A D2 5 P 00CF11100 CR CR LF S233030434631313130300D0D0A D2 5 P 00C CR CR LF S233030433F0D0D0A D10 P 00MR1 CR CR LF S2330304d52310D0D0A D2 5 P 00ME ErAsE CR CR LF S2330304d452045724173450D0D0A D190 P 00MN TEST1 CR CR LF S2330304d4e2054455354310D0D0A D2 5 P 00MM CR CR LF S2330304d4d0D0D0A D5 P 00CS CR CR LF S233030435...

Page 21: ... EAR Controlled Technology Subject to Restrictions Contained on the Cover Page TELEDYNE RD INSTRUMENTS A Teledyne Technologies Company t 00sendbreak D2 5 P 00 CR CR LF S2330300D0D0A D2 5 P 00MM CR CR LF S2330304d4d0D0D0A D5 P 00CZ CR CR LF S233030435A0D0D0A D2 5 P tsendpwroff tsendpwroff D2 5 P tpwroff tpwroff ...

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