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User Manual for  

TeraRanger Evo Thermal with:  

USB and UART backboards 

 

 

 
 
 

 

 
 
 

Technical support: 

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Summary of Contents for Evo Thermal 33

Page 1: ...User Manual for TeraRanger Evo Thermal with USB and UART backboards Technical support support teraranger com Sales and commercial support teraranger terabee com...

Page 2: ...LEDs 13 4 3 Electrical characteristics 14 5 Communication 14 5 1 UART protocol information 14 5 2 USB protocol information 14 5 3 Commands 15 5 4 UART USB output format 15 5 5 CRC32 checksum reconstr...

Page 3: ...etailed thermal image because of the narrower Field of View By using passive infrared thermal technology Evo Thermal sensors operate in a broad range of conditions including indoors outdoors sunlight...

Page 4: ...ound the central optical axis of the sensor Please consider that dust dirt and condensation can affect the sensor s performance To obtain a correctly positioned not inverted or rotated thermal image p...

Page 5: ...Mechanical design Figure 4 Evo Thermal 90 external dimensions Figure 5 Evo Thermal 33 external dimensions Copyright Terabee 2018 Terabee 90 Rue Henri Fabre 01630 St Genis Pouilly France next to CERN...

Page 6: ...n to easily record thermal images export raw data and upgrade the firmware running on the device The GUI is available for download here GUI Download See Download section of the TeraRanger Evo Thermal...

Page 7: ...t risk Figure 6 Windows protection screen during installation After successful installation make sure your TeraRanger Evo Thermal is connected to a USB port on your computer In the GUI select File Con...

Page 8: ...s in the Scaling field Top right select Manual and you should now be able to input minimum and maximum temperature bounds Select Apply limits to apply changes and the scale will adjust according to th...

Page 9: ...ature value Min Mean temperature value Mean Maximum temperature value Max Proportional to Absolute temperature PTAT A visual 2 axis graph on the main interface of the GUI illustrates temperature patte...

Page 10: ...of the GUI Toggle center measurement feature enables to measure temperature of the central part in the thermal map A rectangular crosshair will be drawn in the center of the thermal map encompassing...

Page 11: ...ct speed of playback Choose between 7Hz 14Hz or 30Hz and click OK to initiate the playback Pause and Stop options are also available Please note that other features of Evo Thermal GUI such as manual s...

Page 12: ...be presented with a dialog window asking you to confirm your choice After confirming your choice a new dialog window will present you with instructions on selecting the firmware file and launching th...

Page 13: ...pply and interface ground 4 rfu RESERVED FOR FUTURE USE 5 rfu RESERVED FOR FUTURE USE 6 rfu RESERVED FOR FUTURE USE 7 5V 5V supply input 8 GND Power supply and interface ground 9 rfu RESERVED FOR FUTU...

Page 14: ...T depending on the backboard used with the sensor The communication parameters for UART are Baud Rate 1500000 Data Bits 8 Stop Bit s 1 Parity None HW Flow Control None 5 2 USB protocol information The...

Page 15: ...1 DF NB Each command MUST be transmitted in a continuous stream ie not byte by byte The TeraRanger Evo Thermal will reply to the above commands with a four byte response The third byte of the response...

Page 16: ...Thermal output format structure The size of every frame transmitted by the sensor is a multiple of 4 therefore 7 pad values of 0x0000 are appended Each frame contains a CRC32 checksum to allow the en...

Page 17: ...s total each of them sent Low Byte first The first value when put together represents the High 16 bits of the 32bit number while the latter represents the Low 16 bits 5 5 CRC32 checksum reconstruction...

Page 18: ...2 part 2 Low Byte 55 CRC32 part 2 High Byte 182 CRC32 high 16 143 8 26 36 634 CRC32 low 16 182 8 55 46 647 CRC32 36 634 0xFFFF 16 46 647 0xFFFF CRC32 2 400 845 824 46 647 CRC32 2 400 892 471 6 Complia...

Page 19: ...iable is a 4 byte buffer containing an ACK response crc self crc8 ack 3 if crc ord ack 3 Check that CRC s are matching A 1 2 How to calculate CRC32 checksum for Evo Thermal After defining this functio...

Page 20: ...frame True else print Bad CRC Dropping frame self port flushInput Data is sent in dK this converts it to celsius data data 10 0 273 15 TA TA 10 0 273 15 return data A 2 Sample code Please follow the l...

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