Section 1 | Introduction
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– Valeport Ltd
1 Introduction
This manual covers the basic specifications, deployment and maintenance procedures for the following
products
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TideMaster
This product has been designed to operate with Valeport’s own TideMaster Express operating software.
1.1 Description
The TideMaster tide gauge has been designed to provide an accurate, versatile and easily deployed tide
gauge for use in short or long-term hydrographic survey operations. It can be configured with either a
traditional vented pressure sensor or a VRS-20 radar level sensor.
OLED control/display panel, Bluetooth and Secure Digital (SD) card memory combined with low power
consumption and user selectable sampling regime allow up to a year
’s autonomous operation, whilst optional
telemetry packages extend the capabilities for real time operations. TideMaster is compatible with the
MIDAS Surveyor GPS Echo Sounder system and a range of hydrographic processing software.
The logger is powered by 4 “C” type cells, which, together with the SD memory allows operation for over 1
year of sampling at a 15 minutes cycle with 40 second bursts (pressure sensor system, with Display and
Bluetooth disabled).
The TideMaster can be configured using either the optional Control/Display panel or using TideMaster
Express (PC software package). Both allow the TideMaster to be configured, calibrated and the recorded
data to be extracted and visualised.
The TideMaster can also run one additional sensor. The additional sensor will be run on the same sampling
pattern as the tide sampling pattern. It can be specified with:
Gill Windsonic:
Wind Speed/Direction
Gill MetPak II:
Wind Speed/Direction, Air Pressure, Air Temperature, Humidity
Gill MaxiMet
Wind Speed/Direction (corrected), Air Pressure, Air Temperature, Humidity
Valeport MiniCT:
Water Temperature, Conductivity
A variety of telemetry options are available for remote access and delivery of data. Support for Multi-gauge
networks is supported in the TideMaster Express software.
