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can contain 108 bytes only, respectively 5-9 VHF Beacon rules. You might have to stick
to some more basic rules, respectively plan for a certain period and resend updates
from time to time.
The software GPS Plus X will warn you whenever your schedule is invalid in rule usage
or size and abort the upload.
7 Calculate Collar Lifetime
This command estimates the lifetime of your VERTEX Lite Collar and can be found in
the Tools menu of GPS Plus X. (
Tools Calculate VERTEX Collar Lifetime)
Figure 50: Tools Menu
Select your collar (e.g. VERTEX Lite Iridium and battery size) and check the settings
(Position Transmission & Beacon).
NOTE: You will find recommendations to the “Position Transmission” in the specific
chapter ( Iridium Communication ) and we recommend to stick to the default values for
the Beacon settings ( VHF Beacon ).
Now you can enter a GPS and VHF Beacon schedule which are described in chapter
GPS schedule and VHF Beacon schedule . After you have selected all the options for the
collar, press or to start the calculation. When pressing
or while the calculation process is running, you will cancel the
calculation. It might be useful to save the settings using the icon as this schedule
could later be used for collar configuration. The icon enables you to load schedules
into the calculation tool, potentially retrieved from the collar as described in chapter
Schedules.