July 2019 – TD 304 OPERATING MANUAL – Doppler Current Profiler Sensor
Page 105
Some properties are passkey protected and will not be accessible without first writing the passkey. If the passkey is
needed you get the error message:
“ERROR PROTECTED PROPERTY”.
Using passkey 1000 opens up all user
accessible property settings.
5.5.5
XML commands
The
Get ConfigXML
command outputs all available sensor properties in XML-format.
The
Get DataXML
command outputs all available sensor parameters in XML-format.
The
XML-output
is a general format shared by all Aanderaa smart sensors; the output from different types of smart
sensors can be read and presented as e.g. in a general smart sensor setup program.
5.5.6
Examples – How to configure sensor in Smart Sensor Terminal mode
Use a terminal program e.g. Tera Term or Hyperterminal, refer chapter 3.3 for communication setup.
In the following examples several configuration changes are shown. The command
Stop
is recommended to avoid
output strings while configuring the sensor. If the sensor has started to transmit data when the user tries to
communicate, it may take a while before the command response is sent from the sensor. This depends on the number
of enabled cells and output parameters etc.
Example 1: Configure 1 column, the other columns disabled
//Press Enter to start communicating with the sensor, refer chapter
↵
//press Enter
Stop
↵
//Wait for ack #. Repeat if necessary
Set Passkey(1)
↵
Set C1 Enable Surface Reference(No)
↵
//wait for ack #
Set C1 Distance First Cell Center(6.0m)
↵
//wait for ack #
Set C1 Cell Size(2.0m) )
↵
//wait for ack #
Set C1 Number Of Cells(25)
↵
//wait for ack #
Set C1 Cell Center Spacing(2.0m))
↵
//wait for ack #
Set C2 Enable Column(No)
↵
//wait for ack #
Set C3 Enable Column(No)
↵
//wait for ack #
Set Enable Surface Cell(No)
↵
//wait for ack #
Do Refresh
↵
//necessary if column settings or ping number is changed before the interval
Set Interval(1 min)
//an error message is sent from the sensor if the interval is too short
Save
↵
// wait for ack #
Reset
↵
// the sensor will restart with new settings
Comments to example 1:
It is possible to enable the
Surface Cell
and also the
Surface Reference
for the column, but this requires that the
sensor knows the correct pressure. The automatic surface referencing was made for the SeaGuardII and SmartGuard
where the DCPS can receive the pressure measured directly from the Datalogger via AiCaP(as parameter input from a
pressure sensor connected to the same SeaGuardII/SmartGuard).
To use
Surface Reference
on a sensor without a SeaGuardII /SmartGuard with a pressure sensor connected, the user
has to set the correct
Fixed Installation Pressure
setting (can be changed while sensor is running).