AR100
™
Super Compact Laser Sensor
User’s Manual
For use with AR100
Super Compact Triangulation Sensor
January 15, 2021
Acuity
A product line of Schmitt Industries, Inc.
2765 NW Nicolai St.
Portland, OR 97210
www.acuitylaser.com
Страница 1: ...Compact Laser Sensor User s Manual For use with AR100 Super Compact Triangulation Sensor January 15 2021 Acuity A product line of Schmitt Industries Inc 2765 NW Nicolai St Portland OR 97210 www acuit...
Страница 2: ...ion of the product suited to achieve your intended results and for the installation use and results obtained License Terms And Conditions a You are granted a non exclusive perpetual license to use the...
Страница 3: ...5 of the FCC Rules Operation is subject to the following two conditions 1 This device may not cause harmful interference and 2 this device must accept any interference received including interference...
Страница 4: ...3 1 3 3 Analog Output Signals 3 2 General Description 4 2 1 Principles of Operation 4 2 2 Mechanical Dimensions 5 2 3 Installation 5 2 4 Laser Safety 6 2 5 Sensor Maintenance 7 2 6 Sensor Service 7 2...
Страница 5: ...ry 17 5 1 5 Recover AR100 Factory Settings 17 5 2 ASCII Communications Protocol 17 5 2 1 Saving to Non Volatile FLASH Memory 17 5 2 2 Recover AR100 Factory Settings 17 6 Analog Output Operation 17 6 1...
Страница 6: ...S485 27 9 3 Sensor Operation 28 9 4 Display and Archiving of Data 29 9 5 Setting and Saving Sensor Parameters 30 9 5 1 Setting Parameters 30 9 5 2 Saving Parameters 31 9 5 3 Saving and Writing a Group...
Страница 7: ...for reference Signal and Power Interface how to hook everything up Serial Interface Operation modes formats bias Analog Output Operation current loop voltage scaling Alarm Output Operation alarm sett...
Страница 8: ...lenses with bare fingers The oils are very difficult to remove Operate only with DC supply voltages between 9 and 36 volts 1 2 Definition of Terms Sensor The complete AR100 measurement device Target...
Страница 9: ...S232 serial Connect the RS232 wires to a 9 pin D SUB male connector that can be plugged into a COM port of a PC RS232 Gray Ground to pin 5 Green Transmit to pin 2 and Yellow Receive to pin 3 See secti...
Страница 10: ...ith a variety of red or blue laser diodes and a variety of data interfaces The sensor can be triggered externally and also has logic outputs to trigger alarms etc 2 1 Principles of Operation The AR100...
Страница 11: ...without connector 2 3 Installation The AR100 sensor unit is typically installed by affixing the sensor to a machined bracket with bolts through the two mounting holes on the side of the sensor Their...
Страница 12: ...length semiconductor laser The maximum output power is 0 95 mW The sensors belong to laser safety class 2 The following warning label is placed on the sensor body The following safety measures should...
Страница 13: ...0 1 97 100 3 97 250 9 87 500 19 69 Linearity 0 05 of the Full Scale range 0 10 Resolution 0 01 of the Full Scale range for digital output 0 02 Temperature drift 0 02 range C Maximal sampling rate Hz 9...
Страница 14: ...equest Connection according to the instructions is essential for correct sensor operation Read the wire descriptions in Section 4 1 for connection information 3 3 Standalone Cabling To use the AR100 s...
Страница 15: ...r application a third party converter will be necessary RS232 An AR100 with the RS232 option can be wired directly to a 9 pin D sub serial connector using the table below Wire Color Function DB9 pin G...
Страница 16: ...in a polling mode Use the Demo and Configuration Software to restore the unit to factory defaults Otherwise the 04h command will restore factory defaults to the device 3 4 2 Sensor Output Check If th...
Страница 17: ...und Signal common Pink Logic Output programmable Blue Analog output current loop voltage Red Power Voltage in 4 2 Power Supply Red Brown The Brown wire is the Power Supply Common return also named Gro...
Страница 18: ...ese two signals can be tied together to satisfy some PC signal requirements for hardware handshake RS485 RS485 is normally used for longer distances of communications and faster data rates Multiple de...
Страница 19: ...ng frequency of the sensor 9 4 kHz and this value increases in proportion to the frequency reduction Figure 1 Wiring Diagram for Current Loop output 4 4 2 Voltage Output The voltage output connection...
Страница 20: ...n section 7 for operation options and details The Logic Output is an open collector NPN transistor switch to the Ground for Signal Grey When the Alarm Output is not active its output will be high impe...
Страница 21: ...formed by communication sessions commands which are only initiated by the master PC controller There are two kinds of sessions with such structures 1 request message answer square brackets include op...
Страница 22: ...hes or bursts as well as for control of batch losses in receiving data streams The following is the format of two response data bursts for transmission of a byte Byte Bits Description 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0...
Страница 23: ...ased format that may make the data easier to read for those using only a terminal emulator to operate the laser The AR100 is set by default to binary output The output can be changed to ASCII output u...
Страница 24: ...face the value will always be set to 0 despite any attempts to change it 6 2 Analog Output Mode Binary 02h bit R ASCII TAx Default Value 0 Window Mode The analog output can be operated in two modes Wi...
Страница 25: ...ing of the range of the analog signal is set at a higher value than the end value of the range this will change the direction of rise of the analog signal Parameters to set the Beginning of the Analog...
Страница 26: ...11 Slave mode o Activate this mode by setting bits M2 M1 and M0 to 001 Hardware Zero Set Mode Tare function Activate this mode by setting bits M2 M1 and M0 to 010 When the Logic Interface wire is grou...
Страница 27: ...ASCII communication mode but like in binary communication mode synchronization mode makes it possible to synchronize measurement sample times of two and more sensors Synchronization is achieved by tyi...
Страница 28: ...er Disable feature in section 7 The binary parameter 00h and ASCII command Ox use values 1 or 0 for ON or OFF respectively 8 3 Network Address Binary 03h ASCII none Default Value 1 This parameter defi...
Страница 29: ...ime Sampling Value 0 When selected the sensor automatically transmits the measurement result via serial interface in accordance with selected sampling period Trigger Sampling Value 1 When selected the...
Страница 30: ...ce is used to receive the result the time required for data transmission at a selected data transmission rate should be taken into account in the case Where small sampling period intervals are used If...
Страница 31: ...Dxxx Default Value 1 5ms If the sensor does not see the target surface or if a new measurement cannot be received a zero value is transferred The Results Lock parameter sets a time limit during which...
Страница 32: ...nal spikes in the output of the sensor caused by inaccurate readings in dynamic applications Averaging over a number of results does not affect the data update in the sensor output buffer However in c...
Страница 33: ...rogram Setup Start file AR100setup exe and follow the instructions for the installation wizard 9 2 Connecting to the sensor RS232 RS485 Once the program is started the pop up window appears In the RS2...
Страница 34: ...it will be necessary to set the search range for the baud rate and the network addresses When set press the Search button The program will perform automatic search of the sensor by searching over poss...
Страница 35: ...memory The number of points displayed along the X axis can be set in the Number of points in buffer window Y axis scaling can be set by the Auto scaling function One can toggle ON OFF the scaling gri...
Страница 36: ...es 9 5 Setting and Saving Sensor Parameters 9 5 1 Setting Parameters Configuring is only accomplished through RS232 or RS485 interfaces Setting of parameters for all optional interfaces can be done us...
Страница 37: ...ot factory default configuration 9 5 3 Saving and Writing a Group of Parameters Parameters of the sensor can be saved to a file on your computer This is done by selecting File Write parameters set and...
Страница 38: ...ta streaming Parameter Code Description Values 00h Sensor ON OFF 0 laser OFF sensor in power save mode 1 laser ON measurements are taken default 01h Analog output ON OFF 0 analog output OFF 1 analog o...
Страница 39: ...er byte of the sampling period 0Ah Lower byte of maximum integration time 2 3200 default 3200 specifies the limiting time of integration by CMOS array in increments of 1 s 0Bh Higher byte of maximum i...
Страница 40: ...s of the output measurements upon being entered Request Code Description x values Wx Save and recovery 0 save current parameters to non volatile memory 1 recover default parameters Note this will not...
Страница 41: ...the division for the external synchronization input Note See section 8 6 for further explanation Exxxx Maximum integration time 2 3200 default 3200 specifies the limiting time of integration by CMOS a...
