ATS Pinger Dish IV User Guide
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Once you have connected the Pinger Dish to your computer, press the
Restart
button. The
characters shown on the LCD should be echoed back to the terminal screen on your computer.
Additionally, on
Restart
, if the Pinger Dish detects the presence of an RS232 connection, the
following character is momentarily displayed on the Pinger Dish (and computer) screen,
confirming that the Pinger Dish has detected the presence of an external computer:
RS232 Detected:
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To place the Pinger Dish into
the programming mode, type the command letter “
r
”
(or “R”) on
your computer. The following output should then be displayed up on your computer screen:
RS232 Mode:
Awaiting Command
ATS ‘Pinger Dish I
V
’ RS232 Mode
Available Options:
‘A’ => Activate JSATS Tag
‘D’ => Deactivate JSATS Tag
‘C’ => Code Programming
‘P’ => Pulse Rate Interval Programming
‘H’ => Hibernation
Interval Programming
‘Q’ => Query Tag Battery Voltage
‘F’ => Flash Pinger Dish LED
‘X’ => Exit RS232 Mode
Select…
You must now type a
character from the list displayed on the computer (‘A’, ‘D’, ‘C’, ‘P’, ‘H’,
‘Q’ ‘F’, or ‘X’) that corresponds to the function
you are interested in using. For example, to
change
the Tag’s Pulse Rate Interval, type the letter “p” (or ‘P’). This
brings up the pulse rate
interval selection menu and the user can then select the desired PRI by typing the appropriate
character:
Enter New Pulse Rate Interval
(Format = XX.X seconds):
The other menu options (alternating code, temperature settings, and hibernation interval) should
be self-explanatory but will probably not be useful for most customers since customer tags
should come preprogrammed w
ith the user’s desired option
s. These additional options were
designed for internal use to assist in automating the programming/testing of ATS JSATS
transmitters in the production process.
