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SoundTrap ST300 and ST4300

series user guide

September 2021

Содержание SoundTrap ST300 Series

Страница 1: ...SoundTrap ST300 and ST4300 series user guide September 2021...

Страница 2: ...g the IR Remote Control 9 2 6 Data Offload 10 3 More details 12 3 1 Data Files 12 3 2 Battery charging 12 3 3 Using the optional external battery pack 14 3 4 Calculation of deployment endurance 15 3 5...

Страница 3: ...shooting 24 4 Appendices 26 4 1 SoundTrap HF Click Detector 26 4 1 1 Click detector 26 4 1 2 Snippet extractor 27 4 1 3 User parameters 27 4 1 4 Output File formats 28 4 1 5 Click Detector Caveats and...

Страница 4: ...tallation and basic deployment instructions This is followed by several sections containing more detailed information around operation deployment maintenance and troubleshooting It is highly recommend...

Страница 5: ...lation o The installation will be smoother if you re logged into windows as an administrator Visit www OceanInstruments co nz downloads to download the software Download and run the installer Once the...

Страница 6: ...Figure 1 The Device List 2 3 Check SoundTrap Status Note the Status panel on the right Figure 3 Verify that the battery has sufficient charge and the memory is not full...

Страница 7: ...pre determined date and time or manually using the IR remote control Note that the remote can always be used to override the other options o The Recording Schedule section provides selection of conti...

Страница 8: ...boat Turning this on reduces sensitivity in the band 0 to 600 Hz while leaving higher frequencies unaffected o Detector see HF Click Detector section below o Ancillary sensors select those you want t...

Страница 9: ...a later time the recorder will blink red to indicate it is armed and waiting The armed state is cancelled by pressing Stop key Re enable the armed state by pressing the ARM button You can verify reco...

Страница 10: ...and whether it has yet been downloaded to your computer s hard drive Download individual files by right clicking the file and selecting download By default all files will be downloaded to a SoundTrap...

Страница 11: ...e un check the Decompress checkbox This will disable the decompression step of the offload process meaning you will end up with sud files only These can be decompressed into wav files at a later time...

Страница 12: ...equates to 1 hour recordings for a 288khz sample rate Where smaller than 2G files are desired for continuous recording it is recommended to set a duty cycle with zero off time For example a duty cycl...

Страница 13: ...o not start the Host software or alternatively charge the SoundTrap from a USB power supply rather than a computer The battery should not be left for long periods in a discharged state When storing a...

Страница 14: ...e o ring and the tubes sealing surface Close the housing by screwing closed by hand until the shoulder snugs up against the titanium tube You may choose to use a lever arm e g screwdriver through the...

Страница 15: ...ple a SoundTrap 202 has 64 GB of memory dividing this by the minimum file size of 4 MB gives a maximum of 16000 files This limitation becomes an issue when using low sample rates in combination with X...

Страница 16: ...of SD flash memory cards is such that occasional the memory card will fail to keep up with sampling thereby resulting in dropped samples When this occurs an entry will be written to the log xml files...

Страница 17: ...ild up particularly when connected to USB and recharging the battery Accelerometer data is recorded as unscaled 16 bit values ranging 32768 The full scale sensitivity of the accelerometer is 2 g meani...

Страница 18: ...onsumption and data rate We recommend using our online endurance calculator to make these calculations Note that the calculator assumes use of HTI 96 MIN hydrophones which consume approximately 3 6 mW...

Страница 19: ...rcumference provide attachment points for cable ties for this purpose Do not use hose clamps or any other fastener that will place clamping stress on the housing as this may cause damage There are als...

Страница 20: ...ndow which over time will tend to grow in size Standard housing 500m rated Most ST300 recorders are of this type For this housing topping up is only necessary when deploying deeper than 200m If the ai...

Страница 21: ...e reset battery you should connect the 9V battery to the battery connector provided on the USB cable Note that you must make this connection in one smooth motion being careful not to bounce the connec...

Страница 22: ...3 3 value from calibration sheet cal power 10 cal 20 convert calibration from dB into ratio y y cal multiply wav data by calibration to convert to units of uPa PAMGUARD PAMGAURD expects calibration da...

Страница 23: ...ecommend keeping them enabled where possible as they provide a useful check of system calibration and performance ST4300 Calibration ST4300 recorders have a fixed gain of 4dB Overall system calibratio...

Страница 24: ...he remote 5 The blue LED indicator should now light to indicate battery is charging 6 Leave for at least 30 minutes to allow the battery to recover 7 Start the host software and confirm device connect...

Страница 25: ...charge Solution This most often occurs in cases of complete battery discharge followed by a long period of disuse For future avoidance of this problem ensure that you store SoundTraps with the battery...

Страница 26: ...configured to also make a continuous recording at lower bandwidth that allows you to quantify the general ambient noise conditions an important factor affecting detector performance as well as the pre...

Страница 27: ...important to note that the snippet is taken from the whitened sound and so is high pass filtered 4 1 3 User parameters The user parameters can be set by clicking the Configure button in the Detector...

Страница 28: ...ormally The Pamguard interface automatically interprets these files when displaying detection and continuous recording results For users interested in accessing the data using other interfaces the det...

Страница 29: ...0 and the noise level at the time of the detection Fields Info3 and Info4 are not used in detection reports The second report type is an effort report which has a type of E The effort report indicate...

Страница 30: ...warranty implied or otherwise nor implication of fitness for any particular purpose Please use responsibly Test that the code functions correctly on your SoundTrap before deploying it e g by setting t...