
Pathfinder DVL Guide
April
2018
EAR-Controlled Technology Subject to Restrictions Contained on the Cover Page.
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Table 48:
Pathfinder Output Data Format (PD4/PD5) Details
Hex Digit
Binary
Byte
Field
Description
79-82
40,41
BIT Results
Status for leak sensors
BITS 07 06 05 04 03 02 01 00
x x x x x x x 1 Sensor A leak detected
x x x x x x 1 x Sensor A open circuit
x x x x x 1 x x Sensor B leak detected
x x x x 1 x x x Sensor B open circuit
Upper byte (byte 41) is unused
83-86
42,43
Speed of Sound Contains either manual or calculated speed of sound information (
Scaling: LSD = 1 meter per second; Range = 1400 to 1600 m/s
87-90
44,45
Temperature
Contains the temperature of the water at the transducer head.
Scaling: LSD = 0.01 C; Range = -5.00 to +40.00 C
91-94
46,47
Checksum
This field contains a modulo 65536 checksum. The Pathfinder computes
the checksum by summing all the bytes in the output buffer excluding
the checksum. NOTE: This field contains the checksum only when the
PD4-command is used. If PD5 is used, the remaining bytes are ex-
plained in Table 49.
The Pathfinder packs velocity data into a two-byte, two’s-complement integer [-32768,
32767] with the LSB sent first. The Pathfinder scales velocity data in millimeters per second
(mm/s). A value of –32768 (8000h) indicates a bad velocity.
Bottom or reference-layer velocities will be all valid or all invalid. That is, if the X-velocity is
valid then the Y and Z-velocities are valid; if X is not valid, Y and Z are not valid.
The Pathfinder allows 3-beam transformations when the fourth beam is invalid. If a 3-beam
solution is output, the error velocity will be marked bad (since it can't be computed without
four good beams). This is how you can tell, as all transformed velocity outputs include error
velocity. However, there won't be any indication of which beam was bad.