
Installation
SeaKing Profiling Sonar
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over the head to protect from impact damage but this must not overlap the
transducer area or it may have an effect on the profiler image.
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Caution
It is important that no clamping force is applied to the boot.
The clamp should be applied centrally to the aluminium body tube and should
not be over-tightened. Any metallic clamps should be electrically insulated
from the profiler body by means of rubber or plastic strips or mount brackets
of at least 3mm thickness and extending at least 3mm beyond the clamp
boundary to reduce any galvanic corrosion effect. Non-metallic clamps are
preferable: if metallic clamps are used they should be painted or lacquered
with at least two or three coatings.
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Caution
Avoid any metal alloys containing copper such as brass or bronze.
Care should be taken to mount profiler heads to ensure that they are mounted
as close to the true horizontal as possible in relation to the trim position of the
vehicle. The front filling plug and red LED should be aligned at right angles to
the natural direction of travel of the vehicle (i.e., facing downward for a seabed
profile). Errors in the head alignment can give rise to unreliable results.
3.3.1. SeaKing Communication Configuration
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Caution
The power should be turned off before making a connection
between the sonar head and surface controller (SCU or SeaHub).
Note
The Seanet SCUv5 and SeaKing heads cannot be used with AIF
cards as used in earlier WINSON based SCU-3 systems. They
must be used with SeaKing AIF ARCNET cards (AIFV3/V4). The
Series 2 Sonar, Profiler and devices heads cannot be directly used
with SeaKing and Seanet systems. For upgrade options please
contact
Tritech International Ltd
The Profiler head may form part of an ARCNET multi-drop, network of sensors
that are normally interfaced to the Surface Unit through the internal AIF
interface PCB (installed in the SCU) or external SeaHub serial interface
module.
Normal communications with the Profiler head is via a customised version of
the ARCNET network system and requires a good quality balanced twisted