User's Manual

Check the cable and the COM port setting. Once you’ve made sure that all is correct,
you can click the Read Repeater button again. If the problem persists, please refer to the
last section of this manual: Troubleshooting the Badger
®
ORION
®
Repeater.
THE TRANSMITTER INFORMATION ON THE READ
SCREEN
Besides the serial number of the transmitter being repeated, you will also see this
information.
• Transmitter serial number being repeated
• The last reading received from the transmitter
• The status received from the transmitter (L denotes a Leak Status, T denotes a
Tamper status, blank denotes a normal status)
• The MT (Meter Type) received from the transmitter:
o 0 – denotes a water meter using an RTR
®
o 1 – denotes a water meter using an ADE
®
o 2 – denotes a gas meter
o 3, 4 – unused
o 5 – denotes a water meter where the source of the message is a Repeater
o 6 – denotes a gas meter where the source of the message is a Repeater
o 7 – denotes a Water Meter Monitor programming tool
• The number of times the Repeater missed a meter reading from this transmitter
(note that the Repeater listens for transmissions once per hour).
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Preliminary