User's Manual
Table Of Contents
- Welcome
- Supported Firmware and Software Versions
- Guide to Relevant Documents
- Overview
- Installation
- Starter Kits, Modules and Options
- Common Terms
- Operation
- Single Ended Input Channel
- Temperature Sensor
- Terminal Strip
- Radio and Antenna
- Node Addressing
- Sample Duration Calculations
- Time Stamping
- Power
- Power Profile
- Operating Temperature
- Sampling Rates
- Datalogging Memory
- Factory Calibration and Testing
- General Specifications
- Mechanical Drawing
- Electrical Block Diagram
- Software
- FCC (United States) Certification
- IC (Industry Canada) Certification
- Support
- Terms and Conditions
- Appendix 1: Host-to-Base Station Communication
- Appendix 2: Datalogging with Agile-Link™ software
- Appendix 3: Streaming with Agile-Link™ software
- Appendix 4: Low Duty Cycle with Agile-Link™ software
- Appendix 5: High Speed Streaming with High Speed Streaming s
- Appendix 6: Bridge Completion Resistors
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Common Terms
These terms are in common use throughout the manual:
• Address: Each node has a unique address from 1 to 65534 which identifies the
node to the base station and software.
• Base Station: The transceiver base station attaches to your host computer and
provides communication between the software and the node(s).
• Bits: The digital equivalent of voltage on the node. The node excites all sensor
circuits with +3 Volts. The return from the sensor is 0 to 4096 bits representing 0
to 3 volts.
• Broadcast: Any of a number of commands (trigger, sleep, erase, etc.) transmitted
at the same instant to multiple nodes.
• Browse Triggers: The software action whereby one can display and analyze the
datalogging sessions in CSV format.
• Channel Actions: Coefficients contained on-board the node to instruct the host
software to scale engineering units.
• Configuration: A general term applied to the node indicating the streaming or
datalogging environment. The number of active channels, sampling rate, offset,
hardware gain, etc. are all components of a node’s configuration.
• Continuous: A term used to describe a sampling session (datalogging, streaming,
LDC, HSS) where the time length of the session is undefined.
• Cycle Power: A command transmitted to the node to re-boot the node.
• Datalogging: Datalogging is a node action whereby all active channels (and the
sensors attached to them) are sampled and the data acquired is written to non-
volatile memory on-board the node. The data is not transmitted to the base station
and software during datalogging. Datalogging can either be finite (have a user
defined start and end time) or continuous (continue until all datalogging memory
is consumed).
• Download: Download is the node action whereby the node transmits all of its
datalogging data to the base station and software for file saving.
• Erase: A command transmitted to the node to erase all datalogging sessions.
• Finite: A term used to describe a sampling session (datalogging, streaming, LDC,
HSS) where the time length of the session is defined.
• High Speed Streaming: High Speed Streaming (HSS) is a node action whereby
all active channels (and the sensors attached to them) are sampled and the data
acquired is transmitted to the base station and software. The data is not written to
non-volatile memory during HSS. HSS can either be finite (have a user defined
start and end time) or continuous (continue until the power is cycled on the node).
It differs from Streaming in that it offers faster data rates.
• Low Duty Cycle: Low Duty Cycle (LDC) is a node action whereby all active
channels (and the sensors attached to them) are sampled and the data acquired is
“blipped” to the base station and software. The data is not written to non-volatile
memory during LDC. LDC can either be finite (have a user defined start and end
time) or continuous (continue until the power is cycled on the node).
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