Specifications

1 Introduction

After having set up your Datawell wave measuring equipment by following the steps in the

Installation Guide, you probably have been collecting wave data for some time. At some point

you ask yourself whether your equipment requires any maintenance. Chapter 2 Maintenance

will answer your questions.

While at sea or on land your equipment may not work without fault or may not work at

all. In Chapter 3 Trouble Shooting several suggestions are made to tackle the problems or even

carry out some small repairs. This will save you time and money.

During the life of your equipment calibration drift, aging or incidents could make it

necessary to send (part of) the equipment back to Datawell Service. To serve you best it is

important to know exactly which parts fail and need to be returned. If you can provide exact

serial numbers Datawell may even send you replacement parts while repairing your faulty parts.

Chapter 4 Repair tells you where to locate serial numbers, how to contact Datawell Service and

where to send parts.

Finally, when you have become a more experienced user you will very likely get

interested in the details of the equipment, e.g. measurement principles, mooring or painting

advices, mechanical and electronic design. It is possible to optimize the performance of your

equipment with additional Datawell services or options. You could even fit your own special

options to our equipment, using the Datawell equipment as a platform. Chapter 5 Reference

serves to these purposes.

This manual covers the following Waveriders (WR)

• Non-directional Waverider (WR-SG), stabilized platform accelerometer-based wave

motion sensor

• Directional Waverider-MkIII (DWR-MkIII), stabilized platform accelerometer-based

wave motion sensor

• Directional Waverider-G (DWR-G), GPS-based wave motion sensor

• Primary cells only

• Primary cells and Hybrid Power System

• Stainless steel and Cunifer10 hull types

• 0.9 m, 0.7 m and 0.4 m diameter buoys

• all WR options, HF communication, LED flash light, data logger, water temperature,

GPS position, Iridium satellite communication.