User's Manual

Smart Systems User’s Manual Version 1.1
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Noggin 1000 System
Setting Station Interval Data per Screen Total Data for 250
Screens
Short 0.5 cm or 0.24 in 3.2 m or 12.8 ft 0.8 km or 0.61 mile
Normal 1.0 cm or 0.48 in 6.4 m or 25.6 ft 1.6 km or 1.2 mile
Long 2.0 cm or 0.96 in 12.8 m or 51.2 ft 3.2 km or 2.4 miles
X-Long 5.0 cm or 2.4 in 32.0 m or 128 ft 8.0 km or 6.1 miles
Norm x10 10 cm or 4.8 in 64.0 m or 256 ft 16.0 km or 12.1 miles
Norm x20 20 cm or 9.6 in 128 m or 512 ft 32.0 km or 24.2 miles
Norm x40 40 cm or 19.2 in 256 m or 1024 ft 64.0 km or 48.5 miles
Norm x50 50 cm or 24.0 in 320 m or 1280 ft 80.0 km or 60.6 miles
Norm x100 100 cm or 48.0 in 640 m or 2560 ft 160 km or 121.2 miles
Note that Noggin 250 traces are plotted on the screen 2 pixels wide while traces from
the Noggin 500 and 1000 are plotted on the screen 1 pixel wide (see Section 5.4.1).
Linear Gain
As described in Section 5.3.6, the weak signals must be amplified or “gained” to see
them on the display. The Gain button described in Section 5.3.6 can be set to a value
from 1 to 9 depending on the amount of gain required (1 is lowest gain, 9 is highest
gain).
There is also a second level of gain available to the user and that is the Linear Gain
setting. The default Linear Gain setting of 2.5 is usually adequate for most ground
conditions, however, if the user finds that they are surveying in areas where high Gain
button settings are always required to see data, it may be advantageous to increase the
Linear Gain setting. Conversely, if the user finds that low Gain button values work to
see the data, it may be useful to decrease the Linear Gain setting.
The choices available for Linear Gain are:
1) 0.0
2) 0.5
3) 1.0
4) 1.5
5) 2.0
6) 2.5 (default)
7) 3.0
8) 5.0