Manual

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4.5 Charging beacons and other details
- The Beacon has 5 sensors (transducers): RX1,
RX2, RX3, RX4, and RX5
- Charging occurs automatically every time a USB
charger is attached to the board. LED 1 is active
and lights red
- It takes 1–2 hours to fully charge the board’s
battery
- If you plan using a charger for permanent
powering of the beacon, make sure that the
power source is not noisy (+5V is not noisy). The
performance can be monitored by going to
Dashboard => View => Oscilloscope.
Read the paragraph Using Oscilloscope
- When the board is charged and turned on, LED 2 will blink every few seconds, if
to press RESET button and modem is active. If modem is not active or works on
a different radio channel, the beacon automatically goes into sleep mode after 1
minute