User manual

RM-60 MICRO-ROENTGEN
RADIATION MONITOR
COMPUTER INTERFACE MANUAL
LICENSE STATEMENT
The software supplied with this package is protected by
United States copyright law and international treaty provi-
sions. Aware Electronics Corp. authorizes you to make
archival copies of the software for the sole purpose of back-
ing-up the software and protecting your investment from loss.
Do not rent or lease the software in any form.
Like a book, the software may be used by any number of
people, so long as there is no possibility of it being used by
more than one person or device at a time, just as no more
than one person reads a book at a time. In other words please
don’t distribute or simultaneously use copies of the software
without the written consent of Aware Electronics Corp.
OVERVIEW
The RM-60 Micro-Roentgen Radiation Monitor, in conjunc-
tion with a PC computer, is a highly sensitive, feature packed,
easy to use geiger counter. The software included with the
system allows a user to scan, quickly and conveniently, days,
weeks or months of stored radiation data for any unusual
surges or trends in radiation level.
With the RM-60, the user can continuously record natural
background radiation, as well as low levels of radiation from
bricks and other building materials, rocks, soil, water, etc.
The RM-60 also can measure small amounts of radioactivity
in contaminated foods, beverages, chemicals, atmosphere, etc.
The RM-60 can detect and continuously monitor for extreme-
ly low levels of radon gas by measuring radioactive buildup
on an air filter, such as found in a heating system, air con-
ditioner or portable filter. This technique also will alert you
to the presence of rare but highly dangerous airborne radio-
active particles.
The RM-60 detects all three types of radiation emitted by
radioactive elements, namely, alpha, beta, and gamma radia-
tion, as well as X-ray radiation.
Sophisticated software allows the RM-60 to detect and ac-
curately display levels of radiation one thousand times less
than standard milliroentgen survey geiger counters. The
system can detect and display dosage levels as low as one
microroentgen/hr. to as high as 30,000 microroentgens/hr.
QUICK INSTRUCTIONS
Note: For Aw-Radw Windows software instructions, refer to
Aw-Radw Help. To install on hard drive, make a new sub-
directory on it (MD C:\AWARE) and copy all the files from
the floppy to the new sub-directory (COPY A:\*.* C:\AWA-
RE). Note: AW-SRAD.EXE and AW-MRAD.COM are the
only files needed to run the program. Make a backup copy
of the floppy. Plug the RM-60 into a COM port or LPT
printer port by following the instructions below under "JACK
ADAPTER". DO NOT ALLOW ANY OBJECTS TO
PROJECT THROUGH THE RM-60’S ALPHA WINDOW
(TOP GRID). Never touch the RM-60 to an active radioac-
tive substance; you may contaminate it.
Go to AWARE dir (CD C:\AWARE). Load the program
AW-SRAD.EXE (type AW-SRAD enter), or AW-SRAD -M
to force monochrome (black and white) mode. Select the
input port the RM-60 is plugged into by using the program’s
Setup selection. After selecting the input port, you can ob-
serve radiation levels by selecting the program’s "Capture"
option, sub-option "Display Current Input". The computer’s
speaker will click with every detection of radiation. Every
minute (default) the program will display the radiation dosage
rate impinging on the RM-60, by scrolling a bar chart across
the screen. If this dosage rate exceeds 27 microroentgens/hr.
(default), an alarm will sound. Pressing the F1 key will pro-
vide a help window.
CONNECTING THE RM-60
TO A PC COMPUTER
JACK ADAPTER:
Plug the special adapter into the computer port. A com port
adapter is a 25 or 9 position D-sub Female adapter. A LPT
printer port adapter is a 25 position D-Sub Male adapter. The
RM-60 has a 6 foot modular phone cord with a modular
phone plug. Insert the phone plug into the D-Sub adapter
jack. The cord can be extended several hundred feet with
standard RJ11 modular phone extension cord. Use a com port
when extending the cord for better noise rejection. (Also see
"Selecting Input Port" below)
MONITORING EXTERNAL DEVICES:
The software will gather and store radiation data from the
RM-60, as well as simultaneously monitor the operating status
of an external device such as a fan, vent, switch, etc. If you
want to monitor an external device, read this section, other-
wise skip this section.
To monitor the operating status of an external device, you
need to gain access to the DS (Device Status) wire (Data Set
Ready pin of the serial port (pin 6) or the BUSY pin of the
printer port (pin 11)).
The status of the external device will be recorded as active by
connecting the DS wire to:
Serial port: DTR
(25 pin D-Shell: pin 20, 9 pin D-Shell: pin 4)
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