User`s manual

Section 2: Installation and Use
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Acquiring and Displaying Real-Time Data
Follow these steps to get started using SEASAVE to acquire and display
real-time data:
1. Set up the instrument, and define input parameters
(see Sections 3, 4, and 5: Configure Inputs):
• Instrument Configuration – Set up the instrument configuration (.con)
file, defining what sensors are integrated with the instrument, each
sensor’s calibration coefficients, and what other data is integrated
with the data stream from the instrument.
• Serial Ports – Define COM ports and other communication
parameters for CTD, water sampler and 9plus pump control, serial
data output, and SBE 14 Remote Display.
• Water Sampler - Enable and set up control of bottle firing for a
water sampler.
• TCP/IP Ports – Define ports for communication with SEASAVE.
• Miscellaneous – Define miscellaneous parameters required for output
of specific variables (depth, density, average sound velocity,
descent rate, acceleration, oxygen, plume anomaly, and potential
temperature anomaly).
• Pump Control – Enable user pump control for a custom
SBE 9plus.
2. Define output parameters (see Section 6: Configure Outputs):
• Serial Data Out - Enable and set up output of converted data
(in engineering units) to a COM port on your computer.
• Serial Ports – Define COM ports and other communication
parameters for CTD, water sampler and 9plus pump control, serial
data output, and SBE 14 Remote Display.
• Shared File Out - Enable and set up output of converted data
(in engineering units) to a shared file on your computer.
• Mark Variables - Set up format for marking of selected data scans.
• TCP/IP Out – Enable and set up output of raw or converted data to
TCP/IP ports.
• TCP/IP Ports – Define TCP/IP ports for data output.
• SBE 11plus Alarms – (for SBE 9plus / 11plus only) Enable and
set up SBE 11plus Deck Unit alarm (minimum and maximum
pressure alarm, and altimeter alarm if altimeter integrated with
SBE 9plus CTD).
• SBE 14 Remote Display - (if SBE 14 connected to a computer COM
port) Enable and set up output of data to an SBE 14, and set up
SBE 14 alarm (minimum and maximum pressure alarm, altimeter
alarm if altimeter integrated with CTD, and bottom contact switch
alarm if bottom contact switch integrated with CTD).
•
Header Form - Create a customized header for the data.
• Diagnostics – Enable and set up diagnostic outputs, to assist in
troubleshooting if you encounter difficulty running the program.
3. Define SEASAVE displays. SEASAVE can have an unlimited number of
data displays (limited only by the resources of your computer). Three
types of data displays are available: fixed, scrolled, and plot displays.
Additionally, you can open a Status display and a NMEA display. See
Section 7: Display - Setting Up SEASAVE Displays.
4. Start real-time data acquisition. If applicable (and if enabled in Steps 1
and 2), fire bottles, mark scans, and / or send Lat/Lon data to a file during
acquisition. See Section 8: Real-Time Data and Real-Time Control - Real-
Time Data Acquisition.
Note:
Serial ports and TCP/IP ports can be
defined in Configure Inputs and/or
Configure Outputs. If you make
changes in one dialog box those
changes will appear when you open
the other dialog box.