User`s manual

Section 8: Real-Time Data and Real-Time Control - Real-Time Data Acquisition
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Firing Bottles
Water sampler bottles can be fired by command from SEASAVE. SEASAVE
automatically writes bottle sequence number, bottle position, date, time, and
beginning and ending scan numbers to a bottle log (.bl) file each time a bottle
fire confirmation is received from the water sampler. The beginning and
ending scan numbers correspond to approximately a 1.5-second duration for
each bottle. For a 911plus system, SEASAVE also automatically sets the
bottle confirm bit in the data (.hex) file for all scans within a 1.5-second
duration after a bottle firing confirmation is received from the water sampler.
To fire bottles:
1. Set up the water sampler in Configure Inputs (see Water Sampler in
Section 5: Configure Inputs, Part III – Serial Ports, Water Sampler,
TCP/IP Ports, Miscellaneous, and Pump Control).
2. In the Real-Time Control menu, select Fire Bottle Control. The Bottle Fire
dialog box appears (you can leave this open throughout the cast).
3. Start real-time data acquisition.
4. If you selected Sequential or Table driven in the Water Sampler setup
(Step 1), the Bottle Fire dialog box displays the number of the next bottle
to be fired. If you selected User Input in the Water Sampler setup (Step 1),
select the bottle you want to fire next.
When desired, click Fire Bottle.
When SEASAVE receives a bottle fired confirmation from a Carousel, it:
• (for all CTDs) Writes a line to an output file (same filename as the data
file) with a .bl extension. The .bl file contains the bottle firing sequence
number, bottle position, date, time, and beginning and ending scan
number (to provide 1.5 seconds of scans) for the fired bottle.
• (for SBE 911plus only) Sets a bit in the modulo word high for
1.5 seconds and increments the number of bottles fired. Later, when the
raw data file is converted in SBE Data Processing’s Data Conversion
module, scans with this bottle confirmation bit are written to a file with
a .ros extension.
Note:
The .bl file has the same path and
file name as the data file. For
example, if the data file is
c:\test1.hex, the .bl file is c:\test1.bl.
Notes:
• The Fire Bottle button in the Bottle
Fire dialog box is inaccessible until
you start saving data to a file. So, if
you did not select Store data on disk
(or selected Delay storing data to
disk until Start Archiving command
is sent and did not yet send the Start
Archiving command), the Fire Bottle
button is grayed out.
• If desired, you can fire bottles
without using the Bottle Fire dialog
box. Each time you want to fire a
bottle, press Ctrl F3.
• If Auto Fire firing sequence was
selected on the Water Sampler tab
in Configure Inputs, the Fire Bottle
Control dialog box is inaccessible.