Columbus V-800+ User manual

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Time Album Lite V1.0.0
User’s Manual
Specially for Columbus V-800+ GPS data logger
Victory Tech Co.,Ltd ©2012.10

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Contents
How to use V-800+ …………………………………………………………………………3
Read Log data From V-800+……………………………………………………………3
Clear data logger memory … ……………………………………………………………5
Tracks viewing…… ………………………………………………………………………6
Functions
--Google Earth/Maps viewing……… ………………………………………………7
1. Read all the tracks… …………………………………………………………..8
2. Read tracks by date…… ……………………………………………………….8
3. Read tracks by time……… ……………………………………………………8
--Save as KML/NMEA… …………………………………………………………………9
--Time/Speed Graph……… …………………………………………………………...9
--Track Editing… ………………………………………………………………………...10
1. Delete selected track……… ……………………………………………………...10
2. Delete selected track data
………………………………………………………10
3. Create selected track data………………
……………………………………11
Software Options………… ……………………………………………………………11
Device Settings………….……… …………………………………………………….12
--Setting device information……………………………………………….. 12
- - Setting the logging interval…….… ……………………………………………12
Track files management ……………………………………… ………………… ..13

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How to use
Step1. Plug the car charger into the cigarette lighter outlet.
Step2. Connect the V-800+ to the car charger, the device starts to fix
position and log the tracks automatically.
Read Log data From V-800+
Step1 Plug V-800+ to PC USB port.
“Computer Management” ----- “Device Manager”----“Ports”---
COM number.

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Step2 . Run “Time Album Lite”
Select ”Com Port（for V-800+）”，”BAUD Rate “is 38400
Click “Connect”
Read new tracks：Click “Read New Tracks”
Read all the tracks of V-800+ ：Click “Get all tracks”
Disconnect from PC: Click”Disconnect”
Reading, Progress Bar
Click “Stop reading memory” when you need to stop reading.

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Step3 Finish reading, all the tracks will be displayed in the windows.
Clear Data Logger Memory
Connecting V-800+----“Device Control”----“Erase all tracks”----“Yes”

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Tracks Viewing
1. Double click the tracks selected, click” Track data”, track data will be
displayed in the windows。
2. Track data information：Track No., Date, Time(UTC), State，Latitude，
Longitude，Heading，Speed

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Google Earth/Maps viewing
1．“Track record”, double click the tracks selected
2．Click“Google Maps”。Red balloon“S”means start point，“E”means
End point.

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Select viewing mode
1.Read all the tracks：Click ”Select all tracks”
2.By Days：”Select Track list”---”By days”---“Select a period of time ”—
“Start of period of day”&”End of period of day”—”Confirm selected”
3. By Time: Double click track selected--”Track data”—select start and
end time --”Confirm Track selected”

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Save as KML/NMEA
1. KML: select track---click ”Export to Google Earth(KML)”
2. NMEA：select track---click ”Export to NMEA data(GPRMC)”
Time/Speed graph
1. “Track record”—double click tracks selected
2. Click ”Speed Graph”
Track Editing
1. Delete selected track
“Track Record”—select track selected—Click “Delete selected
track”---“Yes”
2. Delete selected track data
(ONLY in ”By tracks” mode)
“Track Record”—“Select Data list”---select ”By tracks”
Double click the track selected---select the track point data---click
“Delete selected track data”—the status of the track point turns

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to ”Deleted”

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3. Create selected track data
(ONLY in ”By tracks” mode)
”Track data”----click ”shift” to select track points ，e.g.: track
No.50-No.70 --- click ”Create selected track data”, a new track file will
be created, the new track file will be displayed in the above windows.
Software Options
”Track record”—“software options”---Time Zone---”Local Time”—Select the
local time zone
“Units”—Metric only
Track record data path：Only defaults folder
Click “OK” to save and exit

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V-800+Device Settings
1 Setting device information
User can customize the device ID for identification.
“Device Control”—“Device settings”---“Note information”
2 Setting the logging interval
By Speed：Logging the waypoints >= certain value
“Device Control”—“Device settings”---Save by speed
By Time: Logging interval by certain time
“Device Control”—“Device settings”---Save by time
By distance：Logging interval by certain distance
“Device Control”—“Device settings”---Save by distance
Click”OK”to save and exit

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Track files management
Saving path：”Desktop”--”Datalog” folder.
Including:*.BT0 track file，KML, NMEA files.
The track files are named by date.
How to delete the track files in the windows?
Please delete the track files in the ”Data log” folder.