Eureka Manta 2 User manual

Manta 2
™
Water Quality Multiprobe Manual
Release date 16 Dec 08
Eureka Environmental Engineering
2113 Wells Branch Parkway, Suite 4400
Austin, TX 78728
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Contents
QS Learning the Manta 2 in 30 Minutes
QS1 Loading the Manta 2 Software on Your PC – 7 Minutes
QS2 Installing the USB to Serial Driver
QS3 Connecting the Manta 2 to Your PC – 3 Minutes
QS4 Tinkering with the Software – 20 Minutes
A Overview
A1 Eureka Environmental
A2 What’s So Cool about the Manta 2?
A3 Example Systems and Applications
A4 Manta 2 System Components
A5 Manta 2 Different Sizes
A6 Connecting the Manta 2 to a PC
B User Interface Software – Main Screen
B1 Connecting the Manta 2 to a PC
B2 Main Screen
B3 Hot Buttons
B4 Pull-Down Menus
C User Interface Software – “PC” Pull-Down Menu
C1 “PC or Amphibian” Flow Chart
C2 Set Scroll Interval
C4 Choose a File for Storing Your Snapshots
C5 Graphing
C6 COM Ports
D User Interface Software – “Manta 2” Pull-Down Menu
D1 “Manta 2” Pull-Down Flow Chart
D2 Manage Manta 2 Files
D3 Logging Set-Up
D4 Calibration Record
D5 Sensors and Parameters List
D6 Calibrate
D6a Calibrate
D6b Set Barometric Pressure
D6c Set Time and Date
E Sensors
E1 The Difference between Sensors and Parameters
E2 Basics of Parameter Calibrations
E3 Calibration Record
E4 Sensor Response Factor (SRF)
E5 Temperature
E6 Dissolved Oxygen, Clark Sensor
E7 Dissolved Oxygen, Optical Sensor
E8 Conductivity
E9 pH
E10 Reference Electrode
E11 Oxidation-Reduction Potential (ORP)
E12 Depth and Vented Depth
E13 Turbidity
E14 Chlorophyll, Rhodamine, and Blue-Green Algae
E15 Total Dissolved Gas (TDG)
E16 Ion-Selective Electrodes
E16a Ammonium
E16b Nitrate
E16c Chloride
F The Manta 2
F1 Manta 2 Components and How They Work
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F2 What Them Little Lights Mean

F3 Applications: Profiling (Spot-Checking), Logging, and Telemetry
F4 Cables
F3 Operating the Manta 2 with Eureka’s Amphibian
G Logging
G1 What’s the difference between “Logging” and “Snapshot”?
G2 Why We Do Logging the Way We Do
G3 Activating Manta 2 Logging
G4 Logging Interval
G5 Sensor Warm-Up
G6 Internal Battery Packs
G7 External Battery Packs
G8 Am I using Battery Pack power or Cable power?
G9 Logging Redundantly with Telemetry
G10 Dumping Data from the Manta 2
G11 Routine Maintenance
G12 Opening the Manta 2
H Everything Else
H1 Troubleshooting
H2 Technical Information
H3 Customer Service
H4 Performance Specifications
H5 Software Version Information
H6 Warranty
I Amphibian Screen Shots
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QS Learning the Manta 2 in 30 Minutes
I’m the last to blame you if you are determined to read as little of this manual as possible. So, if you
have any experience with multiprobes – you know what a cable looks like and you know what a pH
buffer is – you can get by just fine reading only A1 – A3. The rest of you should at least skim the
sections on software and sensors.
I tried to make this manual at least half as long as those of other multiprobes on the market just so
you’d feel like you’re getting your money’s worth. But I couldn’t do it – the Manta 2 is just too easy to
use. We did that on purpose.
However, if you have any questions about the Manta 2, multiprobes in general, water chemistry,
Longhorn baseball schedule, etc., please call Eureka at 512-302-4333 x? We’ll drop what we’re
doing and talk to you until you’re trying to figure out a polite way to get off the phone.
QS1 Loading the Manta 2 Software on Your PC – 5 Minutes
1) Find the Eureka Install Disc that was delivered with your Manta 2.
2) Stick the disc into your PC’s CD-ROM drive tray and close the tray.
3) Verify, in a few minutes, that your PC desktop has a new icon called Manta 2 Control
Software.
4) The Manta 2 software will start automatically, but you’re going to click on Close because
you’ve got to load your USB to Serial Driver now.
QS2 Installing the USB to Serial Driver
1) Plug the USB to Serial Adapter (it’s the blue thing with the USB connector on a one-foot
cable) into any USB port on your PC.
2) Your Windows system will give you the “Welcome to New Hardware Found” box. Click the
little circle beside “Install the software automatically” and click on Next.
3) Your PC will find the USB to Serial Driver software on the Eureka Install Disc and load it
automatically after you click on “Continue Anyway” when you see the box that says that the
software has not been verified to be Microsoft compatible.
4) Then you’ll see the box that says your hardware (meaning the USB to Serial Adapter) is
successfully installed and ready for use.
QS3 Connecting the Manta 2 to Your PC – 5 Minutes
1) Connect the USB Adapter to any USB port on your PC.
2) Connect your Manta 2 Cable to the USB adapter.
3) Connect the Manta 2 to the Cable.
4) Click on the new Eureka icon.
5) Wait a few seconds while the PC and Manta 2 automatically find each other, and then you’ll
see the user interface Main Screen and rolling data from your Manta 2.
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QS4 Tinkering with the Software – 20 Minutes
You can tinker around with the software until you see how to calibrate sensors, activate logging, etc.
You can’t break anything because every software step (i.e. every screen) has a “Cancel” button that
takes you back to the Main Screen without changing anything.
Note that the Main Screen has six “hot” buttons that give you short-cuts to various routine tasks, like
turning Manta 2 logging on and off, or clearing the data screen. But it’s in the “pull-down” menus –
“PC or Amphibian” and “Manta 2” – that you’ll find most of the serious operating functions. Below is
the flow chart for the menus.
Manta2 Control Software
Menu Flow Chart
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