iXBlue OCEANO RT2500S Series User manual

OCEANO
RT2500S/RT5000S
Series
LF Transponders
User Guide

OCEANO RT2500S/RT5000S Series – User Guide
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Warranty
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defect in materials or manufacture. The warranty starts from the date of shipment of the
product from iXBlue’s manufacturing premises to customer’s location and its duration is
indicated in the certificate of warranty delivered with the product. In the event that a defect
in materials or manufacture becomes obvious during the stipulated warranty period,
iXBlue will undertake, at its sole discretion, either to repair the defective product, bearing
the cost of all parts and labor, or to replace it with an identical product.
In order to avail itself of this warranty, Customer must notify iXBlue of the defect before
expiry of the warranty period and take all steps necessary to enable iXBlue to proceed.
Customer shall be responsible for the packaging and the shipment of the defective
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Customer. iXBlue agrees to bear the cost of return freight, based on CPT (Cost Paid To)
Customer’s airport location, import tax-free.
This warranty shall not be construed as covering defects, malfunctions or damages
caused by improper use or inadequate maintenance of the product. Under no
circumstances shall iXBlue be due to provide repair or replacement under this warranty in
order a) to repair damage caused by work done by any person not representing iXBlue for
the installation, repair or maintenance of the product ; b) to repair damage caused by
improper use or connection to incompatible equipment, and specifically, the opening of
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cancelled ; c) to maintain any product that has been modified or integrated into a larger
configuration, if such modification or integration increases the duration or difficulty of the
maintenance of said product.
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limited to the repair or replacement of defective products, this being the sole remedy open
to Customer in the event the warranty becomes applicable. iXBlue cannot be held liable
for indirect, special, subsequent or consequential damage, irrespective of whether iXBlue
has or has not received prior notification of the risk of occurrence of such damage.
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Text Usage and Icons
bold Bold text is used for items you must select or click in the
software. It is also used for the field names used into the dialog
box.
Courier Text in this font denotes text or characters that you should enter
from the keyboard, the proper names of disk Drives, paths,
directories, programs, functions, filenames and extensions.
italic Italic text is the result of an action in the procedures.
The Note icon indicates that the following information is of interest to the operator and
should be read.
THE CAUTION ICON INDICATES THAT THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION SHOULD BE READ TO FORBID
OR PREVENT PRODUCT DAMAGE.
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Abbreviations and Acronyms
ANSI American National Standards Institute
ASCII American Standard Code for Information Interchange
CIF Common Interrogation Frequency
CR Carriage Return
CAF Common Acknowledgement Frequency
CRF Common Reply Frequency
FSK Frequency Shift Keying
IIF Individual Interrogation Frequency
IRF Individual Reply Frequency
LF Line Feed
M-FSK Multi-Frequency Shift Keying
NMEA National Marine Electronics Association
MMI Man Machine Interface
GUI Graphic User Interface
UI User Interface
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Table of Contents
IGENERAL INFORMATION ............................................................................................................. 1
I.1 Main Types of Transponders............................................................................................. 1
I.2Technical Characteristics.................................................................................................. 1
I.2.1 Dimensions and Weights................................................................................................. 2
I.2.2 Marking........................................................................................................................... 2
I.2.3 Optional External connection........................................................................................... 2
I.2.4 Mechanical features ........................................................................................................ 3
II DESCRIPTION............................................................................................................................. 4
II.1 General Presentation......................................................................................................... 4
II.2 Mechanical Specifications................................................................................................. 5
II.2.1 Upper Equipped End Cap................................................................................................ 5
II.2.2 Assembled and Equipped Lower End Cap....................................................................... 5
II.2.3 External Tube – Container Assembly............................................................................... 5
II.3 Transducer ......................................................................................................................... 5
II.4 Transponder Mode............................................................................................................. 6
II.5 Acoustic Commands.......................................................................................................... 7
II.5.1 Release Operation .......................................................................................................... 8
II.5.2 DIAGNOSTIC Command................................................................................................. 9
II.5.3 ACOUSTIC RESET Command........................................................................................ 9
II.5.4 RESPONDER Mode...................................................................................................... 10
II.5.5 PINGER Mode .............................................................................................................. 11
II.5.6 ENABLE / DISABLE Transponder Mode........................................................................ 11
II.6 Bottom Finding Pinger Mode........................................................................................... 12
II.7 Asynchronous Serial Port................................................................................................ 12
II.8 Optional Pressure Telemetry Mode................................................................................. 13
III POWER SUPPLY....................................................................................................................... 15
III.1 Internal Power Supply...................................................................................................... 15
III.2Optional Power Supply.................................................................................................... 15
IV AUTONOMY ............................................................................................................................. 16
VDEPLOYING THE RT8X1............................................................................................................ 17
V.1 Preparing the Deployment............................................................................................... 17
V.2 Deploying the RT8x1........................................................................................................ 17
VI BALI SOFTWARE ...................................................................................................................... 18
VI.1 Installing BALI.................................................................................................................. 18
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VI.1.1 Minimum Hardware Configuration...................................................................................18
VI.1.2 Minimum Software Configuration....................................................................................18
VI.1.3 Installing BALI................................................................................................................18
VI.1.4 Booting BALI..................................................................................................................18
VI.1.5 Exiting BALI...................................................................................................................19
VI.2 General Presentation of BALI...........................................................................................19
VI.2.1 Main Function.................................................................................................................19
VI.2.2 Characteristics ...............................................................................................................19
VI.3 Configuring RT8x1 Parameters........................................................................................21
VI.3.1 General..........................................................................................................................21
VI.3.2 Communication Port Mapping.........................................................................................22
VI.4 Utilities...............................................................................................................................23
VI.4.1 Adding a Transponder....................................................................................................23
VI.4.2 Deleting a Transponder..................................................................................................24
VI.5 Interactive Programming of the Transponders................................................................24
VI.5.1 General Description........................................................................................................24
VI.5.2 Tools Menu ....................................................................................................................25
VI.5.3 Parameters Settings Menu.............................................................................................26
VI.5.3.1 Transponder Transmission.............................................................................................26
VI.5.3.2 Transponder Reception..................................................................................................27
VI.5.3.3 Pinger Mode...................................................................................................................27
VI.5.4 Command Menu.............................................................................................................28
VII PRESSURE MEASUREMENT ........................................................................................................29
VII.1 Introduction.......................................................................................................................29
VII.2 Measurement on Individual Interrogation IIF...................................................................29
VII.2.1 Selection of the Data Transmission Link.........................................................................29
VII.2.2 Acoustic Transmission of the Pressure Measurement.....................................................30
VII.2.3 Transmission of the Pressure Measurement on Serial Link.............................................31
VII.3 Remote Measurement.......................................................................................................32
VIII OPTIONAL TIME RELEASE..........................................................................................................33
IX MAINTENANCE..........................................................................................................................34
IX.1 Storage ..............................................................................................................................46
IX.2 Troubleshooting................................................................................................................46
IXBLUE CONTACT -SUPPORT 24/7 CUSTOMER SUPPORT HELPLINE.................................47
IXBLUE CONTACT -SALES..........................................................................................................48
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APPENDICES.................................................................................................................................. 49
A. Exchanges between MMI Bali and RT8x1 Transponders ............................................... 49
B. Shortcut Keys................................................................................................................... 50
C. Internal Serial Link Cable for RT8x1................................................................................ 50
D. Connection Cable for RT8x1-R........................................................................................ 51
E. Recommended Mooring for a Fixed Point Transponder ................................................ 52
F. Mechanical Drawing RT861CS......................................................................................... 53
G. Mechanical Drawing RT861B2S....................................................................................... 54
H. Mechanical Drawing RT861B1S....................................................................................... 55
I. Mechanical Drawing RT861DS......................................................................................... 56
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