Kolida KL-03 User manual

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FOREWORD
Thank you for purchasing KOLIDA Digital Level KL-03. Please read this manual carefully
before the operation.
Serial Number:
Please record the Model Name and Serial Number on the equipment. If you have any
question, you can send the SN to our dealer when necessary to receive our prompt service.
The meaning of following symbols:
※DANGER:
It means the dangerous situation, which might cause the human injury or even death.
※WARNING:
It indicates the risk of potential or accidental operation, which might cause the human
injury or even death.
※CAUTION:
It might cause a slight damage or obvious lost of equipment, economic or environment.
Please use the equipment in a correct and efficient way.

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PRECAUTIONS
Please check the equipment before operation, in order to ensure the normal usage.
Avoid the surface or connector damage on code staff
The surface and connector are easily to be damaged by accident during the
storage or shipment. Otherwise it will influence the accuracy of leveling.
Tripod
Wooden tripod is the better choice for leveling, instead of metal tripod. Metal
tripod is not stable enough in the tough situation to keep the high accuracy. Please
tighten the twist or clamp lock on each leg.
Tribrach
Please check the adjusting screws on tribrach regularly to ensure the correct
installation. And don’t forget to tighten the center screw.
Package and shock preventing
Please reduce the shock or vibration during shipment. The strong vibration might
cause the function damage. Please take off the battery when packaging.
Move the equipment carefully.
Please hold the handle when moving the equipment from tripod.
Avoid direct exposure under sun or rain, and any affect by damp
Keep the equipment under a high temperature (+50℃) situation will make a bad
effect on the function.
Don’t aim the equipment to the sun, otherwise the inside components will be
damaged.
Avoid temperature sudden change
The sudden change for temperature will decrease the measure range. Please let
the equipment adapt the environment gradually before operation.
Battery checking
Please check the battery voltage before operation.
Code staff
Please wearing gloves when using a code staff.

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SAFETY GUIDE
Please check the equipment before operation, in order to ensure the correct usage.
Do not put the equipment beside the burning gas/liquid or the other explosive
substance. Do not using the equipment at coal mine or dusty place, in order to
avoid the combustion or explosion.
Do not repair or install the equipment without authorization, to avoid the
unnecessary damage from fire, electric shock or object injures.
Do not aim at the sun directly or even any reflected sunshine by objective lens.
Please be careful when doing the leveling with staff besides the high-voltage lines or
transformer, in order to avoid electric shock.
Do not use staff under thunder weather, in order to avoid the damage or death by
thunder-strike
Do not use the unofficial charger or battery.
Do not use broken cables, plugs or sockets for power supply.
Do not put the battery in the fire or any high-temperature environment, otherwise it
will cause the combustion and explosion.
Do not short-circuit the battery when storage, otherwise it will cause the fire.
Do not assemble or disassemble the equipment or power supply in a wet hand,
otherwise it will cause the electric shock.
Do not cover the charger when charging the battery, otherwise it will cause the fire.
Do not touch the leaking liquid from battery, to avoid the chemical hurts. Please
change a new battery in the same time.
Please notice the below item in order to avoid the damage
Overturn the case might broken the equipment inside.
Please do not sit down or stand on the case to avoid fallen.
Please do not use the case with broken accessories, in order to avoid unnecessary
damage to equipment or any other people.
Please be careful when setting or moving a tripod.

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Please set the tribrach correctly. If the tribrach falling down, the equipment might
get a serious damage by accident.
Please tighten the center screw on tripod when setting the equipment.
When moving the tripod, please lock the twist or clamp on the leg to keep it stable.
When doing the field surveying, please ensure that:
About station movement: Move the equipment after package or fix it vertically on
the tripod before the movement.
Short-term shipment: Please do not deliver the equipment by car separately. The
shaking and vibration will damage the equipment. Please deliver it into its case.
Long-term shipment: Please using a outer carton and original case during the
long-term shipment by train, air or sea. The other carton can escape the shocking
from outside in a certain way.
Storage: Please keep the temperature between -30℃~ +70℃.
Damp: When the equipment is damped in the case, please take out the equipment,
wipe and clean it immediately. Put back the equipment after complete drying. Don’t
forget to close the case tightly.
Cleaning: Do not using a strongly stimulated liquid to clean the equipment. You can
have a soft and clean cloth dampened with soap-suds to clean the cover, keyboard
and display unit.
User
The Digital Level KL-03 only for professional.
The user should have the background for surveying or related knowledge. Please also
read the safety guide carefully before the usage, checking and adjustment.
Please wear the protection when operating, for example the safety shoes or hat.
Do not put the equipment on ground directly.

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EXECEPTION CLAUSE
The user should follow the guide which described in this users manual, and check
the equipment regularly when necessary.
The manufacture and dealer do not have any responsibility for any direct or indirect
consequences and losses of profit under improper and destructive operation.
The manufacture and dealer do not have any responsibility for any direct or indirect
consequences or losses which caused by natural disasters, such as earthquakes,
storms, floods, and fires, accidents or any other third-party liabilities.
The manufacture and dealer do not have any responsibility for the defect products
caused by the change or lost of data, and the other interference factors.
The manufacture and dealer do not have any responsibility for the consequences
and losses of profit which caused by the improper operation.
The manufacture and dealer do not have any responsibility for the consequences
and losses of profit which caused by improper shipment or the illegal connection
with other equipment.

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MENU
FOREWORD ..........................................................................................................................01
PRECAUTIONS ......................................................................................................................02
SAFETY GUIDE ......................................................................................................................03
USER .....................................................................................................................................04
EXECEPTION CLAUSE ............................................................................................................05
1. BRIEF INTRODUCTION .....................................................................................................08
1.1 Appearance ....................................................................................................................08
1.2 Features ..........................................................................................................................09
1.3 Measuring Principle ........................................................................................................09
1.4 Instrument Setup ...........................................................................................................09
1.5 Others .............................................................................................................................10
1.6 Optical Level ...................................................................................................................12
1.6.1 Height Measurement .............................................................................................12
1.6.2 Distance Measurement ..........................................................................................13
1.6.3 Angle Measurement ..............................................................................................13
2. OPERATION ......................................................................................................................14
2.1 Operation Keys ..............................................................................................................14
2.2 Main Menu ....................................................................................................................16
3. MEASUREMENT ...............................................................................................................18
3.1 Height .............................................................................................................................18
3.2 Stake Out ........................................................................................................................19
3.3 Line Meas .......................................................................................................................20
3.4 COM/Bluetooth ..............................................................................................................26
3.5 Measure Mode ...............................................................................................................27
3.6 Function .........................................................................................................................28
3.6.1 Test .........................................................................................................................28
3.6.2 View .......................................................................................................................28
3.6.3 Code .......................................................................................................................29

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3.6.4 Pt N ........................................................................................................................29
3.6.5 Input .......................................................................................................................30
3.6.6 E bubble .................................................................................................................30
4. DATA .................................................................................................................................31
4.1 Edit Data..........................................................................................................................31
4.1.1 Meas Point .............................................................................................................31
4.1.2 Known Point ...........................................................................................................32
4.1.3 Job ..........................................................................................................................32
4.1.4 Code .......................................................................................................................33
4.1.5 Line ........................................................................................................................33
4.1.6 Line Tolerance ........................................................................................................34
4.2 Memory Management ...................................................................................................35
4.3 Export Data .....................................................................................................................36
5. ADJUST............................................................................................................................. 38
5.1 Check ..............................................................................................................................38
5.2 Dual-axis Adjust ..............................................................................................................41
5.3 Reticle Cross-hair ...........................................................................................................43
5.4 Circular Bubble ...............................................................................................................43
5.5 Tripod .............................................................................................................................43
6 CALC ..................................................................................................................................44
6.1 Line Adjustment .............................................................................................................44
7 SET .....................................................................................................................................46
7.1 Quick Set ........................................................................................................................46
7.2 Complete Set ..................................................................................................................46
7.3 E Bubble .........................................................................................................................50
8 HELP ..................................................................................................................................51
8.1 User Manual ..................................................................................................................51
9 SPECIFICATIONS ................................................................................................................52
CORRECTION STATEMENT ...................................................................................................54

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1. BRIEF INTRODUCTION
1. 1 Appearance
1 ON/OFF Key
2 Eyepiece Cover
3 Eyepiece
4. Trigger Key
5 Focusing Hand Wheel Unit
6 Keyboard
7 Display Unit
8 Handle
9 Battery
10 Circle Bubble
11 U-disk Port
12 RS232 COMM Port
13 Infinite Horizontal Tangent Unit
14 Optical Lens
15 Horizontal Circle
16 Leveling Screws
17 Tribrach

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1.2 Features
Colorful Touch Screen
Numerical and Alphabetic Keyboard
Dual-side Horizontal Tangent
Rechargeable Battery
Magnetic Damping Compensator
Humanized On-board Software
Large Internal Shortage for Data
Backup by U-disk or Bluetooth Transmission
Comm/Bluetooth Connection and Interface
Electric Bubble
1.3 Measuring Principle
The staff code was saved in KL-03 as a reference signal. When measuring, the image sensor
will catch the staff image in the sight of view as the signal, then compare it with reference
signal inside. Then it will get the height of sight line and the horizontal distance. Please
up-right the staff vertically. If you lighten the staff, KL-03 can work at night.
1.4 Instrument Setup
Mount the KL-03 on a tripod, leveling and center it precisely will ensure the best
performance for measurement.
1) Set up a tripod
A. Extend the tripod legs to a suitable height, tighten the screws.
B. Keep the center and the occupied point approximately on the same plumb line
C. Step on the tripod to ensure the stability on the ground.
2) Attaching KL-03 on the tripod
Place the instrument carefully on the tripod head and slide the instrument by loosening
the tripod screw.
3) Roughly leveling the instrument by adjust the circular vial

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A. Turn the leveling screw A and B to move the bubble in the circular vial, in which case
the bubble is located on a line perpendicular to a line running through the centers of the
two leveling screw being adjusted .
B. Turn the leveling screw C to move the bubble to the center of the circular vial.
C. You can also adjust the bubble by electric.
4) Focusing the lens
A. Aim at a bright background, for example a piece of white paper
B. Rotate the eyepiece to clear the cross-line
C. Aim at the code staff by collimator at first
D. Rotate the telescope focusing screw to clear the image. The code staff and cross-line
will not move according the eyes’movement.
1.5 Others
1) Please check the i Angle of KL-03, the circular bubble on equipment and staff before:
①doing the field measurement

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②a long-term shipment
③a long-term storage
2) Keep the lens cleaning. The dust or dirty spot will influence the accuracy.
3) Make the equipment adapt to the environment before measurement. Each 1℃
temperature difference might cost 2mins to adapt.
4) Under special conditions:
Vibration: Step at the legs of tripod will decrease the vibration of equipment
Back-lighting: If the back-light of sunshine influenced the measurement, please
assemble the optical cover tube.
Darkness: Please use a flashlight to lighten the code on staff
Measurement at bottom code: KL-03 is available to aim at the position lower than 0 in a
little. The value will be minus.
Measurement at the top code: KL-03 is available to aim at the bottom, but it will
influence the accuracy for level.
5) The requirement for code’s length in sight of view:
For precise measurement, the center of sight should without any cover. The code’s
length is related to the distance between equipment and staff. Here is the form for the
requirements:
Distance
Code’s Length
Cover Rate in Sight
0m –10m
100%
0%
10m –50m
80%
20%
50m –90m
70%
30%
90m –110m
60%
40%
6) Shadow: the shadow on staff will not influence the result in common.
7) Focusing: A tinny dis-focused target will not influenced the measure time and accuracy.
8) Measurement via glass: Please avoid the measurement via glass or window.
9) Fine mode for line measurement: Please activate fine mode when doing the line
measurement. It will increase the accuracy than the other measure mode.

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1.6 Optical Level
Using height and distance measurement as example
1.6.1 Height Measurement
1) Set KL-03 on a tripod, leveling the equipment, focusing lens.
2) Hold the code staff vertically.
3) Aim at the target roughly at first
4) Focus to the target by adjusting focusing screw
5) Aim at the target precisely by adjusting horizontal tangent
6) Check the bubble
7) Record the center height H of cross-hair on the staff
Eg. H=2.586m
When using the digital level, press trigger key after repeat the step 1-6, KL-03 will
record the code and distance automatically.

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1.6.2 Distance Measurement
After the same steps 1 -6 of Chapter 2.2.1 Height Measurement.
Upper cross-hair: 2.670 m, bottom cross-hair: 2.502 m
Interval L: 0.168 m, based on the formula distance= 100 x L
Distance d: 16.8 m
1.6.3 Angle Measurement
The bottom horizontal disk can be the reference of angle measurement in 360°/ 400
gon, each 1 scale means 1 degree.

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2. OPERATIONS
2.1 Operation Keys
Power on: Press [ON/OFF] key shortly
Power off: Hold [ON/OFF] key in 1s
Trigger Key: Press trigger key to start measurement
☞If you press the keyboard too hard, it might cause the vibration of equipment. The
vibration might influence the compensation and the accuracy for measurement. Users can
improve the stability of measurement by averaging in multiple measurement.
Function Key
[↑↓←→] Navigation key, select correct item by control the cursor
[INT] Switch to point-to-point measurement
[MODE] Set measure mode
[USER] Arbitrarily function key defined by FNC menu
[PROG] Program
[DATA] Data management
[CE] Delete characters
[SHIFT] Switch to the second function key (SET OUT，INV，FNC，MENU，LIGHTING，PgUp，
PgDn) and switch between numbers and alphabet.
[ESC] Exit, cancel or stop the measurement

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[ENT] Enter to next step
Combination Key
[SET OUT] Start Stake Out function. Press [SHIFT][INT] to enter.
[INV] Inverse the code staff (0 scale on top) then it will display a “T”on the screen after
activate. Press [INV] again to back for normal mode, the value will be minus. Press [SHIFT]
[MODE] to enter.
[FNC] Activate the other functions on KL-03. Press [SHIFT][USER] to enter.
[MENU] Menu setting. Press [SHIFT][PROG] to enter.
[ ] is for illumination. Press[SHIFT][DATA] to activate.
[PgUp] Page Up. Press [SHIFT][↑] to enter.
[PgDn] Page Down. Press [SHIFT][↓] to enter.
Symbols (on the screen)
[1 / 3] means the first of total 3 pages. Press “PgUp”or “PgDn”to check the other pages.
[←→] Use the navigation key to select.
[OK] OK and exit this interface.
[↑↓] Skip to next column.
Battery capacity.
E: Correction of earth curvature has been activated.
T: Inverse the staff and start the measurement. This mode is only for inverse code staff.
N: Numeric keyboard has been activated.
α: Alphabetic keyboard has been activated.

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2.2 Main Menu
Option 1: Click corresponding area to start
Option 2: Move the cursor by [↑↓] key and
press [ENT] to start
Option 3: Press the number 1-6 to start
☞Note: In KL-03, you can enter any interface by one of those start-up methods.The
following manual will only select one to explain.
Main menu shown as below:
Menu
1st Sub-Menu
2nd Sub-Menu
Description
1. Meas
Height
Height Measurement
Stake Out
Stake Out
Line Meas
Level 1 Measurement
Level 1 Measurement
Level 2 Measurement
Level 2 Measurement
Level 3 Measurement
Level 3 Measurement
Level 4 Measurement
Level 4 Measurement
User-defined
Line Meas
User-defined measurement
COM/
Bluetooth
COM Port
RS232 COMM Port
Bluetooth
Bluetooth connection
2 Data
Edit Data
Meas Point
Check the info of measured point
Known Point
View/Add/Delete known point

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Job
View/Add/Delete job
Code
View/Add/Delete code
Line
View/Add/Delete line
Line Tolerance
View/Add/Delete line tolerance
Memory
Management
Memory Info
Check the line/known pt/job...etc
which store in internal memory
Memory Format
Formatting memory
Export Data
Export Job
Export the job data to u-disk or
Bluetooth device
Expt Line
3 Adjust
Check
Check the digital level
Dual-axis Adjust
Adjust the dual-axis
4 Calc
Line Adjustment
Line adjustment
5 Set
Quick Set
Atmosphere correction, earth
curvature, user key, decimals set.
Complete Set
Meas Setting
Unit, format, earth curvature,
staff invert, constant set, etc.
System
Sound, back light and others set.
Instruction Info
Information about jobs, battery,
memory, date, SN, etc.
Factory Mode
Recovery to initial mode.
E bubble
Electric bubble
6. Help
User Manual
Key Note
Introduction about basic, function
and combination keys.
Adjust Explanation
Adjust Explanation

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3. MEASUREMENT
3.1 Height
Press [Meas], [Height] to enter the height measurement interface.
Input BS height by manual, press Trigger Key to measure. Press [OK] to check the result.

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3.2 Stake Out
Press [Meas], [Stake Out] to enter the height measurement interface.
Input or search the existed back-sight point and height.
Press Trigger Key to measure this point.
You can choose Elevation, Difference Height or Stadia stake out after press [OK]
If the height is existed in the current job, it will display on the blank of S.O Pt Height
automatically.
Then finish the stake out.

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3.3 Line Meas
Press [Meas], [Line Meas] to enter the line measurement interface.
You can enter the sub-menu in following methods:
1) Click the corresponding area to activate
2) Use[↑↓] to move the cursor and press [ENT] to confirm
3) Press numeric keyboard, for example [1] for quick start
The line tolerance has been settled in Level 1-4 Measurement. Use 1. Level 1 Measurement
as an example:
Select Job/Line/Start menu to input the configuration according to the request.