MicroStep-MIS MSB780 User manual

MSB780, MSB780X,
MSB780X transfer standard
Digital Barometers
Version 1.25
User’s Guide
October 17, 2017

MSB780(X) - User’s Guide
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Editorial team: Adam Krovina, Ján Mikulka, Ján Hudec
Firmware version
This version of user guide describes functionality of firmware version 097.
Hardware version
This version of user guide describes functionality of hardware MSB780 V2 and MSB780X V2.0.
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Typographical conventions
Throughout this guide, several typographical conventions are used to help reader to follow in-
structions and identify the important information.
The special notes:
Note: Air must be used as a pressure medium during calibration.
The text input or command:
cnf?<cr>
The text output:
Sleep.
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Contents
1 Introduction 11
2 Hardware 12
2.1 Principleofoperation.................................. 12
2.2 Terminals ........................................ 12
2.3 Powersupply ...................................... 12
2.4 Power consumption - model with touchscreen display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
2.5 Powersavingmode .................................. 14
2.6 Serialinterface(RS-232) ............................... 14
2.7 Connecting MSB780 or MSB780X to PC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
2.8 SDI-12interfacewiring................................. 15
2.9 Serviceconnector ................................... 15
3 MSB780X transfer standard version 16
3.1 Connecting the external probe to the transfer standard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
3.2 Turning the transfer standard on/off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
3.3 Recharging the transfer standard battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
3.4 Using the transfer standard with AA batteries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
3.5 Connecting the transfer standard to a computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
3.6 Transfer standard connectors description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
3.7 Adjustment of the transfer standard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
3.8 Terminals of the transfer standard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
3.9 Memorycard ...................................... 23
4 Maintenance 24
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4.1 Cleaning......................................... 24
4.2 ErrorStates....................................... 24
4.3 Recommended recalibration interval . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
4.4 Compensation sensor exchange procedure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
4.4.1 Compensation sensor - maintenance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
4.4.2 Compensation sensor FAQ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
5 Calibration and Adjustment 27
5.1 How to read the current correction values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
5.2 Disablingthecorrection ................................ 27
5.3 Adjusting MSB780X with more than one transducer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
5.4 One pressure point adjustment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
5.5 Two pressure points adjustment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
5.6 More than 2 pressure points adjustment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
5.7 “caset” Adjust the analog output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
6 RS-232 and RS-485 commands 31
6.1 Serial interface command set . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
6.2 Basiccommands.................................... 33
6.3 “p” Poll measurement command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
6.4 “d” Poll extended measurement command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
6.5 “cnf?”Printconfiguration................................ 34
6.6 “errors” Print error message . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
6.7 “sdi12a” SDI-12 address change . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
6.8 “help”Displayhelp ................................... 38
6.9 “boot”Restartdevice.................................. 38
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6.10 “seri” Set communication settings for user RS-232 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
6.11“echo1”Enableecho.................................. 38
6.12“echo0”Disableecho ................................. 39
6.13 "form" Change output message format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
6.14 "form?" Get actual output message format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
6.15 “smode” Change the user port start-up operating mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
6.16 "smode?" Get actual user port start-up operating mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
6.17 “intv” Change the outputting interval for RUN mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
6.18 "intv?" Get actual the outputting interval for RUN mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
6.19"avrg"Averagingtime ................................. 43
6.20 "avrg?" Get averaging time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
6.21 “addr” Change the address in POLL mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
6.22 “addr?” Get actual address in POLL mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
6.23 “open” Access to command mode in POLL mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
6.24 “close” Close command mode in POLL mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
6.25 “send” Read the output message in POLL mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
6.26 “unit” Change the measurement unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
6.27 “unit?” Get actual measurement unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
6.28 “cnfdef” Set default configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
6.29 “terminal rs232” Temporarily redirect the service port to RS232 . . . . . . . . . . 46
6.30 “terminal rs485” Temporarily redirect the service port to RS-485 . . . . . . . . . . 47
6.31 “terminal probe” Temporarily redirect the service port to external probe . . . . . . 47
6.32"dire:"Printlistoffiles................................. 47
6.33 "type <filename>" print file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
6.34 xmodemr - downloading files using XMODEM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
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6.35Adjustmentcommands................................. 49
6.36 “cset” Set adjust coefficients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
6.37 “cnf?” Get actual adjust coefficients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
6.38 “dpmax” Set the maximum permissible pressure difference . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
6.39 “dpmax?” Get the maximum permissible pressure difference . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
6.40 “adjdef” Set default adjustment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
6.41 Corrected pressure commands - QFE, QNH, HCP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
6.42 “icaomode” Set mode for calculation of corrected pressures . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
6.43 “icaodigits” Set number of decimal praces of corrected pressures . . . . . . . . . 51
6.44 “hqfe” Set altitude for QFE corrected pressure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
6.45 “hqnh” Set altitude for QNH corrected pressure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
6.46 “tqfe” Set temperature for QFE corrected pressure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
6.47 “tqfea” Set actual temperature for QFE corrected pressure . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
6.48 “hhcp” Set height difference for HCP level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
6.49 “hqfe?” Get altitude for QFE corrected pressure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
6.50 “hqnh?” Get altitude for QNH corrected pressure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
6.51 “tqfe?” Get default temperature for QFE corrected pressure . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
6.52 “tqfea?” Get actual temperature for QFE corrected pressure . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
6.53 “hhcp?” Get height difference for HCP level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
6.54"dt"Getdateandtime ................................. 57
6.55"setdt"Setdateandtime ............................... 57
6.56"setpin"SetnewPINcode............................... 57
7 Display access 58
7.1 Basicscreens...................................... 58
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7.2 Graphscreen...................................... 60
7.3 Mainmenu ....................................... 60
7.4 Menustructure ..................................... 60
7.5 Recording menu (logging data to SD card, view in graph) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
7.6 Measuring menu (measurement settings) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
7.7 Interfaces menu (settings of interfaces) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
7.8 System menu (Date/Time, diagnostics, serial/version numbers) . . . . . . . . . . 69
7.9 Display menu (shown quantities, graph time-scale, backlight settings) . . . . . . 70
7.10Alarm .......................................... 71
8 SDI-12 reference 72
8.1 IntroductiontoSDI-12 ................................. 72
8.2 SDI-12 commands supported by MSB780 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
8.3 SDI-12commandsset................................. 73
8.4 a! Acknowledge Active Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
8.5 aI! Send Identification Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
8.6 ?!AddressQueryCommand ............................. 74
8.7 aAb! Address Change Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
8.8 aM! Start Measurement Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
8.9 aM1! Start Measurement Command, return also HQFE, HQNH . . . . . . . . . . 75
8.10aD0!SendDataCommand .............................. 75
8.11 aR0! Continuous Measurement (basic units) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
8.12 aR1! Continuous Measurement (user units) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
8.13aV!GetVerification................................... 76
8.14 aXD1! Send data command from transducer 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
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8.15 aXV! Get extended verification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
8.16 Setting parameters via SDI-12 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
8.17 Reading parameters via SDI-12 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
9 Analog output 78
9.1 “amode” Set analog output range . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
9.2 “asel” Analog output quantity and scale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
9.3 “atest”Analogoutputtest ............................... 81
9.4 “aerr” Analog output error indication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
10 Technical Data 82
10.1Quantities........................................ 82
10.2Performance ...................................... 83
10.3Analogoutputaccuracy ................................ 84
10.4OperatingEnvironmental ............................... 84
10.5InputsandOutputs................................... 84
10.6Powerconsumption .................................. 84
10.7Drawings ........................................ 85
11 Troubleshooting 89
11.1Incaseofproblems... ................................. 90
12 Ordering Information 91
13 Firmware update 92
13.1 Hardware required for firmware update . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
13.2FirmwareLoadersoftware............................... 93
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14 History of changes 98
14.1V1.1........................................... 98
14.2V1.2........................................... 98
14.3V1.2.1.......................................... 98
14.4V1.2.2.......................................... 98
14.5V1.2.3.......................................... 98
14.6V1.2.4.......................................... 98
14.7V1.3........................................... 99
14.8V1.4........................................... 99
14.9V1.5........................................... 100
14.10V1.6........................................... 100
14.11V1.7........................................... 100
14.12V1.8........................................... 100
14.13V1.9........................................... 100
14.14V1.10.......................................... 100
14.15V1.11.......................................... 101
14.16V1.12.......................................... 101
14.17V1.13.......................................... 101
14.18V1.14.......................................... 101
14.19V1.15.......................................... 101
14.20V1.16.......................................... 101
14.21V1.17.......................................... 102
14.22V1.18.......................................... 102
14.23V1.19.......................................... 102
14.24V1.20.......................................... 102
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