Drivers Manual
Tritech SCU-3 Bathy V4 (Depth + Alt) (UTC) - 01
Description
Driver to decode data from a Tritech SCU-3 unit, outputting a so-called bathymetric and/or velocity reply data structure.
The following fields can be decoded and used as observations in Qinsy:
- Depth
- Altitude
- Sound Velocity
The following environmental fields may also be decoded (if present) and used as generic observations in Qinsy:
- Mean Velocity
- Used Velocity
- Mean Density
- Conductivity
- Salinity
- Digiquartz Pressure
- Digiquartz Temperature
- Conductivity Probe Temperature
There are two versions of the driver: a Passive and an Active (With UTC) one:
- Passive driver
It does not send any command to the SCU-3 unit, and time-stamping of the data is done when data is received at the serial com port. - Active driver (With UTC)
It will synchronize the SCU-3 unit with the UTC time of the Qinsy computer.
At startup it will set the SCU-3 unit to continuous output, using the "Set Continuous Mode (S+)" command.
When running, it will set the SCU-3 time and date equal to the Qinsy UTC time every minute, using a "Set Button Bar Data (SB)" command.
When PPS support is used, the timing can be very accurate.
Notice that you need a two-way serial cable (which is not splitted to another com port) in order to send commands and receive data! - SeaKing 700 Series (Bathy) System Data
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Software Manual
0706-SOM-00004, Issue: 02