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1. 10 i1 t 12 t2 s JO s32 p bw MO M1 t M2 t2 s p p val 1 p k if val sigma sigma val 1000 0 return sigma Sigma theta o p s O s t p 0 0 1000 kg m 3 Sigma 1 o1 p s O s t p 1000 1000 1000 kg m Sigma 2 o2 p s O s t p 2000 2000 1000 kg m Sigma 4 4 p s O s t p 4000 4000 1000 kg m Sigma t o p s t 0 1000 kg m thermosteric anomaly 10 5 1000 1000 0 97266 10 m kg specific volume V s t p 1 p m kg specific volume anomaly 6 10 V s t p V 35 0 p HD 0m 3 kg p p geopotential anomaly 10 8x Ap J kg m7 s7 Ap p 0 dynamic meters geopotential anomaly 10 0 1 dynamic meter 10 J kg Sverdup Johnson Flemming 1946 UNESCO 1991 114 Appendix IV Derived Parameter Formulas depth m Note To calculate gravity for the depth algorithm SEASAVE uses the latitude from a NMEA navigation device if NMEA is enabled in the con file If your system does not have NMEA enter the desired latitude on the Miscellaneous tab in Configure Inputs Depth calculation C Computer Code Depth double Depth int dtype double p double latitude dtype fresh water or salt water p pressure in decibars latitude in degrees double x d gr if dtype FRESH_WATER fresh water p 1 019716 else salt water sin latitude 57 29578
2. COM port connected to Interface Box PC connector Baud rate between Interface Box and computer must agree with Interface Box and SBE 45 setup user programmed to 4800 9600 or 19200 in both Interface Box and in SBE 45 Parity and data bits between SBE 45 and Interface Box and between Interface Box and computer must agree with SBE 45 and Interface Box setting 8 data bits no parity 59 Section 5 Configure Inputs Part Ill Serial Ports Water Sampler TCP IP Ports Miscellaneous and Pump Control Water Sampler Note See Firing Bottles in Section 8 Real Time Data and Real Time Control Real Time Data Acquisition for details on firing bottles SBE Carousel SBE 32 32C or 32SC SBE ECO SBE 55 G O 1015 or 1016 Hydro Bios IOW or None Define serial port for water sampler operation on Serial Ports tab Note Hydro Bios and IOS for custom applications only Sequential When commanded to fire bottles are fired in order of position bottle in position 1 fired first bottle in position 2 fired second etc User Input When commanded to fire SEASAVE prompts you to select which bottle to fire Table Driven When commanded to fire bottles are fired in order pre defined by user input table Click Bottle Positions for Table Driven to input bottle positions Auto Fire Fire bottles automatically at user input pre defined pressures or depths can also fire some bottles manually on upc
3. For example if you try to open the xml file with Internet Explorer 7 the error message looks like this Only one top level element is allowed in an XML document Error processing resource The output contains a top level tag for the settings and a top level tag for each scan of data making it incompatible with these browsers The xml file can be viewed using any of the following e Microsoft Notepad e Symbol Click XML Marker e Seasave Remote see Remote Display above 71 Section 6 Configure Outputs Mark Variables Note The mrk file has the same path and file name as the data file For example if the data file is test1 hex the mrk file is test1 mrk Mark Variables allows you set up SEASAVE to copy the most recent scan of data to a mark mrk file as desired during real time data acquisition SEASAVE writes the sequential mark number system time and all selected variables to a mrk file each time Mark Scan is clicked during data acquisition If a plot display is set up to show mark lines SEASAVE also draws a horizontal line in the plot each time Mark Scan is clicked during data acquisition The mrk file can be used to manually note water sampler bottle firings compare CTD data with data acquired at the same time from a Thermosalinograph or mark significant events in the cast winch problems large waves causing ship heave etc for later review and analysis of the data To enable and set up Mark Var
4. e PC s internal speaker or e PC s sound card for transmission to external speakers or headphones Report Help OK Cancel Make the desired selections Click OK or click another tab in Configure Outputs Minimum pressure to enable alarm decibars Sea Surface Alarm io iWwhenpressureiin this range Altimeter alarm not on regardless of altimeter reading Minimum___ __________________ pressure alarm ee Minimum pressure db to enable altimeter alarm Atimeter alarm hysteresis m altimeter alarm Maximum __ Altimeter alarm S YS 0n in this range after set point reached pressure alarm 4 a aea a in set point m Alarm on when pressure in this range Altimeter alarm on when altimeter in this range Sea Bottom 77 Section 6 Configure Outputs Header Form Notes e A header is automatically included in the data hex file and in the header hdr file The header includes software version sensor serial numbers instrument configuration date and time of start of data acquisition etc There can be up to two date time listings in the header The first System Upload Time is always the date and time from the computer The second UTC Time is the date and time from an optional NMEA navigation device The hdr file has the same path and file name as the data file For example if the data file is test hex the header file is test hdr SEASAVE can write a user input
5. number of scans averaged 1 data stored at 8 scans per second real time data transmitted at 1 scans per second real time data transmission CC must match Real time data output rate in con file minimum conductivity frequency for pump turn on 2950 pump delay 45 seconds battery type ALKALIN Gl 2 external voltages sampled Number of auxiliary voltage sensors enabled CC must match External voltage channels in con file stored voltage 0 external voltage 0 stored voltage 1 external voltage 1 37 Section 3 Configure Inputs Part Instrument Configuration con file SBE 45 MicroTSG Configuration The SBE 45 transmits ASCII converted data in engineering units It converts the raw data internally to engineering units based on the programmed calibration coefficients See the SBE 45 manual Time between scans Must agree with SBE 45 setup Interval see reply from DS Configuration for the SBE 45 Micro SG Define data in SBE 45 data stream e Output conductivity Must agree with SBE 45 setup OutputCond e Output salinity Must agree with SBE 45 setup OutputSal e Output sound velocity Must agree with SBE 45 mE setup OutputSV Configuration file opened None See reply from DS for setup programmed into SBE 45 Sample interval seconds New to create naw con file for this CTD e Use junction box Select if SBE 45 data is V s Open to select transmitted to co
6. 22 046 0 132 Note SEASAVE can process data for an instrument interfacing with up to two transmissometers in any combination of Sea Tech Chelsea Alphatracka and WET Labs Cstar when using the New Style configuration e WET Labs AC3 This sensor requires two channels one for fluorometer voltage listed under fluorometers in the dialog box and the other for transmissometer voltage listed under transmissometers Make sure to select both when configuring the instrument Enter Ch20 Vh20 VDark and X from calibration sheet Beam attenuation log Vh20 VDark log V VDark X Ch2o0 Beam transmission exp beam attenuation X 100 55 Section 4 Configure Inputs Part II Calibration Coefficients User Polynomial for user defined sensor Calibration Coefficients The user polynomial allows you to define an equation to relate the sensor output voltage to calculated engineering units if your sensor is not pre defined in Sea Bird software Enter a0 al a2 and a3 Value a0 al V a2 V a3 V3 where V voltage from sensor a0 al a2 and a3 user defined sensor polynomial coefficients If desired enter the sensor name This name will appear in the data file header Note SEASAVE can process data for an instrument interfacing with up to three sensors defined with user polynomials Wet Labs ECO FL NTU Example For the turbidity channel NTU Vsample Vblank scale factor S
7. Appendix IV Derived Parameter Formulas sound velocity m sec sound velocity can be calculated as Chen Millero DelGrosso or Wilson Sound velocity calculation C Computer Code Sound Velocity Chen and Millero double SndVelC double s double t double p0 sound velocity Chen and Millero 1977 Pe JASA 62 1129 1135 s salinity t temperature deg C ITPS 68 p pressure in decibars double a a0 al a2 a3 double b b0 bl double cp c0 Gly CZy C3 double p sr d sv p p0 10 0 scale pressure to bars if s lt 0 0 0 0 sx sqrt s d 1 727e 3 7 9836e 6 p bl 7 3637e 5 1 7945e 7 t b0 1 922e 2 4 42e 5 t b b0 bl p a3 3 389e 13 t 6 649e 12 t 1 100e 10 a2 7 988e 12 t 1 6002e 10 t 9 1041le 9 t 3 9064e 7 al 2 0122e 10 t 1 0507e 8 t 6 4885e 8 t 1 2580e 5 t 9 4742e 5 a0 2 006e 6 t 7 164e 5 t 1 262e 2 t 1 389 a p al p ad c3 3643e 12 t 3 8504e 10 t 9 7729e 9 62 1 Q04056 12 t 2 5335e 10 to 2 5974e 8 E 1 710786 t 3 1260e 5 gT 6 1185e 10 t 1 3621le 7 t 8 1788e 6 t 6 8982e 4 t 0 153563 c0 3 1464e 9 t 1 47800e 6 t 3 3420e 4 t 5 80852e 2 t 5 03711 t 1402 388 C C E38 Fp FE2 Hp sv c a b sr return sv j x opot c0 d SASF Sound Velocity Delgrosso double SndVelD double s double t double
8. Cancel Enter the desired values Click OK or click another tab in Configure Outputs Sea Surface Alarmon when pressure in this range Altimeter alarm not on regardless of altimeter reading Minimum___ __________________ pressure alarm Me Minimum pressure db to enable altimeter alarm Atimeter alarm hysteresis m altimeter alarm Maximum __ Altimeter alarm S YS 0n in this range after set point reached pressure alarm o o aaa set point m Alarm on when pressure in this range Altimeter alarm on when altimeter in this range Sea Bottom 75 Section 6 Configure Outputs SBE 14 Remote Display Notes e SBE 14 setup in SEASAVE applies if SBE 14 is connected to a COM port If the SBE 14 is connected to an 11plus Deck Unit SBE 14 setup is done by sending commands to the 11plus in SEATERM Altimeter alarm is available only if selected configuration con file has a CTD with altimeter Bottom contact switch alarm SBE Qplus Always available All other CTDs Available only if selected configuration con file has a CTD with bottom contact switch Select converted data to display e Altimeter Height 3 digits e Depth 4 digits e Pressure 4 digits e Altimeter Height Depth altimeter height and depth alternate on display e Altimeter Height Pressure altimeter height and pressure alternate on display Note Altimeter height available only if altimeter included in confi
9. Section 4 Configure Inputs Part Il Calibration Coefficients This section describes the calculation and or source of the calibration Note coefficients for the configuration con file for each type of sensor supported Setup of all parameters in Configure by Sea Bird CTDs SEASAVE uses the sensor calibration coefficients to Inputs including the name and convert the raw data stream into engineering units for display during real time location of the selected con file is data acquisition This section covers included in the SEASAVE program e Accessing calibration coefficient dialog boxes setup psa file To save the setup e Using the Import and Export buttons in the calibration coefficient dialog you must save the psa file boxes ee oe Setup Rie belare e Calibration coefficients for frequency sensors e Calibration coefficients for A D count sensors e Calibration coefficients for voltage sensors For all other details on the setup of the con file see Section 3 Configure Inputs Part I Instrument con File For setup of the other items in Configure Inputs see Section 5 Configure Inputs Part II Serial Ports Water Sampler TCP IP Ports Miscellaneous and Pump Control Accessing Calibration Coefficients Dialog Boxes Note 1 Click Configure Inputs Steps 1 th h 4 are detailed pis ie TO clap 2 In the dialog box click the Instrument Configuration tab and click Open in Section 3 Configure Inputs Par
10. Tes 1 00024 T90 See Application Note 31 for computation of slope and offset correction coefficients from pre and post cruise calibrations supplied by Sea Bird See Calibration Coefficients for A D Count Sensors below for information on temperature sensors used in the SBE 16plus 16plus V2 19plus 19plus V2 and 49 For all calibration dialog boxes enter the sensor serial number and calibration date Many sensor calibration equations contain an offset term Unless noted otherwise use the offset default 0 0 to make small corrections for sensor drift between calibrations Calibration coefficients are discussed below for each type of sensor Temperature conductivity and Digiquartz pressure sensors are covered first followed by the remaining frequency sensor types in alphabetical order Temperature Calibration Coefficients Enter g h i j or a b c d and fO from the calibration sheet Enter values for slope default 1 0 and offset default 0 0 to make small corrections for temperature sensor drift between calibrations Corrected temperature slope computed temperature offset where slope true temperature span instrument temperature span offset true temperature instrument reading slope measured at 0 C Temperature Slope and Offset Correction Example At true temperature 0 0 C instrument reading 0 0015 C At true temperature 25 0 C instrument reading 25 0005 C Calculati
11. s Derive module Both Algorithms compute the derivative of the oxygen signal with respect to time with a user input window size for calculating the derivative using a linear regression to determine the slope SEASAVE and Data Conversion use a window looking backward in time since they share common code and SEASAVE cannot use future values of oxygen while acquiring data in real time Derive uses a centered window equal number of points before and after the scan to obtain a better estimate of the derivative Use SEASAVE and Data Conversion to obtain a quick look at oxygen values use Derive to obtain the most accurate values Note Enter the window size seconds for calculation of oxygen on the Miscellaneous tab in Configure Inputs oxygen zmoles kg R o oxygen ml l Sigma theta 1000 Corrected Irradiance CPAR 100 ratio multiplier underwater PAR surface PAR Ratio multiplier scaling factor used for comparing light fields of disparate intensity input in con file entry for surface PAR sensor Underwater PAR underwater PAR data Surface PAR surface PAR data 119 Appendix V Seasave Remote for Remote Display and Bottle Firin Appendix V Seasave Remote for Remote Display and Bottle Firing Notes Seasave Remote can only display variables that are transmitted by SEASAVE it cannot calculate derived variables based on the transmitted variables As an alternative to Seasave Remote Sea Bird also
12. x x 9 780318 1 0 5 2788e 3 2 36e 5 x x 1 092e 6 p 1 82e 15 p 2 279e 10 p 2 2512e 5 p 9 72659 p gr d gr return d seafloor depth depth altimeter reading m salinity PSU Salinity is PSS 78 Salinity calculation Using the following constants Al 2 070e 5 A2 6 370e 10 A3 B4 3 107e 3 CO 6 766097e 1 Cl C4 1 0031le 9 C Computer Code static double a 6 constants for salinity calculation 0 0080 0 1692 25 3851 14 0941 7 0261 2 7081 3 989e 15 Bl 3 426e 2 B2 4 464e 4 B3 4 215e 1 2 00564e 2 C2 1 104259e 4 C3 6 9698e 7 static double b 6 constants for salinity calculation 0 0005 0 0056 0 0066 0 0375 0 0636 0 0144 Salinity double C double T double P compute salinity conductivity S m T temperature deg C ITPS 68 P pressure in decibars double R RT RP temp sumi sum2 result val rne i if C lt 0 0 result 0 0 else C 10 0 convert Siemens meter to mmhos cm 3 R B4 R T A2 P A3 val G27 C3 aE C4 i yy val val RP if val if RT lt 0 0 suml sum2 0 0 for i O i lt 6 it t temp pow RT double i 2 0 suml a i temp sum2 b i temp val 1 0 90 0162 T 18 0 7 if val result suml sum2 T 15 0 val else result 99 return result 115
13. 5 serial number 140 FGP pressure sensor 5 calibration date 141 FGP pressure sensor 5 scale factor offset 142 FGP pressure sensor 6 serial number 143 FGP pressure sensor 6 calibration date 144 FGP pressure sensor 6 scale factor offset 145 FGP pressure sensor 7 serial number 146 FGP pressure sensor 7 calibration date 147 FGP pressure sensor 7 scale factor offset 148 OBS Nephelometer seapoint turbidity meter sensor serial number 149 OBS Nephelometer seapoint turbidity meter sensor calibration date 150 Primary OBS Nephelometer seapoint turbidity meter gain scale T51 Secondary OBS Nephelometer seapoint turbidity meter sensor serial number 152 Secondary OBS Nephelometer seapoint turbidity meter sensor calibration date 153 Secondary OBS Nephelometer seapoint turbidity meter gain scale 154 Fluorometer Dr Haardt Yellow Substance sensor serial number 155 Fluorometer Dr Haardt Yellow Substance sensor calibration date 156 Fluorometer Dr Haardt Yellow Substance AO Al BO Bl which modulo bit gain range switching 157 Fluorometer Chelsea Minitraka serial number 158 Fluorometer Chelsea Minitraka calibration date 159 Fluorometer Chelsea Minitraka vacetone vacetonel00 offset 160 Seapoint fluorometer serial number 161 Seapoint fluorometer calibration date 162 Seapoint fluorometer gain offset 163 Primary Oxygen SBE 43 serial number 164 Primary Oxygen SBE 43 calibration date 165 Primary Oxygen SBE 43 Soc Tcor offset 166
14. SEASAVE can process data for an instrument interfacing with up to two OBS 3 sensors e Chelsea Enter clear water value and scale factor turbidity F T U 10 0V C scale factor where V voltage from sensor See calibration sheet for C clear water value and scale factor e Dr Haardt Turbidity Enter AO Al BO and B1 Select the gain range switch gt Output Voltage Level if the instrument indicates gain by output voltage level lt 2 5 volts is low gain gt 2 5 volts is high gain Low gain value A0 Al V High gain value BO B1 V gt Modulo Bit if the instrument has control lines custom wired to bits in the SBE 9plus modulo word Bit not set value A0 Al V Bit set value BO B1 V gt None if the instrument does not change gain value A0 Al V where V voltage from sensor 50 Note See Application Note 48 for complete description of calculation of Seapoint Turbidity calibration coefficients Notes To enable entry of the mx my and b coefficients for the SCUFA fluorometer you must first select the Turner SCUFA OBS Nephelometer See Application Note 63 for complete description of calculation of Turner SCUFA calibration coefficients Note See Application Note 19 for complete description of calculation of ORP calibration coefficients Section 4 Configure Inputs Part II Calibration Coefficients IFREMER This sensor requires two channels one for
15. SEASAVE saves the changes to a temporary location However the changes are not saved to the program setup psa file until you select Save Setup File or Save Setup File As in the File menu A display setup dsa file defines the size placement and setup for a display window The information in the dsa file is also incorporated into the program setup psa file You can import and export dsa files allowing you to create the desired displays once and then reuse them later for other instruments deployments See Section 7 Display Setting Up SEASAVE Displays File gt Open Setup File Select a setup psa file In the Open dialog box if you select Open as read only SEASAVE will prompt you to enter a new file name when you next try to save the psa file it will not allow you to overwrite the existing file gt Save Setup File Save all the entered settings to the currently open psa file gt Save Setup File As Save all the entered settings to a new psa file gt Restore Setup File Discard all changes to settings made in Configure Inputs Configure Outputs Display and Options menus since the last time you saved the psa file gt Print Print a fixed scrolled or plot display The Select Display dialog box appears when Print is selected this allows you to select the desired display for printing Note that you can also print a display by right clicking in the desired display an
16. Turning Pump On Off SEASAVE allows you to manually turn a SBE 9plus pump on and off during data acquisition for a custom version of the 9plus This may be useful if your system is integrated with an acoustic instrument to provide a quiet period during its data acquisition Note that although the same COM port is used to operate a water sampler and to send pump control commands to the 9plus the manual pump control does not interfere with water sampler operation To manually turn the 9plus pump on off 1 Select Configure Inputs A On the Instrument Configuration tab open or create a configuration con file for the 911plus B On the Pump Control tab select Enable pump on pump off commands C On the Serial Ports tab in the Water Sampling and 911 Pump Control Serial Port section select the COM port connected to the SBE 1 lplus Deck Unit Modem Channel connector D Click OK to exit Configure Inputs 2 Set up the rest of the system and displays as desired 3 Start real time data acquisition 4 When desired In the Real Time Control menu select Pump On or Pump Off OR Press Ctrl F2 pump on or Ctrl F4 pump off 101 Section 9 Archived Data Displaying Archived Data Section 9 Archived Data Displaying Archived Data Note To display data without a mouse SEASAVE can be used to display and plot archived data With the cursor in the main SEASAVE window press the Alt key to show the 1 Inthe Archiv
17. Values entered below e Values Entered Below background colors white and all dimensions entered in dialog box lines black when you right click in Width fiso 00 mm inches or points plot and select Print Height 120 00 Units Milimeters gt Help OK Cancel 88 Section 7 Display Setting Up SEASAVE Displays Save Options Tab The save options tab defines output file type and size for when the plot is saved to a file as a wmf jpg or bmp The Save Options tab looks like this Plot Display 1 xj Plot Setup Y Axis XAxis 1 XAxis 2 Print Options Save Options Copy Options Default format for save metafile wmf JPG jpg or bitmap bmp This defines default file extension in Save to File dialog box but one of the other file extensions can be selected at that time if desired Defaut format for save UPG Lipa Save as wmf file options Size determined by Values entered below I Units Milimeters Width fieooo Height 120 00 Size determined by e Plot display size dimensions of plot as shown on screen or Values Entered Below dimensions entered in dialog box mm inches or points for wmf pixels for jpg or bmp Save as bmp file options Size determined by Values entered below 7 Units are piels Width 512 Height 334 Size determined by Values entered below gt Se aA Help OK Cancel 89 Secti
18. dj and v Notes 1 Enter the latitude on the Miscellaneous tab in Configure Inputs SEASAVE uses the user input latitude regardless of whether latitude data from a NMEA navigation device is available to calculate gravity for the depth algorithm 2 Also enter the minimum pressure minimum salinity pressure window size and time window size on the Miscellaneous tab in Configure Inputs 117 Appendix IV Derived Parameter Formulas potential temperature IPTS 68 6 s t p p C Potential temperature is the temperature an element of seawater would have if raised adiabatically with no change in salinity to reference pressure p Sea Bird software uses a reference pressure of 0 decibars Potential Temperature IPTS 68 calculation C Computer Code ATG used in potential temperature calculation double ATG double s double t double p adiabatic temperature gradient deg C per decibar ref broyden h Deep Sea Res 20 401 408 s salinity t temperature deg C ITPS 68 p pressure in decibars double ds ds s 35 0 return 2 1687e 16 t 1 8676e 14 t 4 6206e 13 p 2 7759e 12 t 1 1351le 10 ds 5 448le 14 t 8 733e 12 t 6 7795e 10 t 1 8741le 8 p 4 2393e 8 t 1 8932e 6 ds 6 6228e 10 t 6 836e 8 t 8 5258e 6 t 3 5803e 5 potential temperature double PoTemp double s double t0 double p0 double pr local potential temperatu
19. file You can import and export dsa files allowing you to create the desired displays once and then reuse them later for other instruments deployments 81 Section 7 Display Setting Up SEASAVE Displays Editing Display Window 1 To change the content of a display A Right click in the desired window and select Modify B The display dialog box appears The selections in the dialog box vary depending on the display type see Fixed Display Scrolled Display and Plot Display Make the desired selections and click OK 2 To change the display window size and or location e Click Display and select the arrangement type horizontal tiles vertical tiles or cascade SEASAVE automatically sizes and arranges all the windows OR e Use standard Windows click and drag methods to resize and move the window s as desired Exporting Display Window Note SEASAVE display setup dsa file defines the size placement and setup for a display window The information in the dsa file is also incorporated into the program setup psa file You can import and export dsa files allowing you to create the desired displays once and then reuse them later for other instruments deployments You can export the setup of a display window for reuse later for another instrument and or deployment 1 Right click in the desired window and select Export Display Settings dsa file 2 The Save As dialog box appears Enter th
20. medium or large Seconds between updates fi Font size fSmAl Time between each calculation of variables for updating display each display can have different update rate Faster than 1 sec can be difficult to view Set to 0 for full rate data Fixed Display 1 Delete Delete All Color E Nitrogen Saturation A Shrink All Variable Name unit Digits Text Back Oxygen Saturation 1 Conductivity S m 7 Plume Anomaly aiiin 2 Temperature ITS 90 deg C 5 m Potential Temperature Span Potential Temperature Anomal 3 Pressure Digiquartz db 4 Pressure Temperature Expand 4 Salinity PSU 5 Pressure Digiquartz ca Add 2 Text color and pH Number of background color Pump Status C Insert 8 digits to behind text Salinity PSU C Ch display to e Double click in Scan Count oe right of box to change Sound Velocity Add decimal for that Specific Conductance U6 cm point variable e Double click on heading to El Temperature change for all ITS 30 Double click in list variables degC to select variable Color dialog box appears select desired color and click OK When done click OK Viewing SEASAVE Fixed Display Shown below are example one column and two column Fixed Displays Conductivity Sm i Temperature ITS 9
21. presented to the COM port faster than A D counts as applicable and converted data in ASCII or XML format to a the COM port can transmit it at the selected baud rate Note that outputting in XML transmits a much larger number of characters than serial port on your computer For converted data SEASAVE applies calibration coefficients to the raw data to calculate converted data in engineering units outputting in ASCII Because COM port capabilities vary from one computer to another always test the setup with the computer you will be using at sea to ensure proper operation To enable and set up serial data output click Configure Outputs In the Configure Outputs dialog box click the Serial Data Out tab Configure Outputs C Program Files Sea Bird Seasave 7 Seasave psa SBE 11plus Alarms SBE 14 Remote Display PC Alarms Header Form Diagnostics Serial Data Out Serial Ports Shared File Out Mark Variables TCP IP Out TCP IP Potts Output data to serial port defined on Serial Ports tab in ASCII format Rate at which data for selected variables is sent to COM port Time between updates interacts with instrument s data output baud rate number of output variables selected and whether transmitting ASCII or XML data output format affects number of characters that must be transmitted for each variable SEASAVE will not work properly if data is presented to COM port faster than COM port can transm
22. stream from SBE 9plus 16 16plus 16plus V2 19 19plus 19plus V2 21 25 or 49 e Data uploaded from memory of SBE 16 16plus 16plus IM 16plus V2 16plus IM V2 17plus used with SBE 9plus CTD 19 19plus 19plus V2 21 or 25 e Converted engineering units data file created by SEASAVE from real time data stream from SBE 45 File includes header information Can be used by SBE Data Processing s Data Conversion module Jpg JPEG graphic output from Plot display when you click Save to file icon in plot toolbar or right click in plot and select Save as mrk Mark scan information output marker file containing sequential mark number system time and data for selected variables SEASAVE writes information to file when user clicks on Mark Scan during data acquisition to mark significant events in cast Can be used by SBE Data Processing s Mark Scan module nav txt Navigation information output navigation file for system integrated with NMEA navigational device containing latitude longitude time scan number and pressure SEASAVE writes information to file when user clicks on Add to nav File in NMEA Display during data acquisition to mark significant events in cast Text file e Output file created if you configure SEASAVE to output data to a shared file e Program setup report file PsaReport txt which documents psa file settings created when you click Report in Configure Inputs or Configure Outp
23. temperature in degrees Kelvin Pressure FGP voltage output Calibration Coefficients Enter scale factor and offset output Kpa volts scale factor offset where scale factor 100 pressure sensor range bar voltage range volts Note SEASAVE can process data for an instrument interfacing with up to eight pressure fgp sensors Suspended Sediment Calibration Coefficients The Sequoia LISST 25 sensor requires two channels one for scattering output and the other for transmission output Make sure to select both when configuring the instrument For the scattering channel enter Total volume concentration constant Cal Sauter mean diameter calibration a Clean H O scattering output Vso and Clean H O transmission output Vro from the calibration sheet For the transmission channel no additional coefficients are required they are all defined for the scattering channel Optical transmission t Vr Vro Beam C In t 0 025 1 meters Total Volume Concentration TV Cal Vs t Vso ptliters liter Sauter Mean Diameter SMD a TV In t microns where Vr transmission channel voltage output Vs scattering channel voltage output The calibration coefficients supplied by Sequoia are based on water containing spherical particles Perform calibrations using seawater with particle shapes that are similar to what is expected in situ 54 Section 4 Configure Inputs Part II Calibration Coe
24. test1 bl Bottles can be fired in one of the following ways By command from SEASAVE see below From a remote computer via a TCP IP port if Enable remote firing was selected on the Water Sampler tab in Configure Inputs See Appendix V Seasave Remote for Remote Display and Bottle Firing Automatically if Auto Fire was selected on the Water Sampler tab in Configure Inputs For auto fire setup see Water Sampler in Section 5 Configure Inputs Part III Serial Ports Water Sampler TCP IP Ports Miscellaneous and Pump Control By command from SEASAVE and automatically if Auto Fire was selected on the Water Sampler tab in Configure Inputs and Allow manual firing was selected in the Auto Fire Table Entry dialog box see below Firing Bottles by Command from SEASAVE To fire bottles Sequentially by User Input or by Table Driven entries 1 2 Set up the water sampler in Configure Inputs In the Real Time Control menu select Fire Bottle Control The Bottle Fire dialog box appears you can leave this open throughout the cast shown below is the dialog if you selected Sequential firing in the Water Sampler setup Step 1 Sequential Bottle Fire x Fired 0 Next bottle to be fired i Fire Bottle Start real time data acquisition If you selected Sequential or Table driven in the Water Sampler setup Step 1 the Bottle Fire dialog box displays the number of the next bottle to be fired If you selected Use
25. word used Words to suppress 4 Words to Keep Channel Sensor table reflects this choice Typically e 0 SBE 3 or 4 plugged into JB5 on 9plus dual redundant sensor configuration 1 SBE 3 or 4 plugged into JB4 on 9plus and not using JB5 gt z g p single redundant sensor Configuration for the SBE 91 1plus 917pl External Voltage Connector Words to Kee configuration aM not sas AUX 1 e 2 no redundant T or C sensors Configuration file opened Splustest con AUX 2 AUX 3 Frequency channels suppressed gt w AUX 4 For full rate 24 Hz data set to 1 Example f number of scans to Voltage words suppressed Ww average 24 SEASAVE averages 24 scans saving data to computer at Computer interface RS 232C v 1 scan second Select to include time of each scan seconds Scans to average fi since January 1 1970 GMT with data IV Surface PAR voltage added Scan time added Shaded sensors cannot be removed or IEEE 448 or RS 232C for CTD data interface between Deck Unit and computer e Surface PAR Select if Surface PAR sensor used must agree with Deck Unit setup AddSpar SEASAVE appends Surface PAR IV NMEA position data added changed to another type others are optional data to every scan Adds 2 z channels to Channel Sensor table Channel Sensor New New to create new Do not decrease Voltage words 1 Frequency Temperature con file for this CTD suppressed to reflect this Voltage 2 Frequency
26. 1 On the computer that is running SEASAVE click Start gt Control Panel Double click Network Connections Double click Local Area Network Connection Click the Support tab to see the computer s IP address this is the address to enter as the Server address in the Remote Bottle Fire for SeasaveV7 window In SEASAVE s Configure Inputs on the Water Sampler tab set up the water sampler and select Enable remote firing see Water Sampler in Section 5 Configure Inputs Part III Serial Ports Water Sampler TCP IP Ports Miscellaneous and Pump Control In SEASAVE s Real Time Control menu select Fire Bottle Control The Bottle Fire dialog box appears you can leave this open throughout the cast Remote Fire Bottle Fire x Fired 0 Bottle Firing Sequence Client is not connected Disconnect On the remote computer double click on FireBottles jar The dialog box looks like this FA Remote Bottle Fire for Seasave Connect Fire lO x Server address 127 0 0 1 Command port 49167 Status port 49168 onnect A On the Connect tab Set Server address to the address of the computer running SEASAVE Set Command port to match the Receive commands port and set Status port to match the Send Status port on the TCP IP Ports tab in Configure Inputs or Configure Outputs in SEASAVE B On the Connect tab click Connect On the Remote Fire Bottle Fire dia
27. 2 ma ipump 25 5 ma iext0Ol 76 2 ma iext2345 65 1 ma status not logging number of scans to average 1 Scans to average NAvg must match Scans to Average in con file samples 0 fr 4386532 casts 0 mode profile minimum cond freq 3000 pump delay 60 sec Mode MP for profile or MM for moored must match Mode in con file autorun no ignore magnetic switch no battery type ALKALINE battery cutoff 7 5 volts pressure sensor strain gauge range 1000 0 Pressure sensor PType must match Pressure sensor type in con file SBE 38 no Gas Tension Device no Selection enabling of RS 232 sensors SBE38 GTD DualGTD must match Serial RS 232C sensor in con file Ext Volt 0 yes Ext Volt 1 yes Ext Volt 2 yes Ext Volt 3 yes Volt 4 no Ext Volt 5 no Number of external voltage sensors enabled Volt0 through Volt5 must match External voltage channels in con file EX echo characters yes output format raw Hex Output format must be set to raw Hex OutputFormat 0 to acquire data in SEASAVE 33 Section 3 Configure Inputs Part Instrument Configuration con file SBE 21 Thermosalinograph Configuration Channel Sensor table reflects this choice shows additional frequency based temperature channel if SBE 3 selected or RS 232 channel if SBE 38 selected Must agree with SBE 21 Channel Sensor table reflects setup SBE3 and
28. 50 ORP 51 oxygen 52 PAR irradiance 53 pH 54 pressure 44 45 46 pressure FGP 54 sound velocity 44 suspended sediment 54 temperature 42 45 transmissometer 55 user polynomial 56 voltage sensors 46 Zaps 56 Carousel 60 69 98 Closing bottles 98 COM ports 57 Command line operation 106 Communication parameters 57 69 Compatibility issues 112 Computer alarm 77 Conductivity 43 specific 118 Configuration calibration coefficients 40 41 calibration coefficients A D count sensors 45 calibration coefficients frequency sensors 42 calibration coefficients voltage sensors 46 file 18 108 SBE 16 23 SBE 16plus 24 SBE 16plus V2 26 SBE 19 28 SBE 19plus 30 SBE 19plus V2 32 SBE 21 34 SBE 25 36 SBE 45 38 SBE 49 39 SBE 91 1plus 21 Configure Inputs 57 Configure Outputs 67 Corrected irradiance 119 CTD 69 D Data acquisition 15 94 Data processing 104 Demo files 14 Density 114 Depth 65 115 seafloor 115 Derived parameter formulas 113 Descent rate 65 119 Diagnostics 80 Display adding 81 editing 82 exporting 82 fixed 83 GPS 92 importing 81 Lat Lon 92 NMEA 92 100 plot 85 printing 82 remote 120 123 remote 93 Remote 73 74 resizing 82 scrolled 84 status 92 Dynamic meters 114 E ECO 60 69 98 Editing data files 104 Editing display 82 Example files 14 Expo
29. File menu Save Setup File before exiting SEASAVE This section describes the setup of the following in Configure Outputs Serial data output Serial ports Shared file output Mark variables TCP IP output TCP IP ports SBE 1 1plus alarms only applicable if instrument configuration con file is for 911plus 917plus CTD SBE 14 Remote Display PC alarms Header form Diagnostics Some outputs serial data out shared file out SBE 11plus alarms and remote display and PC alarms can be reconfigured during data acquisition without interrupting data acquisition For example if you start a cast and realize that you forgot to set up the serial data output you can select Configure Outputs and make and save the desired changes all without interrupting the data acquisition Once the desired changes are saved the serial data will begin to output to the desired COM port of course any data that was acquired before you modified the setup will not be output in the serial data stream For setup of the inputs see Section 3 Configure Inputs Part I Instrument con File Section 4 Configure Inputs Part II Calibration Coefficients and Section 5 Configure Inputs Part III Serial Ports Water Sampler TCP IP Ports Miscellaneous and Pump Control 67 Section 6 Configure Outputs Serial Data Output Note Your computer could crash if data is SEASAVE can output selected raw data frequencies voltages and or
30. Man can 3 Start real time data acquisition 4 When desired click Mark Scan The dialog box displays how many scans have been marked copied to mrk file Adding NMEA Data to nav File Note The nav file has the same path and file name as the data file For example if the data file is c test1 hex the nav file is c test1 nav Notes e The Add to NAV file button in the NMEA Data dialog box is inaccessible until you start saving data to a file So if you did not select Begin archiving data immediately or selected Begin archiving data when Start Archiving command is sent and did not yet send the Start Archiving commana the Add to NAV File button is grayed out If desired you can add data to the nav file without using the NMEA Data dialog box Each time you want to add data press Ctrl F7 NMEA Display allows you to view the latitude longitude and time during data acquisition and to select scans to be written to a nav file Each scan written to the nav file contains latitude longitude time scan number and pressure To add data to a nav file 1 In the Display menu select NMEA Display The NMEA Data dialog box appears NMEA Data xi Latitude Longitude Date Time Number of NAV file entries 0 2 Start real time data acquisition 3 When desired click Add to nav File 100 Section 8 Real Time Data and Real Time Control Real Time Data Acquisition
31. Rosette e If desired you can use SEASAVE s Mark Scan feature to manually note when bottles are fired creating a mrk file SBE Data Processing can use the bottle firing information in any of these forms to assist you in processing water bottle data To enable and set up the water sampler click Configure Inputs In the Configure Inputs dialog box click the Water Sampler tab Pump Control Water Sampler Miscellaneous Serial Ports Water sampler type SBE Carousel Select the serial port for water sampler operation on the Serial Ports tab Total number of bottles to be closed up to 36 depending on water sampler capacity Number of Water Bottles h2 Firing sequence Sequential Control bottle firing from a remote computer through TCP IP ports instead of as defined by Firing Sequence Select ports on TCP IP Ports tab See discussion below J Enable remote firing Bottle Positions for Table Driven Tone for bottle fire confirmation Test Tone C PC intemal speaker PC sound card Set up and test tone emitted by computer running SEASAVE when each bottle fire confirmation is received Tone is provided through e PC s internal speaker or e PC s sound card for transmission to external speakers or headphones Make the desired selections Click OK or click another tab in Configure Inputs 60 Section 5 Configure Inputs Part II
32. Scrolled Display 1 i 5 5 Select small display each display can have Rows to display 79 Total rows 79 Font size f Smal different update rate Faster than 1 sec can be difficult to Delete Delete All Secon veer Uae fi view Set to 0 for full rate data Color laf Nitrogen Saturation Aj Shrink All Variable Name unit Digits Text Back l Oxygen Saturation 1 Conductivity S m 7 Plne Aipa Expand An Potential Temperature Cha T ture ITS 90 deg C 5 Shrink ae e aT 4 Potential Temperature Anomal Tenk gq Pressure Temperature Expand 4 Salinity PSU 5 Pressure Digiquartz 2 oe Add 6 Text color and pa d Number of background color Pump Status C Insert 8 digits to behind text C Change 3 display to e Double click in box parle 10 right of to change for that Sound Velocity __Add 11 decimal variable Specific Conductance uS As 12 point Double click on Specific Volume Anomaly 10 Double click in list 13 heading to change Temperature to select variable 14 for all variables FIT ees for each row i deg C X 15 Color dialog box of appears select desired color and click OK Cancel When done click OK Viewing SEASAVE Scrolled Display Shown below is an example Scrolled Display O Scrolled Display Note To minimize column width SEASAVE uses abbreviations for the Scrolled Display headings For exa
33. Section 7 Display Setting Up SEASAVE Displays cccscsssessseseees 81 Adding New Display Window c ccsccesesseceeceseceeeseeeseeeeeeeseeeeneenseeeseeenes 81 Importing Display Window c cccssessseesseesceseceeeceeeceeceseeeseensecaeenseenseenaeentes 81 Editing Display Window csccesccsseesseeseeeseeeeeeeceseenseceseceseseeeseeneenseenaeenaes 82 Exporting Display Window ccccccsseesseesseeseeeseeeeceeeenseceseeeseenaeenaecaeceeeneeenes 82 Printing Display Window scissione tenita e e EN a S 82 Resizing Plot Display Window c cccsccesseesseesceesceeeceeeceseeeseceaeesecaeceeeaeeenes 82 Fixed Display ain p Gites cw E E EEE E E E 83 S r lled Displays e E E EE E KE E E R EEN 84 Plot Display ssssnnnsi ren teni E E EE E E E E S 85 Plot Setup Tabh errero eee aE E E EE E ES 86 AXIS Tabs e aE E E ne tbe ES 87 Print Options Tabset re e ea E EE cn reser nae 88 Save Options TaD snoa a n a ae e eaaa ae e ias 89 Copy Options AD e aa a a a E e ea A a Aak 90 Viewing SEASAVE Plots cecccesscesceseceseeseceseceseceseceecseecaeeeaeeeeeeneeeereees 91 Status Display ssc sicfe E ouch teest ons EE A vite ase tees Ss 92 NMBA Display ic cccccscjeshensstenteasd E sa bee deh eg ia Sek ose E E 92 Remote Display A E tet tanks E S Ws tes 93 Section 8 Real Time Data and Real Time Control Real Time Data Acquisition scsccsssscsssssssssssscssssssescsssnessssnessessesseseeses 94 Starting an
34. Surface PAR voltage added Scan time added IV NMEA position data added Channel Sensor 1 Frequency Temperature 2 Frequency Conductivity 3 Frequency Pressure Digiquartz with TC 4 A D voltage 0 pH 5 A D voltage 1 Oxygen SBE 43 6 A D voltage 2 Fluorometer Biospherical Natural 7 A D voltage 3 Altimeter 8 SPAR voltage Unavailable 9 SPAR voltage SPAR Surface Inradiance 19 Section 3 Configure Inputs Part Instrument Configuration con file All Instrument Configuration dialog boxes include e List of instrument configuration options at the top instrument specific such as number of auxiliary channels pressure sensor type and addition of Surface PAR and NMEA to the CTD data string e Channel Sensor Table This table reflects the options selected at the top for example the number of voltage sensors listed in the table agrees with the user selection for External voltage channels Shaded sensors cannot be removed or changed to another type of sensor All others are optional gt To change a sensor type and input its calibration coefficients After you specify the number of frequency and or voltage channels at the top of the dialog box click a non shaded sensor and click Select to pick a different sensor for that channel or right click on the sensor and select Select New Sensor A dialog box with a list of sensors appears Select New Yoltage Sensor x Altimeter Shrink AIl E Fluorome
35. Y Output raw data to socket using TCP IP Rate at which raw data is output For full rate data set to 0 Rate at which data for XML wrapper and settings Seconds between raw data updates selected variables is converted to engineering units and output For full rate data set to 0 Converted data Output converted data to socket using TCP IP XML format required for Seasave Remote Seconds between converted data updates fo ooo Variable Name unit Pressure Strain Gauge db 4 3 Salinity PSU 5 Temperature ITS 90 deg C 5 Selected variables and number of decimal points to right of decimal place for output converted data Click Select Variables to change Dialog box with list of variables appears select desired variables and number of decimal places to right of decimal point for each variable and click OK Select Variables ARERBIEEER Make the desired selections Click OK or click another tab in Configure Outputs Remote Display Software on the remote computer is required to view data output via TCP IP Sea Bird provides two methods for performing this function if outputting converted data in XML format e Seasave Remote has many of the same display and plotting capabilities as Note As an alternative to using the software provided by Sea Bird you can develop your own application using your desired software SEASAVE It can be used to d
36. a x 1137 WET Labs WETStar fluorometer sensor serial number 118 WET Labs WETStar fluorometer sensor calibration date 119 WET Labs WETStar Vblank scale factor 120 Primary conductivity sensor using g h i j coefficients calibration date 121 Primary temperature sensor using g h i j coefficients calibration date 122 Secondary conductivity sensor using g h i j coefficients calibration date 123 Secondary temperature sensor using g h i j coefficients calibration date 124 FGP pressure sensor 0 serial number 125 FGP pressure sensor 0 calibration date 126 FGP pressure sensor 0 scale factor offset 127 FGP pressure sensor 1 serial number 128 FGP pressure sensor 1 calibration date 129 FGP pressure sensor 1 scale factor offset 130 FGP pressure sensor 2 serial number 109 Appendix Il Configure con File Format t31 FGP pressure sensor 2 calibration date 132 FGP pressure sensor 2 scale factor offset 133 FGP pressure sensor 3 serial number 134 FGP pressure sensor 3 calibration date 135 FGP pressure sensor 3 scale factor offset 136 FGP pressure sensor 4 serial number 137 FGP pressure sensor 4 calibration date 138 FGP pressure sensor 4 scale factor offset 139 FGP pressure sensor
37. a valid pressure or depth in the Auto Fire Table Entry pressure or depth greater than 0 and less than 10 500 The Manual fire portion of the dialog box shows the next bottle that has an invalid pressure or depth in the Auto Fire Table Entry pressure or depth less than 0 or greater than 10 500 these are bottles that must be fired manually Select the desired bottle to fire manually and when desired click Fire Selected Bottle When SEASAVE receives a bottle fired confirmation from a water sampler e for SBE 91 1plus with SBE 32 Carousel Water Sampler or G O 1016 or SBE 19 19plus 19plus V2 or 25 with SBE 33 Deck Unit and SBE 32 Carousel Water Sampler or SBE 19 19plus 19plus V2 or 25 with SBE 33 Deck Unit and SBE 55 ECO Water Sampler SEASAVE writes a line to an output file same filename as the data file with a bl extension The bl file contains the bottle firing sequence number bottle position date time and beginning and ending scan number to provide 1 5 seconds of scans for the fired bottle e for SBE 91 plus with G O 1015 SEASAVE sets the bottle confirm bit in the data hex file for all scans within a 1 5 second duration after a bottle firing confirmation is received Later when the raw data file is converted in SBE Data Processing s Data Conversion module scans identified in the bl file or with a bottle confirmation bit are written to a file with a ros extension 99 Section 8 Real Time Data and Real T
38. alarm 75 76 77 Printing display 82 Problems 112 Processing data 104 Pump control 66 69 101 R Real time data acquisition 15 94 Remote bottle firing 63 120 123 Remote computer 120 123 Remote display 70 73 74 93 120 123 SBE 14 69 76 Remote display and alarm SBE 14 76 Resizing display 82 Rosette 60 69 98 S Salinity 115 SBE 11plus alarm 21 75 SBE 14 Remote Display and alarm 69 76 SBE 16 23 SBE 16plus 24 SBE 16plus V2 26 SBE 19 28 SBE 19plus 30 SBE 19plus V2 32 SBE 21 34 SBE 25 36 SBE 32 60 69 98 SBE 45 38 SBE 49 39 SBE 55 60 69 98 SBE 911 plus 21 pump control 66 69 Scrolled display 84 Sea Bird 6 Seafloor depth 115 Seasave Remote 70 73 120 SEASAVE Win32 8 Serial data output 68 69 Serial ports 57 69 Shared file output 70 Index 129 Sigma 1 114 Sigma 2 114 Sigma 4 114 Sigma t 114 Sigma theta 114 Software problems 112 Sound velocity 44 116 average 65 117 Specific conductivity 118 Specific volume 114 Specific volume anomaly 114 Status display 92 Summary 6 Surface PAR 119 Suspended sediment 54 T TCP IP port 64 73 74 Temperature 42 45 potential 118 Thermosteric anomaly 114 Timeout error 97 Toolbar 12 91 Transmissometer 55 Troubleshooting 80 Troubleshooting real time data acquisition 97 U Updates 9 User polynomial coefficients 56 V Veloc
39. also allows multiple applications running on the same computer to communicate with each other TCP IP ports can be defined in Configure Inputs or Configure Outputs if you make changes in one dialog box those changes will appear when you open the other dialog box Click Configure Inputs In the Configure Inputs dialog box click the TCP IP Ports tab Configure Inputs C Documents and Settings dbresko My Documents te tSez x Instrument Configuration Serial Ports Water Sampler TCP IP Parts Miscellaneous Pump Control SEASAVE is actually 2 applications Seasave exe automatically launches SeasaveAcq exe when data acquistion is commanded to start and both programs run simultaneously on same computer Define TCP IP ports for following communications between these 2 Ports for communication with Seasave s data acquisition application applications e Seasave exe receives raw data from SeasaveAcq exe Nocera renta ferau TER 43163 e Seasave exe receives status messages from SeasaveAcq exe Receive status messages default 49165 431 65 e Seasave exe sends commands to SeasaveAcq exe Gard ecnaerds default 49164 TE Define TCP IP ports to use for remote bottle firing Ports for communication with remote bottle firing client e Receive commands to fire bottles from another application on Not applicable unless Enable remote firing is selected on Water Sampler tab same computer or from another computer
40. counts as applicable and converted data to a shared ASCII txt file or XML xml file on your computer For converted data SEASAVE applies calibration coefficients to the raw data to calculate converted data in engineering units To enable and set up shared file output click Configure Outputs In the Configure Outputs dialog box click the Shared File Out tab Configure Outputs C Program Files Sea Bird Seasave Seasave psa Output data to shared txt file in ASCII format SBE 11plus Alarms SBE 14 Remote Display PC Alarms Header Form Diagnostics erial Data Out SerialPorts Shared File Out Mark Variables TCP IP Out TCP IP Ports Output file location and name Click Select File to browse to If selected data is output in XML M Output data to shared file desired location format instead of ASCII format You Note If XML format is must select XML format if planning XML format required for Seasave Remote selected default file extension to use Seasave Remote to view data is xml If XML format is not on a remote computer selected default file extension is txt File name Select File p C Test txt Sagonds between updates Rate at which data for selected LLS variables is sent to shared file Variable Name unit Digits a For full rate data set to 0 fil Pressure Strain Gauge db 4 2 Salinity PSU 5 a Temperature ITS 90 deg C i BA Selected vari
41. descriptive header to the data file which is useful in identifying the data set To set up the header click Configure Outputs In the Configure Outputs dialog box click the Header Form tab Select the desired Header Choice and enter the header or header prompts Select how header information is to be included e Prompt for header information User will be prompted to fill out header form at start of data acquisition Only lines with text prompts on them will appear Completed header along with system time instrument type and serial numbers will be written to beginning of data file and also output to file with same name as data file but with hdr extension Include Default Header Information in File User will not be prompted to add any header information at start of data acquisition User defined default header form will be written as is to beginning of data file and also output to file with same name as data file but with hdr extension Don t Include Header Information in File User input header information will not be added to data file or placed in hdr file Configure Outputs C Program Files Sea Bird Seasave Seasave psa Serial Data Out Serial Ports Shared File Out Mark Variables TCP IP Out TCP IP Ports SBE 11plus Alarms SBE 14 Remote Display PC Alarms Header Form Diagnostics x eader Choice Prompt for Header Information v Prompt for line 01 fShip
42. diagnostics log for SeasaveAcg exe Select Path data to end of file Enable diagnostics output for SeasaveAcq exe which is data Path C Program Files Sea Bird SeasaveV7 SALog tut acquisition portion of program SeasaveAcq exe is automatically Level Log information Display Log File Erase Log File launched when you click Startin Start Real Time Data Acquisition dialog box Real Time Data menu Start Default location is same directory as where Seasave exe is installed default C Program Files Sea Bird SeasaveV7 Default name is SALog txt Other selections Level Display Log File Erase Log File are as described above for Seasave exe Report Help OK Cancel Make the desired selections Click OK or click another tab in Configure Outputs 80 Section 7 Display Setting Up SEASAVE Displays Section 7 Display Setting Up SEASAVE Displays Notes e Setup of all display windows in Display is included in the SEASAVE This section describes how to set up and arrange SEASAVE display windows program setup psa file To save There is no limit to the number of displays Edit a display to select desired the setup you must save the psa parameters number of digits for data display and plot characteristics labels file File menu Save Setup File grids etc This information is saved in the program setup psa file In before exiting SEASAVE addition you can export the disp
43. e LI COR PAR sensor Calibration constant is in water calibration constant in units of uamps 1000 umoles m sec from Licor or Sea Bird calibration sheet M and B are taken from Sea Bird calibration sheet e Chelsea PAR sensor Calibration constant 10 0 046 M 1 0 log e Al 1000 1 0 0 43429448 A1 1000 M loge A0 A0 A1 1000 where AO and A1 are constants from Chelsea calibration sheet with an equation of form PAR A0 Al mV Note SEASAVE can process data for an instrument interfacing with up to two underwater PAR irradiance sensors Biospherical Surface PAR Sensor A surface PAR sensor is selected by clicking Surface PAR voltage added in the Configure dialog box Enter conversion factor and ratio multiplier 53 Notes e See Application Notes 18 1 18 2 and 18 4 for complete description of calculation of pH calibration coefficients SEASOFT DOS lt version 4 008 ignored temperature compensation of a pH electrode The relationship between the two methods is pH pH old 7 2087 K For older sensors run pHfit version 2 0 in SEASOFT DOS using Vout pH and temperature values from the original calibration sheet to compute the new values for offset and slope Section 4 Configure Inputs Part II Calibration Coefficients pH Calibration Coefficients Enter the slope and offset from the calibration sheet pH 7 Vout offset K 1 98416e 4 slope where K
44. interfacing with SBE 50 pressure sensor select No channel 0 in con file pressure sensor here and then select SBE 50 in Serial RS 232C corresponds to first external Configuration file opened None sensor field below Note Digiquartz without temperature voltage in data stream voltage compensation is not applicable channel 1 to second external voltage in data stream etc Pressure sensor type Strain Gauge vl Data External voltage channels 2 Select 1 SBE 38 secondary temperature 1 SBE 50 pressure sensor or up to 2 GTDs Time between scans F dissolved oxygen or nitrogen Must agree with Must agree 16plus setup Serial AS 232C sensor Temperature SBE48 16plus setup see reply from DS Channel Sensor table lists RS 232 sensors below voltage channels Samplelnterval see reply from DS Sample interval seconds fio a Shaded sensors cannot be removed or changed to Select if using with deck unit NMEA position data added another type of sensor All others are optional connected to NMEA navigation i device SEASAVE adds current Channel Sensor New latitude longitude and universal time code o data header 1 Cout Temperature pee o ia TO appends NMEA data to every 2 Frequency Conductivity Open to select scan and writes NMEA data to a i different con file nav file every time Ctrl F7 is 3 Count Pressure Strain Gauge SVE Save or Save As to pressed or Add to nav File is save current con file cli
45. is selected Data button accesses dialog box to input additional parameter needed to process data Must agree with 16p us V2 setup PType see reply from GetCD or DS Selection applies only to internally mounted pressure sensor if 16plus V2 has no internally mounted pressure sensor but is interfacing with SBE 50 pressure sensor select No pressure sensor here and then select SBE 50 in Serial RS 232C sensor field below Note Digiquartz without temperature compensation is not applicable yi Data Select none 1 SBE 38 secondary temperature 1 SBE 50 pressure sensor or up to 2 GTDs dissolved oxygen or nitrogen Must agree with 16plus V2 setup see reply from GetCD or DS Channel Sensor table lists RS 232 sensors below voltage channels Shaded sensors cannot be removed or changed to another type of sensor All others are optional E 4 A D voltage 0 5 A D voltage 1 6 Serial RS 232 Oxygen SBE 43 Temperature SBE 38 Fluorometer Turner SCUFA Channel Sensor New New to create new 1 Count Temperature 0 con file for this CTD soy Pen Open to select 2 Frequency Conductivity different con file 3 Count Pressure Strain Gauge Saye Save or Save As to save current con file Save As settings Click a non shaded sensor and click Select to pick a different sensor for that channel A dialog box with a list of sensors appears Select sensors after number of voltage channels have bee
46. or Digiquartz without Temp Comp f 3 TO is selected Data button accesses dialog box to input from DS Voltage channel 0 in con file Configuration file opened None additional parameter s needed to sa data corresponds to sensor wired to channel Data 0 on end cap connector voltage channel 1 in con file corresponds to Pressure sensor type sensor wired to channel 1 on end cap See reply from DS Used to determine strain gauge connector etc f Extemal voltage channels 2 pressure sensor data format Time between scans Used to calculate Versiond 4 0 Select to include time of each scan seconds elapsed time if you select time as a eines January 1 1970 GMT withidata parameter for a display window Must ample interval seconds 15 agree with SBE 16 setup SI see reply Shaded sensors cannot be removed or changed to another type of from DS NMEA position data added Scan time added sensor All others are optional No Pressure Sensor Firmware version Select if using with deck unit connected Channel Sensor New to create new to NMEA navigation device SEASAVE emperature adds current latitude longitude and 1 Frequency Temp a con file for this CTD universal time code to data header 2 Frequency Conductivity Open to select n 7 different con file User Polynomial save Save or Save As to save current con file Save ds settings appends NMEA data to every scan and write
47. or to a shared file Data transmitted via TCP IP must be converted data in XML format data transmitted to a shared file must be in XML format Seasave Remote can also be used to fire bottles from a remote computer See Appendix V Seasave Remote for Remote Display and Bottle Firing FixedDisplay jar and FireBottles jar are sample Java applications FixedDisplay jar allows you to view a Fixed display on a remote computer to display data transmitted via TCP IP must be converted data in XML format FireBottles jar allows you to fire bottles from a remote computer You can use the provided sample applications or modify them as desired See Appendix VI Java Applications for Remote Display and Bottle Firing 93 Section 8 Real Time Data and Real Time Control Real Time Data Acquisition Section 8 Real Time Data and Real Time Control Real Time Data Acquisition Note To start acquisition without a mouse With the cursor in the main SEASAVE window press the Alt key to show the keyboard shortcuts underlines on menus Press the appropriate letter for example R for Real Time Data menu and use the arrow and Enter keys to navigate Note For SBE 16plus 16plus V2 19plus 19plus V2 and 49 Instrument must be set up to output raw hex data OutputFormat 0 for SEASAVE to interpret the data See the instrument user manual This section covers Starting and stopping real time data acquisition Firing bottles Marki
48. path and extension psa SEASAVE uses con file setup in Configure Inputs and Configure Outputs displays and input data file name defined in psa file autofire Allow user to set up auto fire for bottles at user input pre ondowncast defined pressures or depths on downcast when this parameter is not specified auto fire can only be set up for upcast which is recommended for most applications See Section 5 Configure Inputs Part III Serial Ports Water Sampler TCP IP Ports Miscellaneous and Pump Control to set up auto fire Note Mixed mode firing firing some bottles manually is supported for firing on downcast as well as for firing on upcast autostop Automatically stop SEASAVE real time data acquisition and time shut down SEASAVE after time in minutes This can be used in conjunction with a batch file script to create new data files on a defined schedule for continuous acquisition systems such as a thermosalinograph or a towed vehicle See example in Running SEASAVE with Autostop Parameter below Note If specifying multiple parameters insert a space between each parameter in the list 106 Appendix l Command Line Operation Running SEASAVE with Command Line Parameters general instructions Notes e If the path includes any spaces To run SEASAVE with a Command Line Parameter enclose the path in quotes path See the examples 1 In the Windows Start menu
49. path and file name for the shared file and click Save Click Select Variables pick the desired variables for viewing remotely and click OK Click OK to exit the Configure Outputs dialog box 2 In SEASAVE s Configure Inputs on the Water Sampler tab set up the water sampler and select Enable remote firing see Water Sampler in Section 5 Configure Inputs Part III Serial Ports Water Sampler TCP IP Ports Miscellaneous and Pump Control 3 InSEASAVE s Real Time Control menu select Fire Bottle Control The Bottle Fire dialog box appears you can leave this open throughout the cast Remote Fire Bottle Fire x Fired 0 Bottle Firing Sequence Client is not connected 120 Note To get the Server address A endix V Seasave Remote for Remote Display and Bottle Firin 4 Onthe remote computer double click on SeasaveRem exe Seasave Remote has menus a Status bar and fixed scrolled and or plot displays as well as a bottle fire control window T Eai Woke W thet J tres krg teqarce 1 2 3 esse eer Display tians tene fi Dismas Fre Botke j Hee Saray PSU Bottle fire Scrolled control Display 44 gt gt a aviv ang 5 In Seasave Remote click the TCP IP Ports menu the TCP IP Ports dialog box appears Define the address of the computer running SEASAVE and the ports used for transmitting data if transmitting data via instructions are for Windows XP TCP IP and
50. pressed or Add to Modify and click Modify nav File is clicked see Adding to change NMEA Data to nav File in Section 8 Real Time Data and Real Time Control Real Time Data Acquisition Select Click a non shaded sensor and click Select to pick a different sensor for that channel calibration coefficients for that sensor A dialog box with a list of sensors appears Select sensors after number of voltage channels have been specified above Report Help O Cancel Click to exit dialog box If you made changes and did not Save or Save As SEASAVE asks if you want to Opens a txt file for viewing Y Y and printing only cannot be modified that shows all parameters in con file save changes 36 Section 3 Configure Inputs Part Instrument Configuration con file Shown below is an example status DS response in SEATERM that corresponds to the setup shown in the Configuration dialog box above Shown below the appropriate lines are the commands used in SEATERM to modify the setup of parameters critical to use of the SBE 25 with SEASAVE as well as any explanatory information SBE 25 CID V 4 1la SN 323 04 26 02 14 02 13 external pressure sensor range 5076 psia tcval 55 xtal 9437363 clk 32767 107 vmain 10 1 iop 175 vlith 5 6 ncasts 0 samples 0 free 54980 lwait 0 msec stop upcast when CTD ascends 30 of full scale pressure sensor range 2301 counts CTD configuration
51. provides sample Java applications that can be used as is or can be modified by a Java programmer however Seasave Remote is a more full featured program For information on the Java applications see Appendix VI Java Applications for Remote Display and Bottle Firing Software on the remote computer is required to view data output via TCP IP or to a shared file and to fire bottles remotely Seasave Remote can perform those functions and has many of the same display and plotting capabilities as SEASAVE Data transmitted via TCP IP must be converted data in XML format data transmitted to a shared file must be in XML format Seasave Remote SeasaveRem exe is installed when you install SEASAVE to the same folder as SEASAVE default location C Program Files Sea Bird SeasaveV7 Basic instructions are provided below for viewing data on a remote computer and firing bottles from a remote computer using Seasave Remote see Seasave Remote s Help files for more details 1 InSEASAVE s Configure Outputs select one of the following methods for transmitting data to a remote computer e On the TCP IP Out tab select Output converted data to socket using TCP IP and select XML format Click Select Variables pick the desired variables for viewing remotely and click OK Click OK to exit the Configure Outputs dialog box OR e On the Shared File Out tab select Output data to shared file and select XML format Click Select File define the
52. temperature slope computed temperature offset where slope true temperature span instrument temperature span offset true temperature instrument reading slope measured at 0 C Temperature Slope and Offset Correction Example At true temperature 0 0 C instrument reading 0 0015 C At true temperature 25 0 C instrument reading 25 0005 C Calculating the slope and offset Slope 25 0 0 0 25 0005 0 0015 1 000040002 Offset 0 0 0 0015 1 000040002 0 001500060 Sea Bird temperature sensors usually drift by changing offset typically resulting in lower temperature readings over time Sea Bird s data indicates that the drift is smooth and uniform with time allowing users to make very accurate corrections based only on pre and post cruise laboratory calibrations Calibration checks at sea are advisable to ensure against sensor malfunction however data from reversing thermometers is rarely accurate enough to make calibration corrections that are better than those possible from shore based laboratory calibrations Sea Bird temperature sensors rarely exhibit span errors larger than 0 005 C over the range 5 to 35 C 0 005 C 35 5 C year 0 000125 C C year even after years of drift A span error that increases more than 0 0002 C C year may be a symptom of sensor malfunction Pressure Strain Gauge Calibration Coefficients For SBE l6plus 16plus V2 19plu
53. with CTD and bottom contact switch alarm if bottom contact switch integrated with CTD e PC Alarms Enable and set up alarm in the computer running SEASAVE minimum and maximum pressure alarm altimeter alarm if altimeter integrated with CTD and bottom contact switch alarm if bottom contact switch integrated with CTD e Header Form Create a customized header for the data e Diagnostics Enable and set up diagnostic outputs to assist in troubleshooting if you encounter difficulty running the program 3 Define SEASAVE displays SEASAVE can have an unlimited number of data displays limited only by the resources of your computer Three types of data displays are available fixed scrolled and plot displays Additionally you can open a Status display and a NMEA display See Section 7 Display Setting Up SEASAVE Displays 4 Start real time data acquisition If applicable and if enabled in Steps 1 and 2 fire bottles mark scans and or send Lat Lon data to a file during acquisition See Section 8 Real Time Data and Real Time Control Real Time Data Acquisition 15 File Formats Section 2 Installation and Use File extensions are used by SEASOFT to indicate the file type Input files File Extension Description con Instrument configuration number and type of sensors channel assigned to each sensor and calibration coefficients SEASAVE uses this information to interpret raw data from instrumen
54. with Data playback rate set to 0 data playback took 19 seconds if only a plot display was generated adding a 5 scrolled display caused playback to take 13 minutes To stop data display In the Archived Data menu select Stop The data display stops 103 Section 10 Processing Data Section 10 Processing Data Note Although we provide this technique for editing a raw hex file Sea Bird s strong recommendation as described above is to always convert the raw data file and then edit the converted file Sea Bird provides software SBE Data Processing for converting the raw hex data file into engineering units editing aligning filtering removing bad data etc the data calculating derived variables and plotting the processed data However sometimes users want to edit the raw hex data file before beginning processing to remove data at the beginning of the file corresponding to instrument soak time to remove blocks of bad data to edit the header or to add explanatory notes about the cast Editing the raw hex file can corrupt the data making it impossible to perform further processing using Sea Bird software Sea Bird strongly recommends that you first convert the data to a cnv file using the Data Conversion module in SBE Data Processing and then use other SBE Data Processing modules to edit the cnv file as desired The procedure for editing a hex data file described below has been found to wo
55. 0 t 3 5216e 9 sv 3 3603e 12 pr a pr sv pr vI pr vO return sv 116 Appendix IV Derived Parameter Formulas p p di g Ap p min average sound velocity m s P P d Vi App min Average sound velocity is the harmonic mean average from the surface to the current CTD depth and is calculated on the downcast only The first window begins when pressure is greater than a minimum specified pressure and salinity is greater than a minimum specified salinity Depth is calculated from pressure based on user input latitude on the Miscellaneous tab in Configure Inputs regardless of whether latitude data from a NMEA navigation device is in the data file e In SEASAVE and in SBE Data Processing s Data Conversion module the algorithm also requires user input of a pressure window size and time window size It then calculates d depth at end of window depth at start of window meters Vv sound velocity at start of window sound velocity at end of window 2 m sec e In SBE Data Processing s Derive module the algorithm is based on the assumption that the data has been bin averaged already Average sound velocity is computed scan by scan d depth of current scan depth of previous scan meters v sound velocity of this scan bin m sec Surface Average sound velocity Average gt Minimum specified pressure and salinity dj and V sound velocity
56. 0 deg C Pressure Digiquartz db Salinity PSU Pie Conductivity Sm Temperature ITS 90 deg C S152 0 5439 Pressure Digiquartz db Salinity PSU Adjust column width by placing mouse cursor over line at number column header and dragging Right click in the display to e Modify change setup Fixed Display dialog box appears e Export Display Settings dsa file export setup to dsa file Save As dialog box appears e Print print display printing dialog box appears Set up the print job as desired and click OK 83 Section 7 Display Setting Up SEASAVE Displays Scrolled Display A Scrolled Display has a list of the selected parameters across the top and displays the data in scrolling vertical columns To set up a Scrolled Display e Click Display and select Add New Scrolled Display Window OR e Click Display and select Import Display Settings dsa file OR e Right click in an existing Scrolled Display and click Modify The Scrolled Display dialog box looks like this Rows to display is number of rows that show at one time in display SEASAVE uses this to determine display s vertical size Total rows is total number of rows in display if Total rows gt Rows to display display has scroll bar to enable user to view more data you can resize display manually as desired using standard Windows drag methods Time between each calculation of variables for updating
57. Calibration Coefficients Note See Application Note 54 for complete description of calculation of Seapoint fluorometer calibration coefficients Notes e See Application Note 9 for complete description of calculation of WET Labs FLF and Sea Tech fluorometer calibration coefficients e Offset and scale factor may be adjusted to fit a linear regression of fluorometer responses to known chlorophyll a concentrations Seapoint Enter gain and offset Concentration V 30 gain offset where Gain is dependent on cable used see cable drawing pins 5 and 6 Note SEASAVE can process data for an instrument interfacing with up to two Seapoint fluorometers Seapoint Rhodamine Enter gain and offset Concentration V 30 gain offset where Gain is dependent on cable used see cable drawing pins 5 and 6 Sea Tech and WET Labs Flash Lamp Fluorometer FLF Enter scale factor and offset Concentration voltage scale factor 5 offset where Scale factor is dependent on fluorometer range Fluorometer Switch Selectable Range Scale milligrams m or micrograms liter Factor Sea Tech 0 3 3 0 10 default 10 0 30 30 0 100 100 0 300 300 0 1000 1000 WET Labs 0 100 100 FLF 0 300 default 300 0 1000 1000 Offset is calculated by measuring voltage output when the light sensor is completely blocked from the strobe light with an opaque substance such as
58. Coefficients e Biospherical Natural Fluorometer Enter Cfn natural fluorescence calibration coefficient Al A2 and B from calibration sheet natural fluorescence Fn Cfn 10V production Al Fn A2 PAR chlorophyll concentration Chl Fn B PAR where V is voltage from natural fluorescence sensor 46 Section 4 Configure Inputs Part II Calibration Coefficients Note See Application Note 39 for complete description of calculation of Chelsea Aqua 3calibration coefficients Note See Application Note 61 for complete description of calculation of Chelsea Minitracka calibration coefficients Chelsea Aqua 3 Enter VB V1 Vacetone slope offset and SF Concentration ug l slope 10 00 SP 10 0V8 10 0 10 0Vacetone offset where VB V1 and Vacetone are from calibration sheet Slope default 1 0 and offset default 0 0 adjust readings to conform to measured concentrations Scale factor SF 1 0 if CTD gain is 1 SF 2 if CTD gain is 2 0 V is output voltage measured by CTD Note SEASAVE can process data for an instrument interfacing with up to two Chelsea Aqua 3 sensors Chelsea Aqua 3 Example Calculation of Slope and Offset Current slope 1 0 and offset 0 0 Two in situ samples Sample I Concentration from SBE Data Processing 0 390 Concentration from water sample 0 450 Sample 2 Concentration from SBE Data Processing 0 028 Concentration from water
59. Conductivity Open Open to select words suppressed reflects only 4 lt i z different con file external voltages going directly to 3 Frequency Pressure Digiquartz with TC Save _ Save or Save As to 9plus from auxiliary sensors 4 A D voltage 0 pH eye save current con file See Application Note 11S ae j settings NMEA Select if NMEA 5 A D voltage Oxygen SBE 43 g navigation device used 6 4 D voltage 2 Fluorometer Biospherical Natural SEASAVE adds current latitude 7 A D voltage 3 Altimeter a longitude and universal time code to eae header appends NMEA 8 SPAR voltage Unavailable Monty data to every scan and writes 9 SPAR voltage SPAR Surface Inradiance NMEA data to nav file every time Ctrl F7 is pressed or Add to nav File is clicked see Adding NMEA Data to nav File in Section 8 Real Time Data and Real Time Control Real Time Data Acquisition Click a sensor and click Modify Click a non shaded sensor and click Select to pick a to view change calibration different sensor for that channel dialog box with list of coefficients for that sensor sensors appears After sensor is selected dialog box for calibration coefficients appears Select sensors after Frequency channels suppressed and Voltage words suppressed have been specified above Click to exit dialog box If you made changes and did not Save or Save As SEASAVE asks if Opens a txt file for viewing and printing only ca
60. DOM Vblank scale factor 223 Seapoint Rhodamine Fluorometer sensor serial number 224 Seapoint Rhodamine Fluorometer sensor calibration date 225 Seapoint Rhodamine Fluorometer gain offset 226 Primary Gas Tension Device sensor serial number 227 Primary Gas Tension Device sensor calibration date 228 Primary Gas Tension Device type 229 Secondary Gas Tension Device sensor serial number 230 Secondary Gas Tension Device sensor calibration date 231 Secondary Gas Tension Device type 232 Sequoia LISST 25A sensor serial number 233 Sequoia LISST 25A sensor calibration date 234 Sequoia LISST 25A Total Volume Conc Const Sauter Mean Diameter Cal Clean Water Scattering Clean Water Trans 235 SBE 45 output conductivity Output salinity Output sound velocity Use 90402 junction box SBE 38 remote temperature 236 SBE 21 remote temperature type 237 SBE 50 serial number 238 SBE 50 calibration date 239 Secondary Chelsea Aqua 3 fluorometer serial number 240 Secondary Chelsea Aqua 3 fluorometer calibration date 241 Secondary Chelsea Aqua 3 fluorometer scale factor slope offset vacetone vb vl 242 Chelsea UV Aquatracka serial number 243 Chelsea UV Aquatracka calibration date 244 Chelsea UV Aquatracka a b 245 SBE 49 temperature sensor serial number 246 SBE 49 temperature sensor calibration date 247 SBE 49 temperature sensor AO Al A2 A3 slope and offset 248 Secondar
61. EASAVE is running Solution Use SEASOFT Win32 terminal program SEATERM or close SEASAVE to run SEASOFT DOS terminal program 2 SEASAVE may not run when a DOS window such as for SEASOFT DOS is open Solution Close DOS window Use Windows software 3 SEASAVE may not be able to read and display an archived data file that was uploaded from an instrument s memory using SEATERM version 1 58 or earlier if the computer was set to a language other than English when the file was uploaded This is because SEASAVE cannot recognize the System Upload Time date in the file header if does not contain the appropriate English abbreviation for the month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov or Dec Solution 1 Edit the uploaded file to change the month to one consistent with English Follow the instructions for file editing in Section 10 Processing Data Solution 2 Install SEATERM 1 59 or later and upload the data again if it is still available in the instrument SEATERM 1 59 and later always writes the System Upload Time date with the appropriate English abbreviation regardless of the computer s language setting 112 Appendix IV Derived Parameter Formulas Appendix IV Derived Parameter Formulas For formulas for the calculation of conductivity temperature and pressure see Note the calibration sheets for your instrument Algorithms used for calculation of derived parameters in SEASAVE and in SBE Data Proce
62. Each time you want to fire a bottle press Ctrl F3 Note that this does not fire a bottle if set up for an SBE Carousel SBE ECO or G O 1016 because you must select which bottle to fire Note You can manually fire any bottle regardless of the pressure or depth you specified in the Auto Fire Table Entry Note The bl file has the same path and file name as the data file For example if the data file is c test1 hex the bl file is c test1 bl Later when the raw data file is converted in SBE Data Processing s Data Conversion module scans identified in the bl file or with a bottle confirmation bit are written to a file with a ros extension To fire bottles in Mixed Mode auto bottle firing but also allowing manual bottle firing 1 Auto Fire Bottle Fire x Fired 0 r Automatic fire Set up the water sampler for Auto Fire in Configure Inputs select Allow manual firing in the Auto Fire Table Entry dialog box In the Real Time Control menu select Fire Bottle Control The Bottle Fire dialog box appears you can leave this open throughout the cast shown below is the dialog if you selected SBE Carousel SBE ECO or G O 1016 in the Water Sampler setup Step 1 Manual fire Bottle Fire Selected Bottle Bottle Firing Sequence Next bottle FI Start real time data acquisition The Automatic fire portion of the dialog box shows the next bottle that has
63. I Serial Ports Water Sampler TCP IP Ports Miscellaneous and Pump Control Auto Fire Note Auto fire can be set up to fire on If you select Auto Fire on the Water Sampler tab and click Auto Fire downcast instead of upcast with the Pressures amp Positions the Auto Fire Table Entry dialog box appears to define use of the autofireondowncast the closure order and closure pressures or depths command line parameter See Appendix I Command Line Operation Auto Fire Table Entry x Upcast is enabled has begun when 2 ah pressure depth exceeds this value If CTD Input values for each bottle Use pressure db to determine bottle firing never meets this criteria i e CTD did not firing as pressures db or go as deep as anticipated no water depth meters Dialog box rs samples are taken text changes to correspond Use depth meters to determine bottle firing Fire bottles on upcast when pressure db is less than 300 000000 Depth type Salt water Salt water or Fresh water used to calculate depth from measured pressure if depth in meters is selected Allow manual firing e For salt water algorithm estimates local gravity from latitude It uses latitude from NMEA navigation device if NMEA is enabled in con file If your system does not have NMEA enter desired latitude on Miscellaneous tab in See below for discussion of setup for mixed mode allowing manual firing of
64. If Prompt for Header Information was selected above these user prompts will appear to left of blank fields for user to input information at start of data acquisition If Include Default Header Information in File was selected above this would be all the user input information in the file Prompt for line 02 Ststion Prompt for line 03 Qperator Prompt for line 04 fL atitude Prompt for line 05 Longitude Prompt for line 06 Prompt for line 07 Prompt for line 08 o Prompt for line 09 o Prompt for line 10 Ct Prompt for line 11 es Prompt for line 12 ee Click OK or click another tab in Configure Outputs 78 Section 6 Configure Outputs If you selected Prompt for Header Information on the Header Form tab when you begin data acquisition if you chose to store the data on disk the header form appears for you to fill in The user selected prompts from the Header Form tab Ship Cruise Station Latitude and Longitude appear to the left of the blank fields f Header Information 79 Section 6 Configure Outputs Diagnostics Notes e Unlike all other information in SEASAVE can output diagnostics to assist in troubleshooting if you Configure Inputs and Configure encounter difficulty running the program Outputs diagnostic selections are not included in the program setup psa file Seasave ini in Windows directory contains information on whether diagnostics are enabled lo
65. In Seasave Remote s Bottle Fire dialog click Disconnect OR In SEASAVE s Remote Fire Bottle Fire dialog click Disconnect 14 In SEASAVE stop real time data acquisition 122 Appendix VI Java Applications for Remote Display and Bottle Firin Appendix VI Java Applications for Remote Display and Bottle Firing Notes e FixedDisplay jar can only display variables that are transmitted by SEASAVE it cannot calculate derived variables based on the transmitted variables e Asan alternative to the Java applications described in this appendix Sea Bird also provides Seasave Remote Seasave Remote is a more full featured program with many of the same display and plotting capabilities as SEASAVE It can be used to display data transmitted via TCP IP or toa shared file on a remote computer and to fire bottles from a remote computer See Appendix V Seasave Remote for Remote Display and Bottle Firing or Seasave Remote s Help files Software on the remote computer is required to view data output via TCP IP and to fire bottles remotely FixedDisplay jar and FireBottles jar are sample Java applications e FixedDisplay jar allows you to view a Fixed display on a remote computer to display data transmitted via TCP IP To use it you must select Output converted data to socket using TCP IP and XML format on the TCP IP Out tab in Configure Outputs e FireBottles jar allows you to fire bottles from a remote computer F
66. Modifying or Creating con File cee ceeeesseeeeteceeeeeeeeees 19 SBE 9plus Configuration cccccesccesecscceseceseceeeceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeneeneenaees 21 SBE 16 SEACAT C T Recorder Configuration c cesceeseeeeeeeeetees 23 SBE 16plus SEACAT C T Recorder Configuration 24 SBE 16plus V2 SEACAT C T Recorder Configuration cesses 26 SBE 19 SEACAT Profiler Configuration ccccccsceeseeceeseeeseeeeeeeeeeeees 28 SBE 19plus SEACAT Profiler Configuration 0 0 ceceseeceeseeeeeeeeneeereeee 30 SBE 19plus V2 SEACAT Profiler Configuration 32 SBE 21 Thermosalinograph Configuration ccscssesseeceeseceeeeeeneeeeenes 34 SBE 25 SEALOGGER Configuration cccccecceeseeeeeseeeeeeeeeeeeeeteeneees 36 SBE 45 MicroTSG Configuration csccesccesecseeseeeeeeeeeeeseeeeeeteeesenrens 38 SBE 49 FastCAT Configuration 0 ccccesccesecssecseeeneeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeenteeneensees 39 Section 4 Configure Inputs Part II Calibration Coefficients 40 Accessing Calibration Coefficients Dialog Boxes seeeeeseeceeseereeeeeneeerenee 40 Importing and Exporting Calibration Coefficients cc cceceseeceetecreeeeeneeeees 41 Calibration Coefficients for Frequency Sensors c ceecceseeseeeteeeeeeseeeneeenes 42 Temperature Calibration Coefficients ci cceesseescseeeeeeseeeeeseceeeeeeeteees 42 Conductivity Calibration Coefficients cccceeceseceteceeeeneeeseeeeeesseeseeees 43 Pressure Pa
67. Note For complete description of ratio multiplier see Application Note 11S SBE 11p us Deck Unit or 47 SBE 33 or 36 Deck Unit Descent rate and acceleration are computed by calculating the derivative of the pressure signal with respect to time with a user input window size for calculating the derivative using a linear regression to determine the slope Values computed by SEASAVE and SBE Data Processing s Data Conversion module are somewhat different from values computed by SBE Data Processing s Derive module SEASAVE and Data Conversion compute the derivative with a window looking backward in time since they share common code and SEASAVE cannot use future values of pressure while acquiring data in real time Derive uses a centered window equal number of points before and after the scan to obtain a better estimate of the derivative Use SEASAVE and Data Conversion to obtain a quick look at descent rate and acceleration use Derive to obtain the most accurate values Note Enter the window size seconds for calculation of descent rate and acceleration on the Miscellaneous tab in Configure Inputs oxygen ml l As applicable see Application Note 64 SBE 43 Dissolved Oxygen Sensor or Application Note 13 1 SBE 13 23 30 Dissolved Oxygen Sensor Calibration amp Deployment Oxygen values computed by SEASAVE and SBE Data Processing s Data Conversion module are somewhat different from values computed by SBE Data Processing
68. P IP sockets Easier to use and more intuitive user interface Support for transmission of data to a remote computer over TCP IP and remote bottle firing via TCP IP Better graphics including the ability to have different plot colors for downcast and upcast An unlimited number of displays can be active on the desktop at once within the limitations of your computer s resources Displays can be added deleted and modified without interrupting data acquisition Output from an SBE 9plus CTD integrated with an SBE 1 1plus Deck Unit SBE 91 1plus is now saved as a hex file was previously saved as a binary dat file Support for pressure altimeter and bottom contact switch alarms in the computer running SEASAVE Section 2 Installation and Use Section 2 Installation and Use SEASOFT Win32 requires approximately 90 MB of disk space during installation Ensure there is room on your hard drive before proceeding Sea Bird recommends the following minimum system requirements Windows 2000 or later 500 MHz processor and 256 MB RAM Installation Note Sea Bird supplies the current version of our software when you purchase an instrument As software revisions occur we post the revised software on our FTP site e You may not need the latest version Our revisions often include improvements and new features related to one instrument which may have little or no impact on your operation See our website www seab
69. Primary Oxygen SBE 43 Pcor Tau Boc 167 Secondary Oxygen SBE 43 serial number 168 Secondary Oxygen SBE 43 calibration date 169 Secondary Oxygen SBE 43 Soc Tcor offset 170 Secondary Oxygen SBE 43 Pcor Tau Boc 1 Secondary sea tech 1s6000 OBS nephelometer sensor serial number r72 Secondary sea tech 1s6000 OBS nephelometer sensor calibration date 173 Secondary sea tech 1s6000 OBS nephelometer gain slope offset 174 Secondary Chelsea Transmissometer sensor serial number 175 Secondary Chelsea Transmissometer calibration date 176 Secondary Chelsea Transmissometer M B path length 177 Altimeter serial number 178 Altimeter calibration date 179 WET Labs AC3 serial number 180 WET Labs AC3 calibration date 181 Surface PAR serial number 182 Surface PAR calibration date 183 SEACATplus temperature sensor serial number 184 SEACATplus temperature sensor calibration date 185 SEACATplus temperature sensor AO Al A2 A3 slope offset 186 SEACATplus serial sensor scans to average mode 187 Pressure strain gauge with span TC serial number 188 Pressure strain gauge with span TC calibration date 189 Pressure strain gauge with span TC ptempA0 ptempAl ptempA2 pTCAO pTCA1 PTCA2 190 Pressure strain gauge with span TC pTCBO pTCB1 pTCB2 pA0 pAl pA2 offset LoL SBE 38 temperature sensor serial number 192 SBE 38 temperature sensor calibration date 193 Turner SCUFA fluorometer serial number 194 Turner SCUFA fluorometer
70. Run the bat file using a DOS command window When ready to stop the start acquire data stop sequence simply close the DOS window 107 Appendix Il Configure con File Format Appendix II Configure con File Format Note be ai wad Modify the con file by selecting Shown below is a line by line description of the con file contents which can Configure Inputs clicking on the be viewed in a text editor Instrument Configuration tab in the dialog box and clicking on Modify Line Contents al Conductivity sensor serial number 2 Conductivity M A B C D CPCOR 3 Conductivity cell_const series_r slope offset use GHIJ coefficients 4 Temperature sensor serial number 5 Temperature F0 A B C D slope offset use GHIJ coefficients 6 Secondary conductivity sensor serial number 7 Secondary conductivity M A B C D PCOR 8 Secondary conductivity cell_const series_r slope offset use GHIJ coefficients 9 Secondary temperature sensor serial number 10 Secondary temperature F0 A B C D slope offset use GHIJ coefficients 11 Pressure sensor serial number 12 Pressure T1 T2 T3 T4 T5 13 Pressure Cl Al C2 A0 C3 C4 A2 parameters in parentheses for strain gauge sensor 14 Pressure Dl D2 slope offset pressure sensor type AD590_M AD590_B 15 Oxygen Beckman YSI
71. SBE38 see reply from DS this choice Must agree with Configuration for the SBE 21 Seacat The If remote temperature is selected SEASAVE and Data SBE 21 setup for SVx x 0 1 Conversion and Derive in SBE Data Processing uses remote 2 3 or 4 see reply from DS Configuration file opened None temperature data when calculating density and sound velocity Voltage channel 0 in con file corresponds to sensor wired to channel 0 on end cap Remote temperature SBE Y connector voltage channel 1 in con file corresponds to sensor Time between scans Used to calculate elapsed time if you select time as as an output parameter Must agree with wired to channel 1 on end cap External voltage channels fi SBE 21 setup SI see reply from DS connector etc Sample interval seconds P 5 Select to include time of each scan seconds since January 1 1970 GMT with data v NMEA position data added I Scan time added Select if Interface Box connected to NMEA navigation Select if Interface Box connected to NMEA depth device SEASAVE device SEASAVE adds E NMEA depth data added appends 3 bytes of depth data to every scan after Lat Lon data NMEA current latitude longitude and universal time code to data header appends NMEA data Channel ensor New to every scan and writes NMEA data to nav file every 1 Frequency Temperature New to create new time Ctrl F7 is pressed or Add ivil con file for this CTD to nav File is click
72. SEASOFT Win32 SEASAVE V7 CTD Real Time Data Acquisition Software for Windows 2000 and later Fie Configure Inputs Configure Outputs Display Real Time Data Real Time Control Archived Data Options Help Playback completed TOOMOT dat Demo con CEs Scrolled Display 1 earl casa ee m Temperature ITS 90 deg C Pressure Digiquattz db Salinity PSU Ml Plot Display 1 a 5 x lt gt gt alaly x aam Temperature IT3 90 deg 0 000 1 600 3 200 4 800 6 400 8 000 11 i 0 000 1 000 2 000 3 000 4 000 5 000 Conductivity m 1 1 L L T T T T 1 34 200 34 400 34 600 34 800 35 000 Salinity PSU User s Manual Sea Bird Electronics Inc 1808 136 Place NE Bellevue Washington 98005 USA Telephone 425 643 9866 Fax 425 643 9954 E mail seabird seabird com 01 18 08 Website www seabird com Software Release 7 16a and later Limited Liability Statement Extreme care should be exercised when using or servicing this equipment It should be used or serviced only by personnel with knowledge of and training in the use and maintenance of oceanographic electronic equipment SEA BIRD ELECTRONICS INC disclaims all product liability risks arising from the use or servicing of this system SEA BIRD ELECTRONICS INC has no way of controlling the use of this equipment or of choosing the personnel to operate it and therefore cannot take step
73. SP PD Biospherical sensor without built in log amplifier 11Licor LI COR sensor and 11Chelsea for complete description of calculation of calibration coefficients for underwater PAR sensors Selection of Par Irradiance Biospherical Licor as the voltage sensor is also applicable to the Chelsea PAR sensor Notes e See Application Note 11 General for conversion factor values for output units other than uEinsteins m sec For complete description of calculation of calibration coefficients for surface PAR see Application Note 11S SBE 11plus Deck Unit or 47 SBE 33 or 36 Deck Unit PAR Irradiance Calibration Coefficients Underwater PAR Sensor Enter M B calibration constant multiplier and offset PAR multiplier 10 10 B M calibration constant offset where calibration constant M and B are dependent on sensor type multiplier 1 0 for output units of Einsteins m sec e Biospherical PAR sensor PAR sensor with built in log amplifier QSP 200L QCP 200L QSP 2300L QCP 2300L or MCP 2300 Typically M 1 0 and B 0 0 Calibration constant 10 gt wet calibration factor from Biospherical calibration sheet PAR sensor without built in log amplifier QSP 200PD QSP 2200 PD or QCP 2200 PD M and B are taken from Sea Bird calibration sheet Calibration constant Cg calibration coefficient from Sea Bird calibration sheet 6 022 x 10 3 C from Biospherical calibration sheet
74. Soc Voffset A B C E Tau D0 D1 and D2 OX Soc V Voffset Taucor V T P Tcor T Pcor P T OxSOL T S where OX dissolved oxygen concentration ml 1 T measured temperature from CTD C P measured pressure from CTD decibars S calculated salinity from CTD PSU V temperature compensated oxygen signal volts Taucor V T P Tau DO exp D1 P D2 T dV dt volts dV dt derivative of oxygen signal volts sec Tcor T 1 A T B T7 C T Pcor P T exp E P K K is absolute temperature Kelvin Oxsol T S oxygen saturation ml l a parameterization from Garcia and Gordon 1992 OR Owens Millard Enter Soc Boc Voffset tcor pcor and tau OX Soc V Voffset tau dV dt Boc exp 0 03T exp tcor T pcor P Oxsat T S where OX dissolved oxygen concentration ml l T measured temperature from CTD C P measured pressure from CTD decibars S calculated salinity from CTD PSU V temperature compensated oxygen signal volts dV dt derivative of oxygen signal volts sec Oxsat T S oxygen saturation ml l from Weiss Note SEASAVE can process data for an instrument interfacing with up to two SBE 43 oxygen sensors 52 Section 4 Configure Inputs Part II Calibration Coefficients Notes See Application Note 11General for multiplier values for output units other than yEinsteins m sec See Application Notes 11QSP L Biospherical sensor with built in log amplifier 11Q
75. System Requirements Sea Bird recommends the following minimum system requirements for SEASOFT Win32 Windows 2000 or later 500 MHz processor 256 MB RAM and 90 MB free disk space for installation Instruments Supported SEASAVE supports the following Sea Bird instruments SBE 91 1plus and 917plus CTD system SBE 16 SEACAT C T optional pressure Recorder SBE 16plus SEACAT C T optional pressure Recorder SBE 16plus V2 SEACAT C T optional pressure Recorder SBE 19 SEACAT Profiler SBE 19plus SEACAT Profiler SBE 19plus V2 SEACAT Profiler SBE 21 SEACAT Thermosalinograph SBE 25 SEALOGGER CTD SBE 45 MicroTSG Thermosalinograph SBE 49 FastCAT CTD Sensor Additionally SEASAVE supports many other sensors instruments interfacing with the instruments listed above including Sea Bird oxygen pH and ORP sensors SBE 32 Carousel Water Sampler SBE 55 ECO Water Sampler and assorted equipment from third party manufacturers Differences from SEASAVE Win32 Section 1 Introduction SEASAVE was previously available as SEASAVE Win32 SEASAVE V7 is an entirely new version of SEASAVE Following are the improvements and changes 1 More robust data acquisition and increased stability with a new architecture for data acquisition SEASAVE V7 is actually two applications Seasave exe automatically launches SeasaveAcq exe when data acquisition is commanded to start Both programs run simultaneously on the same computer communicating via TC
76. V Seasave Remote for Remote Display and Bottle Firing 11 In Seasave Remote s Bottle Fire menu click Bottle Fire Control In the Bottle Fire dialog box click Connect The Status bar should show that you are connected to the bottle fire client Connected to on ports and you can now fire bottles from Seasave Remote Note 12 In Seasave Remote s Remote Bottle Fire window click Fire Bottle when When SEASAVE receives a bottle fired confirmation from a water sampler its response to remote bottle firing is identical to bottle firing from within the desired When SEASAVE receives a bottle fired confirmation from a water sampler software it writes bottle fire data to a it increments the Fired and shows the bottle number that was fired in the file or sets a bottle confirm bit in the Bottle Firing Sequence box data file as applicable to the equipment used See Firing Bottles by When Seasave Remote receives a bottle fired confirmation from Command from SEASAVE above SEASAVE it increments the Fired and shows the bottle number that was fired in the Sequence box User Input Remote Bottle Fire x Bottes B6 Fied Po Next bottle gt r Disconnect Fire Bottle Help Reattime firing sequence 1 2 13 When you are done A To end TCP IP transmission of data or access to a shared file In Seasave Remote s Data menu click Disconnect B To end transmission of bottle fire commands and responses
77. ab in SEASAVE Oxygen Calibration Coefficients Enter the coefficients which vary depending on the type of oxygen sensor from the calibration sheet e Beckman or YSI type sensor manufactured by Sea Bird or other manufacturer These sensors require two channels one for oxygen current enter m b soc boc tcor pcor tau and wt and the other for oxygen temperature enter k and c Make sure to select both when configuring the instrument Note SEASAVE can process data for an instrument interfacing with up to two Beckman or YSI type oxygen sensors e IOW sensor These sensors require two channels one for oxygen current enter b0 and b1 and the other for oxygen temperature enter a0 al a2 and a3 Make sure to select both when configuring the instrument Value b0 b1 a0 tal T a2 T a3 T C where T is oxygen temperature voltage C is oxygen current voltage e Sea Bird sensor SBE 43 This sensor requires only one channel In Winter of 2008 Sea Bird plans to begin using a new equation the Murphy Larson equation for calibrating SBE 43 oxygen sensors Calibration sheets for SBE 43 s calibrated after this date will include coefficients for both the Murphy Larson equation and for the older Owens Millard equation and our software SEASAVE SEASAVE V7 and SBE Data Processing supports both equations However we recommend that you use the Murphy Larson equation for best results Murphy Larson Enter
78. ables and number of ES decimal points to right of decimal 7 place for output data Click Select g Variables to change Dialog box with list of variables appears select A desired variables and number of decimal places to right of decimal point for each variable and click OK Make the desired selections Click OK or click another tab in Configure Outputs Remote Display To view data output to a shared file on a remote computer on a network while SEASAVE continues to acquire more data e Seasave Remote has many of the same display and plotting capabilities as Note SEASAVE It can be used to display data on a remote computer that is A tener pence ts d you transmitted in XML format via TCP IP or to a shared file and to fire bottles from a remote computer See Appendix V Seasave Remote for Remote Display and Bottle Firing or see Seasave Remote s Help files e Alternatively other software such as Microsoft Notepad can be used to open and look at data in the shared file However the data you are viewing will not refresh while the file is open in other words you must close the file and reopen it to view the latest data can develop your own application using your desired software 70 Section 6 Configure Outputs Notes on Viewing Shared File in XML Format If you select XML format for the output shared file the resulting xml file cannot be opened with a web browser such as Internet Explorer 7 or FireFox
79. ader Form Diagnostics Serial Data Out Serial Ports Shared File Out Mark Variables TCP IP Out TCP IP Ports SEASAVE is actually 2 applications Seasave exe automatically launches SeasaveAcq exe when data acquistion is commanded to start and both programs run simultaneously on same computer e e as Define TCP IP ports for following communications between these Ports for communication with Seasave s data acquisition application 2 applications Receive raw data default 49163 49163 e Seasave exe receives raw data from SeasaveAcq exe e Seasave exe receives status messages from SeasaveAcq exe eee nae aa Hao 43165 e Seasave exe sends commands to SeasaveAcq exe Send commands default 49164 at 64 Ports for communication with remote bottle firing client Define TCP IP ports to use for remote bottle firing e Receive commands to fire bottles from another application on same computer or from another computer through defined port Send status response bottle fire confirmations to another Receive commands default 49167 49167 application on same computer or to another computer through defined port Send status default 49168 49168 Not applicable unless Enable remote firing is selected on Water Sampler tab in Configure Inputs Ports for publishing data to remote clients Define TCP IP ports to send data Not apaicebie unless Aput ra ted datat a H ot applicable unless Output raw lor converte jata to
80. agnetic switch output displayed Notes e If you get an error message Data SEASAVE allows Timeout in seconds at startup after you click Start for you to turn on the CTD magnetic switch SEASAVE will time out if data is not received from the instrument within this time For other instruments such as an SBE 16 l6plus 16plus V2 21 45 49 or 911 plus Notes e Fire Bottle Control and Mark Scan ap Control in the Real Time Control ans toe Hata fom ech gt menu are inaccessible until you start Seconds 57 saving data to a file So if you did not select Begin archiving data immediately or selected Begin A reps a ng SEASAVE will time out if data is not received from the instrument send the Start Archiving command within Timeout in seconds at startup these items are grayed out in the Real Time Control menu The Add to NAV File button in the 3 To stop data acquisition In the Real Time Data menu select Stop NMEA Data dialog box is inaccessible until you start saving data to a file So if you did not select Begin archiving data immediately or selected Begin archiving data when Start Archiving command is sent and did not yet send the Start Archiving command the Add to NAV File button is grayed out 96 Section 8 Real Time Data and Real Time Control Real Time Data Acquisition Troubleshooting Note Listed below are possible causes for receiving a Data acquisition is canceled Not all causes
81. al voltage in data stream voltage channel 1 to second external voltage in data stream etc Time between scans Must agree with 16p us V2 setup Samplelnterval see reply from GetCD or DS Select if using with deck unit connected to NMEA navigation device SEASAVE adds current latitude longitude and universal time code to data header appends NMEA data to every scan and writes NMEA data to nav file every time Ctrl F7 is pressed or Add to nav File is clicked see Adding NMEA Data to nav File in Section 8 Real Time Data and Real Time Control Real Time Data Acquisition Opens a txt file for viewing and printing only cannot be modified that shows all parameters in The SBE 16plus V2 can interface with one SBE 38 secondary temperature sensor one SBE 50 pressure sensor or up to two Pro Oceanus Gas Tension Devices GTDs through the SBE 16plus RS 232 sensor connector Data from an SBE 50 pressure sensor is appended to the data stream and does not replace the optional internally mounted pressure sensor data Configuration for the SBE 16plus 2 Sea Configuration file opened 16plusv2 con Pressure sensor type Strain Gauge xtemal voltage channels 27 Serial A5 232C sensor Sample interval seconds fio pz NMEA position data added Temperature SBE 38 Internally mounted pressure sensor strain gauge Digiquartz with temperature compensation or no pressure sensor If no pressure sensor
82. ample status DS response in SEATERM that corresponds to the setup shown in the Configuration dialog box above Shown below the appropriate lines are the commands used in SEATERM to modify the setup of parameters critical to use of the instrument with SEASAVE as well as any explanatory information SeacatPlus V 1 5 SERIAL NO 4000 22 May 2005 14 02 13 vbatt 9 6 vlith 8 6 ioper 61 2 ma ipump 25 5 ma iext0Ol 76 2 ma iext23 65 1 ma status not logging number of scans to average 1 Scans to average NAvg must match Scans to Average in con file samples 0 fr 381300 casts 0 mode profile minimum cond freq 3000 pump delay 60 sec Mode MP for profile or MM for moored must match Mode in con file autorun no ignore magnetic switch no battery type ALKALINE battery cutoff 7 3 volts pressure sensor strain gauge range 1000 0 Pressure sensor PType must match Pressure sensor type in con file SBE 38 no Gas Tension Device no RS 232 sensors which are used for custom applications only must be disabled to use SEASAVE Ext Volt 0 yes Ext Volt 1 yes Ext Volt 2 yes Ext Volt 3 yes Number of external voltage sensors enabled Volt0 through Volt3 must match External voltage channels in con file echo commands yes output format raw Hex Output format must be set to raw Hex OutputFormat 0 to acquire data in SEASAVE 31 Se
83. annel 0 on end cap connector voltage channel 1 in con file Stain Gauge corresponds to sensor wired to channel 1 on end cap connector etc Configuration for the SBE 19 Seacat CTD display window Must agree with 5 i j See reply from DS Used to determine strain SBE 19 setup SR see reply from DS Firmware version Version gt 3 0 gauge pressure sensor data format e Surface PAR Select if using with deck unit connected to Surface PAR 0 5 second intervals fi Select to include time of each scan seconds since January 1 1970 sensor SEASAVE appends Surface PAR data to every scan Adds 2 channels to Channel Sensor table M Surface PAR voltage added 7 Scan time added CMT with data Do not increase External voltage channels to reflect this External A voltage channels reflects only M NMEA postion data added external voltages going directly to SBE 19 from auxiliary sensor See Application Note 47 Channel e NMEA Select if using with deck unit connected to NMEA navigation device SEASAVE adds current latitude longitude and universal 2 Frequency time code to NMEA data to every scan and Sensor New to create new Temperature con file for this CTD ial Open to select Conductivity different con file pH aup Save or Save As to save current con file 1 Frequency data header appends 3 A D voltage 0 ites NMEA data to nav fil
84. appears on the Instrument Configuration tab An example is shown for the SBE 9plus Configure Inputs c Dacuments and Setings dresko My Dacian Tes Sea TCPAP Ports Miscellaneous Pump Control Instrument Configuration SerialPots WaterSampler Open _ Cese _ Mody Configuration file opened 9plustest con Instrument type 911plus 917plus CTD This screen Frequency channels suppressed 2 provides an Voltage words suppressed 2 easy way to Computer interface RS 232C A view Scans to average 1 Surface par voltage added Yes configuration Scan time added No but selections NMEA position data added Yes cannot be Channel Sensor modified here 1 Frequency Temperature click Modify to 2 Frequency Conductivity change 3 Frequency Pressure Digiquartz with TC 19 4 AID voltage 0 pH configuration 5 AID voltage 1 Oxygen SBE 43 and or to view 6 AD voltage 2 Fluorometer Biospherical Natural calibration 7 AID voltage 3 Altimeter coefficients 8 SPAR voltage Unavailable 9 SPAR voltage SPARJSurface Irradiance Click Modify to bring up a dialog box to change the configuration and or view calibration coefficients 3 The Configuration dialog box appears Selections at the top are different for each instrument An example is shown for the SBE 9plus xi Configuration file opened Splustest con Frequency channels suppressed 2 gt Voltage words suppressed 2 x Computer interface Jrs zsec z Scans to average nl IV
85. ast Click Auto Fire Pressures amp Positions to input parameters see discussion below Note Auto Fire on downcast is available with use of autofireondowncast command line parameter See Appendix Command Line Operation Configure Inputs C Program Files Sea Bird Seasave Seasave psa TCP IP Ports Instrument Configuration A Sea Bird CTD can be integrated with a water sampler when used with a deck unit SBE 11plus or SBE 33 as applicable Water sampler bottles can be fired by command from SEASAVE autonomously based on user input pre defined pressures or depths a mix of by command and autonomously or from a remote computer via a TCP IP port Bottle firings can be recorded in the data in several ways e 9 lplus with SBE 32 Carousel Water Sampler or G O 1016 Rosette or SBE 19 19plus 19plus V2 or 25 with SBE 33 Carousel Deck Unit and SBE 32 Carousel Water Sampler or SBE 55 ECO Water Sampler SEASAVE automatically writes bottle sequence number bottle position date time and beginning and ending scan numbers to a bottle log bl file each time a bottle fire confirmation is received from the water sampler The beginning and ending scan numbers correspond to approximately a 1 5 second duration for each bottle e 911plus with G O 1015 Rosette SEASAVE automatically sets the bottle confirm bit in the data hex file for all scans within a 1 5 second period after a bottle firing confirmation is received from the
86. au eee 4 A D voltage 1 Trangmissometer Chelsea Seatech w etlab settings ave As time Ctrl F7 is pressed or Add to nav File is clicked see Adding NMEA Data to nav File in Section 8 9 Pressure voltage Real Time Data and Real Time Control Real Time Data 6 SPAR voltage Acquisition Pressure Strain Gauge Unavailable SPAR Surface lradiance 7 SPAR voltage Click a sensor Click a non shaded sensor and click Select to pick a different sensor for and click Modify that channel A dialog box with a list of sensors appears Select sensors to change after number of voltage channels have been specified above calibration coefficients for that sensor Opens a txt file for viewing and printing only cannot be Click to exit dialog box If you made changes and did modified that shows all not Save or Save As SEASAVE asks if you want to parameters in con file save changes 28 Section 3 Configure Inputs Part Instrument Configuration con file Shown below is an example status DS response in SEATERM that corresponds to the setup shown in the Configuration dialog box above Shown below the appropriate lines are the commands used in SEATERM to modify the setup of parameters critical to use of the SBE 19 with SEASAVE as well as any explanatory information SEACAT PROFILER V3 1B SN 936 02 10 94 13 33 23 989 strain gauge pressure sensor S N 12345 range 1000 psia tc 240 Pressu
87. b does not include Line type Downcast color or Upcast color Plot Display 1 E x Plot Setup YAris Aris 1 xAris 2 Print Options Save Options Copy Options Click Select Variable to choose desired variable List includes all measured parameters that are selected in configuration con file as well as all parameters that can be calculated from those measured parameters Make selection and click OK Conductivity 52m Select Variable 7 Label axis with Variable name Anis Label Variable namel as listed above or enter a Select desired Line type Line color Upcast color and Axis color color of axis title and numbers Custom label for axis e Line type Downcast color and Upcast color do not appear on tab for first axis X axis tab in ER example e Enter number of Major divisions on Line color Upcast color and Axis Line type Thin Solid ae and aed eg rida color are grayed out if monochrome a a ea ca a plot was selected on Plot Setup tab E With range from 0 10 C 5 major Axis color is grayed out if Black text B divisions provides tick marks every axis was selected on Plot Setup tab A ET 7 Upcast color is grayed out unless Upcast Color Ei ade ole marks every Oe Major divisions 2 C 4 minor divisions provides tick Enter axis Minimum and Maximum Enable upcast line colors was selected h on Plot Sip tab Avis Color Decimal digits values to display in plot Any value
88. by 80 of range in direction indicated Undo 5 Undo scroll amp zoom Undo most recent scroll or zoom Select multiple times to zoom and zoom Scroll zoom Increase size 200 decrease range 50 or decrease size Zoom in and Zoom out 50 increase range 200 Before zooming scroll to area of plot you want to enlarge SEASAVE zooms in at center of plot You can zoom several times before reaching limits You can also zoom in by clicking and dragging to select a rectangular area in plot return to original plot To return to original plot in 1 step right click in plot and select Modify and then click OK in Plot Display dialog box Print Print Bring up Print dialog box Default plot size and orientation was defined on Print Options tab However you can change these by clicking Preferences in Print dialog box Copy Copy Copy to Clipboard Plot size and format was defined on Copy Options tab If you selected Show dialog to select format when copying plot to clipboard on Copy Options tab SEASAVE prompts you to select format metafile JPG or bitmap Save Save Picture as Bring up Save to File dialog box Plot size and default type jpg bmp or wmf was defined on Save Options tab However you can change file type in Save to File dialog box 91 Section 7 Display Setting Up SEASAVE Displays Status Display Note The Status display provides the following information SEASAVE s titl
89. c Sample interval SI must match Sample interval seconds in con file delay before measuring volts 4 seconds samples 0 fr 173880 lwait 0 msec SW1 C2H battery cutoff 5 6 volts no of volts sampled 2 Number of auxiliary voltage sensors enabled SVn must match External voltage channels in con file mode normal logdata NO 23 Section 3 Configure Inputs Part Instrument Configuration con file SBE 16p us SEACAT C T Recorder Configuration The SBE 16plus can interface with one SBE 38 secondary temperature sensor one SBE 50 pressure sensor or up to two Pro Oceanus Gas Tension Devices GTDs through the SBE 16plus optional RS 232 connector Data from an SBE 50 pressure sensor is appended to the data stream and does not replace the optional internally mounted pressure sensor data Internally mounted pressure sensor select strain gauge Digiquartz with temperature compensation or no pressure sensor If no pressure sensor is selected Data button accesses Channel Sensor table reflects a dialog box to input additional parameter needed to process this choice 0 1 2 3 or 4 data Must agree with 16p us setup PType see reply from Must agree with 16p us setup DS Selection applies only to 16p us internally mounted pressure for VoItN N 0 1 2 and 3 k sensor if instrument has no internally mounted pressure sensor see reply from DS Voltage Configuration for the SBE 16plus Seacat but is
90. calibration date 195 Turner SCUFA fluorometer scale factor offset units mx my b 196 Turner SCUFA OBS serial number 197 Turner SCUFA OBS calibration date 198 Turner SCUFA OBS scale factor offset 199 WET Labs ECO AFL fluorometer serial number 200 WET Labs ECO AFL fluorometer calibration date 201 WET Labs ECO AFL fluorometer vblank scale factor 202 Userpoly 0 name 203 Userpoly 1 name 204 Userpoly 2 name 110 Appendix Il Configure con File Format 205 CAPSUM METS serial number 206 CAPSUM METS calibration date 207 CAPSUM METS D AO Al BO Bl B2 T1 T2 208 Secondary PAR sensor serial number 209 Secondary PAR sensor calibration date 210 Secondary PAR sensor cal const multiplier M B offset 211 Secondary WET Labs WETStar Fluorometer sensor serial number 212 Secondary WET Labs WETStar Fluorometer sensor calibration date 213 Secondary WET Labs WETStar Fluorometer Vblank scale factor 214 Secondary Seapoint Fluorometer sensor serial number 215 Secondary Seapoint Fluorometer sensor calibration date 216 Secondary Seapoint Fluorometer gain offset 217 Secondary Turner SCUFA Fluorometer sensor serial number 218 Secondary Turner SCUFA Fluorometer sensor calibration date 219 Secondary Turner SCUFA Fluorometer scale factor offset units mx my b 220 WET Labs WETStar CDOM sensor serial number 221 WET Labs WETStar CDOM sensor calibration date 222 WET Labs WETStar C
91. calibrations Corrected conductivity slope computed conductivity offset where slope true conductivity span instrument conductivity span offset true conductivity instrument reading slope measured at 0 S m Conductivity Slope and Offset Correction Example At true conductivity 0 0 S m instrument reading 0 00007 S m At true conductivity 3 5 S m instrument reading 3 49965 S m Calculating the slope and offset Slope 3 5 0 0 3 49965 0 00007 1 000080006 Offset 0 0 0 00007 1 000080006 0 000070006 The sensor usually drifts by changing span slope of the calibration curve typically resulting in lower conductivity readings over time Offset error error at 0 S m is usually due to electronics drift and is typically less than 0 0001 S m per year Because offsets greater than 0 0002 S m are a symptom of sensor malfunction Sea Bird recommends that drift corrections be made by assuming no offset error unless there is strong evidence to the contrary or a special need Wide Range Conductivity Sensors A wide range conductivity sensor has been modified to provide conductivity readings to 15 Siemens meter by inserting a precision resistor in series with the conductivity cell Therefore the equation used to fit the calibration data is different from the standard equation The sensor s High Range Conductivity Calibration sheet includes the equation as well as the cell constant a
92. ce PAR sensor SEASAVE appends Surface PAR data to every scan Adds 2 channels to Channel Sensor table Do not increase External voltage channels to reflect this External voltage channels reflects only external voltages going directly to 19p us from auxiliary sensor See Application Note 47 NMEA position data Select if using with deck unit connected to NMEA navigation device SEASAVE adds current latitude longitude and universal time code to data header appends NMEA data to every scan and writes NMEA data to nav file every time Ctrl F7 is pressed or Add to nav File is clicked see Adding NMEA Data to nav File in Section 8 Real Time Data and Real Time Control Real Time Data Acquisition NMEA depth data Select if using with deck unit connected to NMEA depth device SEASAVE appends 3 bytes of depth data to every scan after Lat Lon data NMEA depth data can be selected only if NMEA position data added is selected Scan time added Select to include time of each scan seconds since January 1 1970 GMT with data Configuration tle opened Demo con Pressure sensor type External voltage channels i4 Mode Frofie Sample interval seconde fE Scans to average I Surface PAR voltage added IW NMEA position data added Channel 1 Count 2 Frequency 3 Count 4 A D voltage 0 5 A D voltage 1 6 A D voltage 2 7 AD voltage 3 Temperature Conductivity Oxygen SBE 43 Li Altimet
93. cked see Adding NMEA Data 4 A D votage0 Orygen SBE 43 settings to nav File in Section 8 Real 5 A D voltage 1 pH Time Data and Real Time Control Real Time Data Acquisition 6 Serial AS 232 Temperature SBE 38 Click a non shaded sensor and click Select to pick a different sensor for that channel A dialog box with a list of sensors appears Select sensors after number of voltage channels have been specified above Report Help Click to exit dialog box If you made changes and did not Save or Save As SEASAVE asks if you want to Opens a txt file for viewing save changes Modify Click a sensor and click Modify to change calibration Eg Cancel coefficients for that sensor and printing only cannot be modified that shows all parameters in con file 24 Section 3 Configure Inputs Part Instrument Configuration con file Shown below is an example status DS response in SEATERM that corresponds to the setup shown in the Configuration dialog box above Shown below the appropriate lines are the commands used in SEATERM to modify the setup of parameters critical to use of the SBE 16plus with SEASAVE as well as any explanatory information SBE 16plus V 1 6e SERIAL NO 4300 03 Mar 2005 14 11 48 vbatt 10 3 vlith 8 5 ioper 62 5 ma ipump 21 6 ma iext01 76 2 ma iserial 48 2 ma status not logging sample interval 10 seconds number of meas
94. cquisition to mark the scans during data acquisition 72 Section 6 Configure Outputs TCP IP Out TCP IP is Transmission Control Protocol Internet Protocol a communication protocol used to connect hosts on the internet and or over networks TCP IP allows you to connect a CTD to a computer on deck while receiving data and firing bottles at a remote location elsewhere on the ship TCP IP also allows multiple applications running on the same computer to communicate SEASAVE can output raw and converted data through separate TCP IP ports To enable and set up TCP IP output click Configure Outputs In the Configure Outputs dialog box click the TCP IP Out tab Configure Outputs C Program Files Sea Bird Seasave 7 Seasave psa x SBE 11plus Alarms SBE 14 Remote Display PC Alarms Header Form Diagnostics Serial Data Out Serial Ports Shared File Out Mark Variables TCP IP Out TCP IP Potts Output raw data in ASCII format If selected data is output in XML format instead of ASCII format Output converted data SEASAVE applies calibration coefficients to raw data to calculate converted data in engineering units in ASCII format If selected data is output in XML format instead of ASCII format You must select Converted Data in XML format if planning to use Seasave Remote or FixedDisplay jar to view data on a remote computer Select the TCP IP ports on the TCP IP Ports tab Raw data
95. cted to NMEA depth device SEASAVE appends 3 bytes of depth data to every scan after Lat Lon data NMEA depth data can be selected only if NMEA position data added is selected Scan time added Select to include time of each scan seconds since January 1 1970 GMT with data Surface PAR voltage added I NMEA position data added SBE 19plus V2 SEACAT Profiler Configuration Configuration for the SBE 19plus 2 Seacat CTD x Select strain gauge only selection applicable to 19plus V2 Configuration tile opened None Pressure sensor type Strain Gauge z Extemal voltage channels f4 Must agree with 19plus V2 setup MP for Profiing mode MM for Moored mode see reply from GetCD or DS Mode Profile SBE 38 secondary temperature or up to 2 GTDs dissolved oxygen or nitrogen Must agree with 19plus V2 setup see reply from GetCD or DS Channel Sensor table lists RS 232 sensors below voltage channels Seral AS 2320 sensor None Sample interval seconds fir z Number of samples to average samples at 4 Hz in Profiling mode Used to calculate elapsed time if you select time as an output parameter Must agree with Scans to average q 19plus V2 setup NAvg see reply from GetCD or DS Scan time added NMEA depth data added New to create Sensor new con file for Channel 1 Count Temperature Shaded sensors this CTD cannot be removed Open to select iwi or changed to di
96. ction 3 Configure Inputs Part Instrument Configuration con file Channel Sensor table reflects this choice 0 1 2 3 4 5 or 6 Must agree with 19p us V2 setup for VoItN N 0 1 2 3 4 and 5 see reply from GetCD or DS Voltage channel 0 in con file corresponds to first external voltage in data stream voltage channel 1 to second external voltage in data stream etc Interval between scans in Moored mode SEASAVE uses this to calculate elapsed time if you select time as a parameter for a display window Must agree with 19p us V2 setup Sampleinterval see reply from GetCD or DS e Surface PAR Select if using with deck unit connected to Surface PAR sensor SEASAVE appends Surface PAR data to every scan Adds 2 channels to Channel Sensor table Do not increase External voltage channels to reflect this External voltage channels reflects only external voltages going directly to 19plus V2 from auxiliary sensor See Application Note 47 NMEA position data Select if using with deck unit connected to NMEA navigation device SEASAVE adds current latitude longitude and universal time code to data header appends NMEA data to every scan and writes NMEA data to nav file every time Ctrl F7 is pressed or Add to nav File is clicked see Adding NMEA Data to nav File in Section 8 Real Time Data and Real Time Control Real Time Data Acquisition NMEA depth data Select if using with deck unit conne
97. d Stopping Real Time Data Acquisition ccececceseeceeseeeeeeeeeees 95 Troubleshooting serere ht vasce ieee e leet vectors bestia 97 Firing Bottles 08 ode aetna Se se eet deals meetin 98 Marking Scans sassi a techs eliotn a usseeveaneris teat aaa Menthe 100 Adding NMEA Data to mav File cececccescceseceseececseeeneeeeeeeeeeseeneeeneeeerensrens 100 Turning Pump On Off reese ts ese a a ae a r EEEE SSe 101 Section 9 Archived Data Displaying Archived Data scsssssessees 102 Section 10 Processing Data ccscssscssscssssscscscessssccssesecssecssesssesssessses 104 Table of Contents Appendix I Command Line Operation scsssscssssseescssesssessssceees 106 Running SEASAVE with Command Line Parameters general instructions ceeeeeceseereeteereeeeeneees 107 Running SEASAVE with Autostop Parameter cceceescsseereeeeeneeeeeneees 107 Appendix II Configure con File Format scscssssscssssssssssssseseesees 108 Appendix III Software Problems ccscssscssssssscecssecsscsssessecssessseseees 112 Known Bugs Compatibility ssues ccccceecceeseesscesecesecesecseeeseeeseesseceeeneeees 112 Appendix IV Derived Parameter Formulas ssscsssssssssssscssssseesees 113 Appendix V Seasave Remote for Remote Display and Bottle Firing 120 Appendix VI Java Applications for Remote Display and Bottle Firing 123 Remote Display icciicccc ceccieccceveste
98. d selecting Print gt Exit Close SEASAVE gt Recent Setup Files Provides a list of the 10 most recently used psa files Configure Inputs setup of instrument configuration con file defining sensors and sensor coefficients serial ports water sampler TCP IP ports miscellaneous parameters and pump control for a custom 9plus CTD see Sections 3 4 and 5 Configure Inputs Configure Outputs Set up of serial data output serial ports shared file output mark variables TCP IP output and ports SBE 11plus alarm SBE 14 remote display and alarm PC alarm header form and diagnostics see Section 6 Configure Outputs Display Set up of fixed scrolled and plot displays as well as displays to view status and NMEA data see Section 7 Display Setting Up SEASAVE Displays Real Time Data Acquire process and display real time data see Section 8 Real Time Data and Real Time Control Real Time Data Acquisition Real Time Control Control water sampler bottle firing mark scans and custom 9plus CTD only turn the CTD pump on or off see Section 8 Real Time Data and Real Time Control Real Time Data Acquisition Archived Data Process and display a previously acquired data file see Section 9 Archived Data 12 Notes e The program setup psa file contains all information entered in Configure Inputs and Configure Outputs instrument con file path and name CTD serial p
99. data added in the con file SEASAVE acquisition For example initializes NMEA communications gt If you start a cast and realize that you D Ifyou selected Check Scan Length in the Options menu SEASAVE forgot to set up serial data output you checks the con file to verify that the scan length defined by the con can select Configure Outputs and file matches the instrument i e number of sensors inclusion of make and save the desired changes without interrupting data acquisition NMEA and or Surface PAR is as defined in the con file If a Scan Once the changes are saved serial length error appears verify that data will output to the desired COM e You are using the correct con file port e The con file has been updated as necessary if you added or deleted gt Similarly if you forgot to select some sensors added or deleted NMEA or Surface PAR inputs etc variables for a display you can right E A message similar to one of the following appears click in the display to modify it select the desired variables and save the rossano dependent oiie instrament changes without interrupting data F hati db f i itch acquisition Once the changes are or an instrument that 1s started by movement of a magnetic switc saved the display will show the such as SBE 19 19plus 19plus V2 or 25 additional variables Of course any data that was acquired before you modified the setup will not be Turn on the SBE19 using the m
100. der and dragging gt The Scrolled Display has a list of the selected parameters across the top and displays the data in scrolling vertical columns Adjust column width by placing mouse cursor over line and dragging Modify or print by right clicking in display and selecting desired option gt The Plot Display plots one parameter on the y axis and up to four parameters on the x axis or one parameter on the x axis and up to four parameters on the y axis Em Piot Display a O O OOO OOOO 15 x lt gt gt alalv amp 8 fa lt Toolbar Buttons Temperature ITS 90 deg C 0 000 1 600 3 200 4 800 6 400 8 000 Modify or print by right clicking and selecting desired option or use toolbar buttons Depth salt water m 0 000 1 000 2 000 3 000 4 000 5 000 Conductivity S m H 1 1 l i 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 7 i 1 L L L L 1 34 200 34 400 34 600 34 800 35 000 Salinity PSU 11 Section 2 Installation and Use SEASAVE Menus Notes A brief description of SEASAVE s menus follows e The psa file contains all information entered in Configure Inputs and Configure Outputs instrument con file path and name CTD serial port water sampler TCP IP input and output ports serial data output etc as well as size placement and setup for each display window When you click OK in the Configure Inputs and Configure Outputs dialog boxes and or create modify a display
101. e Display Serial Port Not applicable unless Send data to SBE 14 remote display is selected on SBE 14 setup of data output to SBE 14 COM port COM5 m Remote Display tab in Configure Outputs Make the desired selections Click OK or click another tab in Configure Inputs Descriptions follow for the CTD Serial Port baud rate data bits and parity entries for each instrument 58 Section 5 Configure Inputs Part Ill Serial Ports Water Sampler TCP IP Ports Miscellaneous and Pump Control CTD Serial Port Baud Rate Data Bits and Parity e SBE 9plus with SBE 11plus V2 Deck Unit with or without Water Sampler gt gt gt COM port connected to Deck Unit SBE 11 Interface connector Baud rate between Deck Unit and computer must agree with Deck Unit setting 19200 baud Parity and data bits between Deck Unit and computer must agree with Deck Unit setting 8 data bits no parity e SBE 19 19plus 19plus V2 or 25 with Water Sampler and SBE 33 Deck Unit or with PDIM and SBE 33 Deck Unit gt COM port connected to Deck Unit Serial Data connector sends commands to and receives replies from the CTD through the Water Sampler Baud rate between Deck Unit and computer must agree with Deck Unit dip switch setting 4800 9600 or 19200 Parity and data bits between Deck Unit and computer must agree with Deck Unit setting 7 or 8 data bits even or no parity e SBE 19 19plus 19plus V2 25
102. e Outputs dialog box 2 On the remote computer double click on FixedDisplay jar The dialog box looks like this Fi Remote Fixed Display for Seasave lol x Connect to Seasave Server address 127 0 0 1 Connect Port 49161 A Set Server address to the address of the computer running SEASAVE B Set Port to match the Send converted data port on the TCP IP Ports tab in Configure Inputs or Configure Outputs in SEASAVE 123 Appendix VI Java Applications for Remote Display and Bottle Firin C Click Connect If the remote display is working properly the labels for the variables that you selected on the TCP IP Out tab in Configure Outputs should appear in the Remote Fixed Display as shown in the example below fa Remote Fixed Display for Seasave s z ol x Connect to Seasave Server address Connect Port Disconnect Scan Count Conductivity S m Temperature ITS 90 deg C Pressure Strain Gauge db Salinity PSU 3 In SEASAVE start real time data acquisition You should see data appear on the remote computer display as well as on the displays in SEASAVE 4 When you are done click Disconnect on the remote computer 124 Appendix VI Java Applications for Remote Display and Bottle Firing Firing Bottles via TCP IP from a Remote Computer To fire bottles via TCP IP 1 3 Note To get the Server address instructions are for Windows XP
103. e bar shows the e If SEASAVE is acquiring real time data or playing archived data selected instrument type and the e IfSEASAVE is storing real time data to a file output data file name ath and file name for the program P prog e Instrument configuration con file name setup psa file In the Display menu select Status The Status Display appears just below SEASAVE s title bar and menus and looks like this Playback completed 100M01 dat D emo con NMEA Display If your system includes a NMEA navigational device and NMEA has been e System Upload Time in the data selected in the instrument configuration con file NMEA Display allows you file header is always the computer to view the latitude longitude and time during data acquisition and to select time and date regardless of scans to be written to a nav file Each scan written to the nav file contains whether a NMEA navigation latitude longitude time scan number and pressure device is transmitting data The source of the date and time information in the NMEA Display and in the The Add to NAV File button in the output data file header varies depending on your NMEA navigational system NMEA Data dialog box is e NMEA data includes both time and date both the NMEA Display and inaccessible until you start saving the NMEA UTC Time in the output data file header show the NMEA date data toa file So if you did not and time Se ea eng eae e NMEA data includes tim
104. e but not date the NMEA Displays shows the NMEA time and the date from the computer while the NMEA UTC Time Notes immediately or selected Begin archiving data when Start Archiving command is sent and in the output data file header shows just the NMEA time did not yet send the Start e NMEA data does not include date or time both the NMEA Display Archiving commana the Add to and the NMEA UTC Time in the output data file header contain NAV File button is grayed out no date or time information The nav file has the same path and file name as the data file In the Display menu select NMEA Display The Display looks like this For example if the data file is c test1 hex the nav file is c test1 nav eae E xi Latitude Longitude Date Time Number of NAV file entries 0 See Adding NMEA Data to nav File in Section 8 Real Time Data and Real Time Control Real Time Data Acquisition 92 Section 7 Display Setting Up SEASAVE Displays Remote Display Note As an alternative to using the software provided by Sea Bird you can develop your own application using your desired software Software on the remote computer is required to view data output from SEASAVE Sea Bird provides two methods for performing this function Seasave Remote has many of the same display and plotting capabilities as SEASAVE It can be used to display data on a remote computer that is transmitted via TCP IP
105. e desired path and file name for the dsa file and click OK Printing Display Window You can print a display window to provide a hard copy of the data in the display most often used with a Plot Display 1 Right click in the desired window and select Print 2 The Printing dialog box appears set up the print job as desired and click OK Resizing Plot Display Window To enlarge a plot display to full screen e Click Display and select Maximize All Plots OR e Right click in a pot window and select Maximize OR e Click on the standard Windows Maximize button at the top right of the plot display With a plot display maximized use the Tab key to view other displays To return a plot display to its previous size e Click Display and select Restore All OR e Right click in a plot window and select Restore OR e Click on the standard Windows Restore button at the top right of the plot display 82 Section 7 Display Setting Up SEASAVE Displays Fixed Display A Fixed Display has a vertical list of the selected parameters to the left and displays their current values to the right To set up a Fixed Display e Click Display and select Add New Fixed Display Window OR e Click Display and select Import Display Settings dsa file OR e Right click in an existing Fixed Display and click Modify Select to display 2 columns of data Two columns The Fixed Display dialog box looks like this Select small
106. e sensor calibration date 66 Microstructure conductivity sensor calibration date 67 IFREMER OBS nephelometer sensor calibration date 68 Chelsea OBS nephelometer sensor calibration date 69 ZAPS sensor calibration date 70 Secondary oxygen Beckman YSI type sensor serial number EL Secondary oxygen Beckman YSI type sensor calibration date 72 Secondary oxygen Beckman YSI type M B K C SOC TCOR cx Secondary oxygen Beckman YSI type WT PCOR TAU BOC 74 User polynomial 1 sensor serial number 75 User polynomial 1 sensor calibration date 76 User polyl AO Al A2 A3 TI User polynomial 2 sensor serial number 78 User polynomial 2 sensor calibration date T9 User polynomial 2 AO Al A2 A3 80 User polynomial 3 sensor serial number 81 User polynomial 3 sensor calibration date 82 User polynomial 3 AO Al A2 A3 83 Dr Haardt Chlorophyll fluorometer sensor serial number 84 Dr Haardt Chlorophyll fluorometer sensor calibration date 85 Dr Haardt Chlorophyll fluorometer AO Al BO Bl which modulo bit gain range switching 86 Dr Haardt Phycoerythrin fluorometer sensor serial number 87 Dr Haardt Phycoerythrin fluorometer sensor calibration date 88 Dr Haardt Phycoerythrin fluorometer AO Al BO Bl which modulo bit gain range switching 89 Dr Haardt Turbidity OBS nephelometer sensor serial number 90 Dr Haardt Turbidity OBS nephelometer sensor calibration date 91 Dr Haardt Turbidity OBS nephelometer AO Al BO Bl which modul
107. ead to end of file not Read to end of file Example 1 19plus sampling every 0 25 sec Number of scans to skip between computations 4 Seconds between updates for display window 5 sec f SEASAVE calculates parameters every 4 scans 4 0 25 sec scan 1 sec but updates display every 5 sec Number of scans to skip between computations 1 Example 2 19plus sampling every 0 25 sec Data playback rate Adjust ae of api to a betwenn aera F 20 f econds between updates for display window 1 sec playback speed simulating Data playback rate seconds scan 0 SEASAVE ealnuletes DAraMelE n every 20 scans real time acquisition rate of 20 0 25 sec scan 5 sec and updates display every 1 sec instrument or speeding up ir Enable oups selected in Configure Outputs Therefore display shows same data 5 times before showing data slowing down To simulate from next calculation real time rate set to CTD acquisition rate for example 0 25 sec for 19p us To display at fastest possible rate set to 0 for quick creation of plots selected enter total Number of scans to read This allows umber of scans to read you to view just a portion of file Enable outputs selected in Configure Outputs Send outputs to serial port shared file TCP IP port and or SBE 14 Remote Display as defined in Configure Outputs as well as show data in SEASAVE displays If not selected SEASAVE will show data in its displays but not output data to any other device o
108. ed see 2 Frequency Conductiviy Open to select Adding NMEA Data to nav File 3 Serial RS 232 Temperature SBE 38 Saye different con file in Section 8 Real Time Data eo Save or Save As to and Real Time Control Real 4 AMD voltage 0 pH save current con file Time Data Acquisition settings Shaded sensors cannot be removed or changed to another type of sensor All others are optional Click a non shaded sensor and click Select to pick a different sensor for that channel A dialog box with a list of sensors appears Select sensors after number of voltage and frequency channels have been specified above Click a sensor and click Modify to change depth data can be selected only if NMEA position data added is selected calibration epot Help fi Cancel coefficients for that sensor Click to exit dialog box If you made changes and did not Save or Save As SEASAVE asks if you want to Opens a txt file for viewing and printing only cannot be modified that shows all parameters in con file save changes 34 Section 3 Configure Inputs Part Instrument Configuration con file Shown below is an example status DS response in SEATERM that corresponds to the setup shown in the Configuration dialog box above Shown below the appropriate lines are the commands used in SEATERM to modify the setup of parameters critical to use of the SBE 21 with SEASAVE as well as any exp
109. ed Data menu select Start The Playback Archived Data keyboard shortcuts underlines on menus Press the appropriate letter for dialog box appears example A for Archived Data menu and use the arrow and Enter keys to navigate Playback Archived Data x Data Dat or Hex File Currently selected data file is shown to select different file i tae Conigwaton Header click Select Data File The Select Data File dialog box appears Browse to desired file and click Open To verify you have selected desired file click Data Oat or Hex fle Select Dala Fie Instrument Configuration CON Header tab to view data file File Currently selected instrument header C Documents and Setingsidbresko My Documents Oemo hex configuration con file is shown To verify you have selected desired file select different file or modify file Number of scans to skip Instrument Configuration CON fe use Instrument Configuration tab to make changes click Instrument Configuration tab over at start Skip scans at beginning of data allowing you Documents and Setings dbvesko My Documents Demo CON to skip data from before cast began i e when instrument Number of scans to skip between computations Skip was on deck and initially Number of scans to skip over at stat 0 data speeding up display To calculate display all data soaking in water set to 0 This interacts with update rate for each display If R
110. ed file output mark variables TCP IP output TCP IP ports SBE 11p us alarms SBE 14 remote display PC alarms header form and or diagnostics click Configure Outputs See Sections 3 4 and 5 Configure Inputs and Section 6 Configure Outputs e Timeout in seconds at startup Time allowed before first data scan is received from instrument SEASAVE will time out and stop attempting to acquire data if data is not received from instrument within this time period e Timeout in seconds between scans Maximum gap allowed between scans after first data scan is received from instrument SEASAVE will time out and stop attempting to acquire data if data is not received from instrument within this time period for example if a shark bites cable and interrupts data acquisition SEASAVE stops attempting to acquire data after this gap frequencies A D counts and or voltages real time data KALER ttn cd eres a lls lels x Data Archiving Options Begin archiving data immediately C Begin archiving data when Start Archiving command is sent Do not archive data for this cast Output data HEX file C Program Files Sea Bird SeasaveV7 Data Cast1 hex Click Select Output Data File Select Output Data File Name Name Save Archived Data As dialog box appears browse to desired file location enter desired file name and click Save Instrument configuration CON file to change select Configu
111. ent you can then import the coefficients from the XML file when setting up the con file for that instrument The Import button allows you to import coefficients for the selected sensor from another con file or from an XML file When you click the Import button a dialog box appears Select the desired file type and then browse to and select the file e con file opens a con file retrieves the calibration coefficients from the con file for the type of sensor you selected and enters the coefficients in the calibration coefficients dialog box If the con file contains more than one of that type of sensor for example SEASAVE can process data for an instrument interfacing with up to two SBE 43 oxygen sensors so the con file could contain coefficients for two SBE 43 sensors a dialog box allows you to select the desired sensor by serial number If the con file does not contain any of that type of sensor SEASAVE responds with an error message e XML file imports an XML file that contains calibration coefficients for one sensor If the XML file you select is not compatible with the selected sensor type SEASAVE responds with an error message 41 Section 4 Configure Inputs Part Il Calibration Coefficients Calibration Coefficients for Frequency Sensors Notes Coefficients g h i j and fO provide ITS 90 Tg temperature a b c d and fO provide IPTS 68 Tes temperature The relationship between them is
112. er gt Vblank and scale factor OR gt Vblank and Vcopro voltage output measured with known concentration of coproporphyrin tetramethyl ester Determine an initial value for the scale factor by using the chlorophyll concentration corresponding to Vcopro scale factor chlorophyll concentration Vcopro Vblank Perform calibrations using seawater with phytoplankton populations that are similar to what is expected in situ Note SEASAVE can process data for an instrument interfacing with up to two WET Labs WetStar sensors WET Labs CDOM colored dissolved organic matter Enter Vblank and scale factor Concentration ug l Vsample V blank scale factor where Vsample in situ voltage output Vblank clean water blank voltage output Scale factor multiplier ug I Volt The calibration sheet lists Vblank and Vcdom voltage output measured with known concentration of colored dissolved organic matter Determine an initial value for the scale factor by using the colored dissolved organic matter concentration corresponding to Vedom scale factor cdom concentration Vcdom Vblank Perform calibrations using seawater with cdom types that are similar to what is expected in situ 49 Section 4 Configure Inputs Part II Calibration Coefficients Note See Application Note 16 for complete description of OBS 3 calibration coefficients Note e See Application Note 81 for complete description of calculation o
113. er Report Help Opens a txt file for viewing and printing only cannot be modified that shows all parameters in con file 30 Strain Gauge Pressure Strain Gauge Click a non shaded sensor and click Select to pick a different sensor for that channel Dialog box with a list of sensors appears Select sensors after number of voltage channels have been specified above Select strain gauge only selection applicable to 19plus Must agree with 19p us setup MP for Profiling mode MM for Moored mode see reply from DS Number of samples to average samples at 4 Hz in Profiling mode Used to calculate elapsed time if you select time as an output parameter Must agree with 19p us setup NAvg see reply from DS Scan time added NMEA depth data added Sens Nev Shaded sensors cannot be removed or changed to New to create new con file for this CTD Open to select different con file Save or Save As to save current con file settings Oper another type of sensor All others are optional Save Transmissometer ChelseaySeatech Wetlab Click a sensor and click Modify to change calibration coefficients for that sensor Cancel Click to exit dialog box If you made changes and did not Save or Save As SEASAVE asks if you want to save changes Section 3 Configure Inputs Part Instrument Configuration con file Shown below is an ex
114. er Sampler tab bottle firing is controlled from a remote computer connected via TCP IP ports to the computer that is running SEASAVE Software on the remote computer is required to control bottle firing via TCP IP Sea Bird provides two methods for performing this function Seasave Remote has many of the same display and plotting capabilities as SEASAVE It can be used to display data on a remote computer that is transmitted in XML format via TCP IP or to a shared file and to fire bottles from a remote computer See Appendix V Seasave Remote for Remote Display and Bottle Firing or Seasave Remote s Help files FixedDisplay jar and FireBottles jar are sample Java applications FixedDisplay jar allows you to view a Fixed display on a remote computer to display data that is transmitted via TCP IP in XML format FireBottles jar allows you to fire bottles from a remote computer You can use the provided sample applications or modify them as desired See Appendix VI Java Applications for Remote Display and Bottle Firing 63 Section 5 Configure Inputs Part Ill Serial Ports Water Sampler TCP IP Ports Miscellaneous and Pump Control TCP IP Ports TCP IP is Transmission Control Protocol Internet Protocol a communication protocol used to connect hosts on the internet and or over networks TCP IP allows you to connect your CTD to a computer on deck while receiving data and firing bottles at a remote location elsewhere on the ship TCP IP
115. ersion 45 Miscellaneous number of frequencies from SBE 9 number of frequencies from SBE 9 to be suppressed number of voltages from SBE 9 to be suppressed voltage range add surface PAR voltage add NMEA position data include IOW sensors Add NMEA depth data 46 OBS Nephelometer IFREMER sensor serial number 47 OBS Nephelometer IFREMER VMO VDO DO K 48 OBS Nephelometer Chelsea sensor serial number 49 OBS Nephelometer Chelsea clear water voltage scale factor 50 ZAPS sensor serial number 51 ZAPS m b 52 Conductivity sensor calibration date 53 Temperature sensor calibration date 54 Secondary conductivity sensor calibration date 59 Secondary temperature sensor calibration date 56 Pressure sensor calibration date 57 Oxygen Beckman YSI type sensor calibration date 58 pH sensor calibration date 108 Appendix Il Configure con File Format 59 PAR light sensor calibration date 60 Transmissometer SeaTech Chelsea AlphaTracka WET Labs Cstar sensor calibration date 61 Fluorometer SeaTech sensor calibration date 62 Tilt sensor calibration date 63 ORP sensor calibration date 64 OBS Nephelometer D amp A Backscatterance sensor calibration date 65 Microstructure temperatur
116. es Mark line label Mark number Y Section 8 Real Time Data and Real Time Control Real Time Mark line style Thin Sold y Data Acquisition Mark line label mark number pressure or both style and color Mark Line Color E define line Number of data scans to save or queue 4000 10 Redraw buffer size Queue size limit m Hf z Grid line use none horizontal Grid Ine use Horizontal and Vertical and vertical horizontal or T vertical Grid line style Grid ine style Dotted Line Y solid dotted or dashed whether to place Grid in front of plotted data and Grid color define grid F Gridin font Grid Color 86 Section 7 Display Setting Up SEASAVE Displays For Plot off scale data Plot off scale data not selected Plot off scale data selected Axis Minimum Off scale data not plotted Off scale data not plotted For Display downcast only or Enable upcast line colors Sea surface Pressure decrease to determine upcast upcast enabled if pressure decrease exceeds this Set greater than peak to peak ship heave to avoid SEASAVE calculating that upcast has begun because of pressure change associated with ship heave Minimum pressure to determine upcast set close to expected maximum cast depth Axis Tabs Each Axis tab defines a plot variable scale and line type An Axis tab looks like this but the first axis ta
117. es Sea Bird SeasaveV7 Demo demo con and click Open C Click the File tab Click Start The example data will display Note 4 As desired modify and export the setup of the display windows When modifying and saving the see Section 7 Display Setting Up SEASAVE Displays program setup psa file use a Save the modified psa file and repeat Steps 2 and 3 new file name to avoid overwriting the demo file 14 Section 2 Installation and Use Acquiring and Displaying Real Time Data Follow these steps to use SEASAVE to acquire and display real time data 1 Set up the instrument and define input parameters see Sections 3 4 and 5 Configure Inputs e Instrument Configuration Set up the instrument configuration con file defining what sensors are integrated with the instrument each sensor s calibration coefficients and what other data is integrated with the data stream from the instrument e Serial Ports Define COM ports and other communication parameters for CTD water sampler and 9plus pump control serial data output and SBE 14 Remote Display e Water Sampler Enable and set up control of water sampler bottle Note Serial ports and TCP IP ports can be defined in Configure Inputs and or Configure Outputs If you make firing changes in one dialog box those e TCP IP Ports Define ports for communication with SEASAVE and changes will appear when you open with remote bottle firing software the
118. et this equal to user polynomial equation and calculate a0 al a2 and a3 Vsample Vblank scale factor a0 al V a2 V2 a3 V3 Expanding left side of equation and using consistent notation Vsample V scale factor V scale factor Vblank a0 al V a2 V a3 V3 Left side of equation has no V or V terms so a2 and a3 are 0 rearranging scale factor Vblank scale factor V a0 al V a0 scale factor Vblank al scale factor a2 a3 0 Zaps Calibration Coefficients Enter M and B from calibration sheet z M volts B nmoles 56 Section 5 Configure Inputs Part III Serial Ports Water Sampler TCP IP Ports Miscellaneous and Pump Control Section 5 Configure Inputs Part Ill Serial Ports Water Sampler TCP IP Ports Miscellaneous and Pump Control This section describes the setup of the following in Configure Inputs Note e Serial ports Setup of all parameters in e Water sampler Configure Inputs is included in e TCP IP ports e the SEASAVE program setu Pog y Miscellaneous parameters required for output of specific variables psa file To save the setup you must save the psa file depth average sound velocity descent rate acceleration oxygen File menu Save Setup File plume anomaly and potential temperature anomaly before exiting SEASAVE e Pump control only applicable for a custom SBE 9plus CTD For set
119. eter can be used in conjunction with a batch file bat script to create new data files on a defined schedule for continuous acquisition systems such as a thermosalinograph or a towed vehicle Note the following additional requirements for this type of application e Use the autostart parameter to automatically restart SEASAVE after each time it shuts down e Use the u parameter to create a unique output hex file name based on current date and time for each time that SEASAVE restarts e Use MS DOS w parameter to wait until SEASAVE completely closes before starting it again A small amount of data is Jost at the end of each specified time interval because SEASAVE briefly shuts down and then restarts Testing at Sea Bird with several instruments showed a 10 20 second gap in the data each acquisition was stopped and restarted using this technique The gap is dependent on the instrument and its setup and configuration we suggest running a test with your specific setup before implementation in the field Example bat script repeat_forever start w C Program Files Sea Bird SeasaveV7 seasave exe autostart C Test Directory test psa u autostop 60 goto repeat_forever automatically start SEASAVE and data acquisition based on setup in test psa but ignore hex file specified in psa and save data to a uniquely named hex file Stop acquisition after 60 minutes and shut SEASAVE Repeat the sequence
120. ew 1 Count Temperature con file for this CTD j s Open to select 2 Frequency Conductivity different con file 3 Count Pressure Strain Gauge Saye Save or Save As to save current con file settings Click a sensor and click Modify to change calibration coefficients for that sensor Click to exit dialog box If you made changes and did not Save or Save As SEASAVE asks if you want to Opens a txt file for viewing save changes and printing only cannot be modified that shows all parameters in con file Shown below is an example status DS response in SEATERM that corresponds to the setup shown in the Configuration dialog box above Shown below the appropriate lines are the commands used in SEATERM to modify the setup of parameters critical to use of the SBE 49 with SEASAVE as well as any explanatory information SBE 49 FastCAT V 1 2 SERIAL NO 0055 number of scans to average 1 Scans to average NAvg must match Scans to average in con file pressure sensor strain gauge range 1000 0 minimum cond freq 3000 pump delay 30 sec start sampling on power up yes output format raw HEX Output format must be set to raw Hex OutputFormat 0 to acquire data in SEASAVE temperature advance 0 0625 seconds celltm alpha 0 03 celltm tau 7 0 real time temperature and conductivity correction disabled 39 Section 4 Configure Inputs Part Il Calibration Coefficients
121. f OBS 3 calibration coefficients e You can interface to two OBS 3 sensors or to both the 1X and 4X ranges on one OBS 3 sensor providing two channels of OBS 3 data Methane Sensor Calibration Coefficients The Capsum METS sensor requires two channels one for the methane concentration and the other for the temperature measured by the sensor Make sure to select both when configuring the instrument For the concentration channel enter D AO Al BO B1 and B2 Methane concentration _ Vt 1 1 exp D In B0 Bl exp ___ __ ____ mol l B2 Vm AO AI Vt Where Vt Capsum METS temperature voltage Vm Capsum METS methane concentration voltage For the temperature channel enter T1 and T2 Gas temperature Vt T1 T2 C OBS Nephelometer Calibration Coefficients In general turbidity sensors are calibrated to a standard formazin However particle size shape refraction etc in seawater varies These variations affect the results unless field calibrations are performed on typical water samples e Downing amp Associates D amp A OBS 3 Backscatterance Enter gain and offset output volts gain offset where gain range 5 see calibration sheet for range e Downing amp Associates D amp A OBS 3 Enter AO Al and A2 output AO A1 V A2 V where V voltage from sensor milliVolts AO Al and A2 calibration coefficients from D amp A calibration sheet Note
122. fferent con 2 Frequency Conductivity inet ae A 3 Count Pressure Strain Gauge sensor All others are Saye Save or Save Sah e l optional As to save 4 A D voltage 0 Oxygen SBE 43 current con file TEEN ER a Save As settings 5 A D voltage 1 pH 6 A D voltage 2 Tranemissometer Chelsea Seatech Wetlab Click a sensor and click Modify to change calibration coefficients for that sensor T D voltage 3 Altimeter Click a non shaded sensor and click Select to pick a different sensor for that channel Dialog box with a list of sensors appears Select sensors after number of voltage channels have been specified above Moat n Report Help Cancel Opens a txt file for viewing and printing only cannot be Click to exit dialog box If you made changes and did not Save or Save As SEASAVE asks if you want to save changes modified that shows all parameters in con file 32 Section 3 Configure Inputs Part Instrument Configuration con file Shown below is an example status DS response in a terminal program that corresponds to the setup shown in the Configuration dialog box above Shown below the appropriate lines are the commands used in the terminal program to modify the setup of parameters critical to use of the instrument with SEASAVE as well as any explanatory information SeacatPlus V 2 0 SERIAL NO 4000 22 Oct 2007 14 02 13 vbatt 9 6 vlith 8 6 ioper 61
123. fferent update rate Faster than 1 sec can be difficult to view Set to 0 for full rate data Plot Display 1 Plot Setup Ass Xie 1 Avis 2 PindQpions Save Oplony Piot type Number of Axes maximum 6 Number of seconds between plot updates fi Plot type Single Y Mukiple X M Title Test Inside Background Color T Display downcast only M Enable upcast line colors Title Cl E Font Cour New Fontsize fMedum 7 T Black text axis IV Show plot shadow I Monochrome plot 7 Plotoff scale data Minimum pressure to determine upcast Pressure decrease to determine upcast x e Single X Multiple Y 1 X and up to 4 Y axes e Single Y Multiple X 1 Y and up to 4 X axes Number of Aves Display downcast only Plot only downcast data Enable upcast line colors Plot downcast and upcast in different colors colors selected on Axis tabs For both SEASAVE determines that upcast has begun when P gt Minimum pressure to determine upcast _ and P has decreased from 700 previous maximum P by Pressure decrease to 30 Outside Background Color determine upcast See drawing below Bottle display MV Show fire sequence M Show bottle lines Line labe ete number Line style hin Solid Bottle Fire Line Color el Mark line display Show mark lines Place horizontal line in plot to indicate data associated with scan marking see Marking Scans in M Show mark lin
124. fficients Transmissometer Calibration Coefficients Note e Sea Tech Chelsea Alphatracka and WET Labs Cstar See Application Note 7 for Enter M B and path length in meters Path length distance between lenses is based on sensor size for example 25 cm transmissometer 0 25m path length etc light transmission M volts B where M Tw W0 Y0 A0 Y0 A1 Y1 M YI complete description of computation of M and B and AO factory voltage output in air factory calibration from transmissometer manufacturer A1 current most recent voltage output in air Y0 factory dark or zero blocked path voltage factory calibration from transmissometer manufacturer Y 1 current most recent dark or zero blocked path voltage Wo0 factory voltage output in pure water factory calibration from transmissometer manufacturer Tw transmission in pure water for transmission relative to water Tw 100 or for transmission relative to air Tw is defined by table below Tw Transmission in Pure Water relative to AIR Wavelength 10 cm Path Length 25 cm Path Length 488 nm blue 99 8 99 6 532 nm green 99 5 98 8 660 nm red 96 0 96 4 90 2 91 3 Transmissometer Example from calibration sheet AO 4 743 volts YO 0 002 volts W0 4 565 volts Tw 100 for transmission relative to water from current calibration Al 4 719 volts and Y1 0 006 volts M
125. figure Inputs or Configure Outputs if you make changes in one dialog box those changes will appear when you open the other dialog box Click Configure Outputs In the Configure Outputs dialog box click the Serial Ports tab Configure Outputs C Program Files Sea Bird Seasave Seasave psa eae ua aie ee de ern nau s and SBE 11plus Alarms SBE 14 Remote Display PC Alarms Header Form Diagnostics are typical settings for that instrument If your Serial Data Out Serial Ports Shared File Out Mark Variables TCP IP Out TCPAP Ports instrument will not communicate at settings shown e Many instruments have a user programmable baud CTD Serial Port rate your instrument may have been programmed to communicate at a different baud rate consult COM port com x Defaults for SBE 911 plus CTD with manual for baud rate command AND OR RS 232C Your instrument may have a custom modification Baud rate 3600 Baud Rate 19200 that affects baud rate data bits and or parity Data bits Data Bits 8 consult manual that was shipped with instrument E Parity None for settings Parity None Set to Defaults Computer port connected to SBE 11p us Deck Unit Modem Channel connector or SBE 33 Deck Unit Water Sampling and 911 Pump Control Not applicable unless a water sampler is Carousel Data connector to send commands to and Serial Port selected on Water Sampler tab in Configure receive replies from water sampler Inputs and
126. for remote bottle firing commands and status the ports must 1 On the computer that is running match the ports defined on SEASAVE s TCP IP Ports tab in Configure SEASAVE click Start gt Control Inputs or Configure Outputs Panel Double click Network Connections 6 Double click Local Area Network Connection Click the Support tab In Seasave Remote s Data menu select Data Source the Data Source dialog box appears Select the Data Source for the displays TCP IP or to see the computer s IP address Shared File If you select Shared File browse to the path and file name for this is the address to enter as the the shared file Server address in the Seasave Remote Fixed Display window 7 for remote bottle firing In Seasave Remote s Bottle Fire menu select Configure Bottle Firing The Configure Bottle Firing dialog box appears Select the bottle fire sequence Sequential User Input or Table Driven Enter the number of bottles on your water sampler If you selected Table Driven click Bottle Positions for Table Driven to input the desired bottle firing order 8 InSEASAVE start real time data acquisition 9 In Seasave Remote s Data menu click Connect If you already have display windows set up in Seasave Remote you should begin to see data the Status bar should show that you are connected 10 If desired modify or add display windows in Seasave Remote using the same methods as in SEASAVE 121 Appendix
127. g 0 if not enabled log 1 if enabled and the path for the diagnostics file s Changes made on the Diagnostics tab take effect immediately if you make a change and then click Cancel at the bottom of the dialog box you have not cancelled the change To enable and set up diagnostic output click Configure Outputs In the Configure Outputs dialog box click the Diagnostics tab x Serial Data Out Serial Ports Shared File Out Mark Variables TCP IP Out TCP IP Ports SBE 11plus Alarms SBE 14Remote Display PCAlams HeaderForm Diagnostics Configure Outputs C Program Files Sea Bird Seasave Seasave psa Select location and name for diagnostics file Default location is same directory as A where Seasave exe is installed default Enable diagnostics output for Cancel will not undo the changes you make on this fom c Program Files Sea Bird SeasaveV7 Seasave exe which is user Default name is SSLog txt interface portion of program IV Keep a diagnostics log for Seasave exe SelectPath Select level of diagnostics to Path include in log ath C Program Files Sea Bird SeasaveV7 SSLog txt e Errors e Warnings includes errors or Level Log information Display Log File Erase Log File e Information includes errors A Erase contents of and warnings Display contents of indicated file using Notepad indicated file If not erased SEASAVE appends diagnostics IV Keep a
128. g user manual firing of those bottles Also bottles with pressure or depth greater than Fire bottles on upcast when pressure or depth is less than for example 900 db will not be fired automatically Other bottles can also be fired manually but only if user fires them before water sampler reaches specified pressure or depth Auto Fire Table Entry x Mixed Mode setup auto bottle fire but also allowing manual bottle fire Seasave allows manual firing of some bottles along with auto firing of other bottles referred to as mixed mode firing This is often used to obtain a water sample at one or more points with the water sampler held in a stationary position Typical positions for manual firing are at the actual bottom of the cast because the bottom of the cast cannot be predicted with certainty beforehand and at the top of the cast Looking at the Auto Fire dialog again and reviewing the setup for mixed mode firing Upcast is enabled has begun when pressure depth exceeds this value If CTD never meets this criteria i e CTD did not go as deep as anticipated no automatic water samples are taken Use pressurefdb to determine bottle firing Use depth meters to determine bottle firing Fire bottles on upcast when pressure db is less than 300 000000 Salt water or Fresh water used to calculate depth from measured pressure if depth in meters is selected e For salt water algorithm estimates local
129. gravity from latitude It uses latitude from NMEA navigation device if NMEA is enabled in con file If your system does not have NMEA enter desired latitude on Miscellaneous tab in Configure Inputs For fresh water algorithm ignores gravity variation with latitude because fresh water applications are usually shallow and effect of gravity variation is insignificant Depth type V Allow manual firing Pressure Bottle 15000 000 f mao 7 jes0 00000 f2 a fe Foo fs asooo fa fi5o o0000 f5 Foon fe n fie Cancel Help Bottles may be closed in any order desired Enter pressures depths in any order when you click OK SEASAVE reorders list from deepest to shallowest you can see reordered list by clicking Auto Fire Pressures amp Positions again on Water Sampler tab Surface 0 m and 0 db Bottle closure pressures depths must be in this range except for bottles Fire bottles on upcast to be fired manually when pressure depth is less than set close to expected maximum cast pressure depth Make the desired selections Click OK 62 Section 5 Configure Inputs Part Ill Serial Ports Water Sampler TCP IP Ports Miscellaneous and Pump Control Remote Bottle Firing Note As an alternative to using the software provided by Sea Bird you can develop your own application for remote bottle firing using your desired software If you select Enable remote firing on the Wat
130. guration con file Updates at very fast rate make display hard to read Also time between updates interacts with data output baud set in SBE 14 to 300 baud cannot be changed and number of variables transmitted SEASAVE will not work properly if data is presented to COM port faster than port can transmit it to SBE 14 Enable altimeter alarm in SBE 14 Set Alarm set point at altimeter reading where you want alarm to sound Set Alarm hysteresis greater than expected ship heave swell to prevent on off on off sounding of alarm caused by ship heave See drawing below Example You want alarm to turn on at 10 m set set point 10 m There is a 0 5 m swell set hysteresis 1 m which should be sufficient to account for possible 0 5 m upward movement due to ship heave Alarm sounds at 10 m above sea bottom and stays on until altimeter goes above 11 m when it shuts off until it falls to 10 m again Minimum___ _________________ _ pressure alarm Maximum ___ pressure alarm Alarm on when pressure in this range Alarm on when pressure in this range The SBE 14 Remote Display can display depth pressure and or altimeter height for a CTD system and can be set up to turn on an alarm based on minimum and maximum pressures an altimeter integrated with the CTD and or a bottom contact switch integrated with the CTD To enable and set up the SBE 14 click Configure Outputs In the Configure Outputs dialog box click t
131. h instance of SEASAVE e Cause Selection of Surface PAR voltage added in the instrument configuration file does not match the Deck Unit setup Solution See the Deck Unit manual for setup details For the SBE 1 1plus Deck Unit Surface PAR is enabled disabled by sending the appropriate command For the SBE 33 and 36 Deck Units Surface PAR is enabled disabled by dip switch settings 97 Section 8 Real Time Data and Real Time Control Real Time Data Acquisition Firing Bottles Note For water sampler setup see Water Sampler in Section 5 Configure Inputs Part Ill Serial Ports Water Sampler TCP IP Ports Miscellaneous and Pump Control Notes e The Fire Bottle button in the Bottle Fire dialog box is inaccessible until you start saving data to a file So if you did not select Begin archiving data immediately or selected Begin archiving data when Start Archiving command is sent and did not yet send the Start Archiving command the Fire Bottle button is grayed out If desired you can fire bottles without using the Bottle Fire dialog box if you are set up for Sequential or Table Driven bottle fire Each time you want to fire a bottle press Ctrl F3 Note that this does not fire a bottle if set up for User Input entries because you must select which bottle to fire Note The bl file has the same path and file name as the data file For example if the data file is c test1 hex the bl file is c
132. he SBE 14 Remote Display tab Configure Outputs C Program Files Sea Bird Seasave Seasave psa x Serial Data Out Serial Ports Shared Fie Out Mark Variables TCP IP Out TCP IP Ports SBE 11plus Alarms SBE 14 Remote Display PC Alarms Header Form l Diagnostics Enable sending data to SBE 14 using serial port defined on Serial Ports tab E IV Send data to SBE 14 remote display Affects SEASAVE s depth calculation Select the serial port for SBE 14 Remote Display on the Serial Ports tal e Salt water Algorithm estimates local Aan cela dia ie gravity from latitude from NMEA navigation Beye Depth z device if NMEA enabled in con file If Depth type Salt water system does not have NMEA enter latitude EENE on Miscellaneous tab in Configure Inputs IV Enable minimum pressure alan Fresh water Algorithm ignores gravity variation with latitude because fresh water applications are usually shallow and effect of gravity variation is insignificant Sound alarm when pressure is less than decibars 20 ii Enable minimum maximum pressure alarm in SBE 14 see drawing below Set Minimum pressure to enable alarm greater than approximately 20 db to prevent alarm from turning on while CTD JV Enable maximum pressure alarm Sound alarm when pressure is greater than decibars fi 000 V Enable altimeter alarm Alatm set point meters is on ship deck or as it is entering water when al
133. he Status select Status in the Display menu 10 Section 2 Installation and Use Note e Data display windows SEASAVE can display as many data windows as Algorithms used to calculate derived desired within the limits of your computer s resources The windows can parameters in SEASAVE are the be set up to display real time data conductivity temperature pressure same as used in SBE Data etc as well as calculated parameters such as salinity and sound velocity Processing s Derive and Data The three windows types fixed scrolled and plot are briefly described Conversion modules with the below their setup is described in detail in Section 7 Display Setting Up exception of the oxygen descent SEASAVE Displays rate amp acceleration calculations See Appendix IV Derived Parameter Formulas gt The Fixed Display has a vertical list of the selected parameters to the left and displays their current values to the right and can be set up with one or two columns of data W Fixed Display 1 15 x Modify or print display by right clicking in display and selecting desired option Conductivity S m 151 x Temperature ITS 90 deg C Temperature T530 degC 696152 Pressure Digiquartz db 0 5439 Conductivity S m Temperature ITS 90 deg C Salinity PSU Pressure Digiquartz db Salinity PSU 34 17756 Adjust column width by placing mouse cursor over line at number column hea
134. heavy black rubber offset scale factor voltage 5 Turner 10 005 This sensor requires two channels one for the fluorescence voltage and the other for the range voltage Make sure to select both when configuring the instrument For the fluorescence voltage channel enter scale factor and offset concentration fluorescence voltage scale factor range 5 offset where range is defined in the following table Range Voltage Range lt 0 2 volts 1 0 gt 0 2 volts and lt 0 55 volts 3 16 gt 0 55 volts and lt 0 85 volts 10 0 gt 0 85 volts 31 0 Turner 10 AU 005 Enter full scale voltage zero point concentration and full scale concentration from the calibration sheet concentration 1 195 voltage FSC ZPC FSV ZPC where voltage measured output voltage from fluorometer FSV full scale voltage typically 5 0 volts FSC full scale concentration ZPC zero point concentration 48 Notes e To enable entry of the mx my and b coefficients you must first select the Turner SCUFA OBS Nephelometer e See Application Note 63 for complete description of calculation of Turner SCUFA calibration coefficients Notes e For complete description of calibration coefficient calculation see Application Note 41 for WetStar and Application Note 62 for ECO AFL ECO FL and ECO FL NTU For ECO FL NTU a second channel is required for turbidity Set up the second chan
135. iables click Configure Outputs In the Configure Outputs dialog box click the Mark Variables tab Configure Outputs C Program Files Sea Bird Seasave Seasave psa SBE 11 plus Alarms SBE 14 Remote Display PC Alarms Header Form Diagnostics Serial Data Out Serial Ports SharedFile Out Mark Variables TCP IP Out TCP IP Pots Variable Name unit Digits a Pressure Strain Gauge db 4 Salinity PSU 5 Temperature ITS 90 deg C 5 Selected variables and number of decimal points to right of decimal place for mark variables Click Select Variables to change Dialog box with list of variables appears select desired variables and number of decimal places to right of decimal point for each variable and click OK Sequential mark number system time and all selected variables are written to FRESEEEE mrk file each time Mark Scan is clicked during data acquisition Report Help OK Cancel Make the desired selections Click OK or click another tab in Configure Outputs To set up a plot display to show mark lines lines can be labeled with the sequential mark number and or pressure Right click in the desired plot window In the Plot Display dialog box select Show Mark Lines Change other settings as desired and click OK see Plot Display in Section 7 Display Setting Up SEASAVE Displays See Marking Scans in Section 8 Real Time Data and Real Time Control Real Time Data A
136. ick another tab in Configure Inputs 65 Section 5 Configure Inputs Part III Serial Ports Water Sampler TCP IP Ports Miscellaneous and Pump Control Pump Control If enabled Pump On and Pump Off functions are available in Real Time Control menu during data acquisition If not enabled those functions are grayed out and unavailable Define serial port for pump control operation on Serial Ports tab The Pump Control tab allows you to enable disable user pump control for an SBE 9plus with custom modifications Pump control commands are sent through the SBE 1 1plus Deck Unit Modem Channel connector COM port is defined on Serial Ports tab pump control does not interfere with water sampler operation Click Configure Inputs In the Configure Inputs dialog box click the Pump Control tab Instrument Configuration Serial Ports Water Sampler TCPAP Potts Miscellaneous Pump Control This setting is only applcable to a custom buid of the SBE Splus Select the serial port for pump control on the Serial Ports tab Enable pump on pump off commands Report Help OK Cancel Make the desired selection Click OK or click another tab in Configure Inputs 66 Section 6 Configure Outputs Section 6 Configure Outputs Note Setup of all parameters except Diagnostics in Configure Outputs is included in the SEASAVE program setup psa file To save the setup you must save the psa file
137. ime Control Real Time Data Acquisition Marking Scans Note The mrk file has the same path and file name as the data file For example if the data file is c test1 hex the mrk file is c test1 mrk Notes e The Mark Scan button in the Mark Scan Control dialog box is inaccessible until you start saving data to a file So if you did not select Begin archiving data immediately or selected Begin archiving data when Start Archiving command is sent and did not yet send the Start Archiving command the Mark Scan button is grayed out If desired you can mark scans without using the Mark Scan Control dialog box Each time you want to mark a scan press Ctrl F5 Mark Scan allows you to copy the most recent scan of data to a mark mrk file as desired The mrk file can be used to manually note water sampler bottle firings compare CTD data with data acquired from a Thermosalinograph at the same time or mark significant events in the cast winch problems large waves causing ship heave etc for later review and analysis of the data If a plot display is set up to Show Mark Lines SEASAVE also draws a horizontal line in the plot each time you mark a scan To mark scans 1 Setup the Mark Variables in Configure Outputs see Mark Variables in Section 6 Configure Outputs 2 In the Real Time Control menu select Mark Scan The Mark Scan Control dialog box appears Mark Scan Control Ea Marks 0
138. ing the name and location of the selected con file is included in the SEASAVE program setup psa file To save the setup you must save the psa file File menu Save Setup File before exiting SEASAVE Introduction Notes e Sea Bird supplies a con file with each instrument The con file must match the existing instrument configuration and contain current sensor calibration information Appendix II Configure con File Format contains a line by line description of the contents of the con file Instrument Configuration Note Unless noted otherwise SEASAVE supports only one of each auxiliary sensor model on a CTD for example you cannot specify two Chelsea Minitracka fluorometers but you can specify a Chelsea Minitracka and a Chelsea UV Aquatracka fluorometer See the sensor descriptions in Section 4 Configure Inputs Part Il Calibration Coefficients for those sensors that SEASAVE supports in a redundant configuration two or more of the same model interfacing with the CTD This section describes the setup of the instrument configuration con file in Configure Inputs For setup of other items in Configure Inputs see Section 5 Configure Inputs Part III Serial Ports Water Sampler TCP IP Ports Miscellaneous and Pump Control The instrument configuration con file defines the instrument configuration what sensors are integrated with the instrument and what channels are used by
139. ion coefficient file This file can be exported and or imported from the dialog box for a sensor This allows you to move a sensor from one instrument to another and update the instrument s con file while eliminating need for typing or resulting possibility of typographical errors 16 Section 2 Installation and Use Output files File Extension Description Bottle log information output bottle file containing bottle firing sequence number and position date time and beginning and ending scan numbers for each bottle closure Scan numbers correspond to approximately 1 5 second duration for each bottle SEASAVE writes information to file each time a bottle fire confirmation is received from SBE 32 Carousel or SBE 55 ECO Water Sampler or only when used with 911plus G O 1016 Rosette Can be used by SBE Data Processing s Data Conversion module bmp Bitmap graphic output from Plot display when you click Save to file icon in plot toolbar or right click in plot and select Save as dat Data binary raw data file created by old versions lt 6 0 of SEASAVE from 91 1plus real time data File includes header information Can be used by SBE Data Processing s Data Conversion module hdr Header Includes same header information software version serial numbers instrument configuration etc as in data file hex Data e Hexadecimal raw data file created by SEASAVE from real time data
140. ird com for the latest software version number a description of the software changes and instructions for downloading the software from the FTP site 1 Ifnot already installed install SEASAVE and other Sea Bird software programs on your computer using the supplied software CD A Insert the CD in your CD drive B Double click on Seasoft Win32date exe where date is the date the software release was created C Follow the dialog box directions to install the software The default location for the software is c Program Files Sea Bird Within that folder is a sub directory for each program The installation program allows you to install the desired components Install all the components or just install SEASAVE Section 2 Installation and Use SEASAVE Use Notes SEASAVE Window e When you start SEASAVE you may get a message stating that Windows Firewall has blocked To SESE SAVE some features of this program to e Double click on seasave exe _ protect your computer if TCP IP default location c Program Files Sea Bird SeasaveV7 or output is enabled in the program e Left click on Start and follow the path Programs Sea Bird Seasave V7 setup psa file Click Unblock to permanently unblock the TCP IP features of SEASAVE SEASAVE can be run from the command line See Appendix I Command Line Operation SEASAVE s main window looks like this C Documents and Settings dbresko My Documents Testing Seasave
141. isplay data on a remote computer that is transmitted via TCP IP or to a shared file and to fire bottles from a remote computer See Appendix V Seasave Remote for Remote Display and Bottle Firing or Seasave Remote s Help files FixedDisplay jar and FireBottles jar are sample Java applications FixedDisplay jar allows you to view a Fixed display on a remote computer to display data transmitted via TCP IP FireBottles jar allows you to fire bottles from a remote computer You can use the provided sample applications or modify them as desired See Appendix VI Java Applications for Remote Display and Bottle Firing 73 Section 6 Configure Outputs TCP IP Ports TCP IP is Transmission Control Protocol Internet Protocol a communication protocol used to connect hosts on the internet and or over networks TCP IP allows you to connect your CTD to a computer on deck while receiving data and firing bottles at a remote location elsewhere on the ship TCP IP also allows multiple applications running on the same computer to communicate with each other TCP IP ports can be defined in Configure Inputs or Configure Outputs if you make changes in one dialog box those changes will appear when you open the other dialog box Click Configure Outputs In the Configure Outputs dialog box click the TCP IP Ports tab Configure Outputs C Program Files Sea Bird Seasave Seasave psa x SBE 11plus Alarms SBE 14 Remote Display PC Alarms He
142. it it at selected baud rate For full rate data set to 0 Select the serial port for serial data output on the Serial Ports tab Output data to serial port If selected data is output in XML format I XML format instead of ASCII format Seconds between updates 9 000 Variable Name unit Digits 1 Pressure Digiquartz db 4 2 Salinity PSU 5 3 Temperature ITS 90 deg C Selected variables and number of decimal points to right of decimal place for output data Click Select Variables to change Dialog box with list of variables appears select desired variables and number of decimal places to right of decimal point Select Variables for each variable and click OK Fae e4 Make the desired selections Click OK or click another tab in Configure Outputs 68 Section 6 Configure Outputs Serial Ports The Serial Ports tab defines serial ports and other communication parameters for e Sending commands to and receiving replies from the CTD e Sending commands to and receiving replies from a water sampler through the SBE 1 lplus Deck Unit Modem Channel connector or SBE 33 Deck Unit Carousel Data connector e Sending pump control commands to a custom 9plus through the SBE 11plus Deck Unit Modem Channel connector e Outputting data to a serial port for user defined purposes e Outputting converted data through a serial port to an SBE 14 Remote Display Serial port parameters can be defined in Con
143. ity 65 119 Voltage sensors 46 W Water sampler 60 69 98 Window 10 adding 81 editing 82 exporting 83 84 91 fixed 83 GPS 92 100 importing 81 Lat Lon 92 100 NMEA 92 100 plot 85 remote 93 scrolled 84 status 92 Window remote 73 74 Z Zaps 56
144. ixedDisplay jar and FireBottles jar are installed when you install SEASAVE to the same folder as SEASAVE default location C Program Files Sea Bird SeasaveV7 You can use the provided sample applications or modify them as desired e To run the provided sample applications you must have Java Runtime Environment JRE version 6u1 or later installed on the remote computer e To modify the provided sample applications you must have Java SE Development Kit JDK version 6ul or later with NetBeans version 5 5 1 or later installed on the remote computer Java is a product of Sun Microsystems The versions cited above can be downloaded for free from http java sun com javase downloads index jsp Remote Display Note To get the Server address instructions are for Windows XP 1 On the computer that is running SEASAVE click Start gt Control Panel Double click Network Connections Double click Local Area Network Connection Click the Support tab to see the computer s IP address this is the address to enter as the Server address in the Seasave Remote Fixed Display window To set up a remote display for converted data in XML format transmitted from SEASAVE via TCP IP 1 In SEASAVE s Configure Outputs on the TCP IP Out tab select Output converted data to socket using TCP IP and select XML format Click Select Variables pick the desired variables for viewing remotely and click OK Click OK to exit the Configur
145. k if the scan length does not match the con file it provides a warning that there is an error Otherwise SEASAVE does not provide a warning Regardless of whether Check Scan Length is selected if there is a scan length error SEASAVE continues with real time data acquisition saving the raw data to a file but does not show or plot data in the SEASAVE displays gt Compare Serial Numbers Applicable only to Archived Data playback If selected SEASAVE checks the temperature and conductivity sensor serial numbers in the data file header against the serial numbers in the con file if the serial numbers do not match it provides a warning that there is an error but continues with playback gt Maximized plot may cover SEASAVE If selected when you maximize a plot display it fills the entire monitor screen covering up the SEASAVE title bar menus and status bar Otherwise a maximized plot display remains within the SEASAVE window e Help Help files contain much of the same information in this manual 13 Section 2 Installation and Use Getting Started Displaying Archived Data Sea Bird Demo Files Note SEASAVE can be used to display archived raw data in a hex or dat file dat files were created by older Sea Bird provides example files with the software to assist you in learning versions of SEASAVE Version lt 6 0 how to use SEASAVE These files are automatically installed on your hard from the real time da
146. lanatory information SEACAT THERMOSALINOGRAPH V4 2a SERIAL NO 4300 05 15 2003 14 23 14 ioper 50 7 ma vmain 11 4 vlith 8 8 iext01 76 2 ma samples 0 fr 1396736 sample interval 5 seconds Sample interval SI must match Sample interval seconds in con file sample external SBE 38 temperature sensor External temperature sensor SBE38 SBE3 must match Remote temperature in con file no of volts sampled 1 Number of auxiliary voltage sensors enabled SVx must match External voltage channels in con file output format SBE21 Output format must be set to SBE 21 F1 to acquire data in SEASAVE start sampling when power on yes average data during sample interval yes logging data no voltage cutoff 7 5 volts 35 Section 3 Configure Inputs Part Instrument Configuration con file SBE 25 SEALOGGER Configuration Channel Sensor table reflects this choice 0 7 Must agree with SBE 25 setup CC see reply from DS Configuration for the SBE 25 Sealoggt Voltage channel 0 in con file corresponds to first external voltage in data stream voltage channel 1 to second external voltage in data stream etc 1 2 4 or 8 scans second Used to Configuration file opened None calculate elapsed time if you select time as a parameter for a display External voltage channels a Used to determine strain gauge pressure sensor window Must agree with SBE 25 setu
147. lay setup to a display setup dsa file for use The number of display windows in with another instrument or for another deployment SEASAVE is limited only by your computer s resources and other Displays can be added and or reconfigured during data acquisition simultaneous demands on your without interrupting data acquisition For example if you start a cast and computer i e other programs realize that you forgot to select some desired variables in a display you can e right click in the display to modify it select the desired variables and save the displays may not update properly changes without interrupting data acquisition Once the desired changes are saved the display will show the additional variables of course any data that was acquired before you modified the display will not appear in the display Adding New Display Window 1 Click Display and select Add New Fixed Scrolled or Plot Display Window 2 The display dialog box appears The selections in the dialog box vary depending on the display type see Fixed Display Scrolled Display and Plot Display below Importing Display Window Note 1 Click Display and select Import Display Settings dsa file SEASAVE display setup dsa file defines the size placement and setup 2 The Open dialog box appears Select the desired dsa file and click OK for a display window The information in the dsa file is also incorporated into the program setup psa
148. listed may be applicable timed out error message at the start of real time data acquisition to your instrument configuration For example a 9p us CTD does not have a magnetic switch or you may be using an instrument with a direct connection to the computer no Deck Unit e Cause The CTD s magnetic switch is not in the On position Solution Slide the switch to the On position e Cause SBE 19 and 25 only The CTD was not asleep when the magnetic switch was put in the On position Solution Slide the switch to the Off position wait at least 2 minutes for the CTD to go to sleep and then slide the switch to the On position again e Cause Deck Unit power is not on Solution Verify that the Deck Unit is connected to a power source and that the power switch is on e Cause Loose or missing connections between equipment Solution Check all cable connections between the CTD Deck Unit and computer port s e Cause Incorrect communication settings Solution Check that communication settings and COM Ports selected on the Serial Ports tab in Configure Inputs are correct e Cause Multiple instances of SeasaveAcq exe running at the same time attempting to use the same TCP IP ports for communication with Seasave exe Solution Run only one instance of SEASAVE at a time or verify that TCP IP ports for communication with SEASAVE s data acquisition application on the TCP IP Ports tab in Configure Inputs are different for eac
149. log in SEASAVE Step 2 it should now show Connected to on ports and Remote Fire Bottle Fire x Fired 0 Connected to 127 0 0 1 on ports 49167 and 49168 Disconnect Bottle Firing Sequence 125 Appendix VI Java Applications for Remote Display and Bottle Firing Note When SEASAVE receives a bottle fired confirmation from a water sampler its response to remote bottle firing is identical to bottle firing from within SEASAVE it writes bottle fire data to a file or sets a bottle confirm bit in the data file as applicable to the equipment used See Firing Bottles in Section 8 Real Time Data and Real Time Control Real Time Data Acquisition C On the remote computer click the Fire tab The dialog box looks like this 210 x Connect Fire Water sampler Type Number of bottles Firing Next bottle 1 Number fired Sequence If the remote software is working properly the water sampler type and number of bottles should match the settings on the Water Sampler tab in Configure Inputs in SEASAVE In SEASAVE start real time data acquisition On the remote computer on the Fire tab click Fire when desired When SEASAVE receives a bottle fired confirmation from a water sampler it increments the Fired and shows the bottle number that was fired in the Bottle Firing Sequence box When the remote bottle fire software receives a bottle fired confirmati
150. mperature t and pressure p based on the equation of state for seawater EOS80 Density calculation Using the following constants BO 8 24493e 1 B1 4 0899e 3 B2 7 6438e 5 B3 8 2467e 7 B4 5 3875e 9 co 5 72466e 3 Cl 1 0227e 4 C2 1 6546e 6 DO 4 8314e 4 AD 999 842594 Al 6 793952e 2 A2 9 095290e 3 A3 1 001685e 4 A4 1 120083e 6 A5 6 536332e 9 FQO 54 6746 FQ1 0 603459 FQ2 1 09987e 2 FQ3 6 1670e 5 GO 7 944e 2 G1 1 6483e 2 G2 5 3009e 4 i0 2 2838e 3 il 1 098le 5 i2 1 6078e 6 JO 1 91075e 4 MO 9 9348e 7 M1 2 0816e 8 M2 9 1697e 10 EO 19652 21 El 148 4206 E2 2 327105 E3 1 360477e 2 E4 5 155288e 5 HO 3 239908 H1 1 43713e 3 H2 1 16092e 4 H3 5 77905e 7 KO 8 50935e 5 K1 6 12293e 6 K2 5 2787e 8 C Computer Code double Density double s double t double p s salinity PSU t temperature deg C ITPS 68 p pressure in decibars double t2 t3 t4 t5 s32 double sigma k kw aw bw double val t2 t t t3 EAE 2 t4 CAC ES eS ESA if s lt 0 0 s 0 000001 s32 pow s 1 5 p 10 0 convert decibars to bars sigma AO Al t A2 t2 A3 t3 A4 t4 A5 t5 BO Bl t B2 t2 B3 t3 B4 t4 s GO Cl to C2 t2 s32 DO s s 7 kw EO EBl t E2 t2 E3 t3 E4 t4 aw HO H1l t H2 t2 H3 t3 bw KO Kiet K2 t2 k kw FQO FQL t FQ2 t2 FQ3 t3 s GO Gl t G2 t2 s32 aw
151. mple Temperature ITS 90 deg C is abbreviated as t 90 C Adjust column width by placing mouse cursor over line and dragging Right click in the display to e Modify change setup Scrolled Display dialog box appears e Export Display Settings dsa file export setup to dsa file Save As dialog box appears e Print print display Printing dialog box appears Set up the print job as desired and click OK 84 Section 7 Display Setting Up SEASAVE Displays Plot Display A Plot Display can e Plot up to 5 variables on one plot with a single X axis and up to four Y axes or a single Y axis and up to four X axes e Plot any variable on a linear or logarithmic scale For linear scale values can be increasing or decreasing with distance from the axis e Send plots to a printer save plots to the clipboard for insertion in another program such as Microsoft Word or save plots as graphic files in bitmap metafile or JPEG format To set up a Plot Display e Click Display and select Add New Plot Display Window OR e Click Display and select Import Display Settings dsa file OR e Right click in an existing plot display and select Modify 85 Section 7 Display Setting Up SEASAVE Displays Plot Setup Tab Plot Title Title Color Font and Font size e Title is placed in plot title bar on screen to save space However title appears at top center of plot if you copy save or print plot Font li
152. mputer through optional 90402 Output conductivity different con file SBE 45 Interface Box Interface Box can append i Save or Save As to optional SBE 38 and NMEA data to SBE 45 Output salinity 5 save current con file data stream settings SBE 38 temperature added Select if 90402 SBE 45 Interface Box is connected to SBE 38 remote Output sound velocity temperature sensor Interface Box appends SBE 38 z data to data stream SEASAVE and Data Use junction box Conversion and Derive in SBE Data Processing uses remote temperature data when calculating SBE38 temperature added Click to exit dialog box If you made changes density and sound velocity NMEA data added Select if 90402 SBE 45 Interface Box is connected to NMEA navigation NMEA data added and did not Save or Save As SEASAVE asks if you want to save changes Cancel device SEASAVE adds current latitude longitude and universal time code to data header appends NMEA data to every scan and writes NMEA data to nav file every time Ctrl F7 is pressed or Add to nav File is clicked see Adding NMEA Data to nav File in Section 8 Real Time Data and Real Time Control Real Time Data Acquisition Help Shown below is an example status DS response in SEATERM that corresponds to the setup shown in the Configuration dialog box above Shown below the appropriate lines are the commands used in SEATERM to modify the setup of parameters critical
153. n Device no Selection enabling of RS 232 sensors SBE38 SBE50 GTD DualGTD must match Serial RS 232C sensor in con file Ext Volt 0 yes Ext Volt 1 yes Ext Volt 2 no Ext Volt 3 no Ext Volt 4 no Ext Volt 5 no Number of external voltage sensors enabled Volt0 through Volt5 must match External voltage channels in con file echo characters yes output format raw HEX Output format must be set to raw Hex OutputFormat 0 to acquire data in SEASAVE serial sync mode disabled Serial sync mode must be disabled SyncMode N to acquire data in SEASAVE 27 Section 3 Configure Inputs Part Instrument Configuration con file Select strain gauge or Digiquartz with temperature compensation Number of 0 5 second intervals ESILE Sensor type between samples used to compute time between samples SEASAVE uses this to calculate elapsed time if External voltage channels you select time as a parameter for a SBE 19 SEACAT Profiler Configuration SEASAVE always treats the SBE 19 as if it is a Profiling instrument i e it is in Profiling mode If your SBE 19 is in Moored Mode you must treat it like an SBE 16 when setting up the con file select the SBE 16 Channel Sensor table reflects this jchoice Must agree with SBE 19 f ET setup for SVn n 0 2 or 4 see Configuration file opened None reply from DS Voltage channel 0 in con file corresponds to sensor wired to ch
154. n dialog boxes enter the sensor serial number and calibration date Many sensor calibration equations contain an offset term Unless noted otherwise use the offset default 0 0 to make small corrections for sensor drift between calibrations Calibration coefficients are discussed below for each type of sensor Strain gauge pressure sensors are covered first followed by the remaining voltage sensor types in alphabetical order Pressure Strain Gauge Calibration Coefficients Enter coefficients e Pressure sensor without temperature compensation gt Enter AO Al and A2 coefficients from the calibration sheet gt For older units with a linear fit pressure calibration enter M A1 and B AO from the calibration sheet and set A2 to zero gt For all units offset is normally zero but may be changed for non zero sea surface condition For example if the in air pressure reading is negative enter an equal positive value e Pressure sensor with temperature compensation Enter ptempA0O ptempA1 ptempA2 pTCAO pTCA1 pTCA2 pTCBO pTCB1 pTCB2 pAO pA1 and pA2 from the calibration sheet Altimeter Calibration Coefficients Enter the scale factor and offset altimeter height 300 voltage scale factor offset where scale factor full scale voltage 300 full scale range full scale range is dependent on the sensor e g 50m 100m etc full scale voltage is from calibration sheet typically 5V Fluorometer Calibration
155. n plot to make changes selections Toolbar Click appropriate button to scroll zoom undo print copy to clipboard or save Temperature 125 90 deg C To zoom in to enlarge details click and drag to select a rectangular area You can zoom in several times before reaching program limits To undo most recent zoom click Undo button on toolbar select multiple times to return to Modify change plot setup Plot Display dialog box appears original plot Export Display Settings dsa file export setup to dsa file Save As dialog box appears Print Copy Save as See description below Toolbar Enable disable display of toolbar at top of plot Scroll Zoom See description below Undo scroll amp zoom See description below Disable auto page SEASAVE automatically disables auto page if you scroll or zoom or undo scroll amp zoom To re enable select Disable auto page Maximize enlarge display to full screen When enlarged use Tab key to view other displays Restore If maximized return display to its previous size 34 400 Salinity PSU Change the plot using the toolbar buttons or by right clicking in the plot Toolbar Button Right click in plot Description Single headed lt arrows Scroll zoom Scroll 10 Move center of plot by 10 of range in direction indicated Double headed lt lt arrows Scroll zoom Scroll 80 Move center of plot
156. n specified above Modify save changes con file 26 Click to exit dialog box If you made changes and did not Save or Save As SEASAVE asks if you want to Click a sensor and click Modify to change calibration coefficients for that sensor Section 3 Configure Inputs Part Instrument Configuration con file Shown below is an example status DS response in a terminal program that corresponds to the setup shown in the Configuration dialog box above Shown below the appropriate lines are the commands used in the terminal program to modify the setup of parameters critical to use of the SBE 16plus V2 with SEASAVE as well as any explanatory information SBE loplus V 2 0 SERIAL NO 6001 24 Oct 2007 14 11 48 vbatt 10 3 vlith 8 5 ioper 62 5 ma ipump 21 6 ma iext01 76 2 ma iserial 48 2 ma status not logging samples 0 fr 3463060 sample interval 10 seconds number of measurements per sample 1 Sample interval SampleInterval must match Sample interval seconds in con file pump run pump during sample delay before sampling 2 0 seconds transmit real time yes Real time data transmission must be enabled TxRealTime Y to acquire data in SEASAVE battery cutoff 7 5 volts pressure sensor strain gauge range 1000 0 Internal pressure sensor PType must match Pressure sensor type in con file SBE 38 yes SBE 50 no Gas Tensio
157. nd offset correction coefficients from pre and post cruise calibrations supplied by Sea Bird or from salinity bottle samples taken at sea during profiling Conductivity Calibration Coefficients Enter g h i j Ctcor or a b c d m and Cpcor from the calibration sheet e Cpcor makes a correction for the highly consistent change in dimensions of the conductivity cell under pressure The default is the compressibility coefficient for borosilicate glass 9 57e 08 Some sensors fabricated between 1992 and 1995 serial numbers between 1100 and 1500 exhibit a compression that is slightly less than pure borosilicate glass For these sensors the hermetic epoxy jacket on the glass cell is unintentionally strong creating a composite pressure effect of borosilicate and epoxy For sensors tested to date this composite pressure coefficient ranges from 9 57e 08 to 6 90e 08 with the latter value producing a correction to deep ocean salinity of 0 0057 PSU in 5000 dbars pressure approximately 0 001 PSU per 1000 dbars Before modifying Cpcor confirm that the sensor behaves differently from pure borosilicate glass Sea Bird can test your cell and calculate Cpcor Alternatively test the cell by comparing computed salinity to the salinity of water samples from a range of depths calculated using an AutoSal Enter values for slope default 1 0 and offset default 0 0 to make small corrections for conductivity sensor drift between
158. nd series resistance to be entered in the program If the conductivity sensor serial number includes a w an indication that it is a wide range sensor 1 After you enter the calibration coefficients and click OK the Wide Range Conductivity dialog box appears 2 Enter the cell constant and series resistance from the High Range Conductivity Calibration sheet in the dialog box and click OK 43 Section 4 Configure Inputs Part II Calibration Coefficients Note See Calibration Coefficients for A D Count Sensors below for information on strain gauge pressure sensors used on the SBE 16plus 16plus V2 19plus 19plus V2 and 49 See Calibration Coefficients for Voltage Sensors below for information on strain gauge pressure sensors used on other instruments Pressure Paroscientific Digiquartz Calibration Coefficients Enter the sets of C D and T coefficients from the calibration sheet Enter zero for any higher order coefficients that are not listed on the calibration sheet Enter values for slope default 1 0 do not change unless sensor has been recalibrated and offset default 0 0 to make small corrections for sensor drift e For the SBE 9plus also enter AD590M and AD590B coefficients from the configuration sheet Bottles Closed HB IOW Calibration Coefficients No calibration coefficients are entered for this parameter The number of bottles closed is calculated by SBE Data Processing s Data Co
159. nel as a User Polynomial with a0 Vblank scale factor a1 scale factor NTU volts a2 a3 0 where scale factor and Vblank are for the turbidity measurement Section 4 Configure Inputs Part II Calibration Coefficients Turner SCUFA Enter scale factor offset units mx my and b from the calibration sheet chlorophyll scale factor voltage offset corrected chlorophyll mx chlorophyll my NTU b where NTU results from optional turbidity channel in SCUFA see Turner SCUFA in OBS equations below Note SEASAVE can process data for an instrument interfacing with up to two Turner SCUFA sensors WET Labs AC3 This sensor requires two channels one for fluorometer voltage listed under fluorometers in the dialog box and the other for transmissometer voltage listed under transmissometers Make sure to select both when configuring the instrument Enter kv Vh20 and A X concentration mg m kv Vout Vh20 A X where Vout measured output voltage kv absorption voltage scaling constant inverse meters volt Vh20 measured voltage using pure water A X chlorophyll specific absorption coefficient WET Labs WetStar ECO AFL and ECO FL Enter Vblank and scale factor Concentration ug l Vsample V blank scale factor where Vsample in situ voltage output Vblank clean water blank voltage output Scale factor multiplier ug I Volt The calibration sheet lists eith
160. ng scans Adding NMEA navigation data to a nav file Manually turning an SBE 9plus pump on and off 94 Section 8 Real Time Data and Real Time Control Real Time Data Acquisition Starting and Stopping Real Time Data Acquisition 1 In the Real Time Data menu select Start The Start Real Time Data Acquisition dialog box appears Data Archiving Options e Begin archiving data immediately to store raw as soon as Start button is clicked and communication is established Begin archiving data when Start Archiving command is sent to control when data begins to be written to file This allows you to eliminate scans associated with deploying CTD from ship deck and soaking instrument near surface alternatively remove these scans later in SBE Data Processing If you make this selection when you click Start button and communication is established a dialog box with Start Archiving button appears Click this button when ready to begin saving scans to file or select Start Archiving in Real Time Data menu e Do not archive data for this cast to not save data to a file Real time data will still appear in displays Configuration Options Currently selected instrument configuration con file is shown To select different con file or modify input configuration con file serial ports water sampler TCP IP ports miscellaneous and or pump control click Configure Inputs To modify outputs serial data output serial ports shar
161. ng the slope and offset Slope 25 0 0 0 25 0005 0 0015 1 000040002 Offset 0 0 0 0015 1 000040002 0 001500060 Sea Bird temperature sensors usually drift by changing offset typically resulting in higher temperature readings over time for sensors with serial number less than 1050 and lower temperature readings over time for sensors with serial number greater than 1050 Sea Bird s data indicates that the drift is smooth and uniform with time allowing users to make very accurate corrections based only on pre and post cruise laboratory calibrations Calibration checks at sea are advisable to ensure against sensor malfunction however data from reversing thermometers is rarely accurate enough to make calibration corrections that are better than those possible from shore based laboratory calibrations Sea Bird temperature sensors rarely exhibit span errors larger than 0 005 C over the range 5 to 35 C 0 005 C 35 5 C year 0 000125 C C year even after years of drift A span error that increases more than 0 0002 C C year may be a symptom of sensor malfunction 42 Section 4 Configure Inputs Part II Calibration Coefficients Note Use coefficients g h i j Ctcor and Cpcor if available on calibration sheet for most accurate results conductivity for older sensors was calculated based on a b c d m and Cpcor Note See Application Note 31 for computation of slope a
162. nnot be modified that shows all you want to save changes parameters in con file 21 Section 3 Configure Inputs Part Instrument Configuration con file Shown below is an example status DS response in SEATERM that corresponds to the setup shown in the Configuration dialog box above Shown below the appropriate lines are the commands used in SEATERM to modify the setup of parameters critical to use of the 9plus and 1 1plus with SEASAVE as well as any explanatory information SBE llplus V 5 1f Number of scans to average 1 11plus reads this from con file in SEASAVE after Deck Unit is reset pressure baud rate 9600 NMEA baud rate 4800 surface PAR voltage added to scan Enabling of surface PAR ADDSPAR must match Surface PAR voltage added in con file A D offset 0 GPIB address 1 GPIB address must be 1 GPIB 1 to use SEASAVE if Computer interface is IEEE 488 GPIB in con file advance primary conductivity 0 073 seconds advance secondary conductivity 0 073 seconds autorun on power up is disabled 22 Section 3 Configure Inputs Part Instrument Configuration con file SBE 16 SEACAT C T Recorder Configuration Channel Sensor table reflects this Select strain gauge Digiquartz with or without choice Must agree with SBE 16 setup NN a titse ijaelieyte amy temperature compensation or no pressure sensor If for SVn n 0 1 2 3 or 4 see reply no pressure sensor
163. nsa ES Seasave SBE 91 Iplus 91 7plus CTD Conductivity S m Temperature ITS 90 deg C Pressure Digiquartz db 0 5439 Salinity PSU Scrolled Display EE Plot Display 1 EE 5 xj lt lt gt gt alalv gt S S ta Temperature IT3 90 deg C 0 000 1 600 3 200 4 800 6 400 8 000 0 000 0 875K a gt 1 750K Pr 8 2 625K B 3 500K 3 5 4 375K 5 250K 6 125K 7 000K 0 000 1 000 2 000 3 000 4 000 5 000 Conductivity S m 34 200 34 400 34 600 34 800 35 000 Salinity PSU e Seasave title bar The title bar shows the selected instrument type SBE 911plus 917plus CTD in the example above and the path and file name for the program setup psa file The psa file contains all information entered in Configure Inputs and Configure Outputs instrument configuration file path and name CTD serial port water sampler TCP IP input and output ports serial data output etc as well as size placement and setup for each display window e Menus The Menus contain options for setting up the instrument and the displays as well as for starting data acquisition e Status display The Status display provides the following information gt IfSEASAVE is acquiring real time data or playing archived data gt IfSEASAVE is storing real time data to a file output data file name gt Instrument configuration con file name To display or hide t
164. nversion module based on frequency range Sound Velocity IOW Calibration Coefficients Enter coefficients a0 al and a2 Value a0 al frequency a2 frequency 44 Section 4 Configure Inputs Part II Calibration Coefficients Calibration Coefficients for A D Count Sensors Notes e These coefficients provide ITS 90 T90 temperature e See Application Note 31 for computation of slope and offset correction coefficients from pre and post cruise calibrations supplied by Sea Bird Note See Calibration Coefficients for Voltage Sensors below for information on strain gauge pressure sensors used on other instruments See Calibration Coefficients for Frequency Sensors above for information on Paroscientific Digiquartz pressure sensors For all calibration dialog boxes enter the sensor serial number and calibration date Many sensor calibration equations contain an offset term Unless noted otherwise use the offset default 0 0 to make small corrections for sensor drift between calibrations Calibration coefficients are discussed below for each type of sensor temperature and strain gauge pressure sensor Temperature Calibration Coefficients For SBE l6plus 16plus V2 19plus 19plus V2 and 49 Enter a0 al a2 and a3 from the calibration sheet Enter values for slope default 1 0 and offset default 0 0 to make small corrections for temperature sensor drift between calibrations Corrected
165. o bit gain range switching 92 IOW oxygen sensor serial number 93 IOW oxygen sensor calibration date 94 IOW oxygen AO Al A2 A3 BO Bl 95 IOW sound velocity sensor serial number 96 IOW sound velocity sensor calibration date 97 IOW sound velocity AO Al A2 98 Biospherical natural fluorometer sensor serial number 99 Biospherical natural fluorometer sensor calibration date 100 Biospherical natural fluorometer Cfn Al A2 B 101 Sea tech l1s6000 OBS nephelometer sensor serial number 102 Sea tech 186000 OBS nephelometer sensor calibration date 103 Sea tech 186000 OBS nephelometer gain slope offset 104 Fluorometer chelsea Aqua 3 sensor serial number 105 Fluorometer chelsea Aqua 3 sensor calibration date 106 Fluorometer chelsea Aqua 3 scale factor slope offset Vacetone VB static Vlug 1l 107 Fluorometer turner sensor serial number 108 Fluorometer turner sensor calibration date 109 Fluorometer turner scale factor offset or turner 10au 005 full scale concentration full scale voltage zero point concentration 110 Conductivity G H I J ctcor cpcor 111 Temperature FO G H I J 112 Secondary conductivity G H I J ctcor cpcor 113 Secondary temperature FO G H I J 114 WET Labs AC3 beam transmission transmissometer sensor serial number 115 WET Labs AC3 beam transmission transmissometer sensor calibration date 116 WET Labs AC3 beam transmission transmissometer Ch2o0 Vh2o Vdark x chlorophyll absorption v Vh2o
166. omaly and potential temperature anomaly Entries on this tab are on ow the values entered on used only if you are outputting the associated variable to a display the Miscellaneous tab are used in window shared file remote device TCP IP port etc For example if you the calculations do not select Oxygen as an output variable for a display window or on any tab in the Configure Outputs dialog box SEASAVE ignores the value entered for Oxygen window size on the Miscellaneous tab Note See Appendix IV Derived Click Configure Inputs In the Configure Inputs dialog box click the Miscellaneous tab Configure Inputs K users DBresko Seasave psa Instrument Configuration Seral Ports Water Sampler TCPAP Ports Miscellaneous Pump Control Th s tab configures miscellaneous data for calculations Note Values entered only affect indicated calculations Depth and Average Sound Velocity Latitude when NMEA is not available fo m a Avmage Sound Velo Plume Anomaly Minimum pressure db 20 Theta B zz Minimum salinity psu 20 Salinity B fo Pressure window size db 20 ThetaZ Salinity Z fo Time window size s feo Reference pressure db fo Descent and Acceleration lwan Window size s 2 Window size s R Potential Temperature Anomaly AD fo AI fo Al Multipher Saray 7 Report Help OK Cancel Enter the desired values Click OK or cl
167. ommunicate at a different baud rate consult manual for baud rate command COM post COMI m Defaults for SBE 911plus CTO with AND OR RAS 232C Your instrument may have a custom Baud rate 19200 v BaudRate 19200 modification that affects baud rate data Data Bis 8 bits and or parity consult manual that was Data bits fs Parity None shipped with instrument for settings Set to Defaults Computer port connected to SBE 11plus Deck Unit Modem Channel connector or SBE 33 Deck Water Sampling and 911 Pump Control Not applicable unless a water sampler is Unit Carousel Data connector to send commands Serial Port selected on Water Sampler tab in Configure to and receive replies from water sampler Inputs and or Enable Pump On Pump Off Note Same COM port is used to send pump COM port COM commands is selected on Pump Control tab control commands to a custom Qplus this does in Configure Inputs not interfere with water sampler operation Serial Data Output Serial Port E EE a Define COM port baud rate data bits stop bits 8 on ata Out tab in and parity for output data Typical values for COM por COM4 Configure Outputs use with most computers 9600 baud 8 data Baud rate S nooo a bits 1 stop bit no parity See Section 6 top biis 1 x Configure Outputs for setup of serial data output i Parity None r Define COM port connected to SBE 14 Remove Display See Section 6 Configure Outputs for SBE 14 Remot
168. on from SEASAVE it increments the Number fired and shows the bottle number that was fired in the Sequence box When you have fired all the bottles click Disconnect on the Connect tab on the remote computer or click Disconnect on the Remote Fire Bottle Fire dialog in SEASAVE 126 Index Index bl file 17 bmp file 17 89 90 con file 16 18 40 94 102 108 SBE 16 23 SBE 16plus 24 SBE 16plus V2 26 SBE 19 28 SBE 19plus 30 SBE 19plus V2 32 SBE 21 34 SBE 25 36 SBE 45 38 SBE 49 39 SBE 91 1plus 21 dat file 17 94 102 dsa file 16 hdr file 17 94 102 hex file 17 94 102 Jpg file 17 89 90 mrk file 17 94 nav file 17 94 psa file 16 txt file 17 wimf file 17 89 90 xml file 16 17 A A D count sensors 45 Acceleration 65 119 Adding display 81 Alarms altimeter 75 76 77 bottom contact switch 75 76 77 computer 77 PC 77 pressure 75 76 77 SBE 11 plus 75 SBE 14 Remote Display 76 Algorithms 113 Altimeter 46 Altimeter alarm 75 76 77 Archived data 14 102 Auto fire 61 Average sound velocity 65 117 B Bottle firing 120 123 Bottles 60 98 Bottom contact switch alarm 75 76 77 Bugs 112 127 C Calibration coefficients 40 A D count sensors 45 altimeter 46 bottles closed 44 conductivity 43 exporting 41 fluorometer 46 frequency sensors 42 importing 41 methane 50 OBS nephelometer
169. on 7 Display Setting Up SEASAVE Displays Copy Options Tab The copy options tab defines the plot type and size for copying to the clipboard as a Windows metafile JPG or bitmap The Copy Options tab looks like this Plot Display 1 E xj Plot Setup Y Axis XAxis 1 XAxis 2 Print Options Save Options Copy Options SEASAVE automatically uses selected format metafile JPG Use format selected below when copying plot to clipboard or bitmap when copying plot to SEASAVE prompts you to select clipboard format metafile JPG or bitmap C Show dialog to select format when copying plot to clipboard when copying plot to clipboard Size determined by Copy metais to cipbesd options Stee determined by e Plot display size Uris Milimeters Width 1160 60 dimensions of plot as shown on screen or Copy JPG to cipboard options Size determined by Values entered below Values Entered Below dimensions entered in Units are pixels Width 512 Height fea dialog box mm inches or points for metafile pixels for JPG or bitmap Copy bitmap to clipboard options Size determined by Plot display size Urits are pels Width 512 Height 384 90 Section 7 Display Setting Up SEASAVE Displays Viewing SEASAVE Plots Shown below is an example plot HB Plot Display 1 eDl lalalviy 9 8 B Depth salt water m Right click i
170. or Enable Pump On Pump Off Note Same COM port is used to send pump control COM port come v commands is selected on Pump Control tab commands to a custom Qplus this does not interfere in Configure Inputs with water sampler operation Serial Data Output Serial Port Not applicable unless Output data to serial Define COM port baud rate data bits stop bits and pott is selected on Serial Data Out tab in parity for output data Typical values for use with COM port com3 Configure Outputs most computers 9600 baud 8 data bits 1 stop bit no parity See Serial Data Output for setup of serial Baud rate 3600 Stop bits fi z data output Data bits fe v Parity None Define COM port connected to SBE 14 Remove SBE 14 Remote Display Serial Port Not applicable unless Send data to SBE 14 Display See SBE 14 Remote Display for setup of remote display is selected on SBE 14 data output to SBE 14 COM port coma Remote Display tab in Configure Outputs Note For details on the CTD communication settings see Serial Report Help OK Cancel Sampler TCP IP Ports Make the desired selections Click OK or click another tab in Miscellaneous and Pump Control Configure Outputs Ports in Section 5 Configure Inputs Part IIl Serial Ports Water 69 Section 6 Configure Outputs Shared File Output SEASAVE can output selected raw data frequencies voltages and or A D
171. or 49 with PDIM and 36 Deck Unit gt gt gt COM port connected to Deck Unit Serial Data connector sends commands to and receives replies from the CTD through the PDIM Baud rate between Deck Unit and computer must agree with Deck Unit dip switch setting 9600 or 19200 Parity and data bits between Deck Unit and computer must agree with Deck Unit setting 7 or 8 data bits even or no parity e SBE 16 16plus 16plus V2 19 19plus 19plus V2 25 45 or 49 connected directly to computer gt gt gt COM port connected to instrument Baud rate between instrument and computer must agree with instrument setup user programmed Parity and data bits between instrument and computer must agree with instrument setting SBE 16 19 or 25 7 data bits even parity SBE 16plus 16plus V2 19plus 19plus V2 45 or 49 8 data bits no parity e SBE 21 with Interface Box gt gt COM port connected to Interface Box RS 232C connector Baud rate between Interface Box and computer must be greater than or equal to baud rate between SBE 21 and Interface Box and must agree with Interface Box setup user programmed to 1200 2400 4800 9600 or 19200 Parity and data bits between SBE 21 and Interface Box and between Interface Box and computer must agree with SBE 21 and Interface Box setting user programmed to 7 data bits even parity e SBE 45 with optional Interface Box gt gt
172. ort water sampler TCP IP input and output ports serial data output etc as well as size placement and setup for each display window The configuration con file defines the instrument sensors sensor channels calibration coefficients etc SEASAVE uses this information to convert the raw data stream into engineering units for display during real time data acquisition Sea Bird supplies a con file with each instrument The con file must match the existing instrument configuration Section 2 Installation and Use e Options gt Prompt to save program setup changes If selected when you exit SEASAVE by selecting Exit in the File menu or clicking the close button in the upper right hand corner of the window SEASAVE prompts you to save the program setup psa file if desired gt Automatically save program setup changes on exit If selected when you exit SEASAVE by selecting Exit in the File menu or clicking the close button in the upper right hand corner of the window SEASAVE automatically saves the program setup psa file before exiting Note If neither Prompt to save program setup changes or Automatically save program setup changes on exit is selected SEASAVE will not provide a warning and will not save changes to the program setup file before exiting and contain current sensor calibration gt Confirm Instrument Configuration Change If selected Save amp Exit information A display setup d
173. other dialog box e Miscellaneous Define miscellaneous parameters required for output of specific variables depth average sound velocity descent rate acceleration oxygen plume anomaly potential temperature anomaly e Pump Control Enable user pump control for a custom SBE 9plus 2 Define output parameters see Section 6 Configure Outputs e Serial Data Out Enable and set up output of selected raw and or converted data engineering units to a COM port on your computer e Serial Ports Define COM ports and other communication parameters for CTD water sampler and 9plus pump control serial data output and SBE 14 Remote Display e Shared File Out Enable and set up output of selected raw and or converted data engineering units to a shared file on your computer e Mark Variables Set up format for marking of selected data scans e TCP IP Out Enable and set up output of raw or converted data to TCP IP ports e TCP IP Ports Define ports for communication with SEASAVE and with remote bottle firing software e SBE 11plus Alarms for SBE 9plus 11plus only Enable and set up 11plus Deck Unit alarm minimum and maximum pressure alarm and altimeter alarm if altimeter integrated with 9p us CTD e SBE 14 Remote Display if SBE 14 connected to a computer COM port Enable and set up output of data to an SBE 14 and set up SBE 14 alarm minimum and maximum pressure alarm altimeter alarm if altimeter integrated
174. p Delgrosso JASA Oct 1974 Vol 56 No 4 s salinity t temperature deg C ITPS 68 p pressure in decibars double c000 dct dcs dcp decstp sv c000 1402 392 p p 9 80665 convert pressure from decibars to KG CM 2 dct 0 501109398873e1 0 550946843172e 1 0 22153596924e 3 t t t dcs 0 132952290781e1 0 128955756844e 3 s s dcp 0 156059257041e0 0 244998688441e 4 0 83392332513e 8 p p p destp 0 127562783426e 1 t s 0 635191613389e 2 t p 0 265484716608e 7 t t O 159349479045e 5 amp p p 0 52211643723568 9 t top p p 0 438031096213e 6 t p 0 161674495909e 8 s s p p 0 968403156410e 4 t t s 0 485639620015e 5 s p 03405970390046 3 t s p sv c000 dct dcs dcp dcstp return sv sound velocity Wilson double SndVelW double s double t double p wilson JASA 1960 32 1357 s salinity t temperature deg C ITPS 68 p pressure in decibars double pr sd a v0 vl sv pr O0 101L9716 p 10 2325 sd s 35 0 a 7 9851e 6 t 2 6045e 4 t 4 4532e 2 t 4 5721 t 1449 14 sv 7 771le 7 t 1 1244e 2 t 1 39799 v0 1 69202e 3 sd sv sd a a 4 5283e 8 t 7 4812e 6 t 1 8607e 4 t 0 16072 sv 1 579e 9 t 3 158e 8 t 7 7016e 5 vl sv sd a a 1 8563e 9 t 2 5294e 7 t 1 0268e 5 sv 1 2943e 7 sd a a 1 9646e 1
175. p data format See reply from DS CC see reply from DS Firmware version Version gt 20 F Select to include time of each scan seconds e Surface PAR Select if using with Real time data output rate h scan sec since January 1 1970 GMT with data deck unit connected to Surface PAR sensor SEASAVE appends Surface Surface PAR voltage added I Scan time added PAR data to every scan Adds 2 channels to Channel Sensor table NMEA position data added Shaded sensors cannot be removed or changed to Do not increase External voltage another type of sensor All others are optional channels to reflect this External Channel Panay i voltage channels reflects only external voltages going directly to 1 Frequency Temperature New to create new con file for this CTD Open SBE 25 from auxiliary sensor See Application Note 47 NMEA Select if using with deck unit 3 Pressure voltage Pressure Strain Gauge Save connected to NMEA navigation 4 A D voltage 0 Oxygen SBE 43 device SEASAVE adds current latitude longitude and universal 5 A D voltage 1 Fluorometer Chelsea Aqua 3 time code to data header appends 6 SPAR voltage Unavailable 2 Frequency Conductivity Open to select different con file Save or Save As to save current con file Save As settings NMEA data to every scan and lS nD z writes NMEA data A nav file every 7 SPAR voltage SPAR Surtace Irradiance Click a sensor time Ctrl F7 is
176. r Input in the Water Sampler setup Step 1 select the bottle you want to fire next When desired click Fire Bottle When SEASAVE receives a bottle fired confirmation from a water sampler it e for SBE 911 plus with SBE 32 Carousel Water Sampler or G O 1016 or SBE 19 19plus 19plus V2 or 25 with SBE 33 Deck Unit and SBE 32 Carousel Water Sampler or SBE 19 19plus 19plus V2 or 25 with SBE 33 Deck Unit and SBE 55 ECO Water Sampler Writes a line to an output file same filename as the data file with a bl extension The bl file contains the bottle firing sequence number bottle position date time and beginning and ending scan number to provide 1 5 seconds of scans for the fired bottle e for SBE 91 plus with G O 1015 Sets the bottle confirm bit in the data hex file for all scans within a 1 5 second duration after a bottle firing confirmation is received 98 Section 8 Real Time Data and Real Time Control Real Time Data Acquisition Notes e The Fire Bottle button in the Bottle Fire dialog box is inaccessible until you start saving data to a file So if you did not select Begin archiving data immediately or selected Begin archiving data when Start Archiving command is sent and did not yet send the Start Archiving command the Fire Bottle button is grayed out If desired you can fire bottles without using the Bottle Fire dialog box if you are set up for a G O 1015 Hydro Bios or IOW water sampler
177. r file Note Diagnostics log s enabled on Diagnostics tab in Configure Outputs is automatically output regardless of selection here Help Stay xit Cancel Save archived data setup all parameters input on or accessible through this dialog box including con and data file Start archived data playback names number of scans to skip over at start etc to buffer If you then save program setup psa file the next time you select Start in Archived Data menu Playback Archived Data dialog box will appear with your saved selections 102 Section 9 Archived Data Displaying Archived Data 2 Click Start to begin processing and displaying data 3 To pause and restart data display A Inthe Archived Data menu select Pause The data display stops but SEASAVE retains information on where it stopped B When ready to restart the display where it stopped pull down the Archived Data menu You will see a check mark next to Pause select Pause to restart Note 4 To adjust rate that data is displayed rate that was entered in Playback Archived data playback can be very Archived Data dialog box as Data playback rate In the Archived Data fast if No Wait is selected if there is no menu select Faster Slower or No Wait No Wait plays back data at the scrolled view display For an example fastest possible speed which is useful for quick creation of plots data file with 392 000 scans archived equivalent to setting up the playback
178. re Inputs C Documents and Settings dbresko My Documents nmeatest con Configure Inputs Configure Outputs Timeout in seconds at startup a Timeout in seconds between scans 2d Report Help Start real time data acquisition Save real time data setup all parameters input on or accessible through this dialog box including con and data file names input and output configuration timeouts etc to buffer If you then save program setup psa file the next time you select Start in Real Time Data menu Start Real Time Data Acquisition dialog box will appear with your saved selections 95 Section 8 Real Time Data and Real Time Control Real Time Data Acquisition 2 Click Start to begin processing and displaying data A Ifyou selected Begin archiving data immediately or Begin archiving data when Start Archiving command is sent above and selected Prompt for Header Information in the Header Form setup Configure acquisition is canceled timed out while Outputs the Header Information dialog box appears Fill in the trying to acquire data see desired header and click OK Troubleshooting below for suggestions B If you set up a water sampler in Configure Inputs SEASAVE sends a on possible causes and solutions Reset command to the water sampler and waits up to 60 seconds for Outputs and displays can be confirmation reconfigured without interrupting data C Ifyou selected NMEA position
179. re at pr using atg procedure for adiabadic lapse rate Fofonoff N Deep Sea Res 24 489 491 s salinity t0 local temperature deg C ITPS 68 p0 local pressure in decibars pr reference pressure in decibars double p t h xk q temp p0 t0 pr p h ATG s t p 0 5 xk xk 0 5 h h ATG s t p 0 29289322 xk q 0 58578644 xk 0 121320344 q h ATG s t p 1 707106781 xk q 3 414213562 xk 4 121320344 q 0 5 h k h ATG s t p temp t xk 2 0 q 6 0 return temp xT OQ TX QteKTQtxK Fct d potential temperature ITS 90 6 s t p pr 1 00024 C potential temperature anomaly potential temperature a0 a1 x salinity or potential temperature a0 al x Sigma theta Note Enter a0 and al and select salinity or sigma theta on the Miscellaneous tab in Configure Inputs plume anomaly potential temperature s t p Reference Pressure Theta B Theta Z Salinity Z salinity Salinity B Note Enter Theta B Salinity B Theta Z Salinity Z and Reference Pressure on the Miscellaneous tab in Configure Inputs specific conductivity C 10 000 1 A T 25 microS cm C conductivity S m T temperature C A thermal coefficient of conductivity for a natural salt solution 0 019 0 020 Sea Bird software uses 0 020 118 Appendix IV Derived Parameter Formulas
180. re sensor strain gauge or Digiquartz must match Pressure sensor type in con file clk 32767 766 iop 172 vmain 8 1 vlith 5 8 mode PROFILE ncasts 0 Mode must be profile MP if setting up con file for SBE 19 create con file for SBE 16 for SBE 19 in moored mode MM sample rate 1 scan every 0 5 seconds Sample rate SR must match 0 5 second intervals in con file minimum raw conductivity frequency for pump turn on 3206 hertz pump delay 40 seconds samples 0 free 174126 lwait 0 msec battery cutoff 7 2 volts number of voltages sampled 2 Number of auxiliary voltage sensors enabled SVn must match External voltage channels in con file logdata NO 29 Section 3 Configure Inputs Part Instrument Configuration con file SBE 19plus SEACAT Profiler Configuration Configuration for the SBE 1Splus Seacat CTD Channel Sensor table reflects this choice 0 1 2 3 or 4 Must agree with 19p us setup for VoltN N 0 1 2 and 3 see reply from DS Voltage channel 0 in con file corresponds to first external voltage in data stream voltage channel 1 to second external voltage in data stream etc Interval between scans in Moored mode SEASAVE uses this to calculate elapsed time if you select time as a parameter for a display window Must agree with 19p us setup Samplelnterval see reply from DS e Surface PAR Select if using with deck unit connected to Surfa
181. release However because of the wide range of instruments that Sea Bird produces and interfaces with and the many applications that these instruments are used in there may be software problems that have not been discovered and corrected If a problem occurs please contact us via phone 425 643 9866 e mail seabird seabird com or fax 425 643 9954 with the following information e Instrument serial number e Version of the software originally shipped with the instrument e Version of the software you are attempting to run e Complete description of the problem you are having If the problem involves the configuration or setup of the software in most cases a phone call to Sea Bird will be sufficient to solve the problem If you phone we would appreciate it if you would be ready to run the software during the phone conversation If the problem involves data analysis or processing you may be asked to send a sample of the data to Sea Bird for evaluation If you discover a reproducible bug please document the steps required to create the problem and send a report to Sea Bird We also welcome suggestions for new features and enhancements Known Bugs Compatibility Issues Note The date in the System Upload Time must be in the format Mmm dd yyyy for example Nov 09 2007 with the month capitalized and a space between the month day and year 1 SEASOFT DOS terminal programs TERM19 TERM25 etc may not run when S
182. results from fluorometer channel in SCUFA see Turner SCUFA in fluorometer equations above Note SEASAVE can process data for an instrument interfacing with up to two Turner SCUFA sensors Oxidation Reduction Potential ORP Calibration Coefficients Enter M B and offset mV Oxidation reduction potential M voltage B offset Enter M and B from calibration sheet 51 Section 4 Configure Inputs Part II Calibration Coefficients Notes e See Application Notes 13 1 and 13 3 for complete description of calculation of calibration coefficients for Beckman or YSI type sensors e See Application Notes 64 and 64 2 for complete description of calculation of calibration coefficients for the SBE 43 e Oxygen values computed by SEASAVE and SBE Data Processing s Data Conversion module are somewhat different from values computed by SBE Data Processing s Derive module Both algorithms compute the derivative of the oxygen signal with respect to time with a user input window size for calculating the derivative gt Quick estimate SEASAVE and Data Conversion use a window looking backward in time to compute the derivative because they share common code and SEASAVE cannot use future values while acquiring real time data gt Most accurate results Derive uses a centered window equal number of points before and after scan to compute the derivative The window size is input on Configure Inputs Miscellaneous t
183. rk correctly on computers running Windows 98 2000 and NT If the editing is not performed using this technique SBE Data Processing may reject the edited data file and give you an error message 1 Make a back up copy of your hex data file before you begin 2 Run WordPad 3 Inthe File menu select Open The Open dialog box appears For Files of type select All Documents Browse to the desired hex data file and click Open 4 Edit the file as desired inserting any new header lines after the System Upload Time line Note that all header lines must begin with an asterisk and END indicates the end of the header An example is shown below with the added lines in bold Sea Bird SBE 21 Data File FileName C Odis SAT2 ODIS oct14 19 o0c15_99 hex Software Version Seasave Win32 v1 10 Temperature SN 2366 Conductivity SN 2366 System UpLoad Time Oct 15 1999 10 57 19 Testing adding header lines Must start with an asterisk NMEA Latitude 30 59 70 N NMEA Longitude 081 37 93 W NMEA UTC Time Oct 15 1999 10 57 19 Store Lat Lon Data Append to Every Scan and Append to NAV File When lt Ctrl F7 gt is Pressed AX Shicps Sea Bird Cruise Sea Bird Header Test Station Latitude Longitude END eH 4 HF HF HF OF 104 Place anywhere between System Upload Time amp END of header Section 10 Processing Data 5 Inthe File menu select Save not Sa
184. roscientific Digiquartz Calibration Coefficients 44 Bottles Closed HB IOW Calibration Coefficients 0 0 00 ee eeeeeeeeees 44 Sound Velocity TOW Calibration Coefficients cccecceseeteereeeeees 44 Calibration Coefficients for A D Count Sensors cceeceeeeceteeceeteceeeeeeneeaees 45 Temperature Calibration Coefficients ccceecccesecesecseeereeeseeeeeeeeeenseees 45 Pressure Strain Gauge Calibration Coefficients eee eeeeeeeeeeeeteenees 45 Calibration Coefficients for Voltage Sensors ccccccesceesseeseeeeesseeseeeneeenes 46 Pressure Strain Gauge Calibration Coefficients ee eeeseseeereeeeeees 46 Altimeter Calibration Coefficients ccecceseecseseceeeeeceeeeeeeeceeseeeeneeneeaes 46 Fluorometer Calibration Coefficients 10 0 0 cceeceesecseeeeceeeeeeeeceeeeeeeeaees 46 Methane Sensor Calibration Coefficients 0 0 00 ce eeeeeeceteeeeeseceeeeeenereees 50 OBS Nephelometer Calibration Coefficients ccscecceseecesteeneeeeenereres 50 Oxidation Reduction Potential ORP Calibration Coefficients 51 Oxygen Calibration Coefficients c cccecccesceeseceecesecseeeaeeeseeseeeeeeneeses 52 PAR Irradiance Calibration Coefficients 0 ce ceeeeeeeeceeeeeeeceeeeenereees 53 PH Calibration Coefficients ccceecesecssecsceesseeseeeeecseeeseeeeeeeeeeneenereeeens 54 Pressure FGP voltage output Calibration Coefficients cesses 54 Suspended Sediment Calibration Coefficien
185. rting calibration coefficients 41 Exporting display 82 F File extensions 16 File formats 16 Firing bottles 98 Fixed display 83 Fluorometer 46 Formulas 113 Frequency sensors 42 G Geopotential anomaly 114 Getting started 14 GPS display 92 100 Gravity 65 H Header form 78 Index 128 I Importing calibration coefficients 41 Importing display 81 Input miscellaneous 65 pump control 66 serial ports 57 TCP IP 64 water sampler 60 Installation 9 Instrument configuration 18 108 Irradiance 53 119 J Java application 63 73 123 L Lat Lon display 92 100 Latitude 65 M Manual bottle fire 60 61 Mark scan 72 100 Mark variables 72 100 Menus 12 Methane 50 Miscellaneous 65 Mixed mode bottle fire 61 N Navigation display 92 100 Nephelometer 50 NMEA display 92 100 O OBS 50 Options 106 ORP 51 Output diagnostics 80 header 78 mark variables 72 SBE 11plus 75 SBE 14 Remote Display 69 76 serial data 68 69 shared file 70 TCP IP 73 74 Overview 10 Oxidation reduction potential 51 Oxygen 52 65 119 P PAR 53 119 Parameter formulas 113 PC alarm 77 pH 54 Playback archived data 102 Plot display 85 Plume anomaly 65 118 Port serial 57 69 TCP IP 64 73 74 Potential temperature 118 Potential temperature anomaly 65 118 Pressure 44 45 46 54 Pressure
186. s ae that fall outside Minimum to Maximum range will plot at minimum or a eee Minimum maximum as applicable unless Plot axis on linear or Auto page this axis selected logarithmic scale k Maximum If Auto page this axis selected Logarithmic scale display pages up or down if data falls 7 is axi outside minimum maximum range Plot axis from highest to lowest J Reverse scale direction Bo Example You set up axis for 0 10 C value Typically used when pressure or depth is plotted on Y axis so pressure depth starts at 0 at top of plot and increases as you move down vertically but actual cast exceeds 10 C Minimum maximum adjusts to 10 to 20 C to continue to display data Help OK Cancel 87 Section 7 Display Setting Up SEASAVE Displays Print Options Tab The print options tab defines the size and orientation for when the plot is output to the printer The Print Options tab looks like this xj Piot Setup YAris XAxis 1 X Axis 2 Ptint Options Save Options Copy Options Orientation Landscape Portrait or print Driver default Full page scale plot to fit s WM 8 5x11 inch page If selected Onentation Driver default remaining items are grayed out I Full page Size determined by Print in black and white e Plot display size dimensions of Print in black and white If plot as shown on screen or selected SEASAVE makes Size determined by
187. s and 19plus V2 configured with a strain gauge pressure sensor and for all SBE 49s Enter pA0 pA1 pA2 ptempA0O ptempA1 ptempA2 pTCAO pTCA1 pTCA2 pTCBO pTCB1 and pTCB2 from the calibration sheet Offset is normally zero but may be changed for non zero sea surface condition For example if the in air pressure reading is negative enter an equal positive value 45 Section 4 Configure Inputs Part II Calibration Coefficients Calibration Coefficients for Voltage Sensors Note Unless noted otherwise SEASAVE supports only one of each auxiliary sensor model on a CTD for example you cannot specify two Chelsea Minitracka fluorometers but you can specify a Chelsea Minitracka and a Chelsea UV Aquatracka fluorometer See the sensor descriptions in below for those sensors that SEASAVE supports in a redundant configuration two or more of the same model interfacing with the CTD Note See Calibration Coefficients for A D Count Sensors above for information on strain gauge pressure sensors used on the SBE 16plus 16plus V2 19plus 19plus V2 and 49 See Calibration Coefficients for Frequency Sensors above for information on Paroscientific Digiquartz pressure sensors Note To enter the altimeter alarm set point alarm hysteresis and minimum pressure to enable alarm click the PC Alarms SBE 11plus Alarms and or SBE 14 Remote Display tabs as applicable in SEASAVE s Configure Outputs For all calibratio
188. s NMEA data to nav file every 3 A D voltage 0 time Ctrl F7 is pressed or Add to nav 4 A D voltage 1 PAR Irradiance Biospherical Licor File is clicked see Adding NMEA Data to nav File in Section 8 Real Time Data and Real Time Control Real Time Data Acquisition Click a non shaded sensor and click Select to pick a z different sensor for that channel A dialog box with a Select list of sensors appears Select sensors after number icy Click a sensor and click M od fy of voltage channels have been specified above Modify to change calibration coefficients for that sensor Opens a txt file for viewing and printing only cannot be modified that eve ave Cancel shows all parameters in con file Click to exit dialog box If you made changes and did not Save or Save As SEASAVE asks if you want to save changes Shown below is an example status DS response in SEATERM that corresponds to the setup shown in the Configuration dialog box above Shown below the appropriate lines are the commands used in SEATERM to modify the setup of parameters critical to use of the SBE 16 with SEASAVE as well as any explanatory information SEACAT V4 0h SERIAL NO 1814 07 14 95 09 52 52 082 If pressure sensor installed pressure sensor information appears here in status response must match Pressure sensor type in con file clk 32767 789 iop 103 vmain 8 9 vlith 5 9 sample interval 15 se
189. s to comply with laws pertaining to product liability including laws which impose a duty to warn the user of any dangers involved in operating this equipment Therefore acceptance of this system by the customer shall be conclusively deemed to include a covenant by the customer to defend indemnify and hold SEA BIRD ELECTRONICS INC harmless from all product liability claims arising from the use or servicing of this system Table of Contents Table of Contents Section 1 Introduction sarisini ara anaren aara 6 How to Contact Sea Bird mereinen ien aa a aieas 6 SUMMIMALY oineta i e OE EEE E E E ER OA EEE EEEE 6 Differences from SEASAVE Win32 sssesieseessesiseesressssesrstrrsesersrsrsrrersesrerrerse 8 Section 2 Installation and Use sesesesessesorsesesecocoesoroesesecoesosoesesesecoesoroeseoeeoee 9 Installation s s ic aecenuraictl iets seis ee ei ae ee a tin 9 SEASAVE Use isiccciedidi nichts EEEE AEE OEE RAE aN 10 Getting Started nnnc a e E E REE E E E EER 14 Displaying Archived Data Sea Bird Demo Files ce cceeeeeeeeeeeeeeees 14 Acquiring and Displaying Real Time Data 0 0 ee ceeeceeeeceteeeeteeneeeeeees 15 Pile Formats serenitas g E E e aa N beth E EE 16 Section 3 Configure Inputs Part I Instrument Configuration con file essessesoosoesessoesesoossesoosossessesoessesessose 18 Nenia Oe LOTEA th Oi AN AEE TE E A EE E EET 18 Instrument Configuration sessioni seereis ieee isesi essesi sisisi 18 Viewing
190. sa file defines the size placement and setup for a display window The information in the dsa file is also incorporated into the program setup psa file You can import and export dsa files allowing you to create the desired displays once and then reuse them later for other instruments deployments Even if you do not export the display setup to a separate dsa file the changes in the display are incorporated in the psa file the next time you save the psa file See Section 7 Display Setting Up SEASAVE Displays button in Configuration dialog box changes to Exit when you click Exit SEASAVE prompts you to save the configuration con file changes if desired Otherwise clicking Save amp Exit automatically saves the configuration changes gt Confirm Display Setup Change If selected when you close a Display window SEASAVE prompts you to save the display setup dsa file if desired If not selected SEASAVE will not save the display settings to a dsa file gt Confirm Output File Overwrite If selected SEASAVE provides a warning if you select an existing file name for a data output file and or shared output file Otherwise SEASAVE does not provide a warning and overwrites the data in the existing file gt Check Scan Length If selected SEASAVE checks the data scan length against the expected length based on setup of the con file during real time data acquisition and or archived data playbac
191. sample 0 020 Linear regression to this data yields slope 1 188 and offset 0 013 Chelsea UV Aquatracka Enter A and B Concentration ug l A 10 0 B where A and B are from calibration sheet V is output voltage measured by CTD Chelsea Minitracka Enter Vacetone Vacetone100 and offset Concentration 100 V Vacetone Vacetone100 Vacetone offset where Vacetone voltage with 0 ug l chlorophyll and Vacetone100 voltage with 100 ug l chlorophyll are from calibration sheet Dr Haardt Fluorometer Chlorophyll a Phycoerythrin or Yellow Substance Enter AO Al BO and B1 These instruments may have automatic switching between high and low gains Select the gain range switch gt Output Voltage Level if the instrument indicates gain by output voltage level lt 2 5 volts is low gain gt 2 5 volts is high gain Low gain value AO Al V High gain value BO B1 V gt Modulo Bit if the instrument has control lines custom wired to bits in the SBE 9plus modulo word Bit not set value A0 A1 V Bit set value BO B1 V gt None ifthe instrument does not change gain value AO Al V where V voltage from sensor Dr Haardt Voltage Level Switching Examples Example Chlorophyll a Low range scale 10 mg l and Gain 10 2 5 4 mg l volt A0 0 0 Al 4 0 High range scale 100 mg l and Gain 100 2 5 40 mg I volt BO 100 B1 40 0 Section 4 Configure Inputs Part II
192. select Run The Run dialog box appears e An alternative method of running Enter the command line parameter s as shown below SEASAVE with a Command Line Parameter is from a command Path seasave exe parameter parameter2 prompt where Path is the location of seasave exe on your computer and one or more command line parameters are listed Examples e C Program Files Sea Bird SeasaveV7 seasave exe autostart C Test Directory test psa automatically start SEASAVE and data acquisition based on setup in test psa and save data to hex file specified in test psa e C Program Files Sea Bird SeasaveV7 seasave exe autostart C Test Directory test psa u enable 2 parameters shown automatically start SEASAVE and data acquisition based on setup in test psa but ignore hex file specified in psa and save data to a uniquely named hex file e C Program Files Sea Bird SeasaveV7 seasave exe autofireondowncast automatically start SEASAVE In SEASAVE when you select Configure Inputs click on Water Sampler tab select a water sampler select auto fire firing sequence and click Auto Fire Pressures amp Positions button dialog box shows that bottles will be fired on downcast instead of upcast 2 SEASAVE opens The functions specified by the command line parameters are enabled If autostart was used data acquisition starts Running SEASAVE with Autostop Parameter The Autostop param
193. sicessscscevesidedeesstsateeevfactueetavesaceieecasencavestteseeels 123 Firing Bottles via TCP IP from a Remote Computer ccceeeeeeeteereeeeees 125 EECa T AEE E A A E A 127 Section 1 Introduction Section 1 Introduction This section includes contact information and a brief description of SEASOFT Win32 and its components How to Contact Sea Bird Sea Bird Electronics Inc 1808 136 Place Northeast Bellevue Washington 98005 USA Telephone 425 643 9866 Fax 425 643 9954 E mail seabird seabird com Website http www seabird com Business hours Monday Friday 0800 to 1700 Pacific Standard Time 1600 to 0100 Universal Time Except from April to October when we are on summer time 1500 to 0000 Universal Time Summary Note The following SEASOFT DOS calibration modules are not yet available in SEASOFT Win32 e OXFIT compute oxygen calibration coefficients OXFITW compute oxygen calibration coefficients using Winkler titration values OXSAT compute oxygen saturation as a function of temperature and salinity e PHFIT compute pH coefficients See the SEASOFT DOS manual SEASOFT Win32 consists of modular menu driven routines for acquisition display processing and archiving of oceanographic data acquired with Sea Bird equipment SEASOFT Win32 is designed to work with a PC running Windows 2000 or later SEASOFT Win32 is actually several stand alone programs e SEATERM and Sea
194. socket using e Send converted data through defined port to another TCP IP is selected on TCP IP Out tab in Configure Outputs application on same computer or to another computer e Send raw data through defined port to another application on Send converted data default 43161 49161 same computer or to another computer Sere ea Gute default 49160 ETT Make the desired selections Click OK or click another tab in Note Configure Outputs Appendix V Seasave Remote for Remote Display and Bottle Firing and Appendix VI Java Applications for Remote Display and Bottle Firing provide information on Sea Bird software that can be installed on a remote computer for viewing data and firing bottles 74 Section 6 Configure Outputs SBE 11plus Alarms SEASAVE can set up an alarm in the SBE 11plus Deck Unit based on minimum and maximum pressures and or for an altimeter integrated with the SBE 9plus CTD Notes e Altimeter alarm is available only if selected configuration con file has a 9plus CTD with altimeter The 11p us alarm also operates on input from a bottom contact Click Configure Outputs In the Configure Outputs dialog box click the switch on the 9plus No setup is SBE 11plus Alarms tab required in SEASAVE for the bottom contact switch Configure Outputs C Program Files Sea Bird Seasave 7 Seasave psa Serial Data Out Serial Ports Shared File Out Mark Variables TCP IP Ou
195. some bottles with auto fire of Pressure Bottle other bottles 950 00000 no Configure Inputs a For fresh water algorithm ignores gravity variation with 750 00000 Poo latitude because fresh water applications are usually shallow and effect of gravity variation is insignificant 650 00000 2 550 00000 fe Bottles may be closed in any order desired Enter pressures depths in any order when you 450 00000 3 click OK SEASAVE reorders list from deepest to shallowest you can see reordered list by clicking 350 00000 E Auto Fire Pressures amp Positions again on Water S ler tab 250 00000 f4 il eel as 200 00000 fi 0 Surface 150 00000 5 Bottle closure fi 00 00000 fi 1 De ae aan Fire bottles on upcast when pressure depth 50 000000 fe is less than set close to expected 25 000000 fi 2 maximum cast pressure depth Cancel Help Make the desired selections Click OK 61 Section 5 Configure Inputs Part III Serial Ports Water Sampler TCP IP Ports Miscellaneous and Pump Control Input values for each bottle firing as pressures db or depth meters Dialog box text changes to correspond Enable mixed mode allowing manual firing of some bottles with auto firing of other bottles Bottles with pressure or depth greater than 10 500 for example bottle 1 is set to fire at 15 000 or less than 0 for example bottle 12 is set to fire at 50 will not be fired automatically ensurin
196. ssing s Formulas for the computation of salinity density potential temperature Data Conversion Derive and specific volume anomaly and sound velocity were obtained from Algorithms SsacalcW modules ar identical for computation of fundamental properties of seawater by N P Fofonoff and except as noted R C Millard Jr Unesco technical papers in marine science 44 1983 e Temperature used for calculating derived variables is IPTS 68 Following the recommendation of JPOTS Tes is assumed to be 1 00024 T 2 to 35 C Equations are provided for the following oceanographic parameters e density density sigma theta sigma 1 sigma 2 sigma 4 sigma t e thermosteric anomaly e specific volume e specific volume anomaly e geopotential anomaly e dynamic meters e depth salt water fresh water e seafloor depth salt water fresh water e salinity e sound velocity Chen Millero DelGrosso Wilson e average sound velocity e potential temperature reference pressure 0 0 decibars e potential temperature anomaly e plume anomaly e specific conductivity e derivative variables descent rate and acceleration e oxygen requires pressure temperature and conductivity as well as oxygen current and oxygen temperature for SBE 13 or 23 or oxygen signal for SBE 43 e corrected irradiance CPAR 113 Appendix IV Derived Parameter Formulas density p p s t p kg m density of seawater with salinity s te
197. st depends on what fonts are installed on computer Font and font size apply to everything on plot title axis labels numbers on grid etc Inside and Outside Background Color Color within and outside axes Black text axes Label all axes in black otherwise label colors are selected on axis tabs Show plot shadow Shadow effect to bottom and right of axes Monochrome plot Black and white plot Plot off scale data See drawing below Show fire sequence List closure order to right of plot Show bottle lines Place horizontal lines in plot to indicate data associated with closures label style and color define line Redraw buffer size maximum of scans in buffer Previous scans are saved to temporary file s Note Not all scans are saved for redraw only scans that appear different from previous scans at screen resolution Queue size limit maximum of scans in queue If queue is full SEASAVE has not had enough time to keep up with processing scans are skipped For most applications leave at Redraw buffer size 4000 Queue size limit 10 The Plot Setup tab defines the overall plot characteristics number of axes plot layout title color font grid lines etc bottle firing display mark line display etc The Plot Setup tab looks like this Number of seconds between plot updates Time between each calculation of variables for updating plot each display can have di
198. t Latest version of con file for your instrument is supplied by Sea Bird when instrument is purchased upgraded or calibrated If you make changes to instrument add or remove sensors recalibrate etc you must update con file The con file can be viewed and or modified in SEASAVE s Configure Inputs on Instrument Configuration tab or in SBE Data Processing dsa SEASAVE display setup file defines size placement and setup for a display window Information in dsa file is also incorporated into program setup psa file You can import and export dsa files allowing you to create desired displays once and then reuse them later for other instruments deployments Even if you do not save display setup in a separate dsa file changes in display are incorporated in psa file next time you save psa file psa xml SEASAVE program setup file all information entered in Configure Inputs and Configure Outputs instrument con file path and name serial ports water sampler TCP IP input and output ports serial data output etc as well as size placement and setup for each display window The psa file can be selected and saved in SEASAVE s File menu Note that when you start SEASAVE it always opens to most recently used psa file Seasave ini in Windows directory contains a list of paths and file names for most recently used psa files To view click File and select Recent Setup Files Sensor calibrat
199. t TCP IP Ports SBE 11plus Alarms SBE 14 Remote Display PC Alarms Header Form Diagnostics Enable minimum maximum pressure alarm in 11plus see drawing below V Enable minimum pressure alarm Sound alarm when pressure is less than decibars 20 IV Enable maximum pressure alarm Sound alarm when pressure is greater than decibars 1000 Enable altimeter alarm in 11plus see drawing below V Enable altimeter alarm Set Alarm set point at altimeter reading where you Alarm set point meters 10 want alarm to sound Set Alarm hysteresis greater than expected ship T heave swell to prevent on off on off sounding of Minimum pressure to enable alarm decibars Set Minimum pressure to alarm caused by ship heave enable alarm greater than Example You want alarm to turn on at 10 m approximately 20 db to prevent set set point 10 m There is a 0 5 m swell Alarm for a bottom contact switch on SBE Splus is automatically alarm from turning on while set hysteresis 1 m which should be sufficient to enabled No setup is required CTD is on ship deck or as it is account for possible 0 5 m upward movement due entering water when altimeter to ship heave Alarm sounds at 10 m above sea is measuring distance to deck bottom and stays on until altimeter goes above or to top of water surface 11 m when it shuts off until it falls to 10 m again Alarm hysteresis meters Report Help OK
200. t I Instrument con File 3 In the Select Instrument Configuration File dialog box browse to the desired file and click Open 4 The configuration information appears on the Instrument Configuration tab Click Modify 5 In the Configuration dialog box click a sensor and click Modify to change the calibration coefficients for that sensor or right click on the sensor and select Modify Calibration or double click on the sensor the calibration coefficients dialog box for the sensor appears example is shown for a pH sensor SS S ti O Serial number _ Calibration date Slope jooo 0 Offset ooon Import Export IL o Cancel 40 Section 4 Configure Inputs Part II Calibration Coefficients Importing and Exporting Calibration Coefficients Calibration coefficient dialog boxes contain Import and Export buttons which can be used to simplify entering calibration coefficients These buttons are particularly useful when swapping sensors from one instrument to another allowing you to enter calibration coefficients without the need for typing or the resulting possibility of typographical errors An example dialog box is shown for a pH sensor x Serial number Calibration date U0 Slope jooo oo Offset ooo 2 SCOC Import Export IL o Cancel The Export button allows you to export coefficients for the selected sensor to an XML file If you move that sensor onto another instrum
201. tastream from an drive when you install SEASAVE the default location is SBE 911plus C Program Files Sea Bird SeasaveV 7 Demo The demo files include e a data file demo hex e an instrument configuration file demo con defines instrument sensors calibration coefficients etc e a program setup file demo psa The psa file defines all information entered in Configure Inputs and Configure Outputs instrument con file path and name CTD serial port water sampler TCP IP input and output ports serial data output etc as well as the size placement and setup for each display window Follow these steps to use SEASAVE to display archived data 1 In the File menu select Open Setup File The Open dialog box appears Browse to the desired file default location C Program Files Sea Bird Seasave V7 Demo select demo psa and click OK The display windows will now correspond to the selected psa file 2 Inthe Archived Data menu select Start 3 The Playback Archived Data dialog box appears see Section 9 Archived Data Displaying Archived Data A On the File tab click Select Data File The Select Data File dialog box appears Browse to the desired file default location C Program Files Sea Bird SeasaveV7 Demo demo hex and click Open B Click the Instrument Configuration tab Click Open The Select Instrument Configuration File dialog box appears Browse to the desired file default location C Program Fil
202. termAF terminal programs that send commands to instrument for status data acquisition setup data retrieval and diagnostics e SEASAVE V7 program that acquires real time data e SBE Data Processing program that converts edits processes and plots data e Plot39 program for plotting SBE 39 and SBE 48 data This manual covers only SEASAVE which e acquires real time raw data frequencies and voltages and saves the raw data to the computer for later processing e displays selected raw and or converted engineering units real time or archived data in text and plot displays Section 1 Introduction Additional SEASAVE features include the ability to e send commands to close water sampler bottles e save user input header information with the CTD data providing information that is useful for identifying the data set e output selected raw and converted engineering units data to a computer COM port or file on the computer e setup pressure altimeter and bottom contact switch alarms in the computer running SEASAVE e output data to and set up pressure altimeter and bottom contact switch alarms in an SBE 14 Remote Display e setup pressure and altimeter alarms in an SBE 1 Iplus Deck Unit e mark real time data to note significant events in a cast e input commands from remote software via TCP IP for controlling water sampler bottle firing e output raw data and selected converted engineering units data to remote software via TCP IP
203. ters Expand All Methane CAPSUM METS OBS Nephelometers Shrink Oxidation Reduction Potential PAR radiance Biospherical Licor pH Pressure FGP Suspended Sediment LISST 254 Transmissometers User Polynomial Zaps DEE H B A Cancel Double click on the desired sensor The Calibration Coefficients dialog box appears An example is shown below for a pH sensor Note ph 8 S ti n sinne o i catione Calibration Cooffcients Slope oo Offset jooo ooo Import Export IL o Cancel Enter the desired values and click OK gt To change a sensor s calibration coefficients In the Configuration dialog box click a sensor and click Modify to change the calibration coefficients for that sensor or right click on the sensor and select Modify Calibration or double click on the sensor The Calibration Coefficients dialog box appears example shown above See Section 4 Configure Inputs Part II Calibration Coefficients for calculation of coefficients 20 Section 3 Configure Inputs Part Instrument Configuration con file SBE 9plus Configuration Channel Sensor table reflects this choice Voltage 0 in con file corresponds to sensor wired to channel 0 on end cap connector voltage 1 to sensor wired to channel 1 on end cap connector etc Total voltage words 4 each word contains data from two 12 bit A D channels Deck Unit suppresses words above highest numbered voltage
204. the direct voltage and the other for the measured voltage Make sure to select both when configuring the instrument For the direct voltage channel enter vm0 vd0 d0 and k diffusion k vm vm0 vd vd0 d0 where k scale factor vm0 measured voltage offset vd0 direct voltage offset vm measured voltage vd direct voltage d0 diffusion offset Seapoint Turbidity Enter gain setting and scale factor output volts 500 scale factor gain where Scale factor is from calibration sheet Gain is dependent on cable used see cable drawing Note SEASAVE can process data for an instrument interfacing with up to two Seapoint Turbidity sensors Seatech LS6000 and WET Labs LBSS Enter gain setting slope and offset Output volts range 5 slope offset where Slope is from calibration sheet Range is based on sensor ordered see calibration sheet and cable dependent gain see cable drawing to determine if low or high gain Range for High Gain Range for Low Gain 2 25 7 5 7 5 25 75 250 225 750 33 100 Note SEASAVE can process data for an instrument interfacing with up to two Seatech LS6000 or WET Labs LBSS sensors Turner SCUFA Enter scale factor and offset NTU scale factor voltage offset corrected chlorophyll mx chlorophyll my NTU b where mx my and b coefficients entered for Turner SCUFA fluorometer chlorophyll
205. the sensors and the sensor calibration coefficients SEASAVE uses this information to convert the raw data stream into engineering units for display during real time data acquisition or archived data playback The con file discussion is in two parts e Instrument Configuration in this section Configuration dialog box for each instrument SBE 911 917plus 16 l6plus 16plus V2 19 19plus 19plus V2 21 25 45 and 49 e Section 4 Configure Inputs Part II Calibration Coefficients calculation of calibration coefficients for each type of frequency A D count and voltage sensor The discussion of instrument configuration is in two parts e General description of how to view modify or create a con file e Detailed description of the Configuration dialog box for each instrument 18 Section 3 Configure Inputs Part Instrument Configuration con file Viewing Modifying or Creating con File 1 To create a new con file Click Configure Inputs In the Configure Inputs dialog box click the Instrument Configuration tab Click Create In the Select an Instrument dialog box select the desired instrument and click OK Go to Step 3 2 To select and view or modify an existing con file Click Configure Inputs In the Configure Inputs dialog box click the Instrument Configuration tab Click Open In the Select Instrument Configuration File dialog box browse to the desired file and click Open The configuration information
206. through defined port in Configure Inputs Send status response bottle fire confirmations to another application on same computer or to another computer through Receive commands default 49167 49167 definediport Send status default 49168 431 68 Ports for publishing data to remote clients Define TCP IP ports to send data e Send converted data through defined port to another application on same computer or to another computer e Send raw data through defined port to another application on Send converted data default 49161 as161 same computer or to another computer p p Send raw data default 49160 SEJ Not applicable unless Dutput raw or converted data to socket using TCP IP is selected on TCP IP Out tab in Configure Outputs Enter the desired values Click OK or click another tab in Configure Inputs Note Appendix V Seasave Remote for Remote Display and Bottle Firing and Appendix VI Java Applications for Remote Display and Bottle Firing provide information on Sea Bird software that can be installed ona remote computer for viewing data and firing bottles 64 Section 5 Configure Inputs Part III Serial Ports Water Sampler TCP IP Ports Miscellaneous and Pump Control Miscellaneous The Miscellaneous tab defines parameters required for output of specific variables depth average sound velocity descent rate acceleration oxygen Parameter Formulas for details plume an
207. tialData Dut Serial Ports Shared Fie Out Mark Variables TCP IP Out TCP IP Ports SBE T1plusAlams SBE 14Remote Display PC Alarms HeaderFom Diagnostics V Enable minimum pressure alarm i Enable minimum maximum Sound alarm when pressure is less than decibars 20 pressure alarm in PC see drawing below V Enable maximum pressure alarm Sound alarm when pressure is greater than decibars i 000 Enable altimeter alarm in PC Set Alarm set Set Minimum pressure to enable alarm point at altimeter reading where you want M Enable altimeter alarm greater than approximately 20 db to alarm to sound Set Alarm hysteresis greater Alarm set point meters prevent alarm from turning on while CTD than expected ship heave swell to prevent is on ship deck or as it is entering water on off on off sounding of alarm caused by ship _ Alam hysteresis meters when altimeter is measuring distance to heave See drawing below deck or to top of water surface Example You want alarm to turn on at 10 m set set point 10 m There is a 0 5 m swell set hysteresis 1 m which should be V Enable bottom contact switch alarm sufficient to account for possible 0 5 m upward movement due to ship heave Alarm sounds at 10 m above sea bottom and stays on until altimeter goes above 11 m when it shuts off T until it falls to 10 m again i Set up and test alarm tone emitted by TestAlam C PCintemal speaker PC sound card Tans Cee
208. timeter is measuring distance to deck or to top of water surface Alarm hysteresis meters Minimum pressure to enable alarm decibars 20 Enable bottom contact switch alam Enable bottom contact switch alarm in SBE 14 Report Help OK Cancel Make the desired selections Click OK or click another tab in Configure Outputs Sea Surface Altimeter alarm not on regardless of altimeter reading Moz Minimum pressure db to enable altimeter alarm Atimeter alarm hysteresis m altimeter alarm stays on in this range after set point reached Altimeter alarm set point m Altimeter alarm on when altimeter in this range Sea Bottom 76 Section 6 Configure Outputs PC Alarms SEASAVE can set up an alarm in the personal computer PC that is running SEASAVE based on minimum and maximum pressures an altimeter integrated with the CTD and or a bottom contact switch integrated with the CTD Notes e Altimeter alarm is available only if selected configuration con file has a CTD with altimeter e Bottom contact switch alarm SBE 9plus Always available All other CTDs Available only if selected configuration con file has a CTD with bottom contact switch To enable and set up the alarms in the computer click Configure Outputs In the Configure Outputs dialog box click the PC Alarms tab Configure Outputs C Program Files Sea Bird Seasave 7 Seasave psa Se
209. to use of the SBE 45 with SEASAVE as well as any explanatory information SBE45 V 1 1 SERIAL NO 1258 logging data sample interval 1 seconds Sample interval Interval must match Sample interval seconds in con file output conductivity with each sample Enabling of conductivity output OutputCond must match Output conductivity in con file do not output salinity with each sample Enabling of salinity output OutputSal must match Output salinity in con file do not output sound velocity with each sample Enabling of sound velocity output OutputSV must match Output sound velocity in con file start sampling when power on do not power off after taking a single sample Power off after taking a single sample must be disabled SingleSample N to acquire data in SEASAVE do not power off after two minutes of inactivity A D cycles to average 2 38 Section 3 Configure Inputs Part Instrument Configuration con file SBE 49 FastCAT Configuration Configuration for the SBE 49 Fastcat CTD x Number of samples to average per scan SBE 49 samples at 16 Hz 0 0625 seconds averages data and transmits averaged data real time Must agree with SBE 49 setup NAvg see reply from DS Configuration file opened None Scans to average j Select to include time of each scan seconds Scan time added since January 1 1970 GMT with data Sil eee Seeenel New to create n
210. ts 0 ccccsceseeseseeeeeeeees 54 Transmissometer Calibration Coefficients cecesscceseceeeeecneeeeeeenereees 55 User Polynomial for user defined sensor Calibration Coefficients 56 Zaps Calibration Coefficients 0 ceeecsseeeceseseeeseceeeeecneeeeceaecaeeseeneeerenee 56 Table of Contents Section 5 Configure Inputs Part III Serial Ports Water Sampler TCP IP Ports Miscellaneous and Pump Control sccsscscsccsssecssesesees 57 Serial POrts 5 c sch seck E ENE dated coeiait E EE 57 CTD Serial Port Baud Rate Data Bits and Parity ceeeeesseereeereees 59 L Teran e lS PEE EE A AT 60 PEP IP POr E E A E E AE A AERA 64 NUSA ET EAE E EE AE ETE E TTE 65 Jedino AONNE n0 RERET E E E E eerie ee 66 Section 6 Configure OuUtputs sessesessessesoesseseosoesessossesoessescesoesessossessossesoes 67 Serial Data Outputs srra meena e a EE r EE EE s EEEa R sia 68 STT OS nr seat kee EE eRe A EA E 69 Shared File Outputs nre a a halen hae a ai 70 Mark Variables r a a theater A N E E a 72 TEPIP QUE rene A a A A AO 73 TEPIP PONS aeneo aa a a a 74 SBE TIplus Alarms A a a a a a a rear 75 SBE 14 Remote Display cccccccessesssessceesceeeceeeceeceaeeeaeceaeceecaeeeaeeeaeenneeerees 76 PG Alaris ahaaa a aaae tea le odode rats Ladiseis Gooarans oaa 77 Header Form ss Sues eiiet tits oh feet cada toes iecahes beau teateditents leds eA A ANE da 78 Dia SOSti GS 55s fs 35 Seed scates Laced EEE E EET 80
211. type sensor serial number 16 Oxygen Beckman YSI type M B K C SOC TCOR 17 Oxygen Beckman YSI type WT PCOR TAU BOC 18 pH sensor serial number 19 pH slope offset VREF 20 PAR light sensor serial number 21 PAR cal const multiplier M B surface_cc surface_r offset 22 Transmissometer SeaTech Chelsea AlphaTracka WET Labs Cstar sensor serial number 23 Transmissometer SeaTech Chelsea AlphaTracka WET Labs Cstar M B path length 24 Fluorometer SeaTech sensor serial number 25 Fluorometer SeaTech scale factor offset 26 Tilt sensor serial number 27 Tilt XM XB YM YB 28 ORP sensor serial number 29 ORP M B offset 30 OBS Nephelometer D amp A Backscatterance sensor serial number Sak OBS Nephelometer D amp A Backscatterance gain offset 32 Altimeter scale factor offset hyst min pressure hysteresis 33 Microstructure temperature sensor serial number 34 Microstructure temperature pre_m pre_b 35 Microstructure temperature num denom AO Al A3 36 Microstructure conductivity sensor serial number 37 Microstructure conductivity AO Al A2 38 Microstructure conductivity M B R 39 Number of external frequencies number of bytes number of voltages instrument type computer interface scan rate interval store system time 40 Data format channels 0 9 41 Data format channels 10 19 42 Data format channels 20 39 43 SBE 16 use water temperature fixed pressure fixed pressure temperature 44 Firmware v
212. up of the instrument configuration con file see Section 3 Configure Inputs Part I Instrument con File and Section 4 Configure Inputs Part II Calibration Coefficients Serial Ports The Serial Ports tab defines serial ports and other communication parameters for e Sending commands to and receiving replies from the CTD e Sending commands to and receiving replies from a water sampler through the SBE 1 lplus Deck Unit Modem Channel connector or SBE 33 Deck Unit Carousel Data connector e Sending pump control commands to a custom SBE 9plus through the SBE 1 1plus Deck Unit Modem Channel connector e Outputting data to a serial port for user defined purposes e Outputting converted data through a serial port to an SBE 14 Remote Display Serial port parameters can be defined in Configure Inputs or Configure Outputs if you make changes in one dialog box those changes will appear when you open the other dialog box 57 Section 5 Configure Inputs Part III Serial Ports Water Sampler TCP IP Ports Miscellaneous and Pump Control Click Configure Inputs In the Configure Inputs dialog box click the Serial Ports tab Defaults are shown for instrument selected on Instrument Configuration tab and are typical settings for that instrument If your instrument will not communicate at settings shown e Many instruments have a user programmable baud rate your instrument may have been programmed to CTD Senal Port c
213. urements per sample 2 Sample interval SampleInterval must match Sample interval seconds in con file samples 823 free 465210 run pump during sample delay before sampling 2 0 seconds transmit real time yes Real time data transmission must be enabled TxRealTime Y to acquire data in SEASAVE battery cutoff 7 5 volts pressure sensor strain gauge range 1000 0 Internal pressure sensor PType must match Pressure sensor type in con file SBE 38 yes SBE 50 no Gas Tension Device no Selection enabling of RS 232 sensors SBE38 SBE50 GTD DualGTD must match Serial RS 232C sensor in con file Ext Volt 0 yes Ext Volt 1 yes Ext Volt 2 no Ext Volt 3 no Number of external voltage sensors enabled Volt0 through Volt3 must match External voltage channels in con file echo commands yes output format raw HEX Output format must be set to raw Hex OutputFormat 0 to acquire data in SEASAVE serial sync mode disabled Serial sync mode must be disabled SyncMode N to acquire data in SEASAVE 25 Section 3 Configure Inputs Part Instrument Configuration con file SBE 16p us V2 SEACAT C T Recorder Configuration Channel Sensor table reflects this choice 0 1 2 3 4 5 or 6 Must agree with 16p us V2 setup for VoItN N 0 1 2 3 4 and 5 see reply from GetCD or DS Voltage channel 0 in con file corresponds to first extern
214. uts dialog box SEASAVE creates this as a temporary file and opens it in Notepad if you want to save it to document your settings select File Save As and enter desired file name and location e Configuration report file ConReport txt which documents con file settings created when you click Report in Configuration dialog box SEASAVE creates this as a temporary file and opens it in Notepad if you want to save it to document your settings select File Save As and enter desired file name and location e Diagnostics log files default SSLog txt and SALog txt created if you enable diagnostic log s on Diagnostics tab in Configure Outputs wmf xml Windows metafile graphic from Plot display when you click Save to file icon in plot toolbar or right click in plot and select Save as File in XML format e Output file created if you configure SEASAVE to output data to a shared file and select XML format e Sensor calibration coefficient file This file can be exported and or imported from the dialog box for a sensor This allows you to move a sensor from one instrument to another and update the instrument s con file while eliminating need for typing or resulting possibility of typographical errors 17 Section 3 Configure Inputs Part Instrument Configuration con file Section 3 Configure Inputs Part Instrument Configuration con file Note Setup of all parameters in Configure Inputs includ
215. ve As If you are running Windows 2000 the following message displays You are about to save the document in a Text Only format which will remove all formatting Are you sure you want to do this Ignore the message and click Yes 6 In the File menu select Exit 105 Appendix Command Line Operation Appendix I Command Line Operation SEASAVE has several command line parameters for infrequently used options Parameter Function autostart Automatically start SEASAVE and data acquisition using filename program setup psa file defined by filename Filename must include path and extension psa SEASAVE uses con file setup in Configure Inputs and Configure Outputs displays and output file name defined in psa file This allows you to set up system ahead of time and then have an untrained operator start acquisition without navigating through SEASAVE s menus u Ignore output hex file name defined in psa file and create a unique output hex file name based on current date and time When used with autostart command line option this allows you to set up system ahead of time and then have an untrained operator start and stop acquisition multiple times without navigating through SEASAVE s menus generating a unique output file for each data acquisition aa _ _ Automatically start SEASAVE and playback archived data filename using program setup psa file defined by filename Filename must include
216. y Turner SCUFA OBS serial number 249 Secondary Turner SCUFA OBS calibration date 250 Secondary Turner SCUFA OBS scale factor offset 251 OBS D amp A 3 serial number 252 OBS D amp A 3 calibration date 253 OBS D amp A 3 a0 al a2 254 Secondary OBS D amp A 3 serial number 255 Secondary OBS D amp A 3 calibration date 256 Secondary OBS D amp A 3 a0 al a2 257 SBE 16 19 19plus 21 25 or 49 scan time added 258 SBE 43 Oxygen sensor use Murphy Larson equation Soc2007 A B C E Voffset Tau20 DO D1 D2 259 Secondary SBE 43 Oxygen sensor use Murphy Larson equation Soc2007 A B C E Voffset Tau20 DO D1 D2 260 File version of SB_ConfigCTD dll which saved the con file 261 IFREMER OBS nephelometer sensor serial number 262 Primary Beckman Oxygen Temperature sensor calibration date 263 Primary Beckman Oxygen Temperature sensor serial number 264 Secondary Beckman Oxygen Temperature sensor calibration date 265 Secondary Beckman Oxygen Temperature sensor serial number 266 IOW Oxygen Temperature sensor calibration date 267 IOW Oxygen Temperature sensor serial number 268 Methane Gas Tension Capsum METS sensor calibration date 269 Methane Gas Tension Capsum METS sensor serial number 111 Appendix Ill Software Problems Appendix Ill Software Problems Considerable effort has been made to test and check this software before its

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