LISST-200X User’s Manual Table of Contents Page vii
Table of Contents
I. LISST-200X INTRODUCTION AND TUTORIAL .................................................................... 1
A. LASER DIFFRACTION AND THE LISST-200X ............................................................................ 1
B. LISST-200X GENERAL DESCRIPTION .................................................................................... 4
C. LISST-200X QUICK START TUTORIAL .................................................................................... 7
II. LISST-200X OPERATION DETAILS .................................................................................... 31
D. STEP BY STEP PROCEDURES ............................................................................................... 32
1. Installing LISST-SOP Software..................................................................................... 32
2. Establishing Communication with the LISST-200X ...................................................... 33
3. Saving and Evaluating Clean Water Backgrounds ....................................................... 35
4. Configuring Data Collection .......................................................................................... 38
5. Using the Small External Battery Pack ......................................................................... 44
6. Using the Large External Battery Pack ......................................................................... 47
7. Offloading and Deleting Data Files from Internal Memory ........................................... 51
8. Processing a Single Raw Data File .............................................................................. 52
9. Batch Processing Multiple Raw Data Files ................................................................... 57
10. View Processed Data File ........................................................................................ 61
11. Data Quality Control ................................................................................................. 64
12. Simple Real-Time Data Processing ......................................................................... 66
13. Collecting Data from an External Analog Sensor ..................................................... 69
14. Configuring the LISST-200X as a Sensor for a CTD ............................................... 70
E. INSTRUMENT COMMUNICATION ............................................................................................. 71
F. LISST-200X COMMAND SUMMARY ...................................................................................... 75
G. LISST-200X COMMAND DETAILS ......................................................................................... 77
1. Display Commands ....................................................................................................... 77
2. Setup Commands ......................................................................................................... 81
3. Acquisition/Action commands ....................................................................................... 88
H. PERFORMANCE OPTIMIZATION ............................................................................................. 91
I. INSTRUMENT MOUNTING, DEPLOYMENT ORIENTATION, STORAGE AND MAINTENANCE ............. 94
APPENDIX A: TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS ........................................................................... 98
APPENDIX B: PARTICLE SIZE BINS ........................................................................................ 100
APPENDIX C: DATA FILE FORMATS ....................................................................................... 101
APPENDIX D: PROCESSING DATA FILES USING MATLAB .................................................. 104
APPENDIX E: CONNECTOR PINOUTS FOR LISST-200X ....................................................... 106
APPENDIX F: LISST-SOP SOFTWARE BUTTON DESCRIPTION ........................................... 110
APPENDIX G: SPHERICAL AND RANDOM PARTICLE SHAPE MODELS ............................. 112
APPENDIX H: TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE & TROUBLESHOOTING ..................................... 113
WARRANTY ................................................................................................................................ 115
REVISION HISTORY ................................................................................................................... 118
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