Sutron 8310 - Page 120

Sutron Corporation 8310 & 7310 Users Manual 8800-1125Rev. 2.7 (BETA) 4/16/2014 pg. 120
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NumAttempts
The NumAttempts property defines how many transmissions Satlink will make when the unit
first goes into alarm. This value is normally set to one. When set to a value other than one,
Satlink will make this number of transmissions with each transmission separated by Burst Rate
number of seconds.
Channel
This property defines the channel that Satlink will use to make the random transmission.
Type
This property defines the baud rate for the transmission. The valid selections are 100 and 300.
Format
Several formats are supported for random transmissions:
“Bin Int” is a binary interleaved format, identical to the 8210 binary transmission format. The
data are in the 6-bit pseudo binary format required by NESDIS.
“Bin NonInt” is a binary non-interleaved format. This format also uses the 6-bit pseudo binary
format but allows different amounts of data to be sent for each sensor. The data is not
interleaved, i.e., one sensor’s data set appears together in the transmission.
NumVals
This property defines the number of values to include in the random transmission. This value is
used for the BIN-INT transmission format to set the number of values to send for each sensor
(e.g. If set to 32 and 4 sensors are sending data, then a total of 128 data values are sent).
Group Label
The group label to include at the beginning of the pseudobinary random transmision. This is
typically “B2”, meaning “pseudo-binary, group 2”. Only the first three characters of what is
entered in this field is included in the transmission.
Append Lat/Lon
Satlink transmitters have a GPS (Global Positioning System) receiver which is capable of
determining its latitude and longitude. This check box instructs Satlink to add the Latitude and
Longitude to the end of each transmission.
Select Outputs (Random Settings)
This menu allows you to specify which outputs are included in random transmissions. Any
output can be included by setting TxContent to Include. For transmissions to actually occur, one
of the included outputs must have TxAlarmMode set to TxIn, meaning that entering an alarm on
the output should cause a transmission to occur.
When configuring an output for random messages, the following menu will be displayed.
Satlink COM2
M1.O1: TxContent Include
Sequence 1
NumVals 1
TxAlarmMode TxIn
DataInterval 00:15:00
DataTime 00:00:00
End Random Settings