TeraBee TeraRanger Evo Thermal series User Manual

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TeraRanger Evo Thermal with:  
USB and UART backboards 
 
 
 
 
 
Technical support: ​
s upport@teraranger.com
Sales and commercial support: ​
t eraranger@terabee.com

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  • Page 1 User Manual for   TeraRanger Evo Thermal with:   USB and UART backboards            Technical support: ​ s upport@teraranger.com Sales and commercial support: ​ t eraranger@terabee.com...
  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    A.1.1 How to calculate CRC8 checksum for Evo Thermal A.1.2 How to calculate CRC32 checksum for Evo Thermal A.2 Sample code Copyright ​ © ​ T erabee 2018 Terabee, 90 Rue Henri Fabre 01630, St Genis-Pouilly, France (next to CERN) 2/20...
  • Page 3: Introduction

    The yellow backboard has two mounting holes for final installation. Please reference Figure 2 for visual instructions. Copyright ​ © ​ T erabee 2018 Terabee, 90 Rue Henri Fabre 01630, St Genis-Pouilly, France (next to CERN) 3/20...
  • Page 4 (ref. Section 3.1.2). Figure 3. Module orientation for correct thermal image. Evo Thermal 33.     Copyright ​ © ​ T erabee 2018 Terabee, 90 Rue Henri Fabre 01630, St Genis-Pouilly, France (next to CERN) 4/20...
  • Page 5: Mechanical Design

    ​ 2 .1​   Mechanical design    Figure 4. Evo Thermal 90 external dimensions Figure 5. Evo Thermal 33 external dimensions Copyright ​ © ​ T erabee 2018 Terabee, 90 Rue Henri Fabre 01630, St Genis-Pouilly, France (next to CERN) 5/20...
  • Page 6: Sensor Handling During System Assembly

    The virtual COM port should now be available on your PC. Users of Windows 10 do not need to download this driver as the built in Windows driver is recommended. Copyright ​ © ​ T erabee 2018 Terabee, 90 Rue Henri Fabre 01630, St Genis-Pouilly, France (next to CERN) 6/20...
  • Page 7: Basic Operation

    For the purposes of this instruction, Evo Thermal 33 sensor has been used. Figure 7. Graphical user interface: home screen Copyright ​ © ​ T erabee 2018 Terabee, 90 Rue Henri Fabre 01630, St Genis-Pouilly, France (next to CERN) 7/20...
  • Page 8 ​ I ron, Rainbow, High Contrast and White hot​ ​ . The temperature map will change automatically once a colormap is selected (Figure 10) Copyright ​ © ​ T erabee 2018 Terabee, 90 Rue Henri Fabre 01630, St Genis-Pouilly, France (next to CERN) 8/20...
  • Page 9 1024 pixels of the Thermal sensor (Figure 11). This provides a quick temperature spread overview of objects measured within the sensor's Field-of-View. Copyright ​ © ​ T erabee 2018 Terabee, 90 Rue Henri Fabre 01630, St Genis-Pouilly, France (next to CERN) 9/20...
  • Page 10 To do this, click ​ S napshot​ ​ . A confirmation message alongside with the storage location will be displayed at the bottom left corner of the GUI’s window. Copyright ​ © ​ T erabee 2018 Terabee, 90 Rue Henri Fabre 01630, St Genis-Pouilly, France (next to CERN) 10/20...
  • Page 11 ​ I mage > Mirror X / Mirror Y to flip the horizontal or vertical axis of the thermal map. Copyright ​ © ​ T erabee 2018 Terabee, 90 Rue Henri Fabre 01630, St Genis-Pouilly, France (next to CERN) 11/20...
  • Page 12: Uart Backboard Use

    It is possible to upgrade the firmware running on your device if a new firmware version is made available on the Terabee website. ​ T he current firmware version on your TeraRanger Evo can be found by selecting ​ H elp > About ​ ​ in the graphical user interface​ .
  • Page 13: Backboard Leds

    Rx/Tx (green / red) UART receive and transmit indicators LED 0 / LED 1 For internal use only     Copyright ​ © ​ T erabee 2018 Terabee, 90 Rue Henri Fabre 01630, St Genis-Pouilly, France (next to CERN) 13/20...
  • Page 14: Electrical Characteristics

    Data Bits​ ​ : 8 Stop Bit(s)​ ​ : 1 Parity​ ​ : None HW Flow Control​ ​ : None Copyright ​ © ​ T erabee 2018 Terabee, 90 Rue Henri Fabre 01630, St Genis-Pouilly, France (next to CERN) 14/20...
  • Page 15: Commands

    ​ H owever when connected via USB, it is necessary to send the ACTIVATE USB OUTPUT command as shown in commands table (section 5.3). Copyright ​ © ​ T erabee 2018 Terabee, 90 Rue Henri Fabre 01630, St Genis-Pouilly, France (next to CERN) 15/20...
  • Page 16 Please reference ​ A ppendix section​ for instructions on the following topics: ● CRC validation ● Sample code for reading data from Evo Thermal sensor (link to GitHub repository) Copyright ​ © ​ T erabee 2018 Terabee, 90 Rue Henri Fabre 01630, St Genis-Pouilly, France (next to CERN) 16/20...
  • Page 17: Crc32 Checksum Reconstruction

    CRC32 low 16 = ​ ​ ( CRC part 2 High Byte << 8) | CRC part 2 Low Byte CRC32 = ​ ​ [ (CRC32 high 16 & 0xFFFF) << 16] | (CRC32 low 16 & 0xFFFF) Copyright ​ © ​ T erabee 2018 Terabee, 90 Rue Henri Fabre 01630, St Genis-Pouilly, France (next to CERN) 17/20...
  • Page 18: Compliance

    CRC32 = 2 400 845 824 | 46 647 CRC32 = 2 400 892 471 ​ 6 ​   Compliance   Pending Copyright ​ © ​ T erabee 2018 Terabee, 90 Rue Henri Fabre 01630, St Genis-Pouilly, France (next to CERN) 18/20...
  • Page 19: Appendix

    = self.port.read(​ header = unpack(​ ' H'​ , str(header)) ​ 0 ​ ] == ​ i f​ header[​ 1 3​ Copyright ​ © ​ T erabee 2018 Terabee, 90 Rue Henri Fabre 01630, St Genis-Pouilly, France (next to CERN) 19/20...
  • Page 20: Sample Code

    A.2 Sample code  Please follow the link below to connect to Terabee’s sample code repository on GitHub. The following python sample code provides basic sensor functionality and communication, including activating data output, reading data and validating the CRC checksum.

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