If you do not follow the safety rules or the instructions outlined in this manual, the instrument may not operate properly and could cause damage. AdirPro will not be liable for any damages because of failure to comply with the operating instructions outlined in this manual or because of improper use voids the warranty.
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Special measurement program Apart from the basic functions, it also has some special measurement program to meet the needs of professional measurements such as Remote Height (REM) Measurement, Offset Measurement, MLM (Missing Line Measurement), Resection, Area measurement calculation, Roadway design and staking-out.
Security Guide Pay attention to the following security instructions when using the instrument with Non-prism. The Total Station is classified as Class 3R Laser Product and abides by the class of Laser Product according to IEC Standard Publication 60825-1:2001. For Class 3R/III Laser Product, its emitted laser with wavelength between 400nm and 700nm can be at most 5 times that of Class 2/II.
TABLE OF CONTENT Preface ............................1 Thank you for purchasing the ATS-120 series Total Station! This manual will help you familiarize yourself with this instrument...................... 1 Features............................1 Security Guide ..........................3 TABLE OF CONTENT ........................4 Chapter 1 : Uses of Total Station ....................9 Chapter 2 : Names and functions of the components ............
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See 9: Operating Menu......................21 3.9. Setup of Automatic Shutdown ................21 3.10. Set up the Addictive Constant and the Multiplying Constant ......21 See reference in 9. Operating Menu..................21 Selecting Data File ....................... 22 The instrument needs large data and creates large data when it is operated. This data needs to be stored in the system files of the instrument as a file form.
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11.3. Reticle of the telescope ................. 73 11.4. The Perpendicularity of Collimation axis and Cross axis (2C) ......74 11.5. Vertical plate index zero automatic compensation ........75 11.6. Vertical index error (angle i) and set vertical index 0 ......... 76 11.7.
Chapter 1 : Uses of Total Station A Total Station is an electronic theodolite combined with an electronic distance measuring device (EDM). The primary function is to measure slope distance, vertical angle and horizontal angle from a setup point to a forward point. The following are types of surveys that can be performed with a Total Station.
Handle Handle Knob Coarse sighting device Focusing Knob Vertical Clamp Screw Number Tribrach 2.1. Functions of keyboards and the display of information...
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Symbols on the Keyboard Symbol Name Function Angle Enter Angle Mode Measurement (Move the Cursor up or select the item up under the other mode) DIST Distance Enter Distance Mode Measurement (Move the Cursor up or select the item up under the other mode) COORD Coordinate...
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the measuring interface. Displays the dialog of the contrast, lighting, compensator , parameters of distance measuring and file selecting. Symbols on the Display Symbol Indication Zenith Mode The mode that the vertical is displayed as zero when the telescope is level in normal . Vertical angle Mode (it is 0°00′00″when the telescope is level.
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Inter Feet International feet Us Feet American feet Maximum error of evaluated distance (used in resection MdHD measurement) Reference Functions of Common Soft Key Soft Key Functions Backspace: Delete one last character on the left of the inserter in the edited column. Clear Delete all typed in the edited column.
2.2. Functional keys under the basic measuring mode 2.2.1. Angle Mode (including 2 menu pages) Page Soft key Reference Function Record the measured angle in the Save selected file. Set the horizontal angle as 0° Set0 Set your desired horizontal angle by inputting, but the angle should not be SetA greater than 360°...
2.2.2. Distance Mode (including two menu pages) P2/2 Page Soft key Reference Function Save Start distance measurement and record the measured data into the selected files (measurement file, ‘File(.MEA)’ and coordinate file ‘File(.COO)’are selected in operating menu or by star key). Meas Start Distance Mode Switch between four distance...
2.2.3. Coordinate Mode (including three menu pages) Page Soft key Reference Function Start coordinate measurement and record the measured data into the selected files Save (measurement file ‘File (.MEA)’ or coordinate file ‘File(.COO)’ are selected in surveying menu or by star key. Meas Start coordinate measurement Switch between four distance...
2.2.4. Explanation of Saving of data If this is your first time using the device, a dialog box (With text: Select File) will appear on the screen. This is a good chance for you to select all files that the Instrument will use.
• If the instrument is equipped with temperature and pressure sensor, pressing [F1] can automatically collect the current temperature and pressure values. It can also display the updated data such as temperature, pressure, PPM, otherwise you can view the signal strength. In regards to distance measuring, parameters are shown below: (After entering the temperature and pressure data, the instrument will calculate the PPM value automatically.
3.2. Set up the tilt correction of horizontal and vertical angles When the tilt (inclination) sensor is on, the instrument will display the automatic correction value for the vertical angle. In order to ensure the accuracy of the angle measurement, try to use tilt sensor to level the instrument better. If the display shows ‘Tilt over’...
Having less than 1 indicates that the target cannot be aimed and measured. You can press any other key to quit signal detection. 3.6. Set up the Atmospheric Correction When measuring distances, the measured value can be influenced by the atmosphere.
Corrected Horizontal Distance: D=S×[cosα+sinα×S×cosα(K-2) / 2Re] Corrected Elevation: H=S×[sinα+cosα×S×cosα(1-K) / 2Re] If the Atmospheric refraction and the earth curvature are not corrected, the formula for calculating horizontal distance and elevation are as followed: D=S×cosα H=S×sinα In the formula: K=0.14: Atmospheric refraction coefficient (can be selected according to actual position) Re=6370 km: Radius of the earth curvature.
through strict measurement when sold. You don’t need to adjust the setting. You may alter the constant after measurement (e.g. in standardization site for baseline being measured by authenticated units). Selecting Data File The instrument needs large data and creates large data when it is operated. This data needs to be stored in the system files of the instrument as a file form.
Chapter 4 : Preparations before measurements 4.1. Unpacking and storing instruments Unpacking Lay down the carrying case gently with the top side facing up. Open the lock and unpack and take out the instrument. Storage Cover the telescope cover. Make sure that the vertical clamping screw and the level bubble faces upwards.
② Turn the instrument approximately 90° and adjust screw C until the bubble is in the center of the level. ③Turn around the instrument 90°again. Repeat the above steps until the bubble remains in the center of the plate level even though the instrument is rotated to any position.
4.2.3. Installing and removal of battery Notes: ◆The working time of battery will be affected by many factors, such as ambient temperature, recharging time, recharging and discharging times. For safety, we suggest the you recharge the battery fully or prepare several full batteries before operation.
Solid Green Light—the charging has finished; Flashing Red Light—no battery on charging, poor connection or some problems exist. ▲It is recommended to continue charging for 1 or 2 hours after the light turns green. ▲Once the red light starts flashing after the charger is plugged into the outlet of 110V- 220V AC power supply, remove the battery and reconnect it after 3 or 5 minutes.
4.6. Entering letters and numbers You can enter the letters and numbers directly, because our total station is equipped with a keyboard. The page for ‘Setup Station’ (Menu→1, Surveying→2, Station→Soft key F1[input]) can involve entering letters and numbers. Assume that the point. name is ‘SUN1A’ and STN is ‘ - 123.456’...
• Switch to ‘Alph.’again • Press key ‘1’ for once displaying ‘SUN1A’ in the column Press soft key ‘Enter’ to move inserter down to the STN column. The system switches to the number mode automatically and no letters can be inserted in at all. The page is as follows: Press keys '±"I "2"3".
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the measurement is saved successfully, the instrument displays a box of ‘Record: *****’ for 0.5 second and switches back to the Angle Mode. Set 0: set horizontal angle to zero Press soft key ‘F2’ The instrument displays: Now press ‘ENT’ to set to zero or ‘ESC’ to quit. Set A: Set horizontal angle as desired degree.
displayed in the vertical angle column. When setting the horizontal angle, the angle is the azimuth angle of the target. The instrument may be switched to display coordinate azimuth through these operations. Chapter 6 : Distance Mode Press the key ‘DIST’ to enter the Distance Mode. There are two pages for Distance Mode switched by soft key ‘F4’.
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The key ‘Mode’ under this page is to switch the type of distance between HD, VD and SD. The default mode is HD. When finishing entering, press the soft key ‘Enter’ to enter ‘stake-out by distance’ mode as follows. dhd is to stake out horizontal distance difference. A positive result indicates that the measured horizontal distance is greater than the evaluated one.
Chapter 7 Coordinate Mode Press the key ‘CORD’ to enter Coordinate Mode. According to the diagram below, set up the coordinate of the station, azimuth angle, target height and instrument height before coordinate measurement. Figure 7.1. Coordinate measurement diagram There are three pages for the coordinate mode being switched with soft key ‘F4’. The functions explanation are as follows: On the First Page: Save: save measurement...
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Mode: The same as the key ‘Mode’ under Distance Mode On the Second Page: Settings: Press soft key ‘F1’ to enter the Settings of ‘Height of Ins. & Target’ After finishing entering, press ‘ENT’ or the soft key ‘Save’ to save the settings. However, the settings will be erased when shutting off if using ‘ENT’...
Press the soft key ‘F3’ to select known points. Select a desired point from the current file and enter the list of points. Select the points with the keys ‘▲▼’ and press ‘ENT’ to save your choice. If you cannot get the points, the coordinates will maintain their origin and the instrument will display ‘Can’t be gotten!’.
8.1. Angle Offset Mode This mode is specifically useful when facing prism setting difficultly, e.g. in the center of a tree. Set up the prism at the point ‘P’ which is the same horizontal distance away from the instrument. The diagram for angle offset is as follows.
Now turn around the instrument to aim at the offset point. After the steps above, the coordinates of the point are obtained. Press soft key ‘Next P’ to enter the offset measurement of the next point or press soft the key ‘Record’ to save the coordinate of the offset point.
See the meaning of ‘+’ and ‘-’ in the diagram of single-distance offset. After entering the known offset distance, you can press ‘ENT’ to save the settings and enter the interface of ‘Offset (Dist 1)—point’ Press ‘Meas’ to start measurement. After measuring, press ’ENT’...
Enter the ‘Offset (dist2)—distance’ page through the offset menu. Firstly, enter the offset distance (OSD). If the directions of ‘P1-A0’ and ‘P0-P1’ are the same, the distance is positive, otherwise it is negative. Press ‘ENT’ or the soft key ‘Enter’ to save settings and enter the page of ‘Offset(dist2)-begin’.
Enter ‘4. Offset (Plane)’ from the offset menu Press the soft key ‘Meas’ to measure the first point ‘P1’ After measurement, press ‘ENT’ to accept the result. Mention that the target height is set to be to zero automatically. After pressing ‘ENT’, you can enter the interface of ‘Offset (plane)—Pt.2’. Repeat the process for P2 and P3 as for P1.
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coordinate of the cylinder by measuring the surface points of tangency P2 and P3. The average value of P2 and P3 is the azimuth angle of the cylinder. Enter ‘5, Offset (column)’ from the offset menu. Press ‘Meas’-> ◆If you need the coordinate of ‘A0’, you should set the height of prism to zero.
Aim at the left edge and press the soft key ‘Enter’. Enter the interface of ‘Offset (column)—Right edge’. Aim at the right edge and press the soft key ‘Enter’ Enter the interface of ‘Offset (column)—Center’ which displays the result of the Offset (column) measurement.
9.1. Surveying The functions of surveying are as follows: 9.1.1. Select files The function ‘Surveying’ includes the sum of all preparation works before a survey, such as: Select a measurement file to store and record the measured result, obtain the coordinate file for the known point, search the code file for the code quickly, etc.
9.1.2. Setup station The dialog box below includes all information about the station, which needs to be entered. You can enter the coordinate of the station with the keyboards or obtain from the coordinate files by pressing ‘K.Pt’(Known points). Press ‘Input’ (soft key F1) to enter the coordinate of a station manually. See the reference in 4.7 entering numbers and letters to set station.
as that of setting up station under this function. After entering the coordinate of the BBS, you have to aim at the BBS to determine the azimuth. When finishing the set of BBS, the horizontal angle column on the screen is the earth azimuth angle. After entering or calling the coordinate of the BBS, a dialog box appears that ‘Aim the BBS’, and you can press ‘Enter’...
9.1.6. Config of Surveying Use ‘◀▶’ to select Sequence can choose the ‘survey first’ or the ‘edit first’ under surveying mode. Check the same name of point you may choose to check or not to check if there is a duplicate of name in the list.
9.2.1. Staking out points Stake out XX point The coordinate point can be defined manually with the keyboard entering. It can be also defined by calling coordinates from Measured points or Known points, which require you to select a file in advance, otherwise the system will go to the page for selecting files automatically.
Press ‘Meas’ to measure the coordinate of the new control station. Save it into a proper file. ‘Sequence’, ‘same point’ or ‘edit point’ functions under ‘Config of survey’ are valid here as well. 9.2.3. Resection. Enter the coordinate of the first point: To input, see reference in ‘STA’...
Now press soft key ‘F1’ to setup station and record. After setting up station, you may find that the name of station becomes ‘RESSTA’ and the coordinate is the resection one. Press ‘F4’ to switch between ‘Coord.’ and ‘dCoor.’ (difference between coordinates).
The ‘stakes’ must be set while the space can be left blank. If setting the stakes to be 12 with space left blank, then the middle points can be staked out uniformly during the following equidistant stakeout. Space is the number of points staked out uniformly from the beginning to the end.
9.3.1. File dialog box Each file involves the operations of ‘establish new files’ (New), ‘delete files’ (Del) and ‘view’(View), which is called File management. After choosing a type of file, you may enter the file list which displays the names of files. Now take a measurement file as an example: Select ‘A001.
The file type is the same as the file selected (under which you press ‘New’). If the new file exists in the instrument, the system will not create new file. Mention that the instrument will not warn you for duplicated name when establishing the same name file.
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The only column that can be set is the Baud. The bauds available are 2400, 4800, 9600, 19200, 38400, 57600, 115200 with respect to the RS232C serial communication bus. These bauds can be set with soft keys ‘Fast’ and ‘Slow’. Usually, 115200 Baud is adequate for importing.
Press the "Import " button and the coordinates data in “0712.txt” will be imported to the SVY.COO file of Total Station, then you can view the data in the menu of maintenance file. 9.3.3. Export There are two ways to export the file: one is exporting to PC and the other, exporting to USB.
attention to it. 9.3.5. Information of disk A dialog box which displays the space available in KB units of the electrical disk in the instrument will appear on the screen when entering the interface of “Information of disk”. The measurement data of ten points approximately occupy 1KB.
Press key ‘1’ on the instrument. The instrument enters wait state for sending programs. After the wait state, click ‘Send File’ on the computer. Select the new version of Total Station software and click ‘Send’ on the computer. ...
operate the instrument normally. Note: Never delete or alter the two ‘.sys’ files in the instrument. Do not copy senseless files that have nothing to do with the Total Station measurements. 9.4. Programs 9.4.1. Remote height (REM) REM is adequate for measuring the height of target when the prism cannot be placed at the target point.
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Then, turn the telescope up and down to aim at the target point. The VD column displays the elevation difference from the ground to the target point. After measurement, you may choose from three options: T.H: to alter the target height; Hdist: to re-measure horizontal distance;...
the target and the reference point is displayed in the VD column. After the measurement, you have three options: Set VA: to re-enter the ‘REM-Altitude’ page. HDist: to re-measure the horizontal distance; ESC: to quit REM measurement. 9.4.2. Measures the horizontal distance (dHD), slope distance (dSD), elevation difference (dVD) and azimuth angle (dHD) between two targets.
Then it displays the result of the MLM measurement. You can press the soft key ‘Next P’ to continue with MLM Measurement and repeat Step 2 and Result pages. The measuring process under MLM (A-C, B-C) is the same as the MLM (A-B, A-C). See the reference above. 9.4.3.
To define ‘Coord.Z-No.1’, follow the process of defining BBS. Press ‘ENT’ to confirm and end the dialog to enter ‘Coord.Z-No.1’ measurement page. Press soft key ‘Meas’ to start measurement. After the measurement, the ‘HR’ ‘SD’ ‘VD’are displayed on each column. Press soft key ‘Enter’ to accept the measurement.
Press soft key ‘Input’ to call coordinates from coordinate file or input the coordinates manually with keyboard. The coordinates are all listed in the screen and the maximum number of points when Area Surveying is 20. The inputted or measured coordinate is inserted below the indicator column, which determine the shape of the formed area.
point of the baseline. The preparation before measurement include: setting up the instrument height, the target height and defining the baseline. Define baseline: Press soft key ‘Meas’ under the page of ‘Project (Begin)’ to start measurement. After the measurement of initial(begin) point, press soft key ‘Enter’...
All the other settings under ‘Config’ menu are similar to ‘Mode of EDM’. refer to the explanation above. Note: the ‘NEZ’ or’ ENZ’ mode of coordinates are in relation to the order of the exported coordinate only. 9.6. Calibrate &config The menu is as show below: 9.6.1.
After leveling the instrument, aim at the target F1 in the collimator with direct telescope and record the current vertical angle as V0. Set the vertical angle to V0+3′ with the help of the vertical tangent screw. Adjust the screw C to aim at the target precisely. Press ‘ENT’ to confirm after a stable readout appears.
Date: ‘two last figures of year + XXXX(date)’ Time: ‘XX(hour)+ XX(minute) + XX(second)’ Press ‘Enter’ to save. Notice: a ‘0’ to occupy a place for month or days with single figures is required. e.g Second the March= 0203 9.7 Grid Factor Formula: Altitude factor= R / (R+Altitude) R:the earth's average curvature radius...
Chapter 10 : Roadway To open roadway program, follow ‘Menu→4, Prog.→7, Roadway’ Roadway function is divided into two parts: Design Roadway and Stake-out Roadway. You may stake out designed points according to the stake and deviation of the Designed Roadway. The menu of roadway is as followed: Road 1.Open shape file 2.Re-define(H)
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‘ENT’ to confirm and end the input box of ‘Begin’ point. If you have not inputted anything, there will be no response from the instrument. You may also quit ‘Define (H)’ by pressing ‘ESC’. You may define horizontal alignment with ‘Line’, ‘Circle’ or ‘Spiral’ alternatively.
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The radius and length here is the same as those in ‘Define (H)- Circle’ above. After defining Line, Circle or Spiral, press ‘ENT’ to accept the input and Enter end the dialog. The system goes back to ‘Defin (H)’ page. If you want to check or end the inputting now, press ‘ENT’.
The system will not accept negative Para. A1, Para. A2 nor Radius R. If inputting the radius, then the system will insert an arc with defined radius in between the former point and the next point. If inputting parameters A1 and A2 of the spiral, then the system will insert defined spiral in between the line and the arc.
Choose ‘Re-define (V)’ to enter the box of ‘Define (V)-Begin’: Enter Input the mileage, altitude and length one by one and press ‘ESC’ to end the input and go to ‘List of V curve’ page. You may make use of ‘Save’, ‘View’ and ‘Edit’ You may continue inputting (V) curve through ‘5.Resume V curve’.
The steps for staking out road way is as follows: Select [.LS] files for stake-out Setup station Setup BBS Inputting Roadway parameters, including mileage of begin (start mileage), pile spacing, left and right deviation (Left/Right dist) and left and right altitude difference (Left/Right dV) Then select center, left and right mileage to stake out.
Point name indicates the mileage of the selected stake. The system accepts maximum 8 characters of the point name. You may now press ‘Record’ to save the point to be staked out to the current coordinate file, otherwise, press ‘ENT’ to display the azimuth angle and horizontal distance of it.
11.2. Circular Level Check After the level tube is calibrated correctly and if the circular level bubble also in center, so there is no need to calibrate. Calibration If the bubbles are not in the center, use the correction needle or six angle wrench to adjust the correction screw which is under the bubble to move the bubble to the center.
11.4. The Perpendicularity of Collimation axis and Cross axis (2C) Check Set a target A in about 100m away and make sure the vertical angle of the target is within ±3°. Precisely level the instrument and switch it Make the telescope focused on target A on the left face, and read the horizontal angle e.g.
Cross wire correction screw Eyepiece Note: Check the photoelectric co-axiality after calibrating. 11.5. Vertical plate index zero automatic compensation Checkout After Setting up and leveling the instrument, make the direction of the telescope consistent with the line between the center of the instrument and any of the foot screw.
Calibration When finding the tilt compensator abnormal, send the instrument back to factories for checking. 11.6. Vertical index error (angle i) and set vertical index 0 First adjust the reticule of the telescope and the compensator before calibrating and checking index error. Check Turn on the instrument after placing and leveling it, and focus the telescope on a clear goal A to get the face left reading of vertical Angle L.
Calibration Take down the screw cover between the optical plummet eyepiece and the focusing hand wheel. Fix the white paper with a cross, and mark the points when the instrument rotates 90°, as the figure shows A, B, C, D points. Connect the diagonal points A、...
Calibration If it turns out that the instrument constant is not close to 0 but changing after strict inspection, you need to calibrate it and set the instrument additive constant according to the comprehensive constant of K value. K has been measured as ‘-5’ according to the method above and the original instrument constant is ‘-20’, so the new value should be set as ‘-20-(5) =-15’;...
Generally speaking, the telescope is equipped with special filter that human eyes can′t see laser point through the telescope. You can see the offset between the red laser point and the reflector crosshair center. You can observe this above the telescope or at the side face of reflector.
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Internal data storage 20000 points Port Standard RS232 serial port Data format ASCII Operation Operating system Display Graphics: 192x96 pixel; Characters: 6 lines x 25 characters; LCD Double-sided numeric keyboard Keyboard(Optional 2nd keyboard) Laser Plumb Type Laser point brightness adjustable in steps Accuracy 1mm (instrument height: 1.5m) Environment conditions...
Appendix A: Explanation of file formats Explanation of formats of files: STA ST001, 1.2050, AD 100.0000, 100.0000, 10.0000 BS001, 1.8000, BA 200.0000, 200.0000, 10.0000 A1, 1.8000, CODE1 104.6625, 99.5679, 10.2148 A2, 1.8000, CODE1 1276939, 288678, 4.7510 A3, 1.8000, CODE1 1276942, 288678 Every record consists of two lines: 1 st line records the record type, point name, target height, code e.g.
Appendix B Explanation of Protocol command Another device can operate Total station through RS232 or Bluetooth by using the commands as follow: "\006006",0-- command correct response "\021021", 1-- command incorrect response "C067\003", 2-- measure and return the data "N078\003",3-- stop measuring "ZA0043\003",4—direct to close "ZA1067\003",5-- direct to open "Z10091\003",6--H/V "Z12089\003",7--HR "Z13088\003",8--HL "Z20088\003",9--H/V "Z31088\003",10—SD...