How To Set Up The Pi Height Sensor - Simrad PI50 - REFERENCE MANUAL REV A Reference Manual

Note
It is very important that the
for each sensor in the
programmed into the sensor. If these vital parameters do not match, you will not
receive information from the sensor.
Click the
9
Advanced Sensor Configuration
are added to the
10 If you have a Height sensor in use, set up a connection to it.
This will allow the PI50 to calculate and display the total water depth.
→ How to set up depth and height sensors to measure total water depth on page 98
11 If this is the only sensor you wish to set up, or the last sensor, click
settings and close the dialog.
Related topics
• PI Depth sensor view on page 42
• PI Depth trend view on page 58
• How to set up the PI Depth sensor on page 77
• How to set up spread and depth sensors to measure vertical geometry on page 96
• How to set up depth and height sensors to measure total water depth on page 98
• PI Depth purpose and application on page 177

How to set up the PI Height sensor

1 Click the icon under the
Setup
→ Setup menu on page 119
2 Click the
Select Sensors
→ Select Sensors on page 142
3 Observe the
Available Sensors
the sensor types supported by the PI50.
Click once on the Height sensor in the list, then click the [►] button to copy the
4
sensor to the
Selected Sensors
Observe that an error message appears if you try to add too many sensors to the
5
Selected Sensors
The PI50 can handle maximum six sensors. Remember that dual sensors each seize
two sensor communication channels.
6 In the
Selected Sensors
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Channel number
dialog matches the corresponding parameters
Select Sensors
Sensor Configuration
menu to open the
Main
button to open the
field on the upper left side of the dialog. It lists all
list.
field.
field, click once on the sensor to select it.
and
Update Rate
button, and observe that additional choices
field.
Setup
dialog.
Select Sensors
Operational procedures
parameters defined
to save the
Ok
sub-menu.
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