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1. 66 Primary Oxygen SBE 43 Pcor Tau Boc 67 Secondary Oxygen SBE 43 serial number 68 Secondary Oxygen SBE 43 calibration date 69 Secondary Oxygen SBE 43 Soc Tcor offset 70 Secondary Oxygen SBE 43 Pcor Tau Boc 71 Secondary sea tech 186000 OBS nephelometer sensor serial number 72 Secondary sea tech l1s6000 OBS nephelometer sensor calibration date T3 Secondary sea tech l1s6000 OBS nephelometer gain slope offset 74 Secondary Chelsea Transmissometer sensor serial number 1S Secondary Chelsea Transmissometer calibration date 76 Secondary Chelsea Transmissometer M B path length 77 Altimeter serial number 78 Altimeter calibration date 79 WET Labs AC3 serial number 80 WET Labs AC3 calibration date 81 Surface PAR serial number 82 Surface PAR calibration date 83 SEACATplus temperature sensor serial number 84 SEACATplus temperature sensor calibration date 85 SEACATplus temperature sensor A0 Al A2 A3 slope offset 86 SEACATplus serial sensor scans to average mode 87 Pressure strain gauge with span TC serial number 88 Pressure strain gauge with span TC calibration date 89 Pressure strain gauge with span TC ptempA0O ptempAl ptempA2 pTCAQO pTCAl1 PTCA2 90 Pressure strain gauge with span TC pTCBO pTCBl pTCB2 pAO pAl pA2 offset 91 SBE 38 temperature sensor serial number 92 SBE 38 temperature sensor calibration date 93 Turner SCUFA fluorometer serial number 94 Turner SCUFA f
2. Define TCP IP ports to use for remote bottle firing Ports for communication with remote bottle firing client e Receive commands to fire bottles from another application on Not applicable unless Enable remote firing is selected on Water Sampler tab same computer or from another computer through defined port in Configure Inputs e Send status response bottle fire confirmations to another application on same computer or to another computer through Receive commands default 43167 49167 defined port Send status default 49168 fasies Ports for publishing data to remote clients Define TCP IP ports to send data Not applicable unless Output raw or converted data to socket using e Send converted data through defined port to another TCP IP is selected on TCP IP Out tab in Configure Outputs application on same computer or to another computer Send ted dat default 49161 con e Send raw data through defined port to another application on Sareea Keele daie same computer or to another computer Send raw data default 49160 49160 Note Enter the desired values Click OK or click another tab in Configure Inputs Appendix V Seasave Remote for Remote Display and Bottle Firing and Appendix VI Java Applications for Remote Display and Bottle Firing provide information on Sea Bird software that can be installed on a remote computer for viewing data and firing bottles 69 7 21k Section 5 Confi
3. aay ps Conductivity 57m Do6i363 Fixed Temperature ITS 90 degC 2249328 _ Pressure Digiquartz db 0 5439 Display Salinity PSU oaao 00613044 00812557 00611763 0 0611359 lt gt gt alalvly am Temperature ITS 90 deg C 200 4 800 6 400 8 000 0 000 1 000 2 000 3 000 4 000 5 000 Conductivity S m H 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 34 200 34 400 34 600 34 800 35 000 Salinity PSU e Seasave title bar The title bar shows the selected instrument type SBE 911plus 917plus CTD in the example above and the path and file name for the program setup psa file The psa file contains all information entered in Configure Inputs and Configure Outputs instrument configuration file path and name CTD serial port water sampler TCP IP input and output ports serial data output etc as well as size placement and setup for each display window e Menus The Menus contain options for setting up the instrument and the displays as well as for starting data acquisition e Status display The Status display provides the following information gt If Seasave is acquiring real time data or playing archived data gt If Seasave is storing real time data to a file output data file name gt Instrument configuration con or xmlcon file name To display or hide the Status select Status in the Display menu Manual revision 7 21k Section 2 Installation and Use Seas
4. 119 Manual revision 7 21k Appendix Il Configure con or xmlcon File Format Seasave V7 96 IOW sound velocity sensor calibration date 97 IOW sound velocity AO Al A2 98 Biospherical natural fluorometer sensor serial number 99 Biospherical natural fluorometer sensor calibration date 00 Biospherical natural fluorometer Cfn Al A2 B 01 Sea tech 1s6000 OBS nephelometer sensor serial number 02 Sea tech 1s6000 OBS nephelometer sensor calibration date 03 Sea tech 1s6000 OBS nephelometer gain slope offset 04 Fluorometer Chelsea Aqua 3 sensor serial number 05 Fluorometer Chelsea Aqua 3 sensor calibration date 06 Fluorometer Chelsea Aqua 3 scale factor slope offset Vacetone VB static Vlug l 07 Fluorometer Turner sensor serial number 08 Fluorometer Turner sensor calibration date 09 Fluorometer Turner scale factor offset or Turner 10au 005 full scale concentration full scale voltage zero point concentration 0 Conductivity G H I J ctcor cpcor Al Temperature FO G H I J 2 Secondary conductivity G H I J ctcor cpcor 3 Secondary temperature FO G H I J 4 WET Labs AC3 beam transmission transmissometer sensor serial number 5 WET Labs AC3 beam transmission transmissometer sensor calibration date 6 WET Labs AC3 b
5. 4 Click a sensor and click 8 SPAR voltage Unavailable Modify to view change 9 SPAR voltage SPAR Surface Inadiance calibration coefficients for that sensor Click a non shaded sensor and click Select to pick a different sensor for that channel dialog box with list of sensors appears After sensor is selected dialog box for calibration coefficients appears Select sensors after Frequency channels suppressed and Voltage words suppressed have been specified above Cancel Opens a txt file for viewing only Click to exit dialog box If you made changes cannot be modified that shows all and did not Save or Save As Seasave asks if parameters in con or xmicon file you want to save changes 20 Manual revision 7 21k Section 3 Configure Inputs Part Instrument Configuration con or xmlcon file Seasave V7 Shown below is an example status DS response in Seaterm that corresponds to the setup shown in the Configuration dialog box above Shown below the appropriate lines are the commands used in Seaterm to modify the setup of parameters critical to use of the 9p us and 1 1p us with Seasave as well as any explanatory information SBE llplus V 5 1f Number of scans to average 1 11plus reads this from con or xmlcon file in Seasave when data acquisition is started pressure baud rate 9600 NMEA baud rate 4800 surface PAR voltage added to scan 11plus reads this from con or xmlcon fi
6. File T C P Voltage Sensors Serial Sensors Real Time Options e New to create new xmicon file for New Open Save Save s this CTD e Open to select different xmlcon file Configuration file opened 25plustest xmlcon e Save or Save As to save current xmicon file settings Configuration file usage Must select Collect real Click a non time data with Seasave Process ML file uploaded from CTD memory shaded sensor and Selections on Serial A k click Select to pick Sensors tab are grayed Collect real time data with Seasave and or process real time HEX file a different sensor out for that channel A dialog box with a ___ Channel Sensor n Select list of sensors Frequency Temperature appears Shaded Frequency Conductivity Modify sensors cannot Count Pressure Strain Gauge Clickasensorand be removed or changed to A D voltage 0 Oxygen SBE 43 x click Modify to another type of i change calibration sensor A D voltage 1 pH O Data from coefficients for that A D voltage 2 Oxidation Reduction Potential oO oe sensor A D voltage 3 Altimeter x cherrole A D voltage 4 Fluorometer WET Labs ECO AFL FL J transmitted in A D voltage 5 Fluorometer WET Labs ECO CDOM pg omi aces included in A D voltage 6 Free C hex file A D voltage 7 Free oO Select voltage channels that you want to view in real time Must match SetVO
7. Variable to be calculated and plotted on contour lines density sigma t or sigma theta or thermosteric Contour variable Density Kg m 3 anomaly Starting contour value 20 Starting contour value is lowest value Significant digits to right of decimal of contour variable to be plotted First point for contour line labels Contour interval 0 1 contour line is plotted at this value subsequent lines are plotted at every Define contour line smoothness 10 least smooth 200 smoothest ignificant digits 0 10 2 Contour Interval Points per line 10 200 40 Distance of contour line labels from Y Label position axis as a of X axis size 0 label contour lines on Y axis Label size 1 10 100 label contour lines at far right Select contour line thickness Type size of contour line labels 1 smallest 10 largest Contour line type Help 94 Manual revision 7 21k Section 7 Display Setting Up Seasave Displays Seasave V7 Axis Tabs Note Line colors are defined by clicking the Each Axis tab defines a plot variable scale and line type An Axis tab looks Colors button on the Plot Setup tab like this but the first axis tab does not include Line type Plot Display 1 Plot Setup Y Axis Axis 1 xasis 2 Print Options Save Options Copy Options Variable Click Select Variable to choose desired variable List incl
8. on ol o ni oo oOo ao a 200 Surface 150 Bottle closure pressures depths 100 must be in this range ire bottles on upcast when pressure depth is less than set close to expected maximum cast pressure depth THT LEE OK il A Help Make the desired selections Click OK 66 7 21k Section 5 Configure Inputs Part Ill Serial Ports Water Sampler TCP IP Ports Miscellaneous amp Pump Control _Seasave V7 Mixed Mode setup auto bottle fire but also allowing manual bottle fire Seasave allows manual firing of some bottles along with auto firing of other bottles referred to as mixed mode firing This is often used to obtain a water sample at one or more points with the water sampler held in a stationary position Typical positions for manual firing are at the actual bottom of the cast because the bottom of the cast cannot be predicted with certainty beforehand and at the top of the cast Looking at the Auto Fire dialog again and reviewing the setup for mixed mode firing Auto Fire Table Entry Upcast is enabled has begun when pressure depth exceeds this value If CTD never meets this criteria i e CTD did not go as deep as anticipated no automatic water samples are taken Input values for each bottle firing Use pressure db to determine bottle firing as pressures db or depth meters Dialog box text changes K to correspond C Use de
9. launched when you click Start in Start Real Time Data Acquisition dialog box Real Time Data menu Start Default name is SALog txt Other selections Level Display Log File Erase Log File are as described above for Seasave exe Display Log File Make the desired selections Click OK or click another tab in Configure Outputs 87 Manual revision 7 21k Section 7 Display Setting Up Seasave Displays Seasave V7 Section 7 Display Setting Up Seasave Displays Notes e Setup of all display windows in Display is included in the Seasave program setup psa file To save the setup you must save the psa file File menu Save Setup File before exiting Seasave The number of display windows in Seasave is limited only by your computer s resources and other simultaneous demands on your computer i e other programs running at the same time If too many windows are open the displays may not update properly Algorithms used to calculate derived parameters for output and or display in Seasave are the same as used in SBE Data Processing s Derive and Data Conversion modules with the exception of the oxygen descent rate amp acceleration calculations See Appendix IV Derived Parameter Formulas This section describes how to set up and arrange Seasave display windows There is no limit to the number of displays Edit a display to select desired parameters nu
10. 1 After you enter the calibration coefficients and click OK the Wide Range Conductivity dialog box appears 2 Enter the cell constant and series resistance from the High Range Conductivity Calibration sheet in the dialog box and click OK 45 Manual revision 7 21k Section 4 Configure Inputs Part Il Calibration Coefficients Seasave V7 Note See Calibration Coefficients for A D Count Sensors below for information on strain gauge pressure sensors used on the SBE 16plus 16plus V2 19plus 19plus V2 and 49 See Calibration Coefficients for Voltage Sensors below for information on strain gauge pressure sensors used on other instruments Pressure Paroscientific Digiquartz Calibration Coefficients Enter the sets of C D and T coefficients from the calibration sheet Enter zero for any higher order coefficients that are not listed on the calibration sheet Enter values for slope default 1 0 do not change unless sensor has been recalibrated and offset default 0 0 to make small corrections for sensor drift e For the SBE 9plus also enter AD590M and AD590B coefficients from the configuration sheet Bottles Closed HB IOW Calibration Coefficients No calibration coefficients are entered for this parameter The number of bottles closed is calculated by SBE Data Processing s Data Conversion module based on frequency range Sound Velocity IOW Calibration Coefficients Enter coefficients a0 al and
11. 78 81 Frequency sensors 44 Output data format 142 Overview 9 Oxidation reduction potential 54 144 Manual revision 7 21k Index Seasave V7 Oxygen 55 70 132 Serial ports 62 74 Oxygen saturation 133 Shared file output 75 Oxygen solubility 133 Sigma 1 125 Sigma 2 125 Sigma 4 125 P Sigma t 125 PAR 56 134 Sigma theta 125 Parameter formulas 124 Software PC alarm 84 101 problems 123 pH 56 Solubility 133 Playback archived data 111 Sound velocity 46 128 Plot display 92 average 70 129 Plume anomaly 70 130 131 Specific conductivity 131 Port Specific volume 125 serial 62 74 Specific volume anomaly 125 TCP IP 69 78 81 Status display 100 Potential temperature 130 Summary 6 Potential temperature anomaly 70 130 Surface PAR 134 Pressure 46 47 48 56 Suspended sediment 57 Pressure alarm 82 83 84 101 Printing display 89 T Problems 123 Processing data 113 TCP IP port 69 78 81 Pump control 71 74 110 Temperature 44 47 potential 130 R Thermosteric anomaly 125 Timeout error 106 Real time data acquisition 14 103 Toolbar 11 99 Remote bottle firing 68 135 138 Transmissometer 57 Remote computer 135 138 Troubleshooting 87 Remote display 75 78 80 81 102 135 138 Troubleshooting real time data acquisition 106 SBE 14 74 83 TS plot 92 Remote display and alarm Turbidity 53 SBE 14 83 Resetting control positions
12. NAV File button is grayed out no date or time information The nav file has the same path and file name as the data file For example if the data file is c test1 hex the nav file is c test1 nav 100 Manual revision 7 21k Section 7 Display Setting Up Seasave Displays Seasave V7 In the Display menu or the Real Time Control menu select NMEA Display The Display looks like this NMEA Data x Latitude Longitude Date Time Number of NAY file entries 0 Addo NAV File See Adding NMEA Data to nav File in Section 8 Real Time Data and Real Time Control Real Time Data Acquisition Alarms Display After you enable one or more alarms on Configure Output s PC Alarms Note tab you can enable a visual alarm in Seasave in addition to the sound alarm See PC Alarms in Section 6 Configure Outputs In the Display menu select Alarms If Seasave is not currently collecting data or playing back archived data the Alarms display looks like this Alarms x If no alarm is on when Seasave is collecting data or playing back archived data the Alarms display looks like this If an alarm is on when Seasave is collecting data or playing back archived data the display looks like this with the two icons alternating every 0 5 seconds Alarms x Alarms 101 Manual revision 7 21k Section 7 Display Setting Up Seasave Displays Seasave V7 Remote Display Note As an alternative to us
13. instrument configuration etc as in data file hex Data e Hex raw data file created by Seasave from real time data from SBE 9plus 16 16plus 16plus V2 19 19plus 19plus V2 21 25 25plus or 49 e Data uploaded from memory of SBE 16 16plus 16plus IM 16plus V2 16plus IM V2 17plus used with SBE 9plus CTD 19 19plus 19plus V2 21 or 25 e Converted engineering units data file created by Seasave from real time data stream from SBE 45 File includes header information Can be used by SBE Data Processing s Data Conversion module Jpg mrk JPEG graphic output from Plot display when you click Save to file icon in plot toolbar or right click in plot and select Save as Mark scan information output marker file containing sequential mark number system time and data for selected variables Seasave writes information to file when user clicks on Mark Scan during data acquisition to mark significant events in cast Can be used by SBE Data Processing s Mark Scan module hav Navigation information output navigation file for system integrated with NMEA navigational device containing latitude longitude time scan number and pressure Seasave writes information to file when user clicks on Add to nav File in NMEA Display during data acquisition to mark significant events in cast txt Text file e Output file created if you configure Seasave to output data to a shared txt file e Program se
14. instrument temperature span offset true temperature instrument reading slope measured at 0 C Temperature Slope and Offset Correction Example At true temperature 0 0 C instrument reading 0 0015 C At true temperature 25 0 C instrument reading 25 0005 C Calculating the slope and offset Slope 25 0 0 0 25 0005 0 0015 1 000040002 Offset 0 0 0 0015 1 000040002 0 001500060 Sea Bird temperature sensors usually drift by changing offset typically resulting in lower temperature readings over time Sea Bird s data indicates that the drift is smooth and uniform with time allowing users to make very accurate corrections based only on pre and post cruise laboratory calibrations Calibration checks at sea are advisable to ensure against sensor malfunction however data from reversing thermometers is rarely accurate enough to make calibration corrections that are better than those possible from shore based laboratory calibrations Sea Bird temperature sensors rarely exhibit span errors larger than 0 005 C over the range 5 to 35 C 0 005 C 35 5 C year 0 000125 C C year even after years of drift A span error that increases more than 0 0002 C C year may be a symptom of sensor malfunction Pressure Strain Gauge Calibration Coefficients For SBE l6plus 16plus V2 19plus and 19plus V2 configured with a strain gauge pressure sensor and for all SBE 49s Enter
15. pump delay 60 sec Mode MP for profile or MM for moored must match Mode in con or xmlcon file autorun no ignore magnetic switch no battery type ALKALINE battery cutoff 7 3 volts pressure sensor strain gauge range 1000 0 Pressure sensor PType must match Pressure sensor type in con or xmlcon file SBE 38 no Gas Tension Device no RS 232 sensors which are used for custom applications only must be disabled to use Seasave Ext Volt 0 yes Ext Volt 1 yes Ext Volt 2 yes Ext Volt 3 yes Number of external voltage sensors enabled Volt0 through Volt3 must match External voltage channels in con or xmicon file echo commands yes output format raw Hex Output format must be set to raw Hex OutputFormat 0 to acquire data in Seasave 30 Manual revision 7 21k Section 3 Configure Inputs Part Instrument Configuration con or xmlcon file Seasave V7 SBE 19plus V2 Seacat Profiler Configuration Through the CTD s RS 232 sensor connector the SBE 19plus V2 can interface with an SBE 38 secondary temperature sensor SBE 63 Optical Dissolved Oxygen sensor WET Labs sensor single dual or triple channel ECO WETStar or C Star Optode or up to two Pro Oceanus Gas Tension Devices GTDs This data is appended to the data stream SBE 38 data does not replace the internal 19p us V2 temperature data Channel Sensor table reflects this choice 0 1 2 3
16. 110 U Resizing display 89 Rosette 65 74 107 Updates 8 RS 232 sensors 60 User polynomial coefficients 59 S V Salinity 127 Velocity 70 134 Saturation 133 Visual alarm 101 SBE 11 plus alarm 20 82 Voltage sensors 48 SBE 14 Remote Display and alarm 74 83 SBE 16 22 W SBE 16plus 23 SBE 16plus V2 25 Water sampler 65 74 107 SBE 19 27 WETStar 60 SBE 19plus 29 Window 9 SBE 19plus V2 31 adding 88 SBE 21 33 editing 89 SBE 25 35 exporting 90 91 99 SBE 25plus 37 fixed 90 SBE 32 65 74 107 GPS 100 109 SBE 38 60 importing 88 SBE 45 40 Lat Lon 100 109 SBE 49 41 NMEA 100 109 SBE 50 60 plot 92 SBE 55 65 74 107 remote 102 SBE 63 60 scrolled 91 SBE 91 1plus 20 status 100 pump control 71 74 Window remote 78 81 SBE 917plus 20 Scrolled display 91 Z Seafloor depth 126 Seasave Remote 75 80 135 Zaps 59 Seasave Win32 7 Serial data output 73 74 145 Manual revision 7 21k Index Seasave V7 146
17. 21 gt lt SerialNumber gt WS3S 835P lt SerialNumber gt lt CalibrationDate gt 4 12 02 lt CalibrationDate gt be wetstar calibration coefficients lt FluoroWetlabWetstarSensor gt lt Sensor gt lt SensorArray gt lt Instrument gt lt SBE_InstrumentConfiguration gt end of configuration information lt SecondsBetweenUpdates gt 0 0 lt SecondsBetweenUpdates gt input on TCP IP Out tab lt scan index 0 gt 03EA4709F0A0080202777B93DC52E100030952 lt scan gt start of hex data lt scan index 1 gt 03EA4909F0A0080203777A93EC52C900010949 lt scan gt 79 Manual revision 7 21k Section 6 Configure Outputs Seasave V7 Note As an alternative to using the software provided by Sea Bird you can develop your own application using your desired software Remote Display Software on the remote computer is required to view data output via TCP IP Sea Bird provides two methods for performing this function if outputting converted data in XML format e Seasave Remote has many of the same display and plotting capabilities as Seasave It can be used to display data on a remote computer that is transmitted via TCP IP or to a shared file and to fire bottles from a remote computer See Appendix V Seasave Remote for Remote Display and Bottle Firing or Seasave Remote s Help files e FixedDisplay jar and FireBottles jar are sample Java applications FixedDisplay jar allows you to view a Fixed display on a remote c
18. Plot size and default type jpg bmp or wmf was defined on Save Options tab However you can change file type in Save to File dialog box 99 Manual revision 7 21k Section 7 Display Setting Up Seasave Displays Seasave V7 The Modify Ranges dialog box right click on the Plot Display and select Modify Ranges looks like this Modify Ranges Plot Display 1 Divisions Decimal Minimum Maximum Major Minor Digits Depth salt water m 0 0000 7000 0000 8 4 3 Conductivity S m 0 0000000 5 0000000 5 5 3 Temperature ITS 90 deg C o oo000 f 8 00000 5 5 3 Salinity Practical PSU 34 00000 25 00000 5 5 q Apply Help Cancel This allows you to easily and quickly modify the range for each axis Click Apply to see how any changes look Click OK to exit the dialog box all changes will be retained but you can undo the changes if desired using the Undo button on the plot toolbar Status Display Note The Status display provides the following information Seasave s title bar shows the selected instrument type and the If Seasave is acquiring real time data or playing archived data aand file name for ie Drodiar e If Seasave is storing real time data to a file output data file name ate psa file prog e Instrument configuration con or xmlcon file name In the Display menu select Status The Status Display appears just below Seasave s title bar and menus and looks li
19. Serial Ports Water Sampler TCP IP Ports Miscellaneous and Pump Control csscscsscssssssseesssees 62 Serial POrts 2 pe ppan vests a EN E RE E A EE TREN 62 CTD Serial Port Baud Rate Data Bits and Parity sseeeeseeseeseeseseeseeee 64 Water Sampler mso sentence nen ee a ed 65 AUO Pte Se secceeite socseertyeeens ous eect aah E GELEE boop ous NE R E E 66 Remote Bottle Firing canine eee e A RE O E 68 TCP IP Potisni enei ets lek E GEE E E E E A A 69 MisGel lam ous enonse resi i E a E EE E EE E aa E 70 P mp Conto l eoe E EE EE R E O AE 71 Section 6 Configure Outputs esssesseeseoesooesoossesssesssessoeseoescooesoessesssessseseeee 72 Serial Data Output sc cnne cetin enr e R E 73 Serial POrts sich anotei hrk A died eee ee teed ge ara eee 74 Shared File Outputvrs cccccs cccsccdcesecess ienr e eaeesctdies cede a a cote 75 Remote Displayet ernie eiri aE e te doses ccc then R EEES 75 Notes on Viewing Shared File in XML Format 76 Notes on Converting Shared File in XML Format to Format Compatible with Spreadsheet Software 76 Mark Variables ciisscices seeiciuschees tevuscsasiivel dbs a E bectctas roth Eee 77 TEPIP Outi faninieth Sete anaes Sie wena hia ad 78 Data Format for TCP IP Out ccccccsceesessceesceesceeseeseceseessecseeeneeeeeeneeses 78 Remote Display ise cscviesssces doses ode codec oss Sess e e ewan eke ecb ct Geev asec O ost 80 TOP IP Ports ocenienia bit ae ah hea ee a Roa 81 SBE li plus Alarms es
20. and parity for output data Typical values for use with most computers 9600 baud 8 data bits 1 stop bit no parity See Serial Data Output for setup of serial data output COM port connected to SBE 14 Remove Display See SBE 14 Remote Display for setup of data output to SBE 14 COM port and baud for NMEA device connected directly to computer See Section 3 Configure Inputs Part Instrument Configuration con or xmicon file for selection of NMEA device connection Water Sampling and 911 Pump Control Serial Port Not applicable unless a water sampler is selected on Water Sampler tab in Configure Inputs and or Enable Pump On Pump Off commands is selected on Pump Control tab in Configure Inputs COM port COM Serial Data Output Serial Port COM port COM3 m Baud rate 9600 Not applicable unless Dutput data to serial port is selected on Serial Data Qut tab in Configure Outputs Data bits Stop bits Parity None SBE 14 Remote Display Serial Port Not applicable unless Send data to SBE 14 remote display is selected on SBE 14 Remote Display tab in Configure Outputs COM port COM4 COMS Y 4800 v NMEA Serial Port COM port Baud rate Not applicable unless NMEA device connected to PC is selected in the instrument configuration file Make the desired selections Click OK or click another tab in Configure Outputs 74 Manual revision 7 21k Section 6 Configure Outputs Seas
21. data file with 392 000 scans archived equivalent to setting up the playback with Data playback rate set to 0 data playback took 19 seconds if only a plot display was generated adding a 5 To stop data display In the Archived Data menu select Stop The data scrolled display caused playback to i display stops take 13 minutes 112 Manual revision 7 21k Section 10 Processing Data Seasave V7 Section 10 Processing Data Sea Bird provides software SBE Data Processing for converting the raw data file into engineering units editing aligning filtering removing bad data etc the data calculating derived variables and plotting the processed data However sometimes users want to edit the raw hex dat or xml data file before beginning processing to remove data at the beginning of the file corresponding to instrument soak time to remove blocks of bad data to edit the header or to add explanatory notes about the cast Editing the raw file can corrupt the data making it impossible to perform further processing using Sea Bird software Sea Bird strongly recommends that you first convert the data to a cnv file using the Data Conversion module in SBE Data Processing and then use other SBE Data Processing modules to edit the cnv file as desired Note hex Files Although we provide this The procedure for editing a hex data file described below has been found to technique for editing a raw hex work correctly on com
22. date Many sensor calibration equations contain an offset term Unless noted otherwise use the offset default 0 0 to make small corrections for sensor drift between calibrations Calibration coefficients are discussed below for each type of sensor Strain gauge pressure sensors are covered first followed by the remaining voltage sensor types in alphabetical order Pressure Strain Gauge Calibration Coefficients Enter coefficients e Pressure sensor without temperature compensation gt Enter AO Al and A2 coefficients from the calibration sheet gt For older units with a linear fit pressure calibration enter M A1 and B AO from the calibration sheet and set A2 to zero gt For all units offset is normally zero but may be changed for non zero sea surface condition For example if the in air pressure reading is negative enter an equal positive value e Pressure sensor with temperature compensation Enter ptempA0O ptempA1 ptempA2 pTCAO pTCA1 pTCA2 pTCBO pTCB1 pTCB2 pAO pA1 and pA2 from the calibration sheet Altimeter Calibration Coefficients Enter the scale factor and offset altimeter height 300 voltage scale factor offset where scale factor full scale voltage 300 full scale range full scale range is dependent on the sensor e g 50m 100m etc full scale voltage is from calibration sheet typically 5V Fluorometer Calibration Coefficients e Biospherical Natural Fluorometer Enter Cfn
23. gravity variation is insignificant Sound alarm when pressure is less than decibars V Enable maximum pressure alarm Enable minimum maximum pressure alarm Sound alarm when pressure is greater than decibars 1000 in SBE 14 see drawing below IV Enable altimeter alam Alarm set point meters 10 Set Minimum pressure to enable alarm IRAE steal greater than approximately 20 db to Y 1 prevent alarm from turning on while CTD Minimum pressure to enable alarm decibars 0 lt lt is on ship deck or as it is entering water when altimeter is measuring distance to deck or to top of water surface Enable bottom contact switch alarm in SBE 14 IV Enable bottom contact switch alarm Report Help OK Cancel Make the desired selections Click OK or click another tab in Configure Outputs Sea Surface Altimeter alarm not on regardless of altimeter reading Aree Minimum pressure db to enable altimeter alarm Atimeter alarm hysteresis m altimeter alarm stays on in this range after set point reached Altimeter alarm set point m Altimeter alarm on when altimeter in this range Sea Bottom 83 Manual revision 7 21k Section 6 Configure Outputs Seasave V7 PC Alarms Seasave can set up an alarm in the personal computer PC that is running Notes a Seasave based on minimum and maximum pressures an altimeter integrated e After you enable one or more ala
24. i e when instrument peau piers updates for display window 5 sec was on deck and initially Number of scans to read wed ee cA CIAOS PAAMS AIS OVRTy cae king i t 4 0 25 sec scan 1 sec but updates display every 5 sec TR aa in phage fil Example 2 19plus sampling every 0 25 sec ead to end of menot Number of scans to skip between computations Number of scans to skip between computations 20 selected enter total Number Seconds between updates for display window 1 sec of scans to read This allows Seasave calculates parameters every 20 scans you to view just a portion of file Data playback rate seconds scan 20 0 25 sec scan 5 sec and updates display every 1 sec Therefore display shows same data 5 times before showing data from next calculation Number of scans to skip umber of scans to skip over at start Data playback rate Adjust Enable outputs selected in Configure Outputs playback speed simulating real time acquisition rate of Enable outputs selected in Configure Outputs Send outputs instrument or speeding up to serial port shared file TCP IP port and or SBE 14 Remote slowing down To simulate Display as defined in Configure Outputs as well as show data real time rate set to CTD in Seasave displays If not selected Seasave will show data in acquisition rate for example its displays but not output data to any other device or file 0 25 sec for 19p us To display Note Diagnost
25. xmlcon file Seasave V7 Manual revision 7 21k Shown below is an example status DS response in Seaterm that corresponds to the setup shown in the Configuration dialog box above Shown below the appropriate lines are the commands used in Seaterm to modify the setup of parameters critical to use of the SBE 25 with Seasave as well as any explanatory information SBE 25 CTD V 4 1la SN 323 04 26 02 14 02 13 external pressure sensor range 5076 psia tcval 55 xtal 9437363 clk 32767 107 vmain 10 1 iop 175 vlith 5 6 ncasts 0 samples 0 free 54980 lwait 0 msec o stop upcast when CTD ascends 30 of full scale pressure sensor range 2301 counts CTD configuration number of scans averaged 1 data stored at 8 scans per second real time data transmitted at 1 scans per second real time data transmission CC must match Real time data output rate in con or xmicon file minimum conductivity frequency for pump turn on 2950 pump delay 45 seconds battery type ALKALINI ea 2 external voltages sampled Number of auxiliary voltage sensors enabled CC must match External voltage channels in con or xmicon file stored voltage 0 external voltage 0 stored voltage 1 external voltage 1 36 Manual revision 7 21k Section 3 Configure Inputs Part Instrument Configuration con or xmicon file Seasave V7 SBE 25plus Sealogger Configuration Configuration for the SBE 25plus Sealogger CTD
26. 19plus V2 See the CTD manual for required setup for the WET Labs sensor Unless otherwise noted Seasave supports only one of each auxiliary sensor model for example you cannot specify two Aanderaa Optodes SBE 38 Temperature Sensor and SBE 50 Pressure Sensor Calibration Coefficients The SBE 38 must be set up to output converted data C when integrated with a CTD The SBE 50 must be set up to output converted data psia when integrated with a CTD Therefore calibration coefficients are not required in Seasave just enter the serial number and calibration date SBE 63 Optical Dissolved Oxygen Sensor Calibration Coefficients The SBE 63 must be set up to output data in a format compatible with Sea Bird CTDs SetFormat 1 The SBE 63 manual lists the equation for calculating dissolved oxygen and the calibration coefficients see the manual on our website Enter the serial number calibration date and calibration coefficients WET Labs Sensor Calibration Coefficients If you select the WET Labs RS 232 sensor Seasave adds three lines to the Channel Sensor table If integrating an ECO Triplet select sensors for all three channels If integrating a dual ECO sensor such as the FLNTU select sensors for the first two channels and leave the third channel Free If integrating a single sensor select the sensor for the first channel and leave the second and third channels Free The following WET Labs sensors are available as RS
27. 232 output sensors e Fluorometers ECO CDOM ECO AFL FL and WETStar e Transmissometers C Star e Turbidity Meters ECO BB and ECO NTU These sensors are also available as voltage sensors calibration coefficient information for these sensors is detailed above in Calibration Coefficients for Voltage Sensors Values for the calibration coefficients are listed on the WET Labs calibration sheets in terms of both analog output voltage and digital output counts use the digital output values when calculating entering calibration coefficients for the RS 232 sensors Seasave calculates the converted sensor output based on the counts output instead of the voltage output by the sensor For all sensors enter the serial number calibration date and calibration coefficients 60 Manual revision 7 21k Section 4 Configure Inputs Part Il Calibration Coefficients Seasave V7 GTD Calibration Coefficients Notes e The GTD is compatible only with the The GTD must be set up to output converted data millibars when integrated SBE 16plus V2 and 19plus V2 See the CTD manual for required setup with a CTD Therefore calibration coefficients are not required in Seasave for the GTD just enter the serial number and calibration date e Seasave supports single or dual GTDs Aanderaa Oxygen Optode Calibration Coefficients Notes The Oplodeis compatibleconiy wil Enter the serial number calibration date and information requi
28. 248 Secondary Turner SCUFA OBS serial number 249 Secondary Turner SCUFA OBS calibration date 250 Secondary Turner SCUFA OBS scale factor offset 251 OBS D amp A 3 serial number 252 OBS D amp A 3 calibration date 253 OBS D amp A 3 a0 al a2 254 Secondary OBS D amp A 3 serial number 255 Secondary OBS D amp A 3 calibration date 256 Secondary OBS D amp A 3 a0 al a2 257 SBE 16 19 19plus 21 25 or 49 scan time added NMEA time added NMEA device connected to PC 258 SBE 43 Oxygen sensor use Sea Bird equation Soc2007 A B C E Voffset Tau20 DO Dl D2 Hl H2 H3 259 Secondary SBE 43 Oxygen sensor use Sea Bird equation Soc2007 A B C E Voffset Tau20 DO Dl D2 Hl H2 H3 260 File version of SB ConfigCTD dll which saved the con file 261 IFREMER OBS nephelometer sensor serial number 262 Primary Beckman Oxygen Temperature sensor calibration date 263 Primary Beckman Oxygen Temperature sensor serial number 264 Secondary Beckman Oxygen Temperature sensor calibration date 265 Secondary Beckman Oxygen Temperature sensor serial number 266 IOW Oxygen Temperature sensor calibration date 267 IOW Oxygen Temperature sensor serial number 268 Methane Gas Tension Capsum METS sensor calibration date 269 Methane Gas Tension Capsum METS sensor serial number 270 Secondary WET Labs ECO AFL fluorometer serial number 271 Secondary WET Labs ECO AFL fluorometer calibration d
29. Data Sea Bird Demo Files cece eeeeseeeeeeeeees 13 Acquiring and Displaying Real Time Data 0 eee eeeeeseeecneeeeeeeeeeeees 14 Fil Formats s giccctievis gag eaeetevetiioens aivendiores coven shanti a a 15 Section 3 Configure Inputs Part I Instrument Configuration COMOF XMICON ME EE A A A 17 Jntrod ction aineena aire E E e ie RRE a 17 Instrument Configuration ccccecccesccesecececsseceeeseeeeceseceeseeeeenseenseeeseesseesaeenaes 17 Viewing Modifying or Creating con or xmlcon File ee eeeeeeeeees 18 SBE 9plus Configuration sneinen i a iiai 20 SBE 16 Seacat C T Recorder Configuration ssssseesssserseesersersereerseeees 22 SBE 16plus Seacat C T Recorder Configuration 23 SBE 16plus V2 Seacat C T Recorder Configuration eseeeeeeeeeeeeeee 25 SBE 19 Seacat Profiler Configuration ccccccsceesseeseeeeeeeseeesenteeeeensees 27 SBE 19plus Seacat Profiler Configuration ccessseecseeeceeeeeeeeeeeees 29 SBE 19plus V2 Seacat Profiler Configuration 31 SBE 21 Thermosalinograph Configuration ccscssscseeeceeeeeeteeeeeees 33 SBE 25 Sealogger Configuration c cccecccecccescceseceeceeecseeeseeeeeeseeeereerens 35 SBE 25plus Sealogger Configuration cccesccescessecseeeseeeeeeeeeeeeeeseeeees 37 SBE 45 MicroTSG Configuration cccceeccssccssecseecseeeseeeeeeeeeneeeereerens 40 SBE 49 FastCAT Configuration ccccesccssecscecseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeseee
30. E4 t4 aw HO H1 t H2 t2 H3 t3 bw KO K1 t K2 t2 k kw FQO FQI t FQ2 t2 FQ3 t3 s GO G1l t G2 t2 s32 aw 10 i1 t i2 t2 s JO s32 p bw MO M1 t M2 t2 s p p val 1 p k if val sigma sigma val 1000 0 return sigma Sigma theta o9 p s O s t p 0 0 1000 kg m Sigma 1 p s O s t p 1000 1000 1000 kg m Sigma 2 o p s 0 s t p 2000 2000 1000 kg m Sigma 4 o 4 p s O s t p 4000 4000 1000 kg m Sigma t 0 p s t 0 1000 kg m thermosteric anomaly 10 1000 1000 o 0 97266 10 m kg specific volume V s t p 1 p m kg specific volume anomaly 10 V s t p V 35 0 p 10 m kg P P geopotential anomaly 10 8x Ap J kg m7 s Ap p 0 dynamic meters geopotential anomaly 10 0 1 dynamic meter 10 J kg Sverdup Johnson Flemming 1946 UNESCO 1991 125 Manual revision 7 21k Appendix IV Derived Parameter Formulas Seasave V7 depth m Note To calculate gravity for the depth algorithm Seasave uses the latitude from a NMEA navigation device if NMEA is enabled in the con or xmlcon file If your system does not have NMEA enter the desired latitude on the Miscellaneous tab in Configure Inputs Depth calculation C Computer Code Depth double Depth int dtype double p double latitude atype fresh water or sal
31. ITS 90 deg C Pressure Digiquartz db Salinity PSU m Fixed Display E Conductivity Sm Temperature ITS 90 deg C 595152 Pressure Digiquartz db Salinity PSU 0 5439 Adjust column width by placing mouse cursor over line at number column header and dragging Right click in the display to e Modify change setup Fixed Display dialog box appears e Export Display Settings dsa file export setup to dsa file Save As dialog box appears e Print print display printing dialog box appears Set up the print job as desired and click OK 90 Manual revision 7 21k Section 7 Display Setting Up Seasave Displays Seasave V7 Scrolled Display A Scrolled Display has a list of the selected parameters across the top and displays the data in scrolling vertical columns To set up a Scrolled Display e Click Display and select Add New Scrolled Display Window e Click Display and select Import Display Settings dsa file e Right click in an existing Scrolled Display and click Modify OR OR The Scrolled Display dialog box looks like this Rows to display is number of rows that show at one time in display Seasave uses this to determine display s vertical size Total rows is total number of rows in display if Total rows gt Rows to display display has scroll bar to enable user to view more data you can resize display manually as desired using standard Windows drag
32. OBS Nephelometer Turbidity Calibration Coefficients Oxidation Reduction Potential ORP Calibration Coefficients 54 Oxygen Calibration Coefficients cccceesceeseessceeeeceeceeceecnseeneeeeeeneeees 55 PAR Irradiance Calibration Coefficients cee eeeseeseeeecneeeeceeeeeeeeeenees 56 pH Calibration Coefficients ccecccecccescceseceseeseeceeecseeeseeseeeseeeesenereneens 56 Pressure FGP voltage output Calibration Coefficients cesses 56 Manual revision 7 21k Table of Contents Seasave V7 Suspended Sediment Calibration Coefficients cccssesseeceeteeereeeeees 57 Transmissometer Calibration Coefficients c ccccesceeseceseeeeeeseeneeeneeees 57 User Polynomial for user defined sensor Calibration Coefficients 59 Zaps Calibration Coefficients 2 0 0 cceecceesceseceseceseceseceseceeceeeseeseeeseeeereees 59 Calibration Coefficients for RS 232 Sensors ccecceesseesceescesseeeeeeteeeeenseenees 60 SBE 38 Temperature Sensor and SBE 50 Pressure Sensor Calibration Coefficients eisni denies Sane note ate taglines 60 SBE 63 Optical Dissolved Oxygen Sensor Calibration Coefficients 60 WET Labs Sensor Calibration Coefficients c cecccesceeseeeceeneeeseeeneeees 60 GTD Calibration Coefficients cccccccseeseeescessceeseesecesecesecneeeneeeeeeseeses 61 Aanderaa Oxygen Optode Calibration Coefficients 0 0 0 cee eeeeeneeeeeee 61 Section 5 Configure Inputs Part III
33. PAR Sensor A surface PAR sensor is selected by clicking Surface PAR voltage added in the Configure dialog box Enter conversion factor and ratio multiplier pH Calibration Coefficients Enter the slope and offset from the calibration sheet pH 7 Vout offset K 1 98416e 4 slope where K temperature in degrees Kelvin Pressure FGP voltage output Calibration Coefficients Enter scale factor and offset output Kpa volts scale factor offset where scale factor 100 pressure sensor range bar voltage range volts Note Seasave can process data for an instrument interfacing with up to eight pressure fgp sensors 56 Manual revision 7 21k Section 4 Configure Inputs Part Il Calibration Coefficients Seasave V7 Note See Application Note 7 for complete description of computation of M and B Suspended Sediment Calibration Coefficients The Sequoia LISST 25 sensor requires two channels one for scattering output and the other for transmission output Make sure to select both when configuring the instrument For the scattering channel enter Total volume concentration constant Cal Sauter mean diameter calibration a Clean H O scattering output Vso and Clean H20 transmission output Vro from the calibration sheet For the transmission channel no additional coefficients are required they are all defined for the scattering channel Optical transmission t Vr Vro Beam C
34. Pump control only applicable for a custom SBE 9plus CTD For setup of the instrument configuration con or xmlcon file see Section 3 Configure Inputs Part I Instrument Configuration con or xmicon file and Section 4 Configure Inputs Part II Calibration Coefficients Serial Ports The Serial Ports tab defines serial ports and other communication parameters for e Sending commands to and receiving replies from the CTD e Sending commands to and receiving replies from a water sampler through the SBE 1 1plus Deck Unit Modem Channel connector or SBE 33 Deck Unit Carousel Data connector e Sending pump control commands to a custom SBE 9p us through the SBE 1 1plus Deck Unit Modem Channel connector e Outputting data to a serial port for user defined purposes e Outputting converted data through a serial port to an SBE 14 Remote Display Serial port parameters can be defined in Configure Inputs or Configure Outputs if you make changes in one dialog box those changes will appear when you open the other dialog box 62 21k Section 5 Configure Inputs Part Ill Serial Ports Water Sampler TCP IP Ports Miscellaneous amp Pump Control _Seasave V7 Click Configure Inputs In the Configure Inputs dialog box click the Serial Ports tab Defaults are shown for instrument selected on Instrument Configuration tab and are typical settings for that instrument If your instrument will not communicate at settings s
35. SBE Data Processing s Data Conversion module are somewhat different from values computed by SBE Data Processing s Derive module Both algorithms compute the derivative of the oxygen signal with respect to time with a user input window size for calculating the derivative using a linear regression to determine the slope Seasave and Data Conversion use a window looking backward in time since they share common code and Seasave cannot use future values of oxygen while acquiring data in real time Derive uses a centered window equal number of points before and after the scan to obtain a better estimate of the derivative Use Seasave and Data Conversion to obtain a quick look at oxygen values use Derive to obtain the most accurate values e Hysteresis correction SBE 43 only when using Sea Bird equation Under extreme pressure changes can occur in gas permeable Teflon membranes that affect their permeability characteristics Some of these changes plasticization and amorphous crystalinity ratios have long time constants and depend on the sensor s time pressure history These slow processes result in hysteresis in long deep casts The hysteresis correction Note algorithm using H1 H2 and H3 coefficients entered for the SBE 43 in the The raw voltage saved in the output con or xmlcon file operates through the entire data profile and corrects hex file is not corrected for hysteresis the oxygen voltage values for changes in membrane perm
36. Section 3 Configure Inputs Part Instrument Configuration con or xmicon file Seasave V7 All Instrument Configuration dialog boxes include e List of instrument configuration options at the top instrument specific such as number of auxiliary channels pressure sensor type and addition of Surface PAR and NMEA to the CTD data string e Channel Sensor Table This table reflects the options selected at the top for example the number of voltage sensors listed in the table agrees with the user selection for External voltage channels Shaded sensors cannot be removed or changed to another type of sensor All others are optional gt To change a sensor type and input its calibration coefficients After you specify the number of frequency and or voltage channels at the top of the dialog box click a non shaded sensor and click Select to pick a different sensor for that channel or right click on the sensor and select Select New Sensor A dialog box with a list of sensors appears Select New Yoltage Sensor x Altimeter Shrink All Fluorometers Expand All Methane CAPSUM METS OBS Nephelometers Shrink Oxidation Reduction Potential Oxygen Expand P R lrradiance Biospherical Licor pH Pressure FGP Suspended Sediment LISST 254 Transmissometers User Polynomial Zaps H H A H B A Double click on the desired sensor The Calibration Coefficients dialog box appears An example is show
37. Test Station Latitude Longitude END 113 Manual revision 7 21k Section 10 Processing Data Seasave V7 5 Inthe File menu select Save not Save As If you are running Windows 2000 the following message displays You are about to save the document in a Text Only format which will remove all formatting Are you sure you want to do this Ignore the message and click Yes 6 Inthe File menu select Exit 114 Manual revision 7 21k Appendix l Command Line Operation Seasave V7 Appendix Command Line Operation Seasave has a number of command line parameters for infrequently used options Parameter Function autostart filename U Automatically start Seasave and data acquisition using program setup psa file defined by filename Filename must include path and extension psa Seasave uses con or xmlcon file setup in Configure Inputs and Configure Outputs displays and output file name defined in psa file This allows you to set up system ahead of time and then have an untrained operator start acquisition without navigating through Seasave s menus Ignore output hex file name defined in psa file and create a unique output hex file name based on current date and time When used with autostart command line option this allows you to set up system ahead of time and then have an untrained operator start and stop acquisition multiple times without navigating thro
38. This sensor requires two channels one for direct voltage and the other for measured voltage Make sure to select both when configuring the CTD For the direct voltage channel enter vm0 vd0 d0 and k diffusion k vm vm0 vd vd0 d0 where k scale factor vm0 measured voltage offset vd0 direct voltage offset vm measured voltage vd direct voltage d0 diffusion offset Seapoint Turbidity Enter gain setting and scale factor output volts 500 scale factor gain where Scale factor is from calibration sheet Gain is dependent on cable used see cable drawing Note Seasave can process data for an instrument interfacing with up to two Seapoint Turbidity sensors Seatech LS6000 and WET Labs LBSS Enter gain setting slope and offset Output volts range 5 slope offset where Slope is from calibration sheet Range is based on sensor ordered see calibration sheet and cable dependent gain see cable drawing to determine if low or high gain High Gain 2 25 7 5 75 225 33 Low Gain 7 5 25 250 750 100 Note Seasave can process data for an instrument interfacing with up to two Seatech LS6000 or WET Labs LBSS sensors Turner SCUFA Enter scale factor and offset NTU scale factor voltage offset corrected chlorophyll mx chlorophyll my NTU b where mx my and b coefficients entered for Turner SCUFA fluorometer chlorophyll results from fluoromet
39. Use Seasave V7 File extensions are used by Seasoft to indicate the file type Input files Extension Description con or xmicon Instrument configuration number and type of sensors channel assigned to each sensor and calibration coefficients Seasave uses this information to interpret raw data from instrument Latest version of configuration file for your instrument is supplied by Sea Bird when instrument is purchased upgraded or calibrated If you make changes to instrument add or remove sensors recalibrate etc you must update configuration file Can be viewed and or modified in Seasave s Configure Inputs on Instrument Configuration tab or in SBE Data Processing e xmlcon files written in XML format were introduced with SBE Data Processing and Seasave 7 20a Instruments introduced after that are compatible only with xmlcon files dsa Seasave display setup file defines size placement and setup for a display window Information in dsa file is also incorporated into program setup psa file You can import and export dsa files allowing you to create desired displays once and then reuse them for other instruments deployments Even if you do not save display setup in a separate dsa file display changes are incorporated in psa file next time you save psa file psa e Seasave program setup file all information entered in Configure Inputs and Configure Outputs instrument con or x
40. Zaps 59 SBE 917plus 20 Carousel 65 74 107 Closing bottles 107 A COM ports 62 Command line operation 115 A D count sensors 47 Communication parameters 62 74 Acceleration 70 134 Compatibility issues 123 Adding display 88 Computer alarm 84 101 Alarms 82 83 84 101 Conductivity 45 altimeter 82 83 84 101 specific 131 bottom contact switch 82 83 84 101 Configuration computer 84 101 calibration coefficients 42 43 PC 84 101 calibration coefficients A D count sensors 47 pressure 82 83 84 101 calibration coefficients frequency sensors 44 SBE 11plus 82 calibration coefficients RS 232 sensors 60 SBE 14 Remote Display 83 calibration coefficients voltage sensors 48 visual 101 file 15 17 42 103 111 118 Algorithms 124 SBE 16 22 Altimeter 48 SBE 16plus 23 Altimeter alarm 82 83 84 101 SBE 16plus V2 25 Archived data 13 111 SBE 19 27 Auto fire 66 SBE 19plus 29 143 Manual revision 7 21k Index Seasave V7 SBE 19plus V2 31 G SBE 21 33 SBE 25 35 Geopotential anomaly 125 SBE 25plus 37 Getting started 13 SBE 45 40 GPS display 100 109 SBE 49 41 Gravity 70 SBE 91 plus 20 GTD 61 SBE 917plus 20 Configure Inputs 62 H Configure Outputs 72 Contour plot 92 Header form 85 Control positions 110 Corrected irradiance 134 I C Star 60 CTD 74 Importing calibration coefficients 43 Importing display 88 Input D mi
41. a2 Value a0 al frequency a2 frequency 46 Manual revision 7 21k Section 4 Configure Inputs Part Il Calibration Coefficients Seasave V7 Calibration Coefficients for A D Count Sensors Notes e These coefficients provide ITS 90 Tgo temperature e See Application Note 31 for computation of slope and offset correction coefficients from pre and post cruise calibrations supplied by Sea Bird Note See Calibration Coefficients for Voltage Sensors below for information on strain gauge pressure sensors used on other instruments See Calibration Coefficients for Frequency Sensors above for information on Paroscientific Digiquartz pressure sensors For all calibration dialog boxes enter the sensor serial number and calibration date Many sensor calibration equations contain an offset term Unless noted otherwise use the offset default 0 0 to make small corrections for sensor drift between calibrations Calibration coefficients are discussed below for each type of sensor temperature and strain gauge pressure sensor Temperature Calibration Coefficients For SBE l6plus 16plus V2 19plus 19plus V2 and 49 Enter a0 al a2 and a3 from the calibration sheet Enter values for slope default 1 0 and offset default 0 0 to make small corrections for temperature sensor drift between calibrations Corrected temperature slope computed temperature offset where slope true temperature span
42. appendix Sea Bird also provides Seasave Remote Seasave Remote is a more full featured program with many of the same display and plotting capabilities as Seasave It can be used to display data transmitted via TCP IP or toa shared file on a remote computer and to fire bottles from a remote computer See Appendix V Seasave Remote for Remote Display and Bottle Firing or Seasave Remote s Help files Software on the remote computer is required to view data output via TCP IP and to fire bottles remotely FixedDisplay jar and FireBottles jar are sample Java applications e FixedDisplay jar allows you to view a Fixed display on a remote computer to display data transmitted via TCP IP To use it you must select Output converted data to socket using TCP IP and XML format on the TCP IP Out tab in Configure Outputs e FireBottles jar allows you to fire bottles from a remote computer FixedDisplay jar and FireBottles jar are installed when you install Seasave to the same folder as Seasave default location C Program Files Sea Bird SeasaveV7 You can use the provided sample applications or modify them as desired e Torun the provided sample applications you must have Java Runtime Environment JRE version 6u1 or later installed on the remote computer e To modify the provided sample applications you must have Java SE Development Kit JDK version 6u1 or later with NetBeans version 5 5 1 or later installed on the remote compute
43. appends NMEA data to every scan and writes NMEA data to New to create nav file every time Ctrl F7 is pressed Channel Censor new con or or Add to nav File is clicked see New xmicon file for Adding NMEA Data to nav File in 1 Count Temperature Shaded sensors this CTD Section 8 Real Time Data and Real on cannot be Open Open to select Time Control Real Time Data 2 Frequericy Conductivity removed or different con or Acquisition changed to __ xmcon file Notes 3 Count Pressure Strain Gauge another type of aie Save or Save As a sensor All others NMEA device connected to computer 4 A D voltage Oxpoen SBE 43 are optional con or xmlcon to save current 1 NMEA time can only be appended if 2 NMEA depth can only be appended pave sl file settings if NMEA device connected to computer 5 AD voltage pH or if using 19p us with SBE 33 or 36 Le 3 Deck Unit Gwar gt 3 0 or 6 A D voltage 2 Tranemissometer Chelsea Seatech Wetlab PN 90488 or 90545 Interface Box 7 AD voltage 3 Surface PAR Select if using with deck unit connected to Surface PAR Click a non shaded sensor and click Select to pick sensor Seasave appends Surface a different sensor for that channel Dialog box with a PAR data to every scan Adds list of sensors appears Select sensors after number of voltage channels have been specified above Select Click a sensor and click adi Modify to adili change calibration c
44. as noted Following the recommendation of JPOTS Tes is assumed to be 1 00024 To 2 to 35 C Salinity is PSS 78 and by definition is valid only in the range of 2 to 42 psu Sea Bird uses the PSS 78 algorithm in our software without regard to those limitations on the valid range Unesco technical papers in marine science 62 Salinity and density of seawater Tables for high salinities 42 to 50 provides a method for calculating salinity in the higher range http unesdoc unesco org images 0009 000964 09645 Il mb pdf Equations are provided for the following oceanographic parameters density density sigma theta sigma 1 sigma 2 sigma 4 sigma t thermosteric anomaly specific volume specific volume anomaly geopotential anomaly dynamic meters depth salt water fresh water seafloor depth salt water fresh water practical salinity psu sound velocity Chen Millero DelGrosso Wilson average sound velocity potential temperature reference pressure 0 0 decibars potential temperature anomaly plume anomaly specific conductivity oxygen requires pressure temperature and conductivity as well as oxygen signal for SBE 43 oxygen current and oxygen temperature for SBE 13 or 23 or oxygen phase and thermistor voltage SBE 63 oxygen saturation oxygen percent saturation nitrogen saturation derivative variables descent rate and acceleration corrected irradiance CPAR 124 Manual revision 7 21k
45. causes listed may be applicable timed out error message at the start of real time data acquisition to your instrument configuration For example a 9p us CTD does not have a magnetic switch or you may be using an instrument with a direct connection to the computer no Deck Unit e Cause The CTD s switch is not in the On position Solution Move the switch to the On position e Cause SBE 19 and 25 only The CTD was not asleep when the magnetic switch was put in the On position Solution Slide the switch to the Off position wait at least 2 minutes for the CTD to go to sleep and then slide the switch to the On position again e Cause Deck Unit power is not on Solution Verify that the Deck Unit is connected to a power source and that the power switch is on e Cause Loose or missing connections between equipment Solution Check all cable connections between the CTD Deck Unit and computer port s e Cause Incorrect communication settings Solution Check that communication settings and COM Ports selected on the Serial Ports tab in Configure Inputs are correct e Cause Selection of Surface PAR voltage added in the instrument configuration file does not match the Deck Unit setup Solution See the Deck Unit manual for setup details 106 Manual revision 7 21k Section 8 Real Time Data and Real Time Control Real Time Data Acquisition Seasave V7 Firing Bottles Note For water sampler setup see Water Sampl
46. data updates For example if Seconds between raw data updates is 1 0 and you are using a 19plus 4 scans second sampling scan 0 corresponds to the 1 scan in the hex file scan 1 corresponds to the 5 scan in the hex file etc If the scan index tags skip any numbers Seasave is unable to process the data fast enough increase the Seconds between raw data updates lt xml version 1 0 encoding UTF 8 gt lt SBE_InstrumentConfiguration SB _ConfigCTD_FileVersion 7 18 0 3 gt lt Instrument Type 3 gt lt Name gt SBE 19plus Seacat CTD lt Name gt lt PressureSensorType gt 1 lt PressureSensorType gt lt ExternalVoltageChannels gt 4 lt ExternalVoltageChannels gt lt Mode gt 0 lt Mode gt lt SampleIntervalSeconds gt 60 lt SampleIntervalSeconds gt lt ScansToAverage gt 1 lt ScansToAverage gt lt SurfaceParVoltageAdded gt 0 lt SurfaceParVoltageAdded gt lt ScanTimeAdded gt 0 lt ScanTimeAdded gt lt NmeaPositionDataAdded gt 0 lt NmeaPositionDataAdded gt lt NmeaDepthDataAdded gt 0 lt NmeaDepthDataAdded gt lt NmeaTimeAdded gt 0 lt NmeaTimeAdded gt lt NmeaDeviceConnectedToPC gt 0 lt NmeaDeviceConnectedToPC gt lt SensorArray Size 7 gt lt Sensor index 0 SensorID 58 gt lt TemperatureSensor SensorID 58 gt lt SerialNumber gt 4216 lt SerialNumber gt lt CalibrationDate gt 21 May 02 lt CalibrationDate gt lt A0 gt 1 23634100e 003 lt A0 gt Sah temperature calibration coefficients lt Te
47. e Header Form Create a customized header for the data e Diagnostics Enable and set up diagnostic outputs to assist in troubleshooting if you encounter difficulty running the program 3 Define Seasave displays Seasave can have an unlimited number of data displays limited only by the resources of your computer Three types of data displays are available fixed scrolled and plot displays Additionally you can open a Status display and a NMEA display See Section 7 Display Setting Up Seasave Displays 4 Start real time data acquisition If applicable and if enabled in Steps 1 and 2 fire bottles mark scans and or send Lat Lon data to a file during acquisition See Section 8 Real Time Data and Real Time Control Real Time Data Acquisition 14 Manual revision 7 21k File Formats Notes e Configuration files con or xmlicon can also be opened viewed and modified with DisplayConFile exe a utility that is installed in the same folder as SBE Data Processing Right click on the desired configuration file select Open With and select DisplayConFile This utility is often used at Sea Bird to quickly open and view a configuration file for troubleshooting purposes without needing to go through the additional steps of selecting the file in SBE Data Processing or Seasave We recommend that you do not open xmlcon files with a text editor i e Notepad Wordpad etc Section 2 Installation and
48. electronics and firmware As a result there were some changes in capabilities and in commands e Firmware version lt 5 0 Depending on serial number these SBE 21s may be integrated with an SBE 38 remote temperature sensor if SBE 21 equipped with 4 pin remote temperature connector or an SBE 3 remote temperature sensor if SBE 21 equipped with 3 pin remote temperature connector e Firmware version gt 5 0 These SBE 21s are compatible with an SBE 38 remote temperature sensor and are not compatible with an SBE 3 remote temperature sensor Channel Sensor table reflects this choice shows RS 232 channel if SBE 38 selected or additional frequency based temperature channel if SBE 3 selected Must agree with SBE 21 setup SBE38 and SBE3 see reply from DS If remote temperature is selected Seasave and Data Conversion and Derive in SBE Data Processing uses remote temperature data when calculating density and sound velocity Time between scans Used to calculate elapsed time if you select time as as an output parameter Must agree with SBE 21 setup SI for firmware gt 5 0 or SI for firmware lt 5 0 see reply from DS xtemal voltage channels fi Sample interval seconds v NMEA position data added NMEA depth data added NMEA device connected to deck unit D NMEA time added C NMEA device connected to PC Select to have Seasave append time seconds since Scan time added January 1 1970 GMT to e
49. file name to avoid overwriting the demo file 13 Manual revision 7 21k Section 2 Installation and Use Seasave V7 Acquiring and Displaying Real Time Data Follow these steps to use Seasave to acquire and display real time data 1 Set up the instrument and define input parameters see Sections 3 4 and 5 Configure Inputs e Instrument Configuration Set up the instrument configuration con or xmlcon file defining what sensors are integrated with the instrument each sensor s calibration coefficients and what other data is integrated with the data stream from the instrument e Serial Ports Define COM ports and other communication parameters for CTD water sampler and 9p us pump control serial data output and SBE 14 Remote Display e Water Sampler Enable and set up control of water sampler bottle Note Serial ports and TCP IP ports can be defined in Configure Inputs and or Configure Outputs If you make firing changes in one dialog box those e TCP IP Ports Define ports for communication with remote display changes will appear when you open and remote bottle firing software the other dialog box e Miscellaneous Define miscellaneous parameters required for output of specific variables depth average sound velocity descent rate acceleration oxygen plume anomaly potential temperature anomaly e Pump Control Enable user pump control for a custom SBE 9plus 2 Define output parameters see
50. in Configure Inputs 130 Manual revision 7 21k Appendix IV Derived Parameter Formulas Seasave V7 Note Reference Baker E T Feely R A Mottl M J Sansone F T Wheat C G Resing J A Lupton J E Hydrothermal plumes along the East Pacific Rise 8 40 to 11 50 N Plume distribution and relationship to the apparent magmatic budget Earth and Planetary Science Letters 128 1994 1 17 plume anomaly potential temperature s t p Reference Pressure Theta B Theta Z Salinity Z salinity Salinity B Note Enter Theta B Salinity B Theta Z Salinity Z and Reference Pressure on the Miscellaneous tab in Configure Inputs The plume anomaly equation is based on work in hydrothermal vent plumes The algorithm used for identifying hydrothermal vent plumes uses potential temperature gradient conditions in the region vent salinity and ambient seawater conditions adjacent to the vent This function is specific to hydrothermal vent plumes and more specifically temperature and potential density anomalies It is not a generic function for plume tracking for example not for wastewater plumes One anomaly for one region and application does not necessarily apply to another type of anomaly in another region for a different application The terms are specific to corrections for hydrothermal vent salinity and local hydrographic features near vents They are likely not relevant to other applications
51. last at the surface p 0 but at the same T S value N2sat T S exp Al A2 100 T A3 In T 100 A4 T 100 S B1 B2 T 100 B3 T 100 7 where e N2Sat T S nitrogen saturation value ml I e S salinity psu e T water temperature C e T absolute water temperature C 273 15 e Al 172 4965 A2 248 4262 A3 143 0738 A4 21 7120 e Bl 0 049781 B2 0 025018 B3 0 0034861 133 Manual revision 7 21k Appendix IV Derived Parameter Formulas Seasave V7 Note For complete description of ratio multiplier see Application Note 11S SBE 11p us Deck Unit or 47 SBE 33 or 36 Deck Unit Descent rate and acceleration are computed by calculating the derivative of the pressure signal with respect to time with a user input window size for calculating the derivative using a linear regression to determine the slope Values computed by Seasave and SBE Data Processing s Data Conversion module are somewhat different from values computed by SBE Data Processing s Derive module Seasave and Data Conversion compute the derivative with a window looking backward in time since they share common code and Seasave cannot use future values of pressure while acquiring data in real time Derive uses a centered window equal number of points before and after the scan to obtain a better estimate of the derivative Use Seasave and Data Conversion to obtain a quick look at descent rate and acceleratio
52. name for this is the address to enter as the the shared file Server address in the Seasave Remote Fixed Display window 7 for remote bottle firing In Seasave Remote s Bottle Fire menu select Configure Bottle Firing The Configure Bottle Firing dialog box appears Select the bottle fire sequence Sequential User Input or Table Driven Enter the number of bottles on your water sampler If you selected Table Driven click Bottle Positions for Table Driven to input the desired bottle firing order 8 In Seasave start real time data acquisition 9 In Seasave Remote s Data menu click Connect If you already have display windows set up in Seasave Remote you should begin to see data the Status bar should show that you are connected 10 If desired modify or add display windows in Seasave Remote using the same methods as in Seasave 136 Manual revision 7 21k Appendix V Seasave Remote for Remote Display and Bottle Firing Seasave V7 11 In Seasave Remote s Bottle Fire menu click Bottle Fire Control In the Bottle Fire dialog box click Connect The Status bar should show that you are connected to the bottle fire client Connected to on ports and you can now fire bottles from Seasave Remote Note 12 In Seasave Remote s Remote Bottle Fire window click Fire Bottle when When Seasave receives a bottle fired confirmation from a water sampler its response to remote bottle firing is identical to bottle firin
53. natural fluorescence calibration coefficient Al A2 and B from calibration sheet natural fluorescence Fn Cfn 10V production Al Fn A2 PAR chlorophyll concentration Chl Fn B PAR where V is voltage from natural fluorescence sensor 48 Manual revision 7 21k Section 4 Configure Inputs Part Il Calibration Coefficients Seasave V7 Note See Application Note 39 for complete description of calculation of Chelsea Aqua 3calibration coefficients Note See Application Note 61 for complete description of calculation of Chelsea Minitracka calibration coefficients Chelsea Aqua 3 Enter VB V1 Vacetone slope offset and SF Concentration ug l slope 10 0 S 10 0VB 10 0V 10 0 Vacetoney offset where VB V1 and Vacetone are from calibration sheet Slope default 1 0 and offset default 0 0 adjust readings to conform to measured concentrations Scale factor SF 1 0 if CTD gain is 1 SF 2 if CTD gain is 2 0 V is output voltage measured by CTD Note Seasave can process data for an instrument interfacing with up to two Chelsea Aqua 3 sensors Chelsea Aqua 3 Example Calculation of Slope and Offset Current slope 1 0 and offset 0 0 Two in situ samples Sample 1 Concentration from Seasave 0 390 from water sample 0 450 Sample 2 Concentration from Seasave 0 028 from water sample 0 020 Linear regression to this data yields slope 1 188 and offset 0 013 C
54. not include date or time both the NMEA Display and the NMEA UTC Time in the output data file header contain no date time information 109 Manual revision 7 21k Section 8 Real Time Data and Real Time Control Real Time Data Acquisition Seasave V7 To add data to a nav file 1 Inthe Display menu or the Real Time Control menu select NMEA Display The NMEA Data dialog box appears NMEA Data x Latitude Longitude Date Time Number of NAY file entries 0 dd to NAY File 2 Start real time data acquisition 3 When desired click Add to nav File or press Ctrl F7 Turning Pump On Off Seasave allows you to manually turn a SBE 9p us pump on and off during data acquisition for a 9p us with the manual pump control option This may be useful if your system is integrated with an acoustic instrument to provide a quiet period during its data acquisition Note that although the same COM port is used to operate a water sampler and to send pump control commands to the 9p us the manual pump control does not interfere with water sampler operation To manually turn the 9p us pump on off 1 Select Configure Inputs A On the Instrument Configuration tab open or create a configuration con or xmlcon file for the 91 1plus B On the Pump Control tab select Enable pump on pump off commands C On the Serial Ports tab in the Water Sampling and 911 Pump Control Serial Port section select the C
55. nrin a R een eae 99 Stats Display eneen a tes sone heen ena ee eee 100 NMEA Display eaen seo E E EA E eee ee 100 Alarms Displayen a E A E a EE 101 Remote Displa yoron n E N E TO 102 Manual revision 7 21k Table of Contents Seasave V7 Section 8 Real Time Data and Real Time Control Real Time Data AcqQuisition ssccsscssessssssssesssssssssssssssscsesssesssesseseees 103 Starting and Stopping Real Time Data Acquisition 104 Troubleshooting icn sc cei eiei iei A RE ieteede hea e 106 Firing Bottles orreri n cote teases E RAR E RE 107 Firing Bottles by Command from Seasave cccccecseeseeeeeseesseeteeesees 107 Marking Scansione ii ke aA E EA R ERA 109 Adding NMEA Data to nav File ccceececceseceseesceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeneenseeereneeens 109 Turning Pump On Offessscccccsiececctscececesceetintstiece chen odh n E R cs 110 Resetting Control Positions ccccssccsssesseeseeeceeeceesceeeesecesecnaeceeceeeaeeeneenes 110 Section 9 Archived Data Displaying Archived Data cscsscessseeee 111 Section 10 Processing Data cscssscssssssscssssssscssessesssessesssenessseeseessees 113 Appendix I Command Line Operation sssesscssssssssssssssssscessseees 115 Running Seasave with Command Line Parameters general instructions 116 Running Seasave with Autostop Parameter 00 0 ceeceeeceeeeceeeeeeteeseeeeeneens 117 Appendix II Configure con or xmlcon File Format ss
56. one consistent with English Follow the instructions for file editing in Section 10 Processing Data Solution 2 Install Seaterm 1 59 or later and upload the data again if it is still available in the instrument Seaterm 1 59 and later always writes the System Upload Time date with the appropriate English abbreviation regardless of the computer s language setting 123 anual revision 7 21k Appendix IV Derived Parameter Formulas Seasave V7 Appendix IV Derived Parameter Formulas Notes e Algorithms used for calculation of derived parameters in Seasave and in SBE Data Processing s Data Conversion Derive and SeacalcW modules are identical except as noted e Absolute Salinity TEOS 10 is available in our seawater calculator SeaCalc Il in SBE Data Processing see the SBE Data Processing manual Seasave outputs only Practical Salinity and all parameters derived from salinity in Seasave are based on Practical Salinity For formulas for the calculation of conductivity temperature and pressure see the calibration sheets for your instrument Formulas for the computation of salinity density potential temperature specific volume anomaly and sound velocity were obtained from Algorithms for computation of fundamental properties of seawater by N P Fofonoff and R C Millard Jr Unesco technical papers in marine science 44 1983 Temperature used for calculating derived variables is IPTS 68 except
57. pA0 pA1 pA2 ptempA0O ptempA1 ptempA2 pTCAO pTCA1 pTCA2 pTCBO pTCB1 and pTCB2 from the calibration sheet Offset is normally zero but may be changed for non zero sea surface condition For example if the in air pressure reading is negative enter an equal positive value 47 Manual revision 7 21k Section 4 Configure Inputs Part Il Calibration Coefficients Seasave V7 Calibration Coefficients for Voltage Sensors Note Unless noted otherwise Seasave supports only one of each auxiliary sensor model on a CTD for example you cannot specify two Chelsea Minitracka fluorometers but you can specify a Chelsea Minitracka and a Chelsea UV Aquatracka fluorometer See the sensor descriptions below for those sensors that Seasave supports in a redundant configuration two or more of the same model interfacing with the CTD Note See Calibration Coefficients for A D Count Sensors above for information on strain gauge pressure sensors used on the SBE 16plus 16plus V2 19plus 19plus V2 and 49 See Calibration Coefficients for Frequency Sensors above for information on Paroscientific Digiquartz pressure sensors Note To enter the altimeter alarm set point alarm hysteresis and minimum pressure to enable alarm click the PC Alarms SBE 11p us Alarms and or SBE 14 Remote Display tabs as applicable in Seasave s Configure Outputs For all calibration dialog boxes enter the sensor serial number and calibration
58. s double t double p adiabatic temperature gradient deg C per decibar ref broyden h Deep Sea Res 20 401 408 s salinity t temperature deg C ITPS 68 p pressure in decibars double ds ds s 35 0 return 2 1687e 16 t 1 8676e 14 t 4 6206e 13 p 2 7759e 12 t 1 1351le 10 ds 5 4481le 14 t 8 733e 12 t 6 7795e 10 t 1 874le 8 p 4 2393e 8 t 1 8932e 6 ds 6 6228e 10 t 6 836e 8 t 8 5258e 6 t 3 5803e 5 potential temperature double PoTemp double s double t0 double p0 double pr local potential temperature at pr using atg procedure for adiabadic lapse rate Fofonoff N Deep Sea Res 24 489 491 s salinity t0 local temperature deg C ITPS 68 p0 local pressure in decibars pr reference pressure in decibars double p t h xk q temp pr ATG s t AY RRA h ATG s t p 0 29289322 xk q 58578644 xk 0 121320344 q h ATG s t p 1 707106781 xk q 2414213562 xk 4 121320344 q DS Tage k h ATG s t p temp t xk 2 0 q 6 0 return temp xT OQtxKX QerexDQtxK Tet potential temperature ITS 90 6 s t p pr 1 00024 C potential temperature anomaly potential temperature a0 al x salinity or potential temperature a0 al x Sigma theta Note Enter a0 and al and select salinity or sigma theta on the Miscellaneous tab
59. saves the changes to a temporary location However the changes are not saved to the program setup psa file until you select Save Setup File or Save Setup File As in the File menu A display setup dsa file defines the size placement and setup for a display window The information in the dsa file is also incorporated into the program setup psa file You can import and export dsa files allowing you to create the desired displays once and then reuse them later for other instruments deployments See Section 7 Display Setting Up Seasave Displays File gt Open Setup File Select a setup psa file In the Open dialog box if you select Open as read only Seasave will prompt you to enter a new file name when you next try to save the psa file it will not allow you to overwrite the existing file gt Save Setup File Save all the entered settings to the currently open psa file Save Setup File As Save all the entered settings to a new psa file Restore Setup File Discard all changes to settings made in Configure Inputs Configure Outputs Display and Options menus since the last time you saved the psa file gt Print Print a fixed scrolled or plot display The Select Display dialog box appears when Print is selected this allows you to select the desired display for printing Note that you can also print a display by right clicking in the desired display and selecting Print E
60. sensor name This name will appear in the data file header Note Seasave can process data for an instrument interfacing with up to three sensors defined with user polynomials Example A manufacturer defines the output of their sensor as NTU Vsample Vblank scale factor Set this equal to user polynomial equation and calculate a0 al a2 and a3 Vsample Vblank scale factor a0 al V a2 V2 a3 V3 Expanding left side of equation and using consistent notation Vsample V scale factor V scale factor Vblank a0 al V a2 V2 a3 V3 Left side of equation has no V or V terms so a2 and a3 are 0 rearranging scale factor Vblank scale factor V a0 al V a0 scale factor Vblank al scale factor a2 a3 0 Zaps Calibration Coefficients Enter M and B from calibration sheet z M volts B nmoles 59 Manual revision 7 21k Section 4 Configure Inputs Part Il Calibration Coefficients Seasave V7 Calibration Coefficients for RS 232 Sensors Notes e The SBE 38 is compatible only with the SBE 16plus V2 and 19plus V2 e The SBE 50 is compatible only with the SBE 16plus V2 See the CTD manual for required setup for the SBE 38 and SBE 50 Note The SBE 63 is compatible only with the SBE 16p us V2 and 19plus V2 See the CTD manual for required setup for the SBE 63 Note WET Labs sensors are compatible only with the SBE 16p us V2 and
61. setup file before exiting gt Confirm Instrument Configuration Change If selected Save amp Exit button in Configuration dialog box changes to Exit when you click Exit Seasave prompts you to save the configuration con or xmlcon file changes if desired Otherwise clicking Save amp Exit automatically saves the configuration changes Confirm Display Setup Change If selected when you close a Display window Seasave prompts you to save the display setup dsa file if desired If not selected Seasave will not save the display settings to a dsa file Confirm Output File Overwrite If selected Seasave provides a warning if you select an existing file name for a data output file and or shared output file Otherwise Seasave does not provide a warning and overwrites the data in the existing file Check Scan Length If selected Seasave checks the data scan length against the expected length based on setup of the con or xmlcon file during real time data acquisition and or archived data playback if the scan length does not match the con or xmlcon file it provides a warning that there is an error Otherwise Seasave does not provide a warning Regardless of whether Check Scan Length is selected if there is a scan length error Seasave continues with real time data acquisition saving the raw data to a file but does not show or plot data in the Seasave displays Compare Serial Numbers Applicable only to Archi
62. to 1700 Pacific Daylight Time 1500 to 0000 Universal Time the rest of the year Summary Notes e Extensive testing has not shown any compatibility problems when using the software with a PC running Windows Vista Limited testing has not shown any compatibility problems when using the software with Windows 7 the software installs and runs correctly We do not anticipate any problems Note The following Seasoft DOS calibration modules are not available in Seasoft V2 e OXFIT compute oxygen calibration coefficients OXFITW compute oxygen calibration coefficients using Winkler titration values e PHFIT compute pH coefficients See the Seasoft DOS manual Seasoft V2 consists of modular menu driven routines for acquisition display processing and archiving of oceanographic data acquired with Sea Bird equipment Seasoft V2 is designed to work with a PC running Windows 2000 or later Seasoft V2 is actually several stand alone programs e SeatermV2 a launcher for Seaterm232 Seaterm485 and SeatermIM Seaterm and SeatermAF terminal programs that send commands for status setup data retrieval and diagnostics to a wide variety of Sea Bird instruments Note SeatermV2 is used with our newest generation of instruments which have the ability to output data in XML e Seasave V7 program that acquires and displays real time and raw archived data for a variety of Sea Bird instruments e SBE Data Proces
63. upcast a00 upcast and P has decreased from previous maximum P by Pressure M Enable upcast colors Pressure decrease to determine upcast P decrease to determine upcast See drawing below Bottle Fire Line Display Mark Line Display Show mark lines Place horizontal line in plot to Show bottle lines Place F F indicate data associated with horizontal lines in plot to indicate show ines show sequence Show lines scan marking see Marking data associated with closures abel abel Scans in Section 8 Real Label and Style define line abel aDEL Time Data and Real Time Show sequence List closure Control Real Time Data order to right of plot Style Style Acquisition Label mark number pressure or both and Style define line Black text axes Label all axesin Blacktestas V Show plot shadow Monochrome plot black otherwise label colors are Colors defined include defined with Colors button inside and outside Show plot shadow Shadow Seconds between updates l Be background color within and effect to bottom and right of axes outside axes title grid lines Monochrome plot Black and axes labels axes plots mark white plot lines bottle lines and contour lines as applicable Button is not enabled if Monochrome plot was selected Seconds between plot updates Time between each calculation of Font list depends on what fonts are installed on variables for updating plot each display can have differen
64. 00 6 000 Ae o EE Pome A s 1 7504 H b g 60K 4 500 4 WET TE rpm 0 24 375K Tht sakt o H A 6 1254 7 000K 0 000 Right click in plot to make changes selections e Modify change plot setup Plot Display dialog box appears e Modify ranges change plot axis ranges Modify Ranges dialog box appears See description on next page e Modify colors change plot colors Colors dialog box appears e Export Display Settings dsa file export setup to dsa file Save As dialog box appears Print Copy Save as See description below Toolbar Enable disable display of toolbar at top of plot Scroll Zoom See description below Undo scroll amp zoom See description below Disable auto page Seasave automatically disables auto page if you scroll or zoom or undo scroll amp zoom To re enable select Disable auto page Maximize enlarge display to full screen When enlarged use Tab key to view other displays Restore If maximized return display to its previous size To zoom in to enlarge details click and drag to select a rectangular area You can zoom in several times before reaching program limits To undo most recent zoom click Undo button on toolbar select multiple times to return to original plot DOD 5 000 Conductivity 5 n _ _ _ _ ___ __ S __1_1____1_1____ 34 200 34 400 34 600 34 800 33 000 Salinity PSU Change th
65. 05 Longitude Prompt for line 06 Prompt for line 07 Prompt for line 08 o O O Prompt for line 09 o O O Prompt for line 10 oOo O O Prompt for line 11 DOO O Prompt for line 12 PC O O Click OK or click another tab in Configure Outputs 85 Manual revision 7 21k Section 6 Configure Outputs Seasave V7 If you selected Prompt for Header Information on the Header Form tab when you begin data acquisition if you chose to store the data on disk the header form appears for you to fill in The user selected prompts from the Header Form tab Ship Cruise Station Latitude and Longitude appear to the left of the blank fields Header Information 86 Manual revision 7 21k Section 6 Configure Outputs Seasave V7 Diagnostics Notes e Unlike all other information in Seasave can output diagnostics to assist in troubleshooting if you encounter Configure Inputs and Outputs difficulty running the program diagnostic selections are not included in the program setup psa file Seasave ini indicates whether diagnostics are enabled log 0 if not enabled log 1 if enabled and the path for the diagnostics file s See File Formats in Section 2 Installation and Use for Seasave ini location For default location of the txt diagnostics files see File Formats in Section 2 Installation and Use You can also view the txt files from Seasave s Tools menu Changes made on the Diagnostics tab take effect immedi
66. 1k Section 7 Display Setting Up Seasave Displays Seasave V7 Save Options Tab The save options tab defines output file type and size for when the plot is saved to a file as a wmf jpg or bmp The Save Options tab looks like this Plot Display 1 i xj Plot Setup Y Axis XAxis 1 XAxis 2 Print Options Save Options Copy Options Default format for save metafile wmf JPG jpg or bitmap bmp This defines default file extension in Save to File dialog box but one of the other file extensions can be selected at that time if desired Defaut format for save UPG ipa heo E E N aaa Save as wmf file options Size determined by Values entered below Size determined by F e Plot display size Units Milimeters v Width fi60 00 Height 120 00 dimensions of plot as shown on screen or 3 5 Save as ipg file options Size determined by Values entered below Values Entered Below dimensions entered in Iae Width SENN Height pa dialog box mm inches or points for wmf pixels for jpg or bmp Save as bmp file options Size determined by Vaes entered below Units are pixels Width 512 Height 334 97 Manual revision 7 21k Section 7 Display Setting Up Seasave Displays Seasave V7 Copy Options Tab The copy options tab defines the plot type and size for copying to the clipboard as a Windows metafile JPG or bitmap The Copy Options tab looks like
67. 2le 8 t 2 006e 6 t 7 164e 5 t 1 262e 2 t 1 389 a oa2 po toad w pp ad c3 3643e 12 t 3 8504e 10 t 9 7729e 9 c2 0405e 12 t 2 5335e 10 t 2 5974e 8 t 1 7107e 6 t 3 1260e 5 cl 1185e 10 t 1 3621le 7 t 8 1788e 6 t 6 8982e 4 t 0 153563 c0 1464e 9 t 1 47800e 6 t 3 3420e 4 t 5 80852e 2 t 5 03711 1402 388 c c2 p tb sr p cO d S Fr S return sv Sound Velocity Delgrosso double SndVelD double s double t double p Delgrosso JASA Oct 1974 Vol 56 No 4 s salinity t temperature deg C ITPS 68 p pressure in decibars double c000 dct dcs dcp dcstp sv c000 1402 392 p 9 80665 convert pressure from decibars to KG CM 2 dct 0 501109398873e1 0 550946843172e 1 0 22153596924e 3 t t t des 0 132952290781lel 0 128955756844e 3 s s dcp 0 156059257041e0 0 244998688441le 4 0 83392332513e 8 p p p destp 0 127562783426e 1 t s 0 635191613389e 2 t p 0 265484716608e 7 t t 0 159349479045e 5 t p p 0 522116437235e 9 t p p p 0 438031096213e 6 t p 0 161674495909e 8 s s p p 0 968403156410e 4 t t s 0 485639620015e 5 s p 0 340597039004e 3 t s p sv c000 dct dcs dcp dcstp return sv sound velocity Wilson double SndVelW double s double t double p wilso
68. 4 5 or 6 Must agree with 19plus v2 setup for r ae Strain gauge or Digiquartz with VoltN N 0 1 2 3 4 and 5 see Configuration file opened None temperature compensation reply from GetCD or DS Voltage channel 0 in con or xmicon file corresponds to first external voltage Pressure sensor type in data stream voltage channel 1 to second external voltage in data Ext I volt h stream etc semal voltage cnannels fa Interval between scans in Moored Mode e None SBE 38 secondary temperature SBE 63 mode Seasave uses this to Optical DO Sensor WET Labs sensor up to 3 calculate elapsed time if you select 5 channels up to 2 GTDs dissolved oxygen or nitrogen time as a parameter for a display Serial RS 232C sensor or Optode Must agree with 19p us V2 setup see reply window Must agree with 19p us V2 from GetCD or DS Channel Sensor table lists RS 232 setup Samplelnterval see reply i sensors below voltage channels from GetCD or DS Sample interval seconds Number of samples to average samples at 4 Hz in i igati Profiling mode Used to calculate elapsed time if you Paai ee aaa Scans to average select time as an output parameter Must agree with device is connected directly to Deck 19plus V2 setup NAvg see reply from GetCD or DS Unit or to computer if connected to computer define serial port and IV NMEA position data added T NMEA depth data added baud rate on Configure Inputs Serial Ports tab You
69. 6 4 90 2 91 3 Transmissometer Example from calibration sheet AO 4 743 V YO 0 002 V W0 4 565 Volts Tw 100 for transmission relative to water from current calibration Al 4 719 volts and Y1 0 006 volts M 22 046 B 0 132 Note Seasave can process data for an instrument interfacing with up to two transmissometers in any combination of Sea Tech and Chelsea Alphatracka 57 Manual revision 7 21k Section 4 Configure Inputs Part Il Calibration Coefficients Seasave V7 WET Labs AC3 This sensor requires two channels one for fluorometer voltage listed under fluorometers in the dialog box and the other for transmissometer voltage listed under transmissometers Make sure to select both when configuring the instrument Enter Ch20 Vh20 VDark and X from calibration sheet Beam attenuation log Vh20 VDark log V VDark X Ch2o0 Beam transmission exp beam attenuation X 100 WET Labs C Star Enter M B and path length in meters Path length distance between lenses is based on sensor size for example 25 cm transmissometer 0 25m path length etc light transmission M volts B beam attenuation coefficient c 1 z In light transmission decimal where M Tw W0 YO A0 Y0 Al Y1 B M Y1 AO Vair factory voltage output in air manufacturer factory calibration A1 current most recent voltage output in air Y0 Vd factory d
70. 65 2 8 seices Ricco TE oh seat ode GL RR 82 SBE 14 Remote Display recreio E er i i RA Ree hs 83 PC Alaris se siich nie aii icon bee ai bhi ea He aoa 84 Header Form vs sisici aioe aide bia ia iets RE Roe 85 DidgnostiC S258 Sse sade cae ok E ac beck h osa ch ROSE Be ee 87 Section 7 Display Setting Up Seasave DisplayS sssscssscsssssessseees 88 Adding New Display Window c ccsccsscesseseseeseeceeeseeeeeeeeeeeeeeseenseeneenseenaes 88 Importing Display Window ccescceseeeseesseceeeseeeseeeeeeeeeeseeneeeseeeseenseenaeentes 88 Editing Display Window cccsccescseseceseceeceeeeseeeseeseceeeeseeeseenseeeseenseenaeenaes 89 Exporting Display Window c ccesccsseseeessecseeeseeeneeeeeeeseneenseenseeeseenseenseesaes 89 Printing Display Window cssccsscesseessecssecseeeseeeneceseessesseceseenseenseesseenseenaes 89 Resizing Plot Display Window ccescceseessecsseeeeeseeeeeeeeceseeeeenseenseenseenseenaes 89 Fixed Display aiee 20a i E p TE Ricki cies eee E niet eee a eet 90 Scrolled Display sccsccec css cciec ces edad dees i ce aioe Gece E E REE eters 91 Plot Display E Rachie aad aso A ees 92 Plot Setup Taboos cece oc cues an Heese hae ee ew on ee 93 Axis TabSy cccuitsgsche tiie d et ate env eis ere nuit 95 Print Options Tabee 4 5 0 siu ities ha ae tec ein a e 96 Save Options Tabea oat centers onal E NEE E R E eee 97 Copy Options Tabie se etic a ee een etn e 98 Viewing Seasave Plots
71. 69 ZAPS sensor calibration date 70 Secondary oxygen Beckman YSI type sensor serial number 71 Secondary oxygen Beckman YSI type sensor calibration date 72 Secondary oxygen Beckman YSI type M B K C SOC TCOR 73 Secondary oxygen Beckman YSI type WT PCOR TAU BOC 74 User polynomial 1 sensor serial number 19 User polynomial 1 sensor calibration date 76 User polyl AO Al A2 A3 eh User polynomial 2 sensor serial number 78 User polynomial 2 sensor calibration date 79 User polynomial 2 AO Al A2 A3 80 User polynomial 3 sensor serial number 81 User polynomial 3 sensor calibration date 82 User polynomial 3 A0 Al A2 A3 83 Dr Haardt Chlorophyll fluorometer sensor serial number 84 Dr Haardt Chlorophyll fluorometer sensor calibration date 85 Dr Haardt Chlorophyll fluorometer AO Al BO Bl which modulo bit gain range switching 86 Dr Haardt Phycoerythrin fluorometer sensor serial number 87 Dr Haardt Phycoerythrin fluorometer sensor calibration date 88 Dr Haardt Phycoerythrin fluorometer A0 Al BO Bl which modulo bit gain range switching 89 Dr Haardt Turbidity OBS nephelometer sensor serial number 90 Dr Haardt Turbidity OBS nephelometer sensor calibration date 91 Dr Haardt Turbidity OBS nephelometer A0 Al BO Bl which modulo bit gain range switching G2 IOW oxygen sensor serial number 93 IOW oxygen sensor calibration date 94 IOW oxygen AO Al A2 A3 BO Bl 95 IOW sound velocity sensor serial number
72. 7 21k Section 3 Configure Inputs Part Instrument Configuration con or xmlcon file Seasave V7 Shown below is an example status DS response in Seaterm that corresponds to the setup shown in the Configuration dialog box above Shown below the appropriate lines are the commands used in Seaterm to modify the setup of parameters critical to use of the SBE 19 with Seasave as well as any explanatory information SEACAT PROFILER V3 1B SN 936 02 10 94 13 33 23 989 strain gauge pressure sensor S N 12345 range 1000 psia tc 240 Pressure sensor strain gauge or Digiquartz must match Pressure sensor type in con or xmicon file clk 32767 766 iop 172 vmain 8 1 vlith 5 8 mode PROFILE ncasts 0 Mode must be profile MP if setting up con or xmlcon file for SBE 19 create con or xmicon file for SBE 16 for SBE 19 in moored mode MM sample rate 1 scan every 0 5 seconds Sample rate SR must match 0 5 second intervals in con or xmicon file minimum raw conductivity frequency for pump turn on 3206 hertz pump delay 40 seconds samples 0 free 174126 lwait 0 msec battery cutoff 7 2 volts number of voltages sampled 2 Number of auxiliary voltage sensors enabled SVn must match External voltage channels in con or xmicon file logdata NO 28 Manual revision 7 21k Section 3 Configure Inputs Part Instrument Configuration con or xmlcon file Seasave V7 SBE 19p us S
73. 7 is pressed or Add to nav File is clicked see Adding NMEA Data to nav File in Section 8 Real Time Data and Real Time Control Real Time Data Acquisition NPN tmal eli lyn lp yay interfacing with SBE 50 pressure sensor select No pressure SBE 16plus V2 Seacat C T Recorder Configuration Through the SBE 16p us RS 232 sensor connector the SBE 16plus V2 can interface with an SBE 38 secondary temperature sensor SBE 50 pressure sensor SBE 63 Optical Dissolved Oxygen Sensor WET Labs sensor single dual or triple channel ECO WETStar or C Star Optode or up to two Pro Oceanus Gas Tension Devices GTDs This data is appended to the data stream SBE 38 and SBE 50 data does not replace the internal CTD data Internally mounted pressure sensor strain gauge Digiquartz with temperature compensation or no pressure sensor If no pressure sensor is selected Data button accesses dialog box to input additional parameter needed to process data Must agree with 16p us V2 setup PType see reply from GetCD or DS Selection applies only to internally mounted pressure sensor if 16plus V2 has no internally mounted pressure sensor but is sensor here and then select SBE 50 in Serial RS 232C sensor Configuration file opened 16plusv2 con field below Note Digiquartz without temperature compensation is not applicable Pressure sensor type Strain Gauge wil ROR Extemal voltage channels 2 None SBE 38 secondary temperatu
74. 911plus CTD with RS 232C Baud rate 19200 v Baud Rate 19200 Data Bits 8 Data bits fe Parity None Parity None v Set to Defaults Water Sampling and 911 Pump Control Serial Port Not applicable unless a water sampler is selected on Water Sampler tab in Configure Inputs and or Enable Pump On Pump Off commands is selected on Pump Control tab in Configure Inputs COM port COMI x COM port COM z Serial Data Output Serial Port COM port COM3 Baud rate 9600 Data bits Not applicable unless Output data to serial port is selected on Serial Data Out tab in Configure Outputs None SBE 14 Remote Display Serial Port Not applicable unless Send data to SBE 14 remote display is selected on SBE 14 Remote Display tab in Configure Outputs COM4 NMEA Serial Pot Not applicable unless NMEA device connected to PC is selected in the instrument configuration file COM port COM5 s Report Help OK Cancel Make the desired selections Click OK or click another tab in Configure Inputs Descriptions follow for the CTD Serial Port baud rate data bits and parity entries for each instrument 63 7 21k Section 5 Configure Inputs Part Ill Serial Ports Water Sampler TCP IP Ports Miscellaneous amp Pump Control Seasave V7 CTD Serial Port Baud Rate Data Bits and Parity e SBE 9plus with SBE 11plus V2 Deck Unit with or without Water Sampler gt gt gt CO
75. Appendix IV Derived Parameter Formulas Seasave V7 density p p s t p kg m density of seawater with salinity s temperature t and pressure p based on the equation of state for seawater EOS80 Density calculation Using the following constants BO 8 24493e 1 Bl 4 0899e 3 B2 7 6438e 5 B3 8 2467e 7 B4 5 3875e 9 CO 5 72466e 3 C1 1 0227e 4 C2 1 6546e 6 DO 4 8314e 4 A0 999 842594 Al 6 793952e 2 A2 9 095290e 3 A3 1 001685e 4 A4 1 120083e 6 A5 6 536332e 9 FQO 54 6746 FQ1 0 603459 FQ2 1 09987e 2 FQ3 6 1670e 5 GO 7 944e 2 Gl 1 6483e 2 G2 5 3009e 4 i0 2 2838e 3 il 1 098le 5 i2 1 6078e 6 JO 1 91075e 4 MO 9 9348e 7 M1 2 0816e 8 M2 9 1697e 10 EO 19652 21 El 148 4206 E2 2 327105 E3 1 360477e 2 E4 5 155288e 5 HO 3 239908 H1 1 43713e 3 H2 1 16092e 4 H3 5 77905e 7 KO 8 50935e 5 K1 6 12293e 6 K2 5 2787e 8 C Computer Code double Density double s double t double p s salinity PSU t temperature deg C ITPS 68 p pressure in decibars double t2 t3 t4 t5 s32 double sigma k kw aw bw double val 2 tty t3 EFEZ t4 ESES t5 t t4 if s lt 0 0 s 0 000001 s32 pow s 1 5 p 10 0 convert decibars to bars sigma AO Al t A2 t2 A3 t3 A4 t4 AD t5 BO B1 t B2 t2 B3 t3 B4 t4 s CU GIA C2 t2 s32 4 DO s s kw EO El t E2 t2 E3 t3
76. Define TCP IP ports to send data e Send converted data through defined port to another application on same computer or to another computer e Send raw data through defined port to another application on same computer or to another computer Report Help OK Cancel Note Appendix V Seasave Remote for Remote Display and Bottle Firing and Appendix VI Java Applications for Remote Display and Bottle Firing provide information on Sea Bird software that can be installed on a remote computer for viewing data and firing bottles TCP IP Ports Ports for communication with remote bottle firing client Not applicable unless Enable remote firing is selected on Water Sampler tab in Configure Inputs 49167 49168 default 49167 default 49168 Receive commands Send status Ports for publishing data to remote clients Not applicable unless Output raw or converted data to socket using TCP IP is selected on TCP IP Out tab in Configure Outputs Send converted data default 49161 49161 Send raw data default 49160 49160 Make the desired selections Click OK or click another tab in Configure Outputs 81 Manual revision 7 21k Section 6 Configure Outputs Seasave V7 SBE 11p us Alarms Seasave can set up an alarm in the SBE 1 1p us Deck Unit based on minimum and maximum pressures and or for an altimeter integrated with the SBE 9plus CTD Notes e Altimeter alarm is available only if selected
77. E 32 Carousel Water Sampler or G O 1016 or SBE 19 19plus 19plus V2 25 25plus or 49 with SBE 33 Deck Unit and SBE 32 Carousel Water Sampler or SBE 19 19plus 19plus V2 25 25plus or 49 with SBE 33 Deck Unit and SBE 55 ECO Water Sampler Seasave writes a line to an output file same filename as the data file with a bl extension The bl file contains the bottle firing sequence number bottle position date time and beginning and ending scan number to provide 1 5 seconds of scans for the fired bottle e for SBE 91 plus with G O 1015 Seasave sets the bottle confirm bit in the data hex file for all scans within a 1 5 second duration after a bottle firing confirmation is received Later when the raw data file is converted in SBE Data Processing s Data Conversion module scans identified in the bl file or with a bottle confirmation bit are written to a file with a ros extension 108 Manual revision 7 21k Section 8 Real Time Data and Real Time Control Real Time Data Acquisition Seasave V7 Marking Scans Note The mrk file has the same path and file name as the data file For example if the data file is c test1 hex the mrk file is c test1 mrk Notes e The Mark Scan button in the Mark Scan Control dialog box is inaccessible until you start saving data to a file So if you did not select Begin archiving data immediately or selected Begin archiving data when Start Archiving command is sent
78. In t 0 025 1 meters Total Volume Concentration TV Cal Vs t Vso pliters liter Sauter Mean Diameter SMD a TV In t microns where Vr transmission channel voltage output Vs scattering channel voltage output The calibration coefficients supplied by Sequoia are based on water containing spherical particles Perform calibrations using seawater with particle shapes that are similar to what is expected in situ Transmissometer Calibration Coefficients e Sea Tech and Chelsea Alphatracka Enter M B and path length in meters Path length distance between lenses is based on sensor size for example 25 cm transmissometer 0 25m path length etc light transmission M volts B where M Tw W0 Y0 A0 Y0 AI1 Y1 B M Y1 and AO factory voltage output in air manufacturer factory calibration A1 current most recent voltage output in air Y0 factory dark or zero blocked path voltage manufacturer factory calibration Y1 current most recent dark or zero blocked path voltage WO factory voltage output in pure water manufacturer factory calibration Tw transmission in pure water for transmission relative to water Tw 100 or for transmission relative to air Tw is defined by table below Tw Transmission in Pure Water relative to AIR Wavelength 10 cm Path Length 25 cm Path Length 488 nm blue 99 8 99 6 532 nm green 99 5 98 8 660 nm red 96 0 9
79. M port connected to Deck Unit SBE 11 Interface connector Baud rate between Deck Unit and computer must agree with Deck Unit setting 19200 baud Parity and data bits between Deck Unit and computer must agree with Deck Unit setting 8 data bits no parity e SBE 19 19plus 19plus V2 or 25 with Water Sampler and SBE 33 Deck Unit or with PDIM and SBE 33 Deck Unit gt COM port connected to Deck Unit Serial Data connector sends commands to and receives replies from the CTD through the Water Sampler Baud rate between Deck Unit and computer must agree with Deck Unit setting 4800 9600 or 19200 Parity and data bits between Deck Unit and computer must agree with Deck Unit setting 7 or 8 data bits even or no parity e SBE 19 19plus 19plus V2 25 or 49 with PDIM and 36 Deck Unit gt gt gt COM port connected to Deck Unit Serial Data connector sends commands to and receives replies from the CTD through the PDIM Baud rate between Deck Unit and computer must agree with Deck Unit setting 9600 or 19200 Parity and data bits between Deck Unit and computer must agree with Deck Unit setting 7 or 8 data bits even or no parity e SBE 16 16plus 16plus V2 19 19plus 19plus V2 25 45 or 49 connected directly to computer gt gt gt COM port connected to instrument Baud rate between instrument and computer must agree with instrument setup user programmed Parity
80. NMEA ume added No modified here NMEA device connected to deck unit x r Surface par voltage added Yes click Modify to Scan time added Yes change Channel Sensor configuration 1 Frequency Temperature and or to view 2 Frequency Conductivity calibration 3 Frequency Pressure Digiquartz with TC ini 4 AJD voltage 0 pH coefficients 5 AD voltage 1 Oxygen SBE 43 6 AD voltage 2 Fluorometer WET Labs CDOM Click Modify to bring up a dialog box to change the configuration and or view calibration coefficients 3 The Configuration dialog box appears Selections at the top are different for each instrument An example is shown for the SBE 9plus Configuration for the SBE 911plus 917plus CTD Configuration file opened None Frequency channels suppressed 3 Voltage words suppressed 2 Deck unit or SEARAM SBE11plus Firmware Version gt 5 0 x Computer interface RS 232C Scans to average 1 IV NMEA position data added fe NMEA device connected to deck unit f NMEA device connected to PC IV Surface PAR voltage added IV Scan time added Channel Sensor Ea 1 Frequency Temperature 2 Frequency Conductivity 3 Frequency Pressure Digiquartz with TC 4 A D voltage0 pH 5 A D voltage 1 Oxygen SBE 43 6 A D voltage 2 Fluorometer WET Labs CDOM 7 A D voltage 3 Altimeter 8 SPAR voltage Unavailable 3 SPAR voltage SPAR Surface Inradiance SSE Report Help 18 Manual revision 7 21k
81. OM port connected to the SBE 1 lp us Deck Unit Modem Channel connector D Click OK to exit Configure Inputs 2 Set up the rest of the system and displays as desired 3 Start real time data acquisition 4 When desired In the Real Time Control menu select Pump On or Pump Off OR Press Ctrl F2 pump on or Ctrl F4 pump off Resetting Control Positions Seasave allows you to reset control positions i e position of the NMEA Data Mark Scan and Fire Bottle Control displays This may be useful if you moved a display onto a second monitor in a previous session If the second monitor is no longer available the display will open on that non existent monitor where you cannot see it Select Reset Control Position in the Real Time Control menu to bring all displays back into the main Seasave window 110 Manual revision 7 21k Section 9 Archived Data Displaying Archived Data Seasave V7 Section 9 Archived Data Displaying Archived Data Note To display data without a mouse With the cursor in the main Seasave window press the Alt key to show the keyboard shortcuts underlines on menus Press the appropriate letter for example A for Archived Data and use the arrow and Enter keys to navigate Seasave can be used to display and plot archived data 1 Inthe Archived Data menu select Start The Playback Archived Data dialog box appears Currently selected data file is shown To select different
82. Repot Help for that sensor Click to exit dialog box If you made changes and did Cancel not Save or Save As Seasave asks if you want to save changes Shown below is an example status DS response in Seaterm that corresponds to the setup shown in the Configuration dialog box above Shown below the appropriate lines are the commands used in Seaterm to modify the setup of parameters critical to use of the SBE 16 with Seasave as well as any explanatory information SEACAT V4 0h SERIAL NO 1814 07 14 95 09 52 52 082 If pressure sensor installed pressure sensor information appears here in status response must match Pressure sensor type in con or xmlcon file clk 32767 789 iop 103 vmain 8 9 vlith 5 9 sample interval 15 sec Sample interval SI must match Sample interval seconds in con or xmlcon file delay before measuring volts 4 seconds samples 0 fr 173880 lwait 0 msec SW1 C2H battery cutoff 5 6 volts no of volts sampled 2 Number of auxiliary voltage sensors enabled SVn must match External voltage channels in con or xmicon file mode normal logdata NO 22 Manual revision 7 21k Section 3 Configure Inputs Part Instrument Configuration con or xmlcon file Seasave V7 SBE 16plus Seacat C T Recorder Configuration The SBE 16plus can interface with one SBE 38 secondary temperature sensor one SBE 50 pressure sensor or up to two Pro Oc
83. SBE Data Processing supports both equations We recommend that you use the Sea Bird equation for best results Sea Bird Enter Soc Voffset A B C E Tau20 D1 D2 H1 H2 and H3 OX Soc V Voffset tau T P 5V St OxSOL T S 1 0 A T B T C T e OPN where OX dissolved oxygen concentration ml l T P measured temperature C and pressure decibars from CTD S calculated salinity from CTD PSU V temperature compensated oxygen signal volts Soc linear scaling calibration coefficient Voffset voltage at zero oxygen signal tau T P sensor time constant at temperature and pressure tau20 sensor time constant tau T P at 20 C 1 atmosphere 0 PSU slope term in calculation of tau T P D1 D2 calibration terms used in calculation of tau T P 6V dt time derivative of oxygen signal volts sec H1 H2 H3 calibration terms used for hysteresis correction K absolute temperature Kelvin Oxsol T S oxygen saturation ml l a parameterization from Garcia and Gordon 1992 OR Owens Millard Enter Soc Boc Voffset tcor pcor and tau OX Soc V Voffset tau dV dt Boc exp 0 03T exp tcor T pcor P Oxsat T S where OX dissolved oxygen concentration ml l Soc linear scaling calibration coefficient T P measured temperature C and pressure decibars from CTD S calculated salinity from CTD PSU V temperature compensated oxygen signal vol
84. Seasave V7 Index Average sound velocity 70 129 bl file 16 B bmp file 16 97 98 Bottle firing 135 138 con file 15 17 42 103 111 118 Bottles 65 107 SBE 16 22 Bottom contact switch alarm 82 83 84 101 SBE 16plus 23 Bugs 123 SBE 16plus V2 25 SBE 19 27 C SBE 19plus 29 SBE 19plus V2 31 Calibration coefficients 42 SBE 21 33 A D count sensors 47 SBE 25 35 altimeter 48 SBE 45 40 bottles closed 46 SBE 49 41 conductivity 45 SBE 91 plus 20 exporting 43 SBE 917plus 20 fluorometer 48 dat file 16 103 111 frequency sensors 44 dsa file 15 GTD 61 hdr file 16 103 111 importing 43 hex file 16 103 111 methane 53 hex format 142 OBS nephelometer Turbidity 53 Jini file 15 optode 61 Jpg file 16 97 98 ORP 54 mrk file 16 103 oxygen 55 nav file 16 103 PAR irradiance 56 psa file 15 pH 56 txt file 16 pressure 46 47 48 wmf file 16 97 98 pressure FGP 56 xml file 15 16 RS 232 sensors 60 xmlcon file 15 17 42 103 111 118 SBE 38 60 SBE 16 22 SBE 50 60 SBE 16plus 23 SBE 63 60 SBE 16plus V2 25 sound velocity 46 SBE 19 27 suspended sediment 57 SBE 19plus 29 temperature 44 47 SBE 19plus V2 31 transmissometer 57 SBE 21 33 user polynomial 59 SBE 25 35 voltage sensors 48 SBE 25plus 37 WET Labs C Star 60 SBE 45 40 WET Labs ECO 60 SBE 49 41 WET Labs WETStar 60 SBE 91 plus 20
85. Seasoft V2 Seasave V7 CTD Real Time Data Acquisition Software for Windows 2000 and later Z Seasave SBE 91 1plus 91 7plus CTD C Documents and Settings dbresko My Documents Testing Seasave psa x File Configure Inputs Configure Outputs Display Real Time Data Real Time Control Archived Data Options Help Playback completed T00MOT dat Demo con lm Scrolled Display f a rived ae Fits Ft S m t90c pM 0 5565 WTS 90 degC 2249329 SEN Pressure Digiquartz db 0 5439 0 4601 Salinity PSU 0 5623 0 4839 0 4185 0 4876 0 4896 0 4917 0 5439 Im Piot pispiay 2 aiaz lt l gt gt l lalylv i gt allu Temperature ITS 90 deg C 0 000 1 600 3 200 4 bisid 6 400 8 000 0 000 _ 1 2 000 Conductivity 3 m L L L 3 000 T 34 400 T 34 600 Salinity PSU User s Manual Sea Bird Electronics Inc 13431 NE 20 Street Bellevue Washington 98005 USA Telephone 425 643 9866 Fax 425 643 9954 E mail seabird seabird com Website www seabird com 05 23 12 Software Release 7 21k and later Limited Liability Statement Extreme care should be exercised when using or servicing this equipment It should be used or serviced only by personnel with knowledge of and training in the use and maintenance of oceanographic electronic equipment SEA BIRD ELECTRONICS INC disclaims all product liability risks arising
86. Section 6 Configure Outputs e Serial Data Out Enable and set up output of selected raw and or converted data engineering units to a COM port on your computer e Serial Ports Define COM ports and other communication parameters for CTD water sampler and 9p us pump control serial data output and SBE 14 Remote Display e Shared File Out Enable and set up output of selected raw and or converted data engineering units to a shared file on your computer e Mark Variables Set up format for marking of selected data scans e TCP IP Out Enable and set up output of raw or converted data to TCP IP ports e TCP IP Ports Define ports for communication with remote display and remote bottle firing software e SBE 1Iplus Alarms for SBE 9plus 11plus only Enable and set up 1plus Deck Unit alarm minimum and maximum pressure alarm and altimeter alarm if altimeter integrated with 9p us CTD e SBE 14 Remote Display if SBE 14 connected to a computer COM port Enable and set up output of data to an SBE 14 and set up SBE 14 alarm minimum and maximum pressure alarm altimeter alarm if altimeter integrated with CTD and bottom contact switch alarm if bottom contact switch integrated with CTD e PC Alarms Enable and set up alarm in the computer running Seasave minimum and maximum pressure alarm altimeter alarm if altimeter integrated with CTD and bottom contact switch alarm if bottom contact switch integrated with CTD
87. Serial RS 232C sensor in con or xmlcon file Ext Volt 0 yes Ext Volt 1 yes Ext Volt 2 no Ext Volt 3 no Ext Volt 4 no Ext Volt 5 no Number of external voltage sensors enabled Volt0 through Volt5 must match External voltage channels in con or xmicon file echo characters yes output format raw HEX Output format must be set to raw Hex OutputFormat 0 to acquire data in Seasave serial sync mode disabled Serial sync mode must be disabled SyncMode N to acquire data in Seasave 26 Manual revision 7 21k Section 3 Configure Inputs Part Instrument Configuration con or xmlcon file Seasave V7 SBE 19 Seacat Profiler Configuration Seasave always treats the SBE 19 as if it is a Profiling instrument i e it is in Profiling mode If your SBE 19 is in Moored Mode you must treat it like an SBE 16 when setting up the con or xmlcon file select the SBE 16 Channel Sensor table reflects this choice Must Configuration for the SBE 19 Seacat CTD x ee with re m is pee ee z Strain gauge or Digiquartz with See reply trom Voltage channe In i 7 e a A eotresnords esenent Configuration file opened None temperature compensation wired to channel 0 on end cap connector voltage channel 1 corresponds to sensor wired to channel 1 on end cap connector etc T See reply from DS Used to determine strain Extemal voltage channels f gauge pressure sensor data form
88. Theta B fo Minimum salinity psu oS Salinity B o Pressure window size db 0 0 ThetaZ SalinityZ fo Time window size s 0 Reference pressure db mz r Potential Temperature Anomaly AD g Al g Al Multiplier Salinity Oxygen selections apply to Oxygen voltage oxygen sensors Window size s SBE 43 or Beckman YSI bl g They do not apply to IV Apply Tau correction SBE 63 or Aanderaa Oxygen Optode 7 Apply hysteresis correction to SBE 43 when Sea Bird equation selected in instrument configuration file Descent and Acceleration Window size s 2 Set to Defaults Report Help OK Cancel Enter the desired values Click OK or click another tab in Configure Inputs 70 7 21k Section 5 Configure Inputs Part Ill Serial Ports Water Sampler TCP IP Ports Miscellaneous amp Pump Control _Seasave V7 Pump Control The Pump Control tab allows you to enable disable user pump control for an SBE 9plus with custom modifications Pump control commands are sent through the SBE 11plus Deck Unit Modem Channel connector COM port is defined on Serial Ports tab pump control does not interfere with water sampler operation Click Configure Inputs In the Configure Inputs dialog box click the Pump Control tab Configure Inputs C Documents and Settings dbresko Application Data Sea Bir Instrument Configuration Serial Ports Water Sampler TCP IP Ports Miscellaneous Pump Control This setting is only applica
89. ___ pressure alarm eee ee Minimum pressure db to enable altimeter alarm Atimeter alarm hysteresis m altimeter alarm Maximum __ Altimeter alarm Y S ays _0n in this range after set point reached pressure alam4 set point m Alarm on when pressure in this range Altimeter alarm on when altimeter in this range Sea Bottom 84 Manual revision 7 21k Section 6 Configure Outputs Seasave V7 Header Form Notes e A header is automatically included in the data hex file and in the header hdr file The header includes software version sensor serial numbers instrument configuration date and time of start of data acquisition etc There can be up to two date time listings in the header The first System Upload Time is always the date and time from the computer The second UTC Time is the date and time from an optional NMEA navigation device The hdr file has the same path and file name as the data file For example if the data file is test hex the header file is test hdr Seasave can write a user input descriptive header to the data file which is useful in identifying the data set To set up the header click Configure Outputs In the Configure Outputs dialog box click the Header Form tab Select the desired Header Choice and enter the header or header prompts Select how header information is to be included e Prompt for header information User will be prompted to fill out header form at sta
90. abled has begun when 3 pressure depth exceeds this value If CTD Input Vales tr Gach HONIG Use pressure db to determine bottle firing never meets this criteria i e CTD did not firing as pressure db or oa depth ee tee box go as deep as anticipated no water samples are taken text chang sitoicormespond Use depth meters to determine bottle firing Fire bottles on upcast when pressure db is less than 300 000000 Depth type Salt water or Fresh water used to calculate depth from measured pressure if depth in meters is selected Allow manual firing e For salt water algorithm estimates local gravity from latitude It uses latitude from NMEA navigation device if NMEA is enabled in con or xmicon file If your system does not have NMEA enter desired latitude on Miscellaneous tab in Configure Inputs For fresh water algorithm ignores gravity variation with latitude because fresh water applications are usually shallow and effect of gravity variation is insignificant See below for discussion of setup for mixed mode allowing manual firing of some bottles with auto fire of Pressure Bottle other bottles iti D o 2 5 co on o ni Oo oa Bottles may be closed in any order desired Enter pressures depths in any order when you click OK Seasave reorders list from deepest to shallowest you can see reordered list by clicking Auto Fire Pressures amp Positions again on Water Sampler tab
91. ach data scan Channel Sensor New New to create new con or Temperature xmicon file for this CTD l Frequency P i Open Open to select different Freguenc con or xmicon file 2 Frequency Conductivity Icon fil 3 Serial RS 232 Temperature SBE 38 ie Save or Save As to save 4 current con or xmicon file settings 4 A D votage0 pH Shaded sensors cannot be removed or changed to another type of sensor All others are optional Click a sensor and click Modify to change calibration coefficients for Cancel that sensor Click to exit dialog box If you made changes and did not Save or Save As Seasave asks if you want to save changes Modify 33 Manual revision 7 21k Section 3 Configure Inputs Part Instrument Configuration con or xmlcon file Seasave V7 Note The status response shown is for an SBE 21 with firmware gt 5 0 The response and the commands used to change the sample interval and the number of auxiliary voltage sensors differs for older firmware Shown below is an example status DS response in Seaterm that corresponds to the setup shown in the Configuration dialog box above Shown below the appropriate lines are the commands used in Seaterm to modify the setup of parameters critical to use of the SBE 21 with Seasave as well as any explanatory information SEACAT THERMOSALINOGRAPH V5 0 SERIAL NO 4300 07 15 2009 14 23 14 ioper 50 7 ma vma
92. age For the temperature channel enter T1 and T2 Gas temperature Vt T1 T2 C OBS Nephelometer Turbidity Calibration Coefficients In general turbidity sensors are calibrated to a standard formazin However particle size shape refraction etc in seawater varies These variations affect the results unless field calibrations are performed on typical water samples e Downing amp Associates D amp A OBS 3 Backscatterance Enter gain and offset complete description of OBS 3 output volts gain offset calibration coefficients where gain range 5 see calibration sheet for range Note Seasave can process data for an instrument interfacing with up to two OBS 3 sensors Note See Application Note 16 for e Downing amp Associates D amp A OBS 3 Note Enter AO Al and A2 e See Application Note 81 for output AO Al V A2 V complete description of calculation where of OBS 3 calibration coefficients V voltage from sensor milliVolts e You can interface to two OBS 3 AO Al and A2 calibration coefficients from D amp A calibration sheet Sensors or to both the 1X and 4X Note Seasave can process data for an instrument interfacing with up to ranges on one OBS 3 sensor two OBS 3 sensors providing two channels of OBS 3 data e Chelsea Enter clear water value and scale factor turbidity F T U 10 0 C scale factor where V voltage from sensor See calibration sheet
93. agnostics Some outputs serial data out shared file out SBE 11plus alarms and remote display and PC alarms can be reconfigured during data acquisition without interrupting data acquisition For example if you start a cast and realize that you forgot to set up the serial data output you can select Configure Outputs and make and save the desired changes all without interrupting the data acquisition Once the desired changes are saved the serial data will begin to output to the desired COM port of course any data that was acquired before you modified the setup will not be output in the serial data stream For setup of the inputs see Section 3 Configure Inputs Part I Instrument Configuration con or xmlcon file Section 4 Configure Inputs Part IT Calibration Coefficients and Section 5 Configure Inputs Part HI Serial Ports Water Sampler TCP IP Ports Miscellaneous and Pump Control 72 Manual revision 7 21k Section 6 Configure Outputs Seasave V7 Serial Data Output Note Your computer could crash if data is Seasave can output selected raw data frequencies voltages and or presented to the COM port faster than A D counts as applicable and converted data in ASCII or XML format to a the COM port can transmit it at the selected baud rate Note that outputting in XML transmits a much larger number of characters than outputting in ASCII Because COM port capabilities vary from one computer to an
94. ale factor and offset and select measured parameter chlorophyll description of calculation of Turner thodamine fluorescein phycocyanin phycoerythrin CDOM crude oil Cyclops fluorometer calibration optical brighteners or turbidity coefficients concentration scale factor voltage offset where scale factor range 5 volts offset scale factor blank voltage Range and blank voltage are from calibration sheet Output units are dependent on selected measured parameter Note Seasave can process data for an instrument interfacing with up to two Turner Cyclops fluorometers Note See Application Note 74 for complete e Turner SCUFA Notes Enter scale factor offset units mx my and b from the calibration sheet e To enable entry of the mx my chlorophyll scale factor voltage offset and b coefficients you must corrected chlorophyll mx chlorophyll my NTU b first select the Turner SCUFA where OBS Nephelometer Turbidity NTU results from optional turbidity channel in SCUFA see Turner T compile description S calculation SUED MOBS ea ai Belon Note Seasave can process data for an instrument interfacing with up to of Turner SCUFA calibration coefficients two Turner SCUFA sensors e WET Labs AC3 This sensor requires two channels one for fluorometer voltage listed under fluorometers in the dialog box and the other for transmissometer voltage listed under transmissometers Make sure to sel
95. and did not yet send the Start Archiving command the Mark Scan button is grayed out If desired you can mark scans without using the Mark Scan Control dialog box Each time you want to mark a scan press Ctrl F5 Adding NMEA Data to nav File Notes e If the NMEA navigation device is connected directly to the computer you must define the serial port and baud rate on the Serial Ports tab in Configure Inputs or Configure Outputs before beginning data acquisition The Add to NAV file button in the NMEA Data dialog box is inaccessible until you start saving data to a file So if you did not select Begin archiving data immediately or selected Begin archiving data when Start Archiving command is sent and did not yet send the Start Archiving command the Add to NAV File button is grayed out The nav file has the same path and file name as the data file For example if the data file is c test1 hex the nav file is c test1 nav System Upload Time in the output data file header is always the computer time and time regardless of whether a NMEA navigation device transmitted time data data Mark Scan allows you to copy the most recent scan of data to a mark mrk file as desired The mrk file can be used to manually note water sampler bottle firings compare CTD data with data acquired from a Thermosalinograph at the same time or mark significant events in the cast winch problems large waves causing s
96. and data bits between instrument and computer must agree with instrument setting SBE 16 19 or 25 7 data bits even parity SBE l6plus l6plus V2 19plus 19plus V2 45 or 49 8 data bits no parity e SBE 21 with Interface Box gt gt COM port connected to Interface Box RS 232C connector Baud rate between Interface Box and computer must be greater than or equal to baud rate between SBE 21 and Interface Box and must agree with Interface Box setup user programmed to 1200 2400 4800 9600 or 19200 Parity and data bits between SBE 21 and Interface Box and between Interface Box and computer must agree with SBE 21 and Interface Box setting user programmed to 7 data bits even parity e SBE 45 with optional Interface Box gt gt COM port connected to Interface Box PC connector Baud rate between Interface Box and computer must agree with Interface Box and SBE 45 setup user programmed to 4800 9600 or 19200 in both Interface Box and in SBE 45 Parity and data bits between SBE 45 and Interface Box and between Interface Box and computer must agree with SBE 45 and Interface Box setting 8 data bits no parity 64 7 21k Section 5 Configure Inputs Part Ill Serial Ports Water Sampler TCP IP Ports Miscellaneous amp Pump Control Seasave V7 Water Sampler A Sea Bird CTD can be integrated with a water sampler when used with a Note N deck unit SBE 11p us or SBE 33 as appl
97. and one or more command line parameters are listed Examples e C Program Files Sea Bird SeasaveV7 seasave exe autostart C Test Directory test psa automatically start Seasave and data acquisition based on setup in test psa and save data to hex file specified in test psa e C Program Files Sea Bird SeasaveV7 seasave exe autostart C Test Directory test psa u enable 2 parameters shown automatically start Seasave and data acquisition based on setup in test psa but ignore hex file specified in psa and save data to a uniquely named hex file e C Program Files Sea Bird SeasaveV7 seasave exe autofireondowncast automatically start Seasave In Seasave when you select Configure Inputs click on Water Sampler tab select a water sampler select auto fire firing sequence and click Auto Fire Pressures amp Positions button dialog box shows that bottles will be fired on downcast instead of upcast 2 Seasave opens The functions specified by the command line parameters are enabled If autostart was used data acquisition starts 116 Manual revision 7 21k Appendix Command Line Operation Seasave V7 Running Seasave with Autostop Parameter The Autostop parameter can be used in conjunction with a batch file bat script to create new data files on a defined schedule for continuous acquisition systems such as a thermosalinograph or a towed vehicle Note the following additional requirements fo
98. and scale factor OR gt Vblank old terminology for Dark Output and Scale Factor OR gt Vblank old terminology for Dark Output and Vcopro voltage output measured with known concentration of coproporphyrin tetramethyl ester Determine an initial value for the scale factor by using the chlorophyll concentration corresponding to Vcopro scale factor chlorophyll concentration Vcopro Vblank Perform calibrations using seawater with phytoplankton populations that are similar to what is expected in situ Note Seasave can process data for an instrument interfacing with up to five ECO AFL or ECO FL sensors WET Labs ECO CDOM Colored Dissolved Organic Matter Enter Dark Output and scale factor Concentration ppb V Dark Output Scale Factor where V in situ voltage output Dark Output clean water voltage output with black tape on detector Scale Factor multiplier ppb Volt Calibration sheet lists Dark Output and Vcdom voltage output measured with known concentration of colored dissolved organic matter Determine an initial scale factor value by using colored dissolved organic matter concentration corresponding to Vcdom scale factor cdom concentration Vedom Dark Output Perform calibrations using seawater with CDOM types similar to what is expected in situ Note Seasave can process data for an instrument interfacing with up to five ECO CDOM sensors WET Labs WETStar Enter Blank Output and Scal
99. appears Enter the desired path and file name for the dsa file and click OK Printing Display Window You can print a display window to provide a hard copy of the data in the display most often used with a Plot Display 1 Right click in the desired window and select Print 2 The Printing dialog box appears set up the print job as desired and click OK Resizing Plot Display Window To enlarge a plot display to full screen e Click Display and select Maximize All Plots OR e Right click in a pot window and select Maximize OR e Click on the standard Windows Maximize button at the top right of the plot display With a plot display maximized use the Tab key to view other displays To return a plot display to its previous size e Click Display and select Restore All OR e Right click in a plot window and select Restore OR e Click on the standard Windows Restore button at the top right of the plot display 89 Manual revision 7 21k Section 7 Display Setting Up Seasave Displays Seasave V7 Fixed Display A Fixed Display has a vertical list of the selected parameters to the left and displays their current values to the right To set up a Fixed Display e Click Display and select Add New Fixed Display Window OR e Click Display and select Import Display Settings dsa file OR e Right click in an existing Fixed Display and click Modify The Fixed Display dialog box looks like this Time between each calcu
100. applicable each added parameter must be enabled in e Characters described in this the xmlcon or con configuration file in Seasave appendix are all Hex characters 1 Data from instrument e See the SBE 11p us manual for 2 Surface Par SPAR voltage data 4 characters details on the data output format 3 NMEA latitude longitude data 6 characters for latitude omitting sign from the Deck Unit 6 characters for longitude omitting sign 2 characters for status and sign status indicating new position or same position sign indicating north south east west 4 NMEA depth data 6 characters 5 NMEA time data 8 characters seconds since January 1 2000 written with the low byte first 6 System time scan time added in configuration file 8 characters seconds since January 1 1970 written with the low byte first The data order for the SBE 9plus with SBE 11plus Deck Unit varies from what is shown above The 91 1p us output is in the following order each added parameter must be enabled in the xmlcon or con configuration file in Seasave 1 Data from instrument A Each frequency 6 characters B Each voltage 3 characters 2 Surface Par SPAR voltage data 2 characters of wasted space meaningless characters following by 4 characters of SPAR data 3 NMEA latitude longitude data 6 characters for latitude omitting sign 6 characters for longitude omitting sign 2 characters for status and sign st
101. ark or zero blocked path voltage manufacturer factory calibration Y1 current most recent dark or zero blocked path voltage Wo0 Vref factory voltage output in pure water manufacturer factory calibration Tw transmission in pure water for transmission relative to water Tw 100 or for transmission relative to air Tw is defined by table below Tw Transmission in Pure Water relative to AIR Wavelength 10 cm Path Length 25 cm Path Length 488 nm blue 99 8 99 6 532 nm green 99 5 98 8 660 nm red 96 0 96 4 90 2 91 3 Transmissometer Example from calibration sheet Vair 4 743 V Vd 0 002 V Vref 4 565 V Tw 100 for transmission relative to water from current calibration Al 4 719 volts and Y1 0 006 volts M 22 046 B 0 132 Note Seasave can process data for an instrument interfacing with up to five WET Labs C Stars 58 Manual revision 7 21k Section 4 Configure Inputs Part Il Calibration Coefficients Seasave V7 User Polynomial for user defined sensor Calibration Coefficients The user polynomial allows you to define an equation to relate the sensor output voltage to calculated engineering units if your sensor is not pre defined in Sea Bird software Enter a0 al a2 and a3 Value a0 al V a2 V a3 V3 where V voltage from sensor a0 al a2 and a3 user defined sensor polynomial coefficients If desired enter the
102. at e NMEA Select if NMEA navigation device used and select whether device is connected directly to Deck Unit or to computer if Firmware version Vamos i T Number of 0 5 second intervals i between samples Must agree with Pressure sensore fetang auge connected to computer define serial port and baud rate on Configure Inputs Serial Ports tab You can also append NMEA depth data 0 5 second intervals f 3 bytes and NMEA time data 4 bytes after Lat Lon data Seasave adds current latitude longitude and universal time code to data header appends NMEA data to every scan and writes NMEA data to nav file every time Ctrl F7 is pressed or Add to nav File is clicked see Adding NMEA Data to nav File in Section 8 Real Time Data and Real Time Control Real Time Data Acquisition Notes 1 NMEA time can only be appended if NMEA device connected to computer 2 NMEA depth can only be appended if NMEA MW Surface PAR voltage added D Scan time added device connected to computer or if using SBE 19 setup SR see reply from DS I NMEA position data added NMEA depth data added NMEA device connected to deck unit D MEd time added ol sn a removed or h changed to NMEA device connected to PE another typeof sensor All others are optional SBE 19 with SBE 33 or 36 Deck Unit firmware gt 3 0 or PN 90488 or 90545 Interface Box Chmel engar va New tii ae Surface PAR Select if using wit
103. ate 272 Secondary WET Labs ECO AFL fluorometer vblank scale factor 23 Secondary OBS Nephelometer D amp A Backscatterance sensor serial number 274 Secondary OBS Nephelometer D amp A Backscatterance gain offset 215 Secondary OBS Nephelometer D amp A Backscatterance sensor calibration date 276 Aanderaa Oxygen Optode serial number 277 Aanderaa Oxygen Optode calibration date 278 Aanderaa Oxygen Optode do salinity correction do depth correction internal salinity value 122 Manual revision 7 21k Appendix Ill Software Problems Seasave V7 Appendix Ill Software Problems Considerable effort has been made to test and check this software before its release However because of the wide range of instruments that Sea Bird produces and interfaces with and the many applications that these instruments are used in there may be software problems that have not been discovered and corrected If a problem occurs please contact us via phone 425 643 9866 e mail seabird seabird com or fax 425 643 9954 with the following information e Instrument serial number e Version of the software originally shipped with the instrument e Version of the software you are attempting to run e Complete description of the problem If the problem involves the software configuration or setup in most cases a phone call to Sea Bird will be sufficient to solve the problem If you phone please be ready to run the software dur
104. ately if you make a change and then click Cancel at the bottom of the dialog you have not cancelled the change To enable and set up diagnostic output click Configure Outputs In the Configure Outputs dialog box click the Diagnostics tab Configure Outputs C Documents and Settings dbresko Application Data Se Bird x Serial Data Dut Serial Ports Shared File Out Mark Variables TCPAP Out TCP IP Ports SBE 11plus Alarms SBE 14 Remote Display PCAlarms Header Form Diagnostics i Select location and name for Enable diagnostics output for Cancel will not undo the changes you make on this fom diagnostics file Default Seasave exe which is user name is SSLog txt interface portion of program v Keep a diagnostics log for Seasave exe Select Path Erase contents Select level of diagnostics to Path C Documents and Settings dbresko Application Data Sea Bird Of indicated file include in log If not erased e Errors Level Loginformation 7 Erase Loa File Seasave e Warnings includes errors or appends Display contents of indicated file using Notepad e Information includes errors diagnostics data vV Keep a diagnostics log for SeasaveAcg exe Select Path and warnings to end of file Enable diagnostics output for Seasave ren exe ea is data Path C Documents and Settings dbresko Application Data Sea Bird eae ye eee Level Log information _ Display Log File Erase Log File
105. atus indicating new position or same position sign indicating north south east west 4 NMEA depth data 6 characters 5 NMEA time data 8 characters seconds since January 1 2000 written with the low byte first 6 More data from instrument A Pressure temperature 3 characters B Status pump status bottom contact status and bottle fire information 1 character C Modulo byte 2 characters 7 System time scan time added in configuration file 8 characters seconds since January 1 1970 written with the low byte first Example SBE 9plus CTD with 11p us Deck Unit with 3 frequencies temperature conductivity pressure 0 voltages NMEA latitude longitude NMEA time and system time OD91BDOATFFE8115EF0C5D2F71AD2 9C0A166740494C2A5C298444C Breaking the data string into pieces 1 0D91BDOA7FFE8115EF temperature conductivity and pressure frequencies 2 not applicable 3 OC5D2F71AD29C0 NMEA latitude longitude status and new position 4 not applicable 5 A1667404 NMEA time with bytes reversed 6 94C2A5 pressure temperature status and modulo 7 C298444C system time with bytes reversed Looking at 5 and 7 and reversing the bytes 5 NMEA time with bytes reversed A1667404 047466A1 74737313 decimal seconds since January 1 2000 7 System time with bytes reversed C298444C 4C4498C2 1279563970 decimal seconds since January 1 1970 142 Manual revision 7 21k Index
106. ault file extension is txt File name Select File p C Test tet Sagonds between updates o 000 Variable Name unit Digits Pressure Strain Gauge db 4 Salinity PSU 5 Temperature ITS 90 deg C Selected variables and number of decimal points to right of decimal place for output data Click Select Variables to change Dialog box with list of variables appears select desired variables and number of decimal places to right of decimal point for each variable and click OK Select Variables i Make the desired selections Click OK or click another tab in Configure Outputs Remote Display To view data output to a shared file on a remote computer on a network while Seasave continues to acquire more data e Seasave Remote has many of the same display and plotting capabilities as Seasave It can be used to display data on a remote computer that is transmitted in XML format via TCP IP or to a shared file and to fire bottles from a remote computer See Appendix V Seasave Remote for Remote Display and Bottle Firing or see Seasave Remote s Help files e Alternatively other software such as Microsoft Notepad can be used to open and look at data in the shared file However the data you are viewing will not refresh while the file is open in other words you must close the file and reopen it to view the latest data 75 Manual revision 7 21k Section 6 Configure Outputs Seasave V7 N
107. ave Remote for Remote Display and Bottle Firing or Seasave Remote s Help files FixedDisplay jar and FireBottles jar are sample Java applications FixedDisplay jar allows you to view a Fixed display on a remote computer to display data that is transmitted via TCP IP in XML format FireBottles jar allows you to fire bottles from a remote computer You can use the provided sample applications or modify them as desired See Appendix VI Java Applications for Remote Display and Bottle Firing 68 7 21k Section 5 Configure Inputs Part Ill Serial Ports Water Sampler TCP IP Ports Miscellaneous amp Pump Control _Seasave V7 TCP IP Ports TCP IP is Transmission Control Protocol Internet Protocol a communication protocol used to connect hosts on the internet and or over networks TCP IP allows you to connect your CTD to a computer on deck while receiving data and firing bottles at a remote location elsewhere on the ship TCP IP ports can be defined in Configure Inputs or Configure Outputs if you make changes in one dialog box those changes will appear when you open the other dialog box Click Configure Inputs In the Configure Inputs dialog box click the TCP IP Ports tab Configure Outputs C Documents and Settings dbresko SEABIRD Application Da x SBE 11plus Alarms SBE 14 Remote Display PC Alarms Header Form Diagnostics Serial Data Out Serial Ports Shared File Out Mark Variables TCP IP Out TCP IP Ports
108. ave V7 Note e Data display windows Seasave can display as many data windows as Algorithms used to calculate derived desired within the limits of your computer s resources The windows can parameters for output and or display in be set up to display real time data conductivity temperature pressure Seasave are the same as used in etc as well as calculated parameters such as salinity and sound velocity SBE Data Processing s Derive and The three windows types fixed scrolled and plot are briefly described Data Conversion modules with the below their setup is described in detail in Section 7 Display Setting Up exception of the oxygen descent rate Seasave Displays amp acceleration calculations See Appendix IV Derived Parameter Formulas gt The Fixed Display has a vertical list of the selected parameters to the left and displays their current values to the right and can be set up with one or two columns of data 5 x Modify or print display by right clicking in display and selecting desired option Mf Fixed Display 1 a a oJ x pE Temperature ITS 30 deg C s52 Salinity PSU M176 i Fixed Display 1 3 l Conductivity Sm Temperature IT5 90 deg C Pressure Digiquartz db Salinity PSU Conductivity Sm Pressure Digiquartz db 0 5439 Adjust column width by placing mouse cursor over line at number column header and dragging gt The Scroll
109. ave V7 Shared File Output Configure Outputs C Program Files Sea Bird Seasave Seasave psa x Output data to shared txt file in ASCII format If selected data is output in XML format instead of ASCII format You must select XML format if planning to use Seasave Remote to view data on a remote computer Rate at which data for selected variables is sent to shared file For full rate data set to 0 Note As an alternative to using the software provided by Sea Bird you can develop your own application using your desired software SBE 11plus Alarms SBE 14 Remote Display PC Alarms Header Form Diagnostics erial Data Out SerialPorts Shared File Out Mark Variables TCP IP Out TCP IP Ports Seasave can output selected raw data frequencies voltages and or A D counts as applicable and converted data to a shared ASCII txt file or XML xml file on your computer For converted data Seasave applies calibration coefficients to the raw data to calculate converted data in engineering units To enable and set up shared file output click Configure Outputs In the Configure Outputs dialog box click the Shared File Out tab Output file location and name Click Select File to browse to desired location Note If XML format is selected default file extension IV Output data to shared file XML format required for Seasave Remote is xml If XML format is not selected def
110. ave data to a uniquely named hex file Stop acquisition after 60 minutes and shut Seasave Repeat the sequence Run the bat file using a DOS command window When ready to stop the start acquire data stop sequence simply close the DOS window 117 Manual revision 7 21k Appendix Il Configure con or xmlcon File Format Seasave V7 Appendix II Configure con or xmlcon File Format Modify a con or xmlcon configuration file by selecting Configure Inputs clicking on the Instrument Configuration tab in the dialog box and clicking on Modify Configuration files con or xmlcon can also be opened viewed and modified with DisplayConFile exe a utility that is installed in the same folder as SBE Data Processing Right click on the desired configuration file select Open With and select DisplayConFile This utility is often used at Sea Bird to quickly open and view a configuration file for troubleshooting purposes without needing to go through the additional steps of selecting the file in SBE Data Processing or Seasave xmlcon Configuration File Format Note We recommend that you do not open xmicon configuration files written in XML format were introduced with SBE Data Processing and Seasave 7 20a A xmlcon file uses XML tags to describe each line in the file Versions 7 20a and later allow you to open a con or a xmlcon file and to save the configuration to a con or a xmlcon file Instruments introduce
111. ave or Save As Seasave asks if you want to Opens a txt file for viewing only save changes Modify Click a sensor and click Modify to change calibration ee Cancel coefficients for that sensor cannot be modified that shows all parameters in con or xmlcon file 23 Manual revision 7 21k Section 3 Configure Inputs Part Instrument Configuration con or xmlcon file Seasave V7 Shown below is an example status DS response in Seaterm that corresponds to the setup shown in the Configuration dialog box above Shown below the appropriate lines are the commands used in Seaterm to modify the setup of parameters critical to use of the SBE 16plus with Seasave as well as any explanatory information SBE 16plus V 1 6e SERIAL NO 4300 03 Mar 2005 14 11 48 vbatt 10 3 vlith 8 5 ioper 62 5 ma ipump 21 6 ma iext0Ol 76 2 ma iserial 48 2 ma status not logging sample interval 10 seconds number of measurements per sample 2 Sample interval SampleInterval must match Sample interval seconds in con or xmicon file samples 823 free 465210 run pump during sample delay before sampling 2 0 seconds transmit real time yes Real time data transmission must be enabled TxRealTime Y to acquire data in Seasave battery cutoff 7 5 volts pressure sensor strain gauge range 1000 0 Internal pressure sensor PType must match Pressure sensor type in con or
112. bl file contains the bottle firing sequence number bottle position date time and beginning and ending scan number to provide 1 5 seconds of scans for the fired bottle e for SBE 91 lplus with G O 1015 Sets the bottle confirm bit in the data hex file for all scans within a 1 5 second duration after a bottle firing confirmation is received Later when the raw data file is converted in SBE Data Processing s Data Conversion module scans identified in the bl file or with a bottle confirmation bit are written to a file with a ros extension 107 Manual revision 7 21k Section 8 Real Time Data and Real Time Control Real Time Data Acquisition Seasave V7 To fire bottles in Mixed Mode auto bottle firing but also allowing manual bottle firing Notes e The Fire Bottle button in the Bottle Fire dialog box is inaccessible until you start saving data to a file If you did not select Begin archiving data immediately or selected Begin archiving data when Start Archiving command is sent and did not yet send the Start Archiving command the Fire Bottle button is grayed out If desired you can fire bottles without using the Bottle Fire dialog box if you are set up for a G O 1015 Hydro Bios or IOW water sampler Each time you want to fire a bottle press Ctrl F3 Note that this does not fire a bottle if set up for an SBE Carousel SBE ECO or G O 1016 because you must select which bottle to fire You can manuall
113. ble to a custom build of the SBE Splus Select the serial port for pump control on the Serial Ports tab If enabled Pump On and Pump Off functions are available in Real Time Control menu during data Enable pump on pump off commands acquisition If not enabled those functions are grayed out and unavailable Define serial port for pump control operation on Serial Ports tab Make the desired selection Click OK or click another tab in Configure Inputs 71 Manual revision 7 21k Section 6 Configure Outputs Seasave V7 Section 6 Configure Outputs This section describes the setup of the following in Configure Outputs exception of the oxygen descent rate amp acceleration calculations See Appendix IV Derived Parameter Formulas Notes e Serial data output Setup of all parameters except e Serial ports Diagnostics in Configure Outputs e Shared file output is included in the Seasave e Markvarabi program setup psa file To save ATE eee the setup you must save the psa e TCP IP output file File menu Save Setup File e TCP IP ports before exiting Seasave e SBE 1 1plus alarms only applicable if instrument configuration con or Algorithms used to calculate xmlcon file is for 911plus 917plus CTD derived parameters for output e SBE 14 Remote Display and or display in Seasave are the e PC alarms same as used in SBE Data Processing s Derive and Data e Header form Conversion modules with the e Di
114. calculates d depth at end of window depth at start of window meters v sound velocity at start of window sound velocity at end of window 2 m sec e In SBE Data Processing s Derive module the algorithm is based on the assumption that the data has been bin averaged already Average sound velocity is computed scan by scan d depth of current scan depth of previous scan meters v sound velocity of this scan bin m sec Surface Average sound velocity Average gt Minimum specified pressure and salinity d and v sound velocity d and v Notes 1 Enter the latitude on the Miscellaneous tab in Configure Inputs Seasave uses the user input latitude regardless of whether latitude data from a NMEA navigation device is available to calculate gravity for the depth algorithm 2 Also enter the minimum pressure minimum salinity pressure window size and time window size on the Miscellaneous tab in Configure Inputs 129 Manual revision 7 21k Appendix IV Derived Parameter Formulas Seasave V7 potential temperature IPTS 68 0 s t p p C Potential temperature is the temperature an element of seawater would have if raised adiabatically with no change in salinity to reference pressure p Sea Bird software uses a reference pressure of 0 decibars Potential Temperature IPTS 68 calculation C Computer Code ATG used in potential temperature calculation double ATG double
115. can also append n Ih NMEA depth data 3 bytes and NMEA device connected to deck unit J NMEA time added NMEA time data 4 bytes after Lat Lon data Seasave adds current NMEA device connected to PC latitude longitude and universal time code to data header appends 5 NMEA data to every scan TE T Surface PAR voltage added T Scan time added writes NMEA data to nav file every New to create new time Ctrl F7 is pressed or Add to Channel Senen con or xmlcon file nav File is clicked see Adding Shaded sensors for this CTD NMEA Data to nav File in Section 8 1 Count Temperature cannot be removed Open to select Real Time Data and Real Time Ta or changed to different con or Control Real Time Data 2 Frequency Conductivity another type of xmlcon file Acquisition aua Save or Save As Notes 3 Count Pressure Strain Gaugg a R 22E fto save current con or xmlcon file settings if NMEA device connected to computer y pH 2 NMEA depth can only be 5 A D voltage P appended if NMEA device 6 A D voltage2 Transmissometer Chelsea Seatech Wetlab Click a sensor connected to computer or if using and click 19plus V2 with SBE 33 or 36 Deck 7 A D yoltage3 Altimeter Modify to Unit firmware gt 3 0 or PN 90488 or 90545 Interface Box Surface PAR Select if using with deck unit connected to Surface PAR sensor Seasave appends Surface PAR data
116. ch word contains data from two 12 bit A D channels Deck Unit suppresses words above highest numbered voltage word used Words to suppress 4 Words to Keep External Voltage not spare 0 or 1 2or3 4or5 6or7 Connector JT2 AUX1 JT3 AUX2 JT5 AUX3 JT6 AUX4 Words to Keep 1 2 3 4 Configuration for the SBE 911 plus 91 plus CTD Configuration file opened None Frequency channels suppressed gt y Voltage words suppressed y Deck unit or SEARAM SBE plus Fimware Version 6 0 v IEEE 448 or RS 232C for CTD data interface between Deck Unit and computer Computer interface AS 239C 5 For full rate 24 Hz data cans to average set to 1 Example If scans to average 24 Seasave averages 24 scans saving is data to computer at 1 scan second NMEA position data added NMEA device connected to deck unit I Shaded sensors cannot be NMEA device connected to PC eee optional Surface PAR voltage added Scan time added Channel Sensor T t New to create new con or 1 Frequency emperature xmicon file for this CTD Ni Open to select different 2 Frequency Conductivity con or xmlcon file 3 Frequency Pressure Digiquartz with TC Save or Save As to save current con or xmlcon file settings 4 A D voltageQ pH 5 A D voltage Oxygen SBE 43 6 A D voltage 2 Fluorometer WET Labs CDOM 7 A D voltage 3 Altimeter Save As
117. configuration con or xmicon file has a 9plus CTD with altimeter The 11plus alarm also operates Click Configure Outputs In the Configure Outputs dialog box click the on input from a bottom contact SBE 1 1plus Alarms tab switch on the 9plus No setup is required in Seasave for the bottom contact switch Configure Outputs C Program Files Sea Bird Seasave Seasave psa Serial Data Out Serial Ports Shared File Out Mark Variables TCP IP Out TCP IP Ports SBE 11plus Alarms SBE 14 Remote Display PC Alarms Header Form Diagnostics Enable minimum maximum pressure rA alarm in 11plus see drawing below V Enable minimum pressure alarm Sound alarm when pressure is less than decibars 20 JV Enable maximum pressure alarm Enable altimeter alarm in 11 plus Sound alarm when pressure is greater than decibars fi ood see drawing below v Enable altimeter alarm Set Alarm set point at altimeter reading where you Alarm set point meters fio want alarm to sound Set Alarm hysteresis greater than expected ship aa heave swell to prevent on off on off sounding of Minimum pressure to enable alarm decibars Set Minimum pressure to alarm caused by ship heave enable alarm greater than Example You want alarm to turn on at 10 m approximately 20 db to prevent set set point 10 m There is a 0 5 m swell Alarm for a bottom contact switch on SBE plus is automatically alar
118. ctable Range Scale Fluorometer T 3 Factor milligrams m or micrograms liter 0 3 3 0 10 default 10 0 30 30 Sea Tech 0 100 100 0 300 300 0 1000 1000 0 100 100 va 0 300 default 300 0 1000 1000 Offset is calculated by measuring voltage output when the light sensor is completely blocked from the strobe light with an opaque substance such as heavy black rubber offset scale factor voltage 5 Turner 10 005 This sensor requires two channels one for the fluorescence voltage and the other for the range voltage Make sure to select both when configuring the instrument For the fluorescence voltage channel enter scale factor and offset concentration fluorescence voltage scale factor range 5 offset where range is defined in the following table Range Voltage Range lt 0 2 volts 1 0 gt 0 2 volts and lt 0 55 volts 3 16 gt 0 55 volts and lt 0 85 volts 10 0 gt 0 85 volts 31 0 50 Manual revision 7 21k Section 4 Configure Inputs Part Il Calibration Coefficients Seasave V7 e Turner 10 AU 005 Enter full scale voltage zero point concentration and full scale concentration from the calibration sheet concentration 1 195 voltage FSC ZPC FSV ZPC where voltage measured output voltage from fluorometer FSV full scale voltage typically 5 0 volts FSC full scale concentration ZPC zero point concentration e Turner Cyclops Enter sc
119. cted for Tau or hysteresis these corrections can be applied in post processing using SBE Data Processing s Data Conversion module See Calibration Coefficients for RS 232 Sensors below for the SBE 63 Optical Dissolved Oxygen Sensor and Aanderaa Optode Oxygen sensor Enter the coefficients which vary depending on the type of oxygen sensor from the calibration sheet Beckman or YSI type sensor manufactured by Sea Bird or other manufacturer These sensors require two channels one for oxygen current enter m b soc boc tcor pcor tau and wt and the other for oxygen temperature enter k and c Make sure to select both when configuring the instrument Note Seasave can process data for an instrument interfacing with up to two Beckman or YSI type oxygen sensors IOW sensor These sensors require two channels one for oxygen current enter b0 and b1 and the other for oxygen temperature enter a0 al a2 and a3 Make sure to select both when configuring the instrument Value b0 b1 a0 al T a2 T 03 T C where T is oxygen temperature voltage C is oxygen current voltage Sea Bird sensor SBE 43 This sensor requires only one channel In Spring of 2008 Sea Bird began using a new equation the Sea Bird equation for calibrating the SBE 43 Calibration sheets for SBE 43s calibrated after this date will only include coefficients for the Sea Bird equation but our software Seasave Win32 Seasave V7 and
120. d after 7 20a are compatible only with xmlcon files xmicon files with a text editor i e Notepad Wordpad etc con Configuration File Format Shown below is a line by line description of a con configuration file contents which can be viewed in a text editor i e Notepad Wordpad etc Line Contents Conductivity sensor serial number Conductivity M A B C D CPCOR Conductivity cell const series r slope offset use GHIJ coefficients Temperature sensor serial number Temperature F0 A B C D slope offset use GHIJ coefficients Secondary conductivity sensor serial number Secondary conductivity M A B C D PCOR Secondary conductivity cell const series r slope offset use GHIJ coefficients Secondary temperature sensor serial number Secondary temperature F0 A B C D slope offset use GHIJ coefficients Pressure sensor serial number Pressure Tl T2 13 T4 T5 Pressure Cl Al C2 AO C3 C4 A2 parameters in parentheses for strain gauge sensor Pressure D1 D2 slope offset pressure sensor type AD590 M AD590 B Oxygen Beckman YSI type sensor serial number Oxygen Beckman YSI type M B K C SOC TCOR Oxygen Beckman YSI type WT PCOR TAU BOC pH sensor serial number pH slope offset VREF PAR light sensor serial number PAR cal const multiplier M B surface cc surface r offset Transmissometer SeaTech Chelsea AlphaTracka WET Labs Cstar sensor serial number Transmissome
121. ductivity output OutputCond must match Output conductivity in con or xmlcon file do not output salinity with each sample Enabling of salinity output OutputSal must match Output salinity in con or xmlcon file do not output sound velocity with each sample Enabling of sound velocity output OutputSV must match Output sound velocity in con or xmlcon file start sampling when power on do not power off after taking a single sample Power off after taking a single sample must be disabled SingleSample N to acquire data in Seasave do not power off after two minutes of inactivity A D cycles to average 2 40 Section 3 Configure Inputs Part Instrument Configuration con or xmlcon file Seasave V7 SBE 49 FastCAT Configuration Manual revision 7 21k Configuration for the SBE 49 Fastcat CTD x Number of samples to average per scan SBE 49 samples at 16 Hz Configuration file opened None 0 0625 seconds averages data and transmits averaged data real time Must agree with SBE 49 setup NAvg see reply from DS NMEA Select if NMEA navigation device used and select whether device is connected directly to Deck ar Unit or to computer if Scans to average 1 connected to computer define serial port and baud rate on Configure Inputs Serial Ports tab You can also append NMEA depth data 3 bytes and NMEA time data 4 bytes after Lat Lon data Seasave adds current latitude longitude and un
122. e Factor Concentration units V Blank Output Scale Factor where V in situ voltage output Blank Output clean water blank voltage output Scale Factor multiplier units Volt The calibration sheet lists either gt Blank Output and Scale Factor OR gt Vblank old terminology for Blank Output and Scale Factor OR gt Vblank old terminology for Blank Output and Vcopro voltage output measured with known concentration of coproporphyrin tetramethyl ester Determine an initial value for the scale factor by using the chlorophyll concentration corresponding to Vcopro scale factor chlorophyll concentration Vcopro Vblank Perform calibrations using seawater with phytoplankton populations that are similar to what is expected in situ Note Seasave can process data for an instrument interfacing with up to five WET Labs WETStar sensors 52 Manual revision 7 21k Section 4 Configure Inputs Part Il Calibration Coefficients Seasave V7 Methane Sensor Calibration Coefficients The Capsum METS sensor requires two channels one for the methane concentration and the other for the temperature measured by the sensor Make sure to select both when configuring the instrument For the concentration channel enter D AO Al BO B1 and B2 Methane concentration Vt 1 1 exp D In B0 B1 exp _ mol l B2 Vm A0 Al Vt Where Vt temperature voltage Vm methane concentration volt
123. e Right click in an existing plot display and select Modify 92 Manual revision 7 21k Section 7 Display Setting Up Seasave Displays Seasave V7 Plot Setup Tab The Plot Setup tab defines the overall plot characteristics number of axes plot layout title color font grid lines etc bottle firing display mark line display etc The Plot Setup tab looks like this Plot Display 1 K Flot Setup Yas minie Xd 2 Print Opions Save Options Copy Dptione F Iot Titig isplaced In piot title bar on screen to save space However title Plot type Number of Axes Ja appears at top center of plot maximum 5 if you copy save or print Single X Multiple Y 1 X and up plot to 4 Y axes Gnd Lines Single Y Multiple X 1 Y and up Grid Line T rid Line Type none to 4 X axes C TS Plot always 1Y and 1X axis Single Multiplex Tye Horizontal and Vattical horizontal and vertical horizontal or vertical Style Number of axes la Style Dotted Line solid dotted or dashed and whether to place Grid in Display downcast only Plot only front of plotted data define downcast data P ere Enabled if TS plot Enable upcast line colors Plot type is ra Gridin fron downcast and upcast in different See below i colors define with Colors button For both Seasave determines that upcast has begun when P gt A a Minimum pressure to determine Display downcast orly Minimum pressure to determine
124. e data acquisition window press the Alt key to show the keyboard shortcuts underlines on Firing bottles Marking scans Adding NMEA navigation data to a nav file Manually turning an SBE 9p us pump on and off menus Press the appropriate letter for example R for Real Time Data menu and use the arrow and Enter keys to navigate Note For SBE 16plus 16plus V2 19plus 19plus V2 and 49 Instrument must be set up to output raw hex data OutputFormat 0 for Seasave to interpret the data See the instrument user manual 103 Manual revision 7 21k Section 8 Real Time Data and Real Time Control Real Time Data Acquisition Seasave V7 Starting and Stopping Real Time Data Acquisition 1 Inthe Real Time Data menu select Start The Start Real Time Data Acquisition dialog box appears Data Archiving Options e Begin archiving data immediately to store raw t rE frequencies A D counts and or voltages real time data Start Real Time Data Acquisition as soon as Start button is clicked and communication is established e Begin archiving data when Start Archiving command is sent to control when data begins to be written to file This allows you to eliminate scans associated with deploying CTD from ship deck and soaking instrument near surface alternatively remove these scans later in SBE Data Processing If you make this selection when you click Start button and communication is established a dialog bo
125. e plot using the toolbar buttons or by right clicking in the plot Toolbar Button Right click in plot Description Single lt arrows Scroll zoom 10 Move center of plot by 10 of range in direction indicated Double lt lt arrows Scroll zoom 80 Move center of plot by 80 of range in direction indicated zoom and zoom Undo 5 Scroll zoom in and out Undo scroll amp zoom Increase size 200 decrease range 50 or decrease size 50 increase range 200 Before zooming scroll to area of plot you want to enlarge Seasave zooms in at center of plot You can zoom several times before reaching limits You can also zoom in by clicking and dragging to select a rectangular area in plot Undo most recent scroll or zoom Select multiple times to return to original plot To return to original plot in 1 step right click in plot and select Modify and then click OK in Plot Display dialog box Print Print Bring up Print dialog box Default plot size and orientation was defined on Print Options tab However you can change these by clicking Preferences in Print dialog box Copy Copy Copy to Clipboard Plot size and format was defined on Copy Options tab If you selected Show dialog to select format when copying plot to clipboard on Copy Options tab Seasave prompts you to select format metafile JPG or bitmap Save Save Picture as Bring up Save to File dialog box
126. eability as the hysteresis correction can be pressure varies At each measurement the correction to the membrane applied in post processing using permeability is calculated based on the current pressure and how long the SBE Data Processing s Data sensor spent at previous pressures Conversion module Hysteresis responses of membranes on individual SBE 43 sensors are very similar and in most cases the default hysteresis parameters provide the accuracy specification of 2 of true value For users requiring higher accuracy 1 umol kg the parameters can be fine tuned if a complete profile descent and ascent made preferably to greater than 3000 meters is available H1 the effect s amplitude has a default of 0 033 but can range from 0 02 to 0 05 between sensors H2 the effect s non linear component has a default of 5000 and is a second order parameter that does not require tuning between sensors H3 the effect s time constant has a default of 1450 seconds but can range from 1200 to 2000 Hysteresis can be eliminated by alternately adjusting H1 and H3 in the con or xmlcon file during analysis of the complete profile Once established these parameters should be stable and can be used without adjustment on other casts with the same SBE 43 Note Enable the tau correction and enter the window size seconds and enable the hysteresis correction on the Miscellaneous tab in Configure Inputs 44660 oxygen umol
127. eacat Profiler Configuration Channel Sensor table reflects this choice 0 1 2 3 or 4 Must agree with 19p us setup for VoItN N 0 1 2 and 3 see reply from DS Voltage channel 0 in con or xmlcon file corresponds to first external voltage in data stream voltage channel 1 to second external voltage in data stream etc Strain gauge only selection applicable to 19p us Interval between scans in Moored Mode mode Seasave uses this to calculate elapsed time if you select time as a parameter for a display window ample interval seconds fio Must agree with 19p us setup Number of samples to average samples at 4 Hz in SamplelInterval see reply from DS Profiling mode Used to calculate elapsed time if you select time as an output parameter Must agree scans to meN with 19plus setup NAvg see reply from DS e NMEA Select if NMEA navigation device used and selectwhether M NMEA position data added T NMEA depth data added device is connected directly to Deck Unit or to computer if connected to y AG computer define serial port and baud NMEA device connected to deck unit T WHEL time added rate on Configure Inputs Serial Ports tab You can also append NMEA 5 depth data 3 bytes and NMEA time NMEA device connected to PC data 4 bytes after Lat Lon data Seasave adds current latitude longitude and universal time code to Surface PAR voltage added T Scan time added data header
128. eam transmission transmissometer Ch2o Vh2o Vdark x chlorophyll absorption Kv Vh20 a x 7 WET Labs WETStar fluorometer sensor serial number 8 WET Labs WETStar fluorometer sensor calibration date 9 WET Labs WETStar Vblank scale factor 20 Primary conductivity sensor using g h i j coefficients calibration date 2A Primary temperature sensor using g h i j coefficients calibration date 22 Secondary conductivity sensor using g h i j coefficients calibration date 23 Secondary temperature sensor using g h i j coefficients calibration date 24 FGP pressure sensor 0 serial number 25 FGP pressure sensor 0 calibration date 26 FGP pressure sensor 0 scale factor offset 27 FGP pressure sensor 1 serial number 28 FGP pressure sensor 1 calibration date 29 FGP pressure sensor 1 scale factor offset 30 FGP pressure sensor 2 serial number 31 FGP pressure sensor 2 calibration date 32 FGP pressure sensor 2 scale factor offset 33 FGP pressure sensor 3 serial number 34 FGP pressure sensor 3 calibration date 35 FGP pressure sensor 3 scale factor offset 36 FGP pressure sensor 4 serial number 37 FGP pressure sensor 4 calibration date 38 FGP pressure sensor 4 scale factor offset 39 FGP pressure sensor 5 serial number 40 FGP pressure sensor 5 calibration date 41 FGP pressure sensor 5 scale factor offset 42 FGP pressure sensor 6 serial number 43 FGP pressure sensor 6 calibration date 44 FGP pressure sensor 6 scale factor offset 45 FGP
129. eanus Gas Tension Devices GTDs through the SBE 16p us optional RS 232 connector Data from an SBE 50 pressure sensor is appended to the data stream and does not replace the optional internally mounted pressure sensor data Internally mounted pressure sensor strain gauge Digiquartz with temperature compensation or no pressure sensor If no pressure sensor is selected Data button accesses a dialog box Channel Sensor table reflects this choice 0 1 2 3 or 4 Must agree with 16p us setup for VoItN N 0 1 2 and 3 to input additional parameter needed to process data Must agree with 16p us setup PType see reply from DS Selection applies only to 16p us internally mounted pressure sensor if instrument has no internally mounted pressure sensor but is see reply from DS Voltage EA E S ATTE interfacing with SBE 50 pressure sensor select No pressure channel 0 in con or xmicon file sensor here and then select SBE 50 in Serial RS 232C sensor corresponds to first external Configuration file opened None field below Note Digiquartz without temperature compensation voltage in data stream voltage channel 1 to second external voltage in data stream etc Pressure sensor type Strain G auge Y Data is not applicable External voltage channels 2 z None 1 SBE 38 secondary temperature 1 SBE 50 pressure sensor or up to 2 GTDs dissolved oxygen or nitrogen Must agree with Time between scans i Must agree 16p
130. ears Select the desired file type and then browse to and select the file e con or xmlcon configuration file opens a con or xmlcon file retrieves the calibration coefficients from the file for the type of sensor you selected and enters the coefficients in the calibration coefficients dialog box If the con or xmlcon file contains more than one of that type of sensor for example Seasave can process data for an instrument interfacing with up to two SBE 43 oxygen sensors so the con or xmlcon file could contain coefficients for two SBE 43 sensors a dialog box allows you to select the desired sensor by serial number If the con or xmicon file does not contain any of that type of sensor Seasave responds with an error message e XML file imports an XML file that contains calibration coefficients for one sensor If the XML file you select is not compatible with the selected sensor type Seasave responds with an error message 43 Manual revision 7 21k Section 4 Configure Inputs Part Il Calibration Coefficients Seasave V7 Calibration Coefficients for Frequency Sensors Notes Coefficients g h i j and fO provide ITS 90 Tg temperature a b c d and fO provide IPTS 68 Tes temperature The relationship between them is Tes 1 00024 Too See Application Note 31 for computation of slope and offset correction coefficients from pre and post cruise calibrations supplied by Sea Bird See Calibration Coef
131. ect both when configuring the instrument Enter kv Vh2o0 and A X concentration mg m kv Vout Vh20 A X where Vout measured output voltage kv absorption voltage scaling constant inverse meters Vvolt Vh20 measured voltage using pure water A X chlorophyll specific absorption coefficient 51 Notes e Units are dependent on the substance measured by the fluorometer For example units are ug l for chlorophyll ppb for Rhodamine ppt for Phycocyanin etc For complete description of calibration coefficient calculation see Application Note 62 For ECO FL NTU a second channel is required for turbidity Set up the second channel as a WET Labs ECO NTU as described below for OBS Nephelometer Turbidity sensors Notes e Units are dependent on the substance measured by the fluorometer For example units are ug l for chlorophyll ppb for Rhodamine ppt for Phycocyanin etc For complete description of calibration coefficient calculation see Application Note 41 for WETStar Manual revision 7 21k Section 4 Configure Inputs Part Il Calibration Coefficients Seasave V7 WET Labs ECO AFL and ECO FL Enter Dark Output and scale factor Concentration units V Dark Output scale factor where V in situ voltage output Dark Output clean water voltage output with black tape on detector Scale factor multiplier units Volt The calibration sheet lists either gt Dark Output
132. ed Display has a list of the selected parameters across the top and displays the data in scrolling vertical columns z Adjust column width by E Scrolled Display1 placing mouse cursor over line and dragging Modify or print by right clicking in display and selecting desired option gt The Plot Display plots one parameter on the y axis and up to four parameters on the x axis or one parameter on the x axis and up to four parameters on the y axis E 151 xl EE Piot Display 1 lt l gt lalaly x a amp H Toolbar Buttons Temperature ITS 90 deg C 0 000 1 600 3 200 4 800 6 400 8 000 Modify or print by right clicking and selecting desired option or use toolbar buttons 0 000 1 000 2 000 3 000 4 000 5 000 Conductivity 5 m H 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 L 1 1 1 1 i i 1 1 L 1 L 1 1 34 200 34 400 34 600 34 800 35 000 Salinity PSU 10 Manual revision 7 21k Section 2 Installation and Use Seasave V7 Seasave Menus Notes A brief description of Seasave s menus follows e The psa file contains all information entered in Configure Inputs and Configure Outputs instrument con or xmlcon file path and name CTD serial port water sampler TCP IP input and output ports serial data output etc as well as size placement and setup for each display window When you click OK in the Configure Inputs and Configure Outputs dialog boxes and or create modify a display Seasave
133. ed from the dialog box for a sensor This allows you to move a sensor from one instrument to another and update the instrument s con or xmlcon file while eliminating need for typing or resulting possibility of typographical errors e File written by Seaterm232 for data uploaded from SBE 25plus This file can be played back in Seasave xmicon See con extension above 15 Manual revision 7 21k Section 2 Installation and Use Seasave V7 Output files Extension Description bl Bottle log information output bottle file containing bottle firing sequence number and position date time and beginning and ending scan numbers for each bottle closure Scan numbers correspond to approximately 1 5 second duration for each bottle Seasave writes information to file each time a bottle fire confirmation is received from SBE 32 Carousel SBE 55 ECO Water Sampler or only when used with 91 1plus G O 1016 Rosette Can be used by SBE Data Processing s Data Conversion module bmp Bitmap graphic output from Plot display when you click Save to file icon in plot toolbar or right click in plot and select Save as dat Data binary raw data file created by old versions lt 6 0 of Seasave from 91 1plus real time data File includes header information Can be used by SBE Data Processing s Data Conversion module hdr Header Includes same header information software version serial numbers
134. eeeeeneensees 41 Section 4 Configure Inputs Part II Calibration Coefficients 42 Accessing Calibration Coefficients Dialog Boxes ecsesscseeseeeeeeeeeeeeees 42 Importing and Exporting Calibration Coefficients ececceseeeeeteeeereeneeeees 43 Calibration Coefficients for Frequency Sensors cesccesceesecetecseeeteenseenees 44 Temperature Calibration Coefficients cccceeceesseeseceteeeeesseeneeeeeeneeees 44 Conductivity Calibration Coefficients cccceccesecetecseeeseeeseeseeeseeeereees 45 Pressure Paroscientific Digiquartz Calibration Coefficients 4 46 Bottles Closed HB IOW Calibration Coefficients 0 0 ee eeeeeneeees Sound Velocity IOW Calibration Coefficients 2 0 0 0 eceeseeseeeeeteeeees Calibration Coefficients for A D Count Sensofs cceeeeeeeceteereeteeseeeeeeeeees Temperature Calibration Coefficients cccecceeceeseceteceteceseeseeeseeeseenes Pressure Strain Gauge Calibration Coefficients 0 cee eeeeeeteereeteenees Calibration Coefficients for Voltage Sensors ccccescceseeseeeteceeeseeeteesseenees Pressure Strain Gauge Calibration Coefficients 0 cee eeeeeeseereeeeeees Altimeter Calibration Coefficients c ce ceeeceeeeceseceeeeecneeeecnaseeceaeeneaes Fluorometer Calibration Coefficients 0 ccessseescseeeeceeeeeeeseseeeeeereees Methane Sensor Calibration Coefficients 00 0 0 cceeeeeesceteeeeeteeeeeeenereres
135. en you click OK Seasave reorders list from deepest to shallowest you can see reordered list by clicking Auto Fire Pressures amp Positions again on Water Sampler tab om ol ao naa Tir jz Surface 0 m and 0 db Bottle closure pressures depths must be in this range 11 except for bottles Fire bottles on upcast to be fired manually when pressure depth is less than set close to expected maximum cast pressure depth ahhh Hi 5 50 OK Cancel Help 6 Make the desired selections Click OK 67 7 21k Section 5 Configure Inputs Part Ill Serial Ports Water Sampler TCP IP Ports Miscellaneous amp Pump Control Seasave V7 Remote Bottle Firing Note As an alternative to using the software provided by Sea Bird you can develop your own application for remote bottle firing using your desired software If you select Enable remote firing on the Water Sampler tab bottle firing is controlled from a remote computer connected via TCP IP ports to the computer that is running Seasave Software on the remote computer is required to control bottle firing via TCP IP Sea Bird provides two methods for performing this function Seasave Remote has many of the same display and plotting capabilities as Seasave It can be used to display data on a remote computer that is transmitted in XML format via TCP IP or to a shared file and to fire bottles from a remote computer See Appendix V Seas
136. ensor calibration coefficient file This file can be exported and or imported from the dialog box for a sensor This allows you to move a sensor from one instrument to another and update the instrument s con or xmlcon file while eliminating need for typing or resulting possibility of typographical errors 16 Manual revision 7 21k Section 3 Configure Inputs Part Instrument Configuration con or xmlcon file Seasave V7 Section 3 Configure Inputs Part I Instrument Configuration con or xmlicon file Note Setup of all parameters in Configure Inputs including the name and location of the selected con or xmlicon file is included in the Seasave program setup psa file To save the setup you must save the psa file File menu Save Setup File before exiting Seasave This section describes the setup of the instrument configuration con or xmicon file in Configure Inputs For setup of other items in Configure Inputs see Section 5 Configure Inputs Part III Serial Ports Water Sampler TCP IP Ports Miscellaneous and Pump Control Introduction Notes e Sea Bird supplies a con or xmlicon file with each instrument The con or xmicon file must match the existing instrument configuration and contain current sensor calibration information e Appendix II Configure con or xmlicon File Format contains a line by line description of the contents of the file Instrument Confi
137. er channel in SCUFA see Turner SCUFA in fluorometer equations above Note Seasave can process data for an instrument interfacing with up to two Turner SCUFA sensors WET Labs ECO BB Enter Scale Factor and Dark Output B Qc m sr V Dark Output Scale Factor where V voltage from sensor Scale Factor and Dark Output are from calibration sheet Note Seasave can process data for an instrument interfacing with up to five WET Labs ECO BB sensors WET Labs ECO NTU Enter scale factor and Dark Output NTU V Dark Output Scale Factor where V voltage from sensor Scale Factor and Dark Output are from calibration sheet Note Seasave can process data for an instrument interfacing with up to five WET Labs ECO NTU sensors Oxidation Reduction Potential ORP Calibration Coefficients Enter M B and offset mV Oxidation reduction potential M voltage B offset Enter M and B from calibration sheet 54 Manual revision 7 21k Section 4 Configure Inputs Part Il Calibration Coefficients Seasave V7 Oxygen Calibration Coefficients Notes e See Application Notes 13 1 and 13 3 for complete description of calibration coefficients for Beckman or YSI type sensors e See Application Notes 64 and 64 2 for complete description of SBE 43 calibration coefficients e The Tau correction tau T P 5V St in the SBE 43 or tau doc dt in the SBE 13 or 23 improves response of the measured sig
138. er in Section 5 Configure Inputs Part Ill Serial Ports Water Sampler TCP IP Ports Miscellaneous and Pump Control Notes The Fire Bottle button in the Bottle Fire dialog box is inaccessible until you start saving data to a file If you did not select Begin archiving data immediately or selected Begin archiving data when Start Archiving command is sent and did not yet send the Start Archiving command the Fire Bottle button is grayed out If desired you can fire bottles without using the Bottle Fire dialog box if you are set up for Sequential or Table Driven bottle fire Each time you want to fire a bottle press Ctrl F3 Note that this does not fire a bottle if set up for User Input entries because you must select which bottle to fire The bl file has the same path and file name as the data file For example if the data file is c test1 hex the bl file is c test1 bl Bottles can be fired in one of the following ways By command from Seasave see below From a remote computer via a TCP IP port if Enable remote firing was selected on the Water Sampler tab in Configure Inputs See Appendix V Seasave Remote for Remote Display and Bottle Firing Automatically if Auto Fire was selected on the Water Sampler tab in Configure Inputs For auto fire setup see Water Sampler in Section 5 Configure Inputs Part III Serial Ports Water Sampler TCP IP Ports Miscellaneous and Pump Control By command f
139. es kg __ oxygen ml oa aad z Sigma theta 1000 132 Notes e The oxygen saturation equation based on work from Garcia and Gordon 1992 reduces error in the Weiss 1970 parameterization at cold temperatures As implemented in Sea Bird software the Garcia and Gordon equation is valid for 5 lt T lt 50 and 0 lt S lt 60 Outside of those ranges the software returns a value of 99 for Oxsol As implemented in Sea Bird software the Weiss equation is valid for 2 lt T lt 40 and 0 lt S lt 42 Outside of those ranges the software returns a value of 99 for Oxsat Note The nitrogen saturation equation is based on work from Weiss 1970 Manual revision 7 21k Appendix IV Derived Parameter Formulas Seasave V7 Oxygen saturation is the theoretical saturation limit of the water at the local temperature and salinity value but with local pressure reset to zero 1 atmosphere This calculation represents what the local parcel of water could have absorbed from the atmosphere when it was last at the surface p 0 but at the same T S value Oxygen saturation can be calculated as Garcia and Gordon or Weiss Garcia amp Gordon Oxsol T S exp A0 A1 Ts A2 Ts A3 Ts A4 Ts f A5 Ts S BO B1 Ts B2 Ts B3 Ts CO S 7 where e Oxsol T S oxygen saturation value ml I e S salinity psu e T water temperature ITS 90 C e T
140. ficients for A D Count Sensors below for information on temperature sensors used in the SBE 16plus 16plus V2 19plus 19plus V2 and 49 For all calibration dialog boxes enter the sensor serial number and calibration date Many sensor calibration equations contain an offset term Unless noted otherwise use the offset default 0 0 to make small corrections for sensor drift between calibrations Calibration coefficients are discussed below for each type of sensor Temperature conductivity and Digiquartz pressure sensors are covered first followed by the remaining frequency sensor types in alphabetical order Temperature Calibration Coefficients Enter g h i j or a b c d and fO from the calibration sheet Enter values for slope default 1 0 and offset default 0 0 to make small corrections for temperature sensor drift between calibrations Corrected temperature slope computed temperature offset where slope true temperature span instrument temperature span offset true temperature instrument reading slope measured at 0 C Temperature Slope and Offset Correction Example At true temperature 0 0 C instrument reading 0 0015 C At true temperature 25 0 C instrument reading 25 0005 C Calculating the slope and offset Slope 25 0 0 0 25 0005 0 0015 1 000040002 Offset 0 0 0 0015 1 000040002 0 001500060 Sea Bird temperature sensors usually dri
141. file click Select Data File Select Data File dialog box appears Browse to desired file and click Open To verify you selected A desired file click Header tab to Playback Archived Data view data file header Notes File Instrument Configuration Header 1 Seasave searches for bl bottle file in same directory Currently selected with same name Seasave instrument configuration displays bottle fire lines on plot con or xmlcon file is during data playback if it finds Data Dat or Hex file _ Shown To verify you have a bl file a Water Sampler is l Select Data File selected desired file selected in Configure Inputs s 7 7 select different file or and plot display setup enables C Program Files Sea Bird Seasave 7 Demo Demo hex modify file click showing bottle lines Instrument Configuration 2 You can also play back data Instrument Configuration con or xmlcon file use Instrument Configuration tab to make changes tab uploaded from SBE 25plus memory in a XML ale C Program Files Sea bird Seasavel Demo demo xmlcon Number of scans to skip between computations Skip data speeding up display To calculate display all data over at start Skip scans at set to 0 This interacts with update rate for each display beginning of data allowing you Example 1 19plus sampling every 0 25 sec to skip data from before cast V Read to end of file Number of scans to skip between computations 4 began
142. for C clear water value and scale factor e Dr Haardt Turbidity Enter AO Al BO and B1 Select the gain range switch gt Output Voltage Level if the instrument indicates gain by output voltage level lt 2 5 volts is low gain gt 2 5 volts is high gain Low gain value A0 Al V High gain value BO B1 V gt Modulo Bit if the instrument has control lines custom wired to bits in the SBE 9plus modulo word Bit not set value A0 A1 V Bit set value BO B1 V gt None if the instrument does not change gain value A0 Al V where V voltage from sensor 53 Note See Application Note 48 for complete description of calculation of Seapoint Turbidity calibration coefficients Notes e To enable entry of the mx my and b coefficients for the SCUFA fluorometer you must first select the Turner SCUFA OBS Nephelometer Turbidity See Application Note 63 for complete description of calculation of Turner SCUFA calibration coefficients Note See Application Note 87 for complete description of calculation of WET Labs ECO BB calibration coefficients Note See Application Note 62 for complete description of calculation of WET Labs ECO NTU calibration coefficients Note See Application Note 19 for complete description of calculation of ORP calibration coefficients Manual revision 7 21k Section 4 Configure Inputs Part Il Calibration Coefficients Seasave V7 IFREMER
143. from the use or servicing of this system SEA BIRD ELECTRONICS INC has no way of controlling the use of this equipment or of choosing the personnel to operate it and therefore cannot take steps to comply with laws pertaining to product liability including laws which impose a duty to warn the user of any dangers involved in operating this equipment Therefore acceptance of this system by the customer shall be conclusively deemed to include a covenant by the customer to defend indemnify and hold SEA BIRD ELECTRONICS INC harmless from all product liability claims arising from the use or servicing of this system Manual revision 7 21k Table of Contents Seasave V7 Table of Contents Section T Introductions oss siscsssscescessssnnssosooosssssnssosavsosntessansvestesvanes osvacsessesvosesees 6 Summa asses ouch Ades anes E a a E E E N 6 System Requirements sieis ro en oe nnen aeaee a N Goes 7 Instruments Supported sses a aaa Ea No EEE E EES 7 Differences from Seas ve Win 2 cenis reani t erTi Ea 7 Section 2 Installation and Use seeseseessesessoeseseosseecesoeeeesoesereoeseeoesoreoesoreeseoes 8 Installationen ERE E E E E R E i 8 Sedasa ve USE nosso iseis onret eoo eee EEEE OAN EEEE EEEN EE EESE EES EE SEEEN EE SEES 9 Seasa ve Wind o We sisetcises ocoscosd easter ccgaglos oven ae a 9 Seasave Menus scisc socstesieesscosteseetegies saws o e scioeesb vernon s 11 Getting Startede Recs cote ac hectic engi en Seer 13 Displaying Archived
144. fset true conductivity instrument reading slope measured at 0 S m Conductivity Slope and Offset Correction Example At true conductivity 0 0 S m instrument reading 0 00007 S m At true conductivity 3 5 S m instrument reading 3 49965 S m Calculating the slope and offset Slope 3 5 0 0 3 49965 0 00007 1 000080006 Offset 0 0 0 00007 1 000080006 0 000070006 The sensor usually drifts by changing span slope of the calibration curve typically resulting in lower conductivity readings over time Offset error error at 0 S m is usually due to electronics drift and is typically less than 0 0001 S m per year Because offsets greater than 0 0002 S m are a symptom of sensor malfunction Sea Bird recommends that drift corrections be made by assuming no offset error unless there is strong evidence to the contrary or a special need Wide Range Conductivity Sensors A wide range conductivity sensor has been modified to provide conductivity readings to 15 Siemens meter by inserting a precision resistor in series with the conductivity cell Therefore the equation used to fit the calibration data is different from the standard equation The sensor s High Range Conductivity Calibration sheet includes the equation as well as the cell constant and series resistance to be entered in the program If the conductivity sensor serial number includes a w an indication that it is a wide range sensor
145. ft by changing offset typically resulting in higher temperature readings over time for sensors with serial number less than 1050 and lower temperature readings over time for sensors with serial number greater than 1050 Sea Bird s data indicates that the drift is smooth and uniform with time allowing users to make very accurate corrections based only on pre and post cruise laboratory calibrations Calibration checks at sea are advisable to ensure against sensor malfunction however data from reversing thermometers is rarely accurate enough to make calibration corrections that are better than those possible from shore based laboratory calibrations Sea Bird temperature sensors rarely exhibit span errors larger than 0 005 C over the range 5 to 35 C 0 005 C 35 5 C year 0 000125 C C year even after years of drift A span error that increases more than 0 0002 C C year may be a symptom of sensor malfunction 44 Manual revision 7 21k Section 4 Configure Inputs Part Il Calibration Coefficients Seasave V7 Note Use coefficients g h i j Ctcor and Cpcor if available on calibration sheet for most accurate results conductivity for older sensors was calculated based on a b c d m and Cpcor Note See Application Note 31 for computation of slope and offset correction coefficients from pre and post cruise calibrations supplied by Sea Bird or from salinity bottle samples taken at sea during profi
146. g from within the desired When Seasave receives a bottle fired confirmation from a water sampler it software it writes bottle fire data to a increments the Fired and shows the bottle number that was fired in the file or sets a bottle confirm bit in the Bottle Firing Sequence box data file as applicable to the equipment used See Firing Bottles by When Seasave Remote receives a bottle fired confirmation from Seasave Command from Seasave above it increments the Fired and shows the bottle number that was fired in the Sequence box User Input Remote Bottle Fire x Bottlesx 36 Fred 3 Next bottle po Disconnect Fire Bottle Help 13 When you are done A To end TCP IP transmission of data or access to a shared file In Seasave Remote s Data menu click Disconnect B To end transmission of bottle fire commands and responses In Seasave Remote s Bottle Fire dialog click Disconnect OR In Seasave s Remote Fire Bottle Fire dialog click Disconnect 14 In Seasave stop real time data acquisition 137 Manual revision 7 21k Appendix VI Java A lications for Remote Display and Bottle Firin Seasave V7 Appendix VI Java Applications for Remote Display and Bottle Firing Notes FixedDisplay jar can only display variables that are transmitted by Seasave it cannot calculate derived variables based on the transmitted variables As an alternative to the Java applications described in this
147. guration Note Unless noted otherwise Seasave supports only one of each auxiliary sensor model on a CTD for example you cannot specify two Chelsea Minitracka fluorometers but you can specify a Chelsea Minitracka and a Chelsea UV Aquatracka fluorometer See the sensor descriptions in Section 4 Configure Inputs Part II Calibration Coefficients for those sensors that Seasave supports in a redundant configuration two or more of the same model interfacing with the CTD The instrument configuration con or xmlcon file defines the instrument configuration what sensors are integrated with the instrument and what channels are used by the sensors and the sensor calibration coefficients Seasave uses this information to convert the raw data stream into engineering units for display during real time data acquisition or archived data playback The configuration file discussion is in two parts e Instrument Configuration in this section Configuration dialog box for each instrument SBE 911 91 7plus 16 l6plus 16plus V2 19 19plus 19plus V2 21 25 45 and 49 e Section 4 Configure Inputs Part II Calibration Coefficients calculation of calibration coefficients for each type of frequency A D count voltage and RS 232 sensor The discussion of instrument configuration is in two parts e General description of how to view modify or create a con or xmlcon file e Detailed description of the Configurati
148. gure Inputs Part Ill Serial Ports Water Sampler TCP IP Ports Miscellaneous amp Pump Control _Seasave V7 Miscellaneous Note See Appendix IV Derived Parameter Formulas for details on how the values entered on the Miscellaneous tab are used in the calculations The Miscellaneous tab defines parameters required for output of specific variables depth average sound velocity plume anomaly potential temperature anomaly oxygen descent rate and acceleration Entries on this tab are used only if you are outputting the associated variable to a display window shared file remote device TCP IP port etc For example if you do not select data from a voltage Oxygen sensor as an output variable for a display window or on any tab in the Configure Outputs dialog box Seasave ignores the value entered for Oxygen window size and the enabling of hysteresis and Tau corrections on the Miscellaneous tab Click Configure Inputs In the Configure Inputs dialog box click the Miscellaneous tab Configure Inputs C Documents and Settings dbresko Application Data Sea Bir K Instrument Configuration Serial Ports Water Sampler TCP IP Ports Miscellaneous Pump Control This tab configures miscellaneous data for calculations Note Values entered only affect indicated calculations Depth and Average Sound Velocity Latitude when NMEA is not available g r Average Sound Velocity Plume Anomaly Minimum pressure db 0
149. gure Outputs C Documents and Settings dbresko My Documents 1 Splustest xmlcon Configure Inputs Configure Outputs Timeout in seconds at startup Time allowed before first data scan is received from instrument Seasave will time out and stop attempting to acquire data if data is not f received from instrument within this time period Timeout in seconds at startup 60 Timeout in seconds between scans Maximum gap allowed between scans after first data scan is received Timeout in seconds between scans 20 from instrument Seasave will time out and stop attempting to acquire data if data is not received from instrument within this time period for example if a shark bites cable and interrupts data acquisition Seasave stops attempting to acquire data after this aap Reset deck unit to state 1 when acquisition stops Appears in dialog box only if Help e con or xmicon file is for SBE 16 16plus 16plus V2 19 19plus 19plus V2 21 25 25plus AND e con or xmicon file indicates that NMEA data is added through deck unit Start real time If selected Seasave resets deck unit SBE 33 SBE 36 or data acquisition Save real time data setup all parameters Seacat Sealogger RS 232 and Navigation Interface Box to input on or accessible through this dialog box State 1 when acquisition stops State 1 is Echo only mode including con or xmlcon and data file names no NMEA or Surface PAR data is sent and is useful for input and output conf
150. h deck unit 1 Frequency Temperature for this CTD i connected to Surface PAR sensor Seasave ee i ne PEt Open to select appends Surface PAR data to every scan 2 Frequency Conductivity different con or Adds 2 channels to Channel Sensor table ooo 7 xmlcon file Do not increase External voltage channels to 3 A D voltage 0 pH ave Saveur Save S reflect this External voltage channels reflects only external voltages going directly to SBE 19 4 A D voltage 1 from auxiliary sensors See Application Note TEETER 47 5 Pressure voltage Scan time added Select to have Seasave Peet append time seconds since January 1 1970 E SPAR voltage GMT to each data scan 7 CFAR voltage to save current Gaye fig con or xmicon file Pressure Stain Gauge settings Transmissometer Chelsea Seatech Wetlab Unavailable Select Click a sensor SPAR Surface Inadiance and click Modify Click a non shaded sensor and click Select to pick a Rett to change different sensor for that channel A dialog box with a list MAY calibration of sensors appears Select sensors after number of coefficients for that sensor voltage channels have been specified above Rept Help Exit Cancel Opens a txt file for viewing only Click to exit dialog box If you made changes and did cannot be modified that shows all not Save or Save As Seasave asks if you want to parameters in con or xmicon file save changes 27 Manual revision
151. hannels 20 39 43 SBE 16 use water temperature fixed pressure fixed pressure temperature 44 Firmware version 45 Miscellaneous number of frequencies from SBE 9 number of frequencies from SBE 9 to be suppressed number of voltages from SBE 9 to be suppressed voltage range add surface PAR voltage add NMEA position data include IOW sensors Add NMEA depth data 46 OBS Nephelometer IFREMER sensor serial number 47 OBS Nephelometer IFREMER VMO VDO DO K 48 OBS Nephelometer Chelsea sensor serial number 49 OBS Nephelometer Chelsea clear water voltage scale factor 50 ZAPS sensor serial number 51 ZAPS m b 52 Conductivity sensor calibration date 53 Temperature sensor calibration date 54 Secondary conductivity sensor calibration date 55 Secondary temperature sensor calibration date 56 Pressure sensor calibration date 57 Oxygen Beckman YSI type sensor calibration date 58 pH sensor calibration date 59 PAR light sensor calibration date 60 Transmissometer SeaTech Chelsea AlphaTracka WET Labs Cstar sensor calibration date 61 Fluorometer SeaTech sensor calibration date 62 Tilt sensor calibration date 63 ORP sensor calibration date 64 Primary OBS Nephelometer D amp A Backscatterance sensor calibration date 65 Microstructure temperature sensor calibration date 66 Microstructure conductivity sensor calibration date 67 IFREMER OBS nephelometer sensor calibration date 68 Chelsea OBS nephelometer sensor calibration date
152. he remote software is working properly the water sampler type and number of bottles should match the settings on the Water Sampler tab in Configure Inputs in Seasave 4 In Seasave start real time data acquisition 5 On the remote computer on the Fire tab click Fire when desired When Seasave receives a bottle fired confirmation from a water sampler it Note increments the Fired and shows the bottle number that was fired in the When Seasave receives a bottle fired Bottle Firing Sequence box confirmation from a water sampler its f response to remote bottle firing is When the remote bottle fire software receives a bottle fired confirmation identical to bottle firing from within from Seasave it increments the Number fired and shows the bottle Seasave it writes bottle fire data to a number that was fired in the Sequence box file or sets a bottle confirm bit in the data file as applicable to the 6 When you have fired all the bottles click Disconnect on the Connect tab equipment used See Firing Bottles in on the remote computer or click Disconnect on the Remote Fire Bottle Section 8 Real Time Data and Real Fire dialog in Seasave Time Control Real Time Data Acquisition 141 Manual revision 7 21k Appendix VII Seasave hex Output Data Format Seasave V7 Appendix VII Seasave hex Output Data Format Notes For most Sea Bird instruments Seasave saves data to the hex data file in the following order as
153. helsea Minitracka Enter Vacetone Vacetone100 and offset Concentration 100 V Vacetone Vacetone100 Vacetone offset where Vacetone voltage with 0 ug l chlorophyll and Vacetone100 voltage with 100 ug l chlorophyll are from calibration sheet Chelsea UV Aquatracka Enter A and B Concentration ug l A 10 0 B where A and B are from calibration sheet V is output voltage measured by CTD Note Seasave can process data for an instrument interfacing with up to two Chelsea UV Aquatracka sensors Dr Haardt Fluorometer Chlorophyll a Phycoerythrin or Yellow Substance Enter AO Al BO and B1 These instruments may have automatic switching between high and low gains Select the gain range switch gt Output Voltage Level if the instrument indicates gain by output voltage level lt 2 5 volts is low gain gt 2 5 volts is high gain Low gain value A0 Al V High gain value BO B1 V gt Modulo Bit if the instrument has control lines custom wired to bits in the SBE 9plus modulo word Bit not set value AO Al V Bit set value BO BI V gt None if the instrument does not change gain value A0 Al V where V voltage from sensor Dr Haardt Voltage Level Switching Examples Example Chlorophyll a Low range scale 10 mg l and Gain 10 2 5 4 mg l volt A0 0 0 Al 4 0 High range scale 100 mg l and Gain 100 2 5 40 mg I volt BO 100 B1 40 0 49 Note See Applica
154. hin this time For other instruments such as an SBE 16 16plus 16plus V2 21 45 49 or 911 plus Notes e Fire Bottle Control and Mark Scan aS Control in the Real Time Control Mating ror data fromthe deck unt menu are inaccessible until you start Seconds 57 saving data to a file So if you did not select Begin archiving data immediately or selected Begin archiving data when Start Archiving command is sent and did not yet send the Start Archiving command these items are grayed out in the Real Time Control menu The Add to NAV File button in the Seasave will time out if data is not received from the instrument within Timeout in seconds at startup 3 To stop data acquisition NMEA Data dialog box is A Foran instrument that is started by movement of a switch such as inaccessible until you start saving SBE 19 19plus 19plus V2 25 or 25plus move the switch to the data to a file So if you did not off position select Begin archiving data B Inthe Real Time Data menu select Stop immediately or selected Begin archiving data when Start Archiving command is sent and did not yet send the Start Archiving command the Add to NAV File button is grayed out G 105 Manual revision 7 21k Section 8 Real Time Data and Real Time Control Real Time Data Acquisition Seasave V7 Troubleshooting Note Listed below are possible causes for receiving a Data acquisition is canceled Not all
155. hip heave etc for later review and analysis of the data If a plot display is set up to Show Mark Lines Seasave also draws a horizontal line in the plot each time you mark a scan To mark scans 1 Set up the Mark Variables in Configure Outputs see Mark Variables in Section 6 Configure Outputs 2 Inthe Real Time Control menu select Mark Scan The Mark Scan Control dialog box appears Mark Scan Control ES Maks O 3 Start real time data acquisition 4 When desired click Mark Scan The dialog box displays how many scans have been marked copied to mrk file If your systems includes a NMEA navigation device and NMEA has been selected in the instrument configuration con or xmlcon file NMEA Display allows you to view the latitude longitude and time during data acquisition and to select scans to be written to a nav file Each scan written to the nav file contains latitude longitude time scan number and pressure The source of the date and time information in the NMEA display and in the output data file header varies depending on your NMEA navigation device e NMEA data includes both time and time both the NMEA Display and the NMEA UTC Time in the output data file header show the NMEA date and time e NMEA data includes time but not date the NMEA Display shows the NMEA time and the date from the computer while the NMEA UTC Time in the output data file header shows just the NMEA time e NMEA data does
156. hown e Many instruments have a user programmable baud rate your instrument may have been programmed to communicate at a different baud consult manual for baud command AND OR Your instrument may have a custom modification that affects baud rate data bits and or parity consult manual that was shipped with instrument for settings COM port connected to SBE 11p us Deck Unit Modem Channel connector or SBE 33 Deck Unit Carousel Data connector to send commands to and receive replies from water sampler Note Same COM port is used to send pump control commands to a custom 9plus this does not interfere with water sampler operation COM port baud rate data bits stop bits and parity for output data Typical values for use with most computers 9600 baud 8 data bits 1 stop bit no parity See Section 6 Configure Outputs for setup of serial data output COM port connected to SBE 14 Remove Display See Section 6 Configure Outputs for setup of data output to SBE 14 COM port and baud rate for NMEA device connected directly to computer See Section 3 Configure Inputs Part Instrument Configuration con or xmicon file for selection of NMEA device connection Stop bits Parity Baud rate 4800 Configure Inputs C Documents and Settings dbresko Application Data Sea Bir x Instrument Configuration Serial Ports Water Sample TCP IP Ports Miscellaneous Pump Control CTD Serial Port Defaults for SBE
157. icable Water sampler bottles can be See Firing Bottles in Section 8 Real Time Data and Real Time Control fired by command from Seasave autonomously based on user input pre defined pressures or depths a mix of by command and autonomously or from Real Time Data Acquisition for details a remote computer via a TCP IP port on firing bottles Bottle firings can be recorded in the data in several ways e 911plus with SBE 32 Carousel Water Sampler or G O 1016 Rosette or Note SBE 19 19plus 19plus V2 25 or 49 with SBE 33 Carousel Deck Unit When using the SBE 49 CTD with the and SBE 32 Carousel Water Sampler or SBE 55 ECO Water Sampler SBE 33 and a water sampler Seasave Seasave automatically writes bottle sequence number bottle position does not allow acquisition of Surface date time and beginning and ending scan numbers to a bottle log bl file PAR data each time a bottle fire confirmation is received from the water sampler The beginning and ending scan numbers correspond to approximately a 1 5 second duration for each bottle e 91 1plus with G O 1015 Rosette Seasave automatically sets the bottle confirm bit in the data hex file for all scans within a 1 5 second period after a bottle firing confirmation is received from the Rosette e Ifdesired you can use Seasave s Mark Scan feature to manually note when bottles are fired creating a mrk file SBE Data Processing can use the bottle firing informati
158. ics log s enabled on Diagnostics tab in at fastest possible rate set to 0 Configure Outputs is automatically output regardless of for quick creation of plots selection here Cancel Save archived data setup all parameters input on or accessible through this dialog box including con or xmlcon and data file names number of scans to skip over at start etc to buffer If you then save program setup psa file the next time you select Start in Archived Data menu Playback Start archived data playback Archived Data dialog box will appear with your saved selections 111 Manual revision 7 21k Section 9 Archived Data Displaying Archived Data Seasave V7 2 Click Start to begin processing and displaying data 3 To pause and restart data display A Inthe Archived Data menu select Pause The data display stops but Seasave retains information on where it stopped B When ready to restart the display where it stopped pull down the Archived Data menu You will see a check mark next to Pause select Pause to restart Note 4 To adjust rate that data is displayed rate that was entered in Playback Archived data playback can be very Archived Data dialog box as Data playback rate In the Archived Data fast if No Wait is selected if there is no menu select Faster Slower or No Wait No Wait plays back data at the scrolled view display For an example fastest possible speed which is useful for quick creation of plots
159. igation device used and select whether device is connected directly to 11plus Deck Unit or to computer if connected to computer define serial port and baud rate on Configure Inputs Serial Ports tab If device connected to computer you can also append NMEA depth data 3 bytes and NMEA time data 4 bytes after Lat Lon data Seasave adds current latitude longitude and universal time code to data header appends NMEA data to every scan and writes NMEA data to nav file every time Ctrl F7 is pressed or Add to nav File is clicked see Adding NMEA Data to nav File in Section 8 Real Time Data and Real Time Control Real Time Data Acquisition e Surface PAR Select if Surface PAR sensor used must agree with Deck Unit setup if 11p us firmware lt 5 0 Seasave appends Surface PAR data to every scan Adds 2 channels to Channel Sensor table Do not decrease Voltage words suppressed to reflect this Voltage words suppressed reflects only external voltages going directly to Qplus from auxiliary sensors See Application Note 11S e Scan time Select to have Seasave append time seconds since January 1 1970 GMT to each data scan SBE 9plus Configuration Channel Sensor table reflects this choice Voltage 0 in con or xmicon file corresponds to sensor wired to channel 0 on end cap connector voltage 1 to sensor wired to channel 1 on end cap connector etc Total voltage words 4 ea
160. igits 4 i Pressure Digiquartz db 4 2 Salinity PSU 5 3 Temperature ITS 90 deg C Selected variables and number of decimal points to 6 right of decimal place for output data Click Select fa Variables to change Dialog box with list of 9 variables appears select desired variables and Ea number of decimal places to right of decimal point Select Variables for each variable and click OK Make the desired selections Click OK or click another tab in Configure Outputs 73 Manual revision 7 21k Section 6 Configure Outputs Seasave V7 Serial Ports The Serial Ports tab defines serial ports and other communication parameters for e Sending commands to and receiving replies from the CTD e Sending commands to and receiving replies from a water sampler through the SBE 1 1plus Deck Unit Modem Channel connector or SBE 33 Deck Unit Carousel Data connector Sending pump control commands to a custom 9p us through the SBE 1 1plus Deck Unit Modem Channel connector Outputting data to a serial port for user defined purposes e Outputting converted data through a serial port to an SBE 14 Remote Display Note For details on the CTD communication settings see Serial Ports in Section 5 Configure Inputs Part Ill Serial Ports Water Sampler TCP IP Ports Miscellaneous and Pump Control b Serial port parameters can be defined in Configure Inputs or Configure Outputs if you make changes in one dialog box tho
161. iguration timeouts etc setting up CTD to buffer and exit dialog box If you then save program setup psa file the next time you select Start in Real Time Data menu Start Real Time Data Acquisition dialog box will appear with your saved selections 104 Manual revision 7 21k Section 8 Real Time Data and Real Time Control Real Time Data Acquisition Seasave V7 2 Click Start to begin processing and displaying data A Ifyou selected Begin archiving data immediately or Begin archiving data when Start Archiving command is sent above and selected Prompt for Header Information in the Header Form setup Configure Outputs the Header Information dialog box appears Fill in the Notes e If you get an error message Data acquisition is canceled timed out while trying to acquire data see desired header and click OK Troubleshooting below for suggestions B Ifyou set up a water sampler in Configure Inputs Seasave sends a on possible causes and solutions Reset command to the water sampler and waits up to 60 seconds for Outputs and displays can be confirmation reconfigured without interrupting data C Ifyou selected NMEA position data added in the con or xmlcon file acquisition For example Seasave initializes NMEA communications gt If you start a cast and realize that you D Ifyou selected Check Scan Length in the Options menu Seasave forgot to set up serial data output you checks the con or xmlc
162. igure Inputs and Configure Outputs instrument con or xmlicon file path and name CTD serial port water sampler TCP IP input and output ports serial data output etc as well as the size placement and setup for each display window Follow these steps to use Seasave to display archived data 1 Inthe File menu select Open Setup File The Open dialog box appears Browse to the desired file default location C Program Files Sea Bird Seasave V7 Demo select demo psa and click OK The display windows will now correspond to the selected psa file 2 Inthe Archived Data menu select Start 3 The Playback Archived Data dialog box appears see Section 9 Archived Data Displaying Archived Data A On the File tab click Select Data File The Select Data File dialog box appears Browse to the desired file default location C Program Files Sea Bird SeasaveV7 Demo demo hex and click Open B Click the Instrument Configuration tab Click Open The Select Instrument Configuration File dialog box appears Browse to the desired file default location C Program Files Sea Bird SeasaveV7 Demo demo con and click Open C Click the File tab Click Start The example data will display Note 4 As desired modify and export the setup of the display windows When modifying and saving the see Section 7 Display Setting Up Seasave Displays program setup psa file use a Save the modified psa file and repeat Steps 2 and 3 new
163. imal place for output converted data Click Select Variables to change Dialog box with list of variables appears select desired variables and number of decimal places to right of decimal point for each variable and click OK Report Help OK Cancel Make the desired selections Click OK or click another tab in Configure Outputs FREREREE tt Data Format for TCP IP Out If outputting Converted data using TCP IP the format is identical to data output to a shared file Shared File Out tab You can view the format by enabling Output data to shared file on the Shared File Out tab and playing back any archived data file Archived Data menu If outputting Raw data using TCP IP the format varies depending on whether you enable XML wrapper and settings e XML wrapper and settings not enabled Data is output in hex in the same format as the output hex file Scans are skipped based on your selection of Seconds between raw data updates No header information is output e XML wrapper and settings is enabled Data is preceded by configuration information in XML and each data scan is wrapped in a sequential XML scan index tag 78 Manual revision 7 21k Section 6 Configure Outputs Seasave V7 An example of the raw data output with XML wrapper and settings enabled is shown below for an SBE 19plus with several auxiliary sensors Note XML scan index tags are numbered 0 1 2 etc regardless of Seconds between raw
164. in 11 4 vlith 8 8 samples 0 fr 5981649 sample interval 5 seconds no of volts sampled 1 Sample interval SI must match Sample interval seconds in con or xmlcon file Number of auxiliary voltage sensors enabled SV must match External voltage channels in con or xmicon file sample external SBE 38 temperature sensor External temperature sensor SBE38 must match Remote temperature in con or xmicon file this line appears only if SBE 38 is enabled SBE38 Y output format SBE21 Output format must be set to SBE 21 F1 to acquire data in Seasave start sampling when power on yes average data during sample interval yes logging data no voltage cutoff 7 5 volts 34 Manual revision 7 21k Section 3 Configure Inputs Part Instrument Configuration con or xmlcon file Seasave V7 SBE 25 Sealogger Configuration Channel Sensor table reflects this choice 0 7 Must agree with SBE 25 setup CC see reply from DS Voltage channel 0 in con or xmlcon file corresponds to first external voltage in data stream voltage channel 1 to Configuration file opened None second external voltage in data stream etc 1 2 4 or 8 scans second Used to calculate elapsed time if you select External voltage channels Used to determine strain gauge pressure sensor time as a parameter for a display A data format See reply from DS window Must agree with SBE 25 setup CC see re
165. in this exact form If looking at wastewater plumes you need to derive your own anomaly function that is specific to what it is you are looking for and that is defined to differentiate between surrounding waters and the wastewater plume waters specific conductivity C 10 000 1 A T 25 microS cm C conductivity S m T temperature C A thermal coefficient of conductivity for a natural salt solution 0 019 0 020 Sea Bird software uses 0 020 131 Manual revision 7 21k Appendix IV Derived Parameter Formulas Seasave V7 Oxygen ml is calculated as described in Application Note 64 SBE 43 Note Dissolved Oxygen Sensor or Application Note 13 1 SBE 13 23 30 Dissolved Oxygen ml I for the SBE 63 Optical Oxygen Sensor Calibration amp Deployment Dissolved Oxygen Sensor is calculated as described in its manual Tau and When you select oxygen as a derived variable there are two correction hysteresis corrections are not applicable to the SBE 63 options available e Tau correction The Tau correction tau T P V t in the SBE 43 or tau doc dt in the SBE 13 or 23 improves response of the measured signal in regions of large oxygen gradients However this term also amplifies residual noise in the signal especially in deep water and in some situations this negative consequence overshadows the gains in signal responsiveness If the Tau correction is enabled oxygen computed by Seasave and
166. ing the software provided by Sea Bird you can develop your own application using your desired software Software on the remote computer is required to view data output from Seasave Sea Bird provides two methods for performing this function Seasave Remote has many of the same display and plotting capabilities as Seasave It can be used to display data on a remote computer that is transmitted via TCP IP or to a shared file Data transmitted via TCP IP must be converted data in XML format data transmitted to a shared file must be in XML format Seasave Remote can also be used to fire bottles from a remote computer See Appendix V Seasave Remote for Remote Display and Bottle Firing FixedDisplay jar and FireBottles jar are sample Java applications FixedDisplay jar allows you to view a Fixed display on a remote computer to display data transmitted via TCP IP must be converted data in XML format FireBottles jar allows you to fire bottles from a remote computer You can use the provided sample applications or modify them as desired See Appendix VI Java Applications for Remote Display and Bottle Firing 102 Manual revision 7 21k Section 8 Real Time Data and Real Time Control Real Time Data Acquisition Seasave V7 Section 8 Real Time Data and Real Time Control Real Time Data Acquisition Note To start acquisition without a mouse This section covers With the cursor in the main Seasave e Starting and stopping real tim
167. ing the phone conversation If the problem involves data analysis or processing you may be asked to send a sample of the data to Sea Bird for evaluation If you discover a reproducible bug please document the steps required to create the problem and send a report to Sea Bird We also welcome suggestions for new features and enhancements Known Bugs Compatibility Issues Note The date in the System Upload Time must be in the format Mmm dd yyyy for example Nov 09 2007 with the month capitalized and a space between the month day and year 1 Seasoft DOS terminal programs Term19 Term25 etc may not run when Seasave is running Solution Use Seasoft V2 terminal program SeatermV2 Seaterm or SeatermAF as applicable or close Seasave to run Seasoft DOS terminal program 2 Seasave may not run when a DOS window such as for Seasoft DOS is open Solution Close DOS window Use Windows software 3 Seasave may not be able to read and display an archived data file that was uploaded from an instrument s memory using Seaterm version 1 58 or earlier if the computer was set to a language other than English when the file was uploaded This is because Seasave cannot recognize the System Upload Time date in the file header if does not contain the appropriate English abbreviation for the month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov or Dec Solution 1 Edit the uploaded file to change the month to
168. ion in xmlcon file 39 Manual revision 7 21k Section 3 Configure Inputs Part Instrument Configuration con or xmlcon file Seasave V7 SBE 45 MicroTSG Configuration The SBE 45 transmits ASCII converted data in engineering units It converts the raw data internally to engineering units based on the programmed calibration coefficients See the SBE 45 manual Define data in SBE 45 data stream Output conductivity Must Configuration file opened None agree with SBE 45 setup OutputCond Output salinity Must agree with SBE 45 setup OutputSal Output conductivity Output sound velocity Must agree with SBE 45 setup Output salinity OutputSV See reply from DS for setup Output sound velocity programmed into SBE 45 Opens a txt file for viewing Report He only cannot be modified Time between scans Must agree with SBE 45 setup Interval see reply from DS 5 New to create new Sample interval seconds con or xmlcon file Bane N A A for this CTD MV Use junction box _ Open to select different con or V SBE38 temperature added Gaye Xmicon file Save or Save As to save current con or _NMEA data added Save AS xmicon file settings SSB SoS Se eese Soe se ccoosa that shows all parameters in Use junction box Select if SBE 45 data is transmitted to con or xmlcon file computer through optional 90402 SBE 45 Interface Box Click to exit dial
169. ion of the selected con or time data acquisition This section covers xmicon file is included in the Seasave e Accessing calibration coefficient dialog boxes program setup psa file To save the e Using the Import and Export buttons in the calibration coefficient setup you must save the psa file File menu Save Setup File before exiting Seasave dialog boxes Calibration coefficients for frequency sensors Calibration coefficients for A D count sensors Calibration coefficients for voltage sensors Calibration coefficients for RS 232 sensors For all other details on the setup of the con or xmlcon file see Section 3 Configure Inputs Part I Instrument Configuration con or xmlcon file For setup of the other items in Configure Inputs see Section 5 Configure Inputs Part III Serial Ports Water Sampler TCP IP Ports Miscellaneous and Pump Control Accessing Calibration Coefficients Dialog Boxes Note 1 Click Configure Inputs Steps 1 through 4 are detailed in Section 3 Configure Inputs Part I 2 In the dialog box click the Instrument Configuration tab and click Open Instrument Configuration con or f Sa xmicon File 3 Inthe Select Instrument Configuration File dialog box browse to the desired file and click Open 4 The configuration information appears on the Instrument Configuration tab Click Modify 5 Inthe Configuration dialog box click a sensor and click Modify to change
170. iring via TCP IP 4 Better graphics including the ability to have different plot colors for downcast and upcast 5 An unlimited number of displays can be active on the desktop at once within the limitations of your computer s resources Displays can be added deleted and modified without interrupting data acquisition 6 Output from an SBE 9plus CTD integrated with an SBE 1 1plus Deck Unit SBE 91 1p us is now saved as a hex file was previously saved as a binary dat file 7 Support for pressure altimeter and bottom contact switch alarms in the computer running Seasave Manual revision 7 21k Section 2 Installation and Use Seasave V7 Section 2 Installation and Use Seasoft V2 requires approximately 90 MB of disk space during installation Ensure there is room on your hard drive before proceeding Sea Bird recommends the following minimum system requirements Windows 2000 or later 500 MHz processor and 256 MB RAM Installation Note Sea Bird supplies the current version of our software when you purchase an instrument As software revisions occur we post the revised software on our FTP site e You may not need the latest version Our revisions often include improvements and new features related to one instrument which may have little or no impact on your operation See our website www seabird com for the latest software version number a description of the software changes and instructions for d
171. iversal time code to data header appends NMEA data to every scan and writes NMEA data to nav file every time Ctrl F7 is pressed 1 Count JV NMEA position data added Tl NMEA depth data added NMEA device connected to deck unit J NMEA time added NMEA device connected to PC Select to have Seasave append time seconds since January 1 1970 GMT to each data scan Scan time added New to create new con or xmicon file for this CTD Open to select different Channel Sensor or Add to nav File is clicked 2 Frequency Conductivity i i f xmlicon file see Adding NMEA Data to con or xm _nav File in Section 8 Real 3 Count Pressure Strain Gauge Saye Save or Save As to save current con or Save As xmicon file settings Time Data and Real Time Control Real Time Data Acquisition Notes 1 NMEA time can only be Click a sensor and click Modify to appended if NMEA device connected to computer 2 NMEA depth can only be Reprt Help change calibration coefficients for that sensor appended if NMEA device connected to computer or if using SBE 49 with SBE 33 or 36 Deck Unit firmware gt 3 0 Opens a txt file for viewing only cannot be modified Click to exit dialog box If you made changes and did not Save or Save As Seasave asks if you want to save changes that shows all para
172. ke this Playback completed TOOMOT dat S Demoen NMEA Display Notes If your system includes a NMEA navigational device and NMEA has been e System Upload Time in the data selected in the instrument configuration con or xmlcon file NMEA Display file header is always the computer allows you to view the latitude longitude and time during data acquisition time and date regardless of and to select scans to be written to a nav file Each scan written to the nav file whether a NMEA navigation contains latitude longitude time scan number and pressure device is transmitting data The source of the date and time information in the NMEA Display and in the The Add to NAV File button in the output data file header varies depending on your NMEA navigational system NMEA Data dialog box is e NMEA data includes both time and date both the NMEA Display and inaccessible until you start saving the NMEA UTC Time in the output data file header show the NMEA date data to a file So if you did not and time eee oa gin e NMEA data includes time but not date the NMEA Display shows the archiving data when Start NMEA time and the date from the computer while the NMEA UTC Time Archiving command is sent and in the output data file header shows just the NMEA time did not yet send the Start e NMEA data does not include date or time both the NMEA Display Archiving command the Add to and the NMEA UTC Time in the output data file header contain
173. lation of variables for updating Select small Select to display medium or 2 columns of Select to display shortened n z display each display can have different update rate Faster A E T than 1 sec can be difficult to view Set to 0 for full rate data Delete Delete All Seconds between updates f4 large data variable names Font size I Twocolumns Short names l Nitrogen Saturation aj Shrink All Variable Name unit Digits Text Back pe Coen Saturation Conductivity 57m 7 Pe Spin Expand 4ll Temperature ITS 90 deg C 5 l Potential T emperature Shrink es l ae a 4 _ Potential Temperature Anomal k gq l Pressure Temperature Egpand Salinity PSU 5 Pressure Digiquartz Text color and background color p3 Number of behind text Pump Status digits to e Double click in Salinity PSU display to box to change Scan Count rignt of for that l Sound Velocity a variable Specific Conductance NS em e Double click on Specific Volume nomal 10 heading to iE change for all Temperature Double click in list variables ITS 30 to select variable deg C for each row Color dialog box appears select desired color and click OK When done click OK Viewing Seasave Fixed Display Shown below are example one column and two column Fixed Displays W Fixed Display 1 Conductivity S m Temperature
174. le Click Bottle Positions for Table Driven to input bottle positions Auto Fire Fire bottles automatically at user input pre defined pressures or depths can also fire some bottles manually on upcast Click Auto Fire Pressures amp Positions to input TestT C PEinlema soaker parameters see discussion below Note lae E Auto Fire on downcast is available with use of autofireondowncast command Set up and test tone emitted by computer running Seasave when each bottle line parameter See fire confirmation is received Tone is provided through Appendix I Command Line Operation e PC s internal speaker or e PC s sound card for transmission to external speakers or headphones Tone for bottle fire confirmation PC sound card Note If G O 1016 is selected there is an entry for Arm offset in the dialog box 65 7 21k Section 5 Configure Inputs Part Ill Serial Ports Water Sampler TCP IP Ports Miscellaneous amp Pump Control _Seasave V7 Auto Fire Note Auto fire can be set up to fire on If you select Auto Fire on the Water Sampler tab and click Auto Fire downcast instead of upcast with the Pressures amp Positions the Auto Fire Table Entry dialog box appears to define use of the autofireondowncast command line parameter See Appendix l Command Line Operation the closure order and closure pressures or depths Auto Fire Table Entry Upcast is en
175. le in Seasave when data acquisition is started A D offset 0 GPIB address 1 GPIB address must be 1 GPIB 1 to use Seasave if Computer interface is IEEE 488 GPIB in con or xmlcon file advance primary conductivity 0 073 seconds advance secondary conductivity 0 073 seconds autorun on power up is disabled 21 Manual revision 7 21k Section 3 Configure Inputs Part Instrument Configuration con or xmlcon file Seasave V7 Channel Sensor table reflects this for SVn n 0 1 2 3 or 4 see reply from DS Voltage channel 0 in con or xmicon file corresponds to sensor wired to channel 0 on end cap connector voltage channel 1 corresponds to sensor wired to channel 1 on end cap connector etc Time between scans Used to calculate elapsed time if you select time as a parameter for a display window Must agree with SBE 16 setup SI see reply from DS Select if using with deck unit connected to NMEA navigation device Seasave adds current latitude longitude and universal time code to data header appends NMEA data to every scan and writes NMEA data to nav file every time Ctrl F7 is pressed or Add to nav File is clicked see Adding NMEA Data to nav File in Section 8 Real Time Data and Real Time Control Real Time Data Acquisition Opens a txt file for viewing only cannot be modified that shows all parameters in con or xmlcon file choice Must agree with SBE 16 setup Configuration f
176. led Di Note To minimize column width Seasave uses abbreviations for the Scrolled Display headings For example Temperature ITS 90 deg C is abbreviated as t 90 C Adjust column width by placing mouse cursor over line and dragging Right click in the display to e Modify change setup Scrolled Display dialog box appears e Export Display Settings dsa file export setup to dsa file Save As dialog box appears e Print print display Printing dialog box appears Set up the print job as desired and click OK 91 Manual revision 7 21k Section 7 Display Setting Up Seasave Displays Seasave V7 Plot Display A Plot Display can e Plot up to 5 variables on one plot with a single X axis and up to four Y axes or a single Y axis and up to four X axes e Plot any variable on a linear or logarithmic scale logarithmic scale not applicable to TS plots For linear scale values can be increasing or decreasing with distance from the axis e Create contour plots generating density sigma t or sigma theta or thermosteric anomaly contours on temperature salinity TS plots e Send plots to a printer save plots to the clipboard for insertion in another program such as Microsoft Word or save plots as graphic files in bitmap metafile or JPEG format To set up a Plot Display e Click Display and select Add New Plot Display Window OR e Click Display and select Import Display Settings dsa file OR
177. lick Connect If the remote display is working properly the labels for the variables that you selected on the TCP IP Out tab in Configure Outputs should appear in the Remote Fixed Display as shown in the example below 2 Remote Fixed Display for Seasave J iol x Connect to Seasave Server address Connect Port Disconnect Scan Count Conductivity S m Temperature ITS 90 deg C Pressure Strain Gauge db Salinity PSU 3 In Seasave start real time data acquisition You should see data appear on the remote computer display as well as on the displays in Seasave 4 When you are done click Disconnect on the remote computer 139 Manual revision 7 21k Appendix VI Java Applications for Remote Display and Bottle Firing Seasave V7 Firing Bottles via TCP IP from a Remote Computer To fire bottles via TCP IP 1 In Seasave s Configure Inputs on the Water Sampler tab set up the water sampler and select Enable remote firing see Water Sampler in Section 5 Configure Inputs Part III Serial Ports Water Sampler TCP IP Ports Miscellaneous and Pump Control 2 In Seasave s Real Time Control menu select Fire Bottle Control The Bottle Fire dialog box appears you can leave this open throughout the cast Remote Fire Bottle Fire x Fired 0 Bottle Firing Sequence Client is not connected Disconnect 3 On the remote computer double click on FireBottle
178. ling Conductivity Calibration Coefficients Enter g h i j Ctcor or a b c d m and Cpcor from the calibration sheet e Cpcor makes a correction for the highly consistent change in dimensions of the conductivity cell under pressure The default is the compressibility coefficient for borosilicate glass 9 57e 08 Some sensors fabricated between 1992 and 1995 serial numbers between 1100 and 1500 exhibit a compression that is slightly less than pure borosilicate glass For these sensors the hermetic epoxy jacket on the glass cell is unintentionally strong creating a composite pressure effect of borosilicate and epoxy For sensors tested to date this composite pressure coefficient ranges from 9 57e 08 to 6 90e 08 with the latter value producing a correction to deep ocean salinity of 0 0057 PSU in 5000 dbars pressure approximately 0 001 PSU per 1000 dbars Before modifying Cpcor confirm that the sensor behaves differently from pure borosilicate glass Sea Bird can test your cell and calculate Cpcor Alternatively test the cell by comparing computed salinity to the salinity of water samples from a range of depths calculated using an AutoSal Enter values for slope default 1 0 and offset default 0 0 to make small corrections for conductivity sensor drift between calibrations Corrected conductivity slope computed conductivity offset where slope true conductivity span instrument conductivity span of
179. luorometer calibration date 95 Turner SCUFA fluorometer scale factor offset units mx my b 96 Turner SCUFA OBS serial number 97 Turner SCUFA OBS calibration date 98 Turner SCUFA OBS scale factor offset 99 WET Labs ECO AFL fluorometer serial number 200 WET Labs ECO AFL fluorometer calibration date 201 WET Labs ECO AFL fluorometer vblank scale factor 202 Userpoly 0 name 203 Userpoly 1 name 204 Userpoly 2 name 205 CAPSUM METS serial number 206 CAPSUM METS calibration date 207 CAPSUM METS D AO Al BO Bl B2 T1 T2 208 Secondary PAR sensor serial number 209 Secondary PAR sensor calibration date 210 Secondary PAR sensor cal const multiplier M B offset 211 Secondary WET Labs WETStar Fluorometer sensor serial number 212 Secondary WET Labs WETStar Fluorometer sensor calibration date 213 Secondary WET Labs WETStar Fluorometer Vblank scale factor 214 Secondary Seapoint Fluorometer sensor serial number 215 Secondary Seapoint Fluorometer sensor calibration date 216 Secondary Seapoint Fluorometer gain offset 217 Secondary Turner SCUFA Fluorometer sensor serial number 218 Secondary Turner SCUFA Fluorometer sensor calibration date 219 Secondary Turner SCUFA Fluorometer scale factor offset units mx my b 220 WET Labs WETStar CDOM sensor serial number 2251 WET Labs WETStar CDOM sensor calibration date 222 WET Labs WETStar CDOM Vblank scale factor 223 Seapoint Rhodamine Fluorometer sensor serial number 224 Seapoin
180. lus setup Serial RS 232C sensor Temperature SBE 16plus setup see reply from DS Channel Sensor Sampleinterval see reply table lists RS 232 sensors below voltage channels from DS Sample interval seconds fio P Shaded sensors cannot be removed or changed to Select if using with deck unit NMEA position data added another type of sensor All others are optional connected to NMEA navigation j device Seasave adds current Channel Sensor New latitude longitude and universal metodeita dale header 1 Count Temperature pen xmicon file for this CTD Dena Ma Ae EA Prk 2 Frequency Conductivity d Open to select different con scan and writes ata to z or xmlcon file nav file every time Ctrl F7 is 3 Count Pressure Strain Gauge Jave Save or Save As to save pressed or Add to nav File is current con or xmlcon file clicked see Adding NMEA Data A D voltage 0 Oxygen SBE 43 Save ds settings to nav File in Section 8 Real 5 A D voltage 1 pH Time Data and Real Time a aa anae i Control Real Time Data 6 Serial RS 232 Temperature SBE 38 Acquisition New to create new con or Select Click a non shaded sensor and click Select to pick a different sensor for that channel A dialog box with a list of sensors appears Select sensors after number of voltage channels have been specified above Report Help Click to exit dialog box If you made changes and did not S
181. m from turning on while set hysteresis 1 m which should be sufficient to enabled No setup is required CTD is on ship deck or as itis account for possible 0 5 m upward movement due entering water when altimeter to ship heave Alarm sounds at 10 m above sea is measuring distance to deck bottom and stays on until altimeter goes above or to top of water surface 11 m when it shuts off until it falls to 10 m again Alarm hysteresis meters Enter the desired values Click OK or click another tab in Configure Outputs Sea Surface Alarm on when pressure in this range Altimeter alarm not on regardless of altimeter reading Minimum___ __________________ pressure alarm sees ne Minimum pressure db to enable altimeter alarm Atimeter alarm hysteresis m altimeter alarm Maximum _ Altimeter alarm Stays on in this range after set point reached pressure alam4 set point m Alarm on when pressure in this range Altimeter alarm on when altimeter in this range Sea Bottom 82 Manual revision 7 21k Section 6 Configure Outputs Seasave V7 SBE 14 Remote Display Notes eSBE 14 setup in Seasave applies if SBE 14 is connected to a COM port If SBE 14 is connected to 11plus Deck Unit SBE 14 setup is done by sending commands to the 11p us in Seaterm eAltimeter alarm is available only if selected configuration con or xmicon file has a CTD with altimeter eBottom contact switch alarm SBE 9plus Always a
182. ma ipump 25 5 ma iextOl 76 2 ma iext2345 65 1 ma status not logging number of scans to average 1 Scans to average NAvg must match Scans to Average in con or xmlcon file samples 0 fr 4386532 casts 0 mode profile minimum cond freq 3000 pump delay 60 sec Mode MP for profile or MM for moored must match Mode in con or xmlcon file autorun no ignore magnetic switch no battery type ALKALINE battery cutoff 7 5 volts pressure sensor strain gauge range 1000 0 Pressure sensor PType must match Pressure sensor type in con or xmlcon file SBE 38 no WETLABS no OPTODE no SBE63 no Gas Tension Device no Selection enabling of RS 232 sensors SBE38 WetLabs Optode SBE63 GTD DualGTD must match Serial RS 232C sensor in con or xmlcon file Ext Volt 0 yes Ext Volt 1 yes Ext Volt 2 yes Ext Volt 3 yes Ext Volt 4 no Ext Volt 5 no Number of external voltage sensors enabled Volt0 through Volt5 must match External voltage channels in con or xmicon file echo characters yes output format raw Hex Output format must be set to raw Hex OutputFormat 0 to acquire data in Seasave 32 Manual revision 7 21k Section 3 Configure Inputs Part Instrument Configuration con or xmlcon file Seasave V7 Channel Sensor table reflects this choice Must agree with SBE 21 setup for SV x firmwa
183. mber of digits for data display and plot characteristics labels grids etc This information is saved in the program setup psa file In addition you can export the display setup to a display setup dsa file for use with another instrument or for another deployment Displays can be added and or reconfigured during data acquisition without interrupting data acquisition For example if you start a cast and realize that you forgot to select some desired variables in a display you can right click in the display to modify it select the desired variables and save the changes without interrupting data acquisition Once the desired changes are saved the display will show the additional variables of course any data that was acquired before you modified the display will not appear in the display Adding New Display Window 1 Click Display and select Add New Fixed Scrolled or Plot Display Window 2 The display dialog box appears The selections in the dialog box vary depending on the display type see Fixed Display Scrolled Display and Plot Display below Importing Display Window Note Seasave display setup dsa file defines the size placement and setup for a display window The information in the dsa file is also incorporated into the program setup psa file You can import and export dsa files allowing you to create the desired displays once and then reuse them later for other instruments deployment
184. meters in con or xmicon file Shown below is an example status DS response in Seaterm that corresponds to the setup shown in the Configuration dialog box above Shown below the appropriate lines are the commands used in Seaterm to modify the setup of parameters critical to use of the SBE 49 with Seasave as well as any explanatory information SBE 49 FastCAT V 1 2 SERIAL NO 0055 number of scans to average 1 Scans to average NAvg must match Scans to average in con or xmlcon file pressure sensor strain gauge range 1000 0 minimum cond freq 3000 pump delay 30 sec start sampling on power up yes output format raw HEX Output format must be set to raw Hex OutputFormat 0 to acquire data in Seasave temperature advance 0 0625 seconds celltm alpha 0 03 celltm tau 7 0 real time temperature and conductivity correction disabled 41 Manual revision 7 21k Section 4 Configure Inputs Part Il Calibration Coefficients Seasave V7 Section 4 Configure Inputs Part Il Calibration Coefficients This section describes the calculation and or source of the calibration Note coefficients for the configuration con or xmlcon file for each type of sensor Setup of all parameters in Configure supported by Sea Bird CTDs Seasave uses the sensor calibration coefficients Inputs including the name and to convert the raw data stream into engineering units for display during real locat
185. methods Time between each calculation of variables for updating display each display can have different update rate Faster than 1 sec can be difficult to Scrolled Display 1 Select small medium or large Font size Seconds between updates fi view Set to 0 for full rate data Delete Delete All Color Nitrogen Saturation a Shrink All Variable Name unit Digits Text Back Oxygen Saturation 1 Conductivity S m 7 i elastase fea T t ITS 90 deg C 5 Potential Temperature grep 2 sl ei me l sacl E Potential Temperature Anomal Eere 3 Pressure Digiquartz db 4 i I Pressure Temperature Expand 4 Soman PSU 5 Pressure Digiquartz z ap f Add amp Text color and psi ii Number of background color ee aia C Insert 3 digits to behind text l r Change 3 display to e Double click in box can Count 10 right of to change for that Sound Velocity u 11 decimal variable Specific Conductance uS 12 point Double click on Specific Volume Anomaly 10 Double click in list E heading to change F Temperature to select variable 1 for all variables ITS 30 for each row n Color dialog box degC of appears select desired color and click OK When done click OK Viewing Seasave Scrolled Display Shown below is an example Scrolled Display E Scrol
186. mlcon file path and name serial ports water sampler TCP IP input and output ports serial data output etc as well as size placement and setup for each display window The psa file can be selected and saved in Seasave s File menu Note that when you start Seasave it always opens to most recently used psa file Default location for Seasave psa files is USERPROFILE Application Data Sea Bird Seasave example c Documents and Settings dbresko Application Data Sea Bird Seasave Seasave psa Seasave ini contains a list of paths and file names for recently used psa files To view click File and select Recent Setup Files Seasave ini is in USERPROFILE Local Settings Apps Sea Bird example c Documents and Settings dbresko Local Settings Apps Sea Bird Seasave ini e Seasave Remote program setup file comparable to Seasave program setup file described above Default location for Seasave Remote psa files is USERPROFILE Application Data Sea Bird SeasaveRem example c Documents and Settings dbresko Application Data Sea Bird SeasaveRem SeasaveRem psa SeasaveRem ini contains a list of paths and file names for recently used psa files To view click File and select Recent Setup Files SeasaveRem ini is in USERPROFILE Local Settings Apps Sea Bird example c Documents and Settings dbresko Local Settings Apps Sea Bird SeasaveRem ini xml Sensor calibration coefficient file This file can be exported and or import
187. mperatureSensor gt lt Sensor gt lt Sensor index 1 SensorID 3 gt lt ConductivitySensor SensorID 3 gt lt SerialNumber gt 4216 lt SerialNumber gt lt CalibrationDate gt 21 May 02 lt CalibrationDate gt ee conductivity calibration coefficients lt ConductivitySensor gt lt Sensor gt lt Sensor index 2 SensorID 46 gt lt PressureSensor SensorID 46 gt lt SerialNumber gt 4216 lt SerialNumber gt lt CalibrationDate gt 08 Apr 02 lt CalibrationDate gt iow pressure calibration coefficients lt PressureSensor gt lt Sensor gt lt Sensor index 3 SensorID 38 gt lt OxygenSensor SensorID 38 gt lt SerialNumber gt 0274 lt SerialNumber gt lt CalibrationDate gt 5 22 02 lt CalibrationDate gt bees oxygen calibration coefficients lt CalibrationCoefficients gt lt OxygenSensor gt lt Sensor gt lt Sensor index 4 SensorID 43 gt lt pH_Sensor SensorID 43 gt lt SerialNumber gt 0403 lt SerialNumber gt lt CalibrationDate gt 4 12 02 lt CalibrationDate gt ies pH calibration coefficients lt pH_Sensor gt lt Sensor gt lt Sensor index 5 SensorID 33 gt lt OBS_SeapointTurbiditySensor SensorID 33 gt lt SerialNumber gt 1955 lt SerialNumber gt lt CalibrationDate gt 5 30 02 lt CalibrationDate gt turbidity calibration coefficients lt OBS_SeapointTurbiditySensor gt lt Sensor gt lt Sensor index 6 SensorID 21 gt lt FluoroWetlabWetstarSensor SensorID
188. n use Derive to obtain the most accurate values Note Enter the window size seconds for calculation of descent rate and acceleration on the Miscellaneous tab in Configure Inputs Corrected Irradiance CPAR 100 ratio multiplier underwater PAR surface PAR Ratio multiplier scaling factor used for comparing light fields of disparate intensity input in con or xmlcon file entry for surface PAR sensor Underwater PAR underwater PAR data Surface PAR surface PAR data 134 Manual revision 7 21k Appendix V Seasave Remote for Remote Display and Bottle Firin Seasave V7 Appendix V Seasave Remote for Remote Display and Bottle Firing Software on the remote computer is required to view data output via TCP IP or to a shared file and to fire bottles remotely Seasave Remote can perform those functions and has many of the same display and plotting capabilities as Notes e Seasave Remote can only display variables that are transmitted by Seasave it cannot calculate derived variables based on the transmitted variables As an alternative to Seasave Remote Sea Bird also provides sample Java applications that can be used as is or can be modified by a Java programmer however Seasave Remote is a more full featured program For information on the Java applications see Appendix VI Java Applications for Remote Display and Bottle Firing Seasave Data transmitted via TCP IP must be converted data in XML forma
189. n JASA 1960 32 1357 s salinity t temperature deg C ITPS 68 p pressure in decibars double pr sd a vO vl sv pr 0 1019716 p 10 1325 sd s 35 0 a 7 985le 6 t 2 6045e 4 t 4 4532e 2 t 4 5721 t 1449 14 sv 7 771le 7 t 1 1244e 2 t 1 39799 vO 1 69202e 3 sd sv sd a a 4 5283e 8 t 7 4812e 6 t 1 8607e 4 t 0 16072 sv 1 579e 9 t 3 158e 8 t 7 7016e 5 vl sv sd a a 1 8563e 9 t 2 5294e 7 t 1 0268e 5 sv 1 2943e 7 sd a a 1 9646e 10 t 3 5216e 9 3 3603e 12 pr a pr sv pr vl pr vO return sv 128 Manual revision 7 21k Appendix IV Derived Parameter Formulas Seasave V7 PP di Apsp min average sound velocity ________ m s PP d i lv i App min Average sound velocity is the harmonic mean average from the surface to the current CTD depth and is calculated on the downcast only The first window begins when pressure is greater than a minimum specified pressure and salinity is greater than a minimum specified salinity Depth is calculated from pressure based on user input latitude on the Miscellaneous tab in Configure Inputs regardless of whether latitude data from a NMEA navigation device is in the data file e In Seasave and in SBE Data Processing s Data Conversion module the algorithm also requires user input of a pressure window size and time window size It then
190. n below for a pH sensor Note ph ti lt ai t tl Sa epee seinn FJ a camain Calibration aane Slope foo Offset jooo Import Export ILo Cancel Enter the desired values and click OK gt To change a sensor s calibration coefficients In the Configuration dialog box click a sensor and click Modify to change the calibration coefficients for that sensor or right click on the sensor and select Modify Calibration or double click on the sensor The Calibration Coefficients dialog box appears example shown above See Section 4 Configure Inputs Part II Calibration Coefficients for calculation of coefficients 19 Manual revision 7 21k Section 3 Configure Inputs Part Instrument Configuration con or xmlcon file Seasave V7 Channel Sensor table reflects this choice Typically e 0 SBE 3 or 4 plugged into JB5 on plus dual redundant sensor configuration 1 SBE 3 or 4 plugged into JB4 on 9plus and not using JB5 single redundant sensor configuration e 2 no redundant T or C sensors 11plus gt 5 0 Seasave sends AddSpar command to Deck Unit consistent with configuration file selection for Surface PAR 11plus lt 5 0 Surface PAR acquisition is set in Deck Unit with dip switch 17plus Real time data acquisition not available only playback of archived data None Not using 11p us or 17plus see nodeck unit in Appendix I Command Line Operation e NMEA Select if NMEA nav
191. nal in regions of large oxygen gradients However this term also amplifies residual noise in the signal especially in deep water and in some situations this negative consequence overshadows the gains in signal responsiveness To perform this correction select Apply Tau correction on Configure Inputs Miscellaneous tab in Seasave If the Tau correction is enabled oxygen computed by Seasave and SBE Data Processing s Data Conversion module differ from values computed by SBE Data Processing s Derive module Both algorithms compute the derivative of the oxygen signal with respect to time and require a user input window size gt Quick estimate Seasave and Data Conversion compute the derivative looking back in time because they share common code and Seasave cannot use future values while acquiring real time data gt Most accurate results Derive uses a centered window equal number of points before and after scan to compute the derivative The window size is input on Configure Inputs Miscellaneous tab in Seasave A hysteresis correction can be applied for the SBE 43 To perform this correction select Apply hysteresis correction on Configure Inputs Miscellaneous tab in Seasave H1 H2 and H3 coefficients for hysteresis correction entered in the con or xmicon file are available on calibration sheets for SBE 43s calibrated after October 2008 Raw oxygen voltage data saved in the output hex file is not corre
192. number of decimal places to right of decimal point for each variable and click OK Sequential mark number system time and all selected variables are written to Hassel Select Variables mrk file each time Mark Scan is clicked during data acquisition Report Help OK Cancel Make the desired selections Click OK or click another tab in Configure Outputs To set up a plot display to show mark lines lines can be labeled with the sequential mark number and or pressure Right click in the desired plot window In the Plot Display dialog box select Show Mark Lines Change other settings as desired and click OK see Plot Display in Section 7 Display Setting Up Seasave Displays See Marking Scans in Section 8 Real Time Data and Real Time Control Real Time Data Acquisition to mark the scans during data acquisition 77 Manual revision 7 21k Section 6 Configure Outputs Seasave V7 TCP IP Out TCP IP is Transmission Control Protocol Internet Protocol a communication protocol used to connect hosts on the internet and or over networks TCP IP allows you to connect a CTD to a computer on deck while receiving data and firing bottles at a remote location elsewhere on the ship TCP IP also allows multiple applications running on the same computer to communicate Seasave can output raw and converted data through separate TCP IP ports To enable and set up TCP IP output click Configure Outputs In the Configure Outpu
193. oefficients for that sensor Altimeter 2 channels to Channel Sensor table Do not increase External voltage channels to reflect this External voltage channels reflects only external voltages going directly to 19p us from auxiliary sensor See Application Note 47 Scan time added Select to have Seasave append time seconds since January 1 1970 GMT to each data scan Cancel Opens a txt file for viewing only Click to exit dialog box If you made changes cannot be modified that shows all and did not Save or Save As Seasave asks if parameters in con or xmlcon file you want to save changes 29 Section 3 Configure Inputs Part Instrument Configuration con or xmlcon file Seasave V7 Manual revision 7 21k Shown below is an example status DS response in Seaterm that corresponds to the setup shown in the Configuration dialog box above Shown below the appropriate lines are the commands used in Seaterm to modify the setup of parameters critical to use of the instrument with Seasave as well as any explanatory information SeacatPlus V 1 5 SERIAL NO 4000 22 May 2005 14 02 13 vbatt 9 6 vlith 8 6 ioper 61 2 ma ipump 25 5 ma iext01 76 2 ma iext23 65 1 ma status not logging number of scans to average 1 Scans to average NAvg must match Scans to Average in con or xmlcon file samples 0 fr 381300 casts 0 mode profile minimum cond freq 3000
194. og box If you Interface Box can append optional SBE 38 and NMEA data to made changes and did not SBE 45 data stream Save or Save As Seasave SBE 38 temperature added Select if 90402 SBE 45 asks if you want to save Interface Box is connected to SBE 38 remote temperature changes sensor Interface Box appends SBE 38 data to data stream Seasave and Data Conversion and Derive in SBE Data Processing uses remote temperature data when calculating density and sound velocity NMEA data added Select if 90402 SBE 45 Interface Box is connected to NMEA navigation device Seasave adds current latitude longitude and universal time code to data header appends NMEA data to every scan and writes NMEA data to nav file every time Ctrl F7 is pressed or Add to nav File is clicked see Adding NMEA Data to nav File in Section 8 Real Time Data and Real Time Control Real Time Data Acquisition Shown below is an example status DS response in Seaterm that corresponds to the setup shown in the Configuration dialog box above Shown below the appropriate lines are the commands used in Seaterm to modify the setup of parameters critical to use of the SBE 45 with Seasave as well as any explanatory information SBE45 V 1 1 SERIAL NO 1258 logging data sample interval 1 seconds Sample interval Interval must match Sample interval seconds in con or xmicon file output conductivity with each sample Enabling of con
195. oltage 1 Fluorometer Chelsea Aqua if NMEA device connected to computer 6 SPAR voltage Unavailable 2 NMEA depth can only be 3 CDAD oaa na appended if RME Ad a 7 SPAR voltage SPAR Surface Inadiance connected to computer or if using SBE 25 with SBE 33 or 36 Deck Unit firmware gt 3 0 or PN 90488 or 90545 Interface Box Surface PAR Select if using with Click a sensor and click Modify to change calibration coefficients for that sensor Click a non shaded sensor and click Select to pick a different sensor for that channel A dialog box with a list of sensors appears Select sensors after number of voltage deck unit connected to Surface PAR channels have been specified above sensor Seasave appends Surface PAR data to every scan Adds 2 channels to Channel Sensor table Do not increase External voltage gt channels to reflect this External Report Help Exit Cancel voltage channels reflects only external voltages going directly to SBE 25 from auxiliary sensor See Application Note 47 Scan time Select to have Seasave append time seconds since January 1 1970 GMT to each data scan Opens a txt file for viewing only Click to exit dialog box If you cannot be modified that shows all made changes and did not Save parameters in con or xmicon file or Save As Seasave asks if you want to save changes 35 Section 3 Configure Inputs Part Instrument Configuration con or
196. omputer to display data transmitted via TCP IP FireBottles jar allows you to fire bottles from a remote computer You can use the provided sample applications or modify them as desired See Appendix VI Java Applications for Remote Display and Bottle Firing 80 Manual revision 7 21k Section 6 Configure Outputs Seasave V7 TCP IP Ports TCP IP is Transmission Control Protocol Internet Protocol a communication protocol used to connect hosts on the internet and or over networks TCP IP allows you to connect your CTD to a computer on deck while receiving data and firing bottles at a remote location elsewhere on the ship TCP IP ports can be defined in Configure Inputs or Configure Outputs if you make changes in one dialog box those changes will appear when you open the other dialog box Click Configure Outputs In the Configure Outputs dialog box click the TCP IP Ports tab Configure Outputs C Documents and Settings dbresko SEABIRD A pplication Da x SBE 11plus Alarms SBE 14 Remote Display PC Alarms Header Form Diagnostics Serial Data Out SerialPorts Shared File Out Mark Variables TCP IP Out Define TCP IP ports to use for remote bottle firing e Receive commands to fire bottles from another application on same computer or from another computer through defined port e Send status response bottle fire confirmations to another application on same computer or to another computer through defined port
197. on in any of these forms to assist you in processing water bottle data To enable and set up the water sampler click Configure Inputs In the Configure Inputs dialog box click the Water Sampler tab Make the desired selections Click OK or click another tab in Configure Inputs SBE ECO OEE 50 CO 1016 or 1015 LORE C Documents and SettingsdbreskoMApplication DatalSea Bir X Hydro Bios IOW or None Define serial port for water sampler operation on Serial Ports tab Note Hydro Bios and IOS for custom applications only strument Configuration Serial Ports Water Sampler TCPAP Ports Miscellaneous Pump Contral Water sampler type SBE Carousel vY Select the serial port for water sampler operation on the Serial Ports tab Total number of bottles to be closed up to 36 depending on water sampler capacity Sequential When commanded to fire bottles are fired in order of position bottle in position 1 fired first bottle in position Number of Water Bottles H 2 fired second etc User Input When commanded to fire Firing sequence Sequential Seasave prompts you to select which bottle to fire iri i i Enable remote firing Control bottle firing from a remote computer through TCP IP Table Driven When commanded to fire ports instead of as defined by Firing Sequence Select ports bottles are fired in order pre defined by on TCP IP Ports tab See discussion below user input tab
198. on dialog box for each instrument 17 Manual revision 7 21k Section 3 Configure Inputs Part Instrument Configuration con or xmicon file Seasave V7 Viewing Modifying or Creating con or xmlcon File 1 To create a new con or xmlicon file Click Configure Inputs In the Configure Inputs dialog box click the Instrument Configuration tab Click Create In the Select an Instrument dialog box select the desired instrument and click OK Go to Step 3 2 To select and view or modify an existing con or xmlcon file Click Configure Inputs In the Configure Inputs dialog box click the Instrument Configuration tab Click Open In the Select Instrument Configuration File dialog box browse to the desired file and click Open The configuration information appears on the Instrument Configuration tab An example is shown for the SBE 9plus Configure Inputs C Documents and Settings dbresko SEABIRD A pplication Data 3 Instrument Configuration Serial Ports Water Sampler TCP IP Ports Miscellaneous Pump Control Open Create Modify plustest xmicon Instrument type 911plus 917plus CTD This screen Frequency channels suppressed 2 provides an Voltage words suppressed 2 Deck unit or SEARAM SBE11plus Firmware Version gt 5 0 easy way to Computer interface RS 232C view Scans to average 1 configuration NMEA position data added Yes but selections NMEA depth data added No cannot be
199. on file to verify that the scan length defined by can select Configure Outputs and the con or xmlcon file matches the instrument i e number of sensors make and save the desired changes i f without interrupting data acquisition inclusion of NMEA and or Surface PAR is as defined in the con or Once the changes are saved serial xmlcon file If a Scan length error appears verify that data will output to the desired COM e You are using the correct con or xmlcon file port e The con or xmlcon file has been updated as necessary if you gt Similarly if you forgot to select some added or deleted sensors added or deleted NMEA or Surface PAR variables fora display you can right inputs etc click in the display to modify it select E A message similar to one of the following appears the desired variables and save the changes without interrupting data acquisition Once the changes are saved the display will show the additional variables Of course any data that was acquired before you modified the setup will not be output displayed message dependent on the instrument For an instrument that is started by movement of a switch such as SBE 19 19plus 19plus V2 25 or 25plus Tum on the SBE19 using the magnetic switch Seconds 55 Seasave allows Timeout in seconds at startup after you click Start for you to turn on the CTD switch Seasave will time out if data is not received from the instrument wit
200. on with a batch file script to create new data files on a defined schedule for continuous acquisition systems such as a thermosalinograph or a towed vehicle See example in Running Seasave with Autostop Parameter below List continued on next page 115 Manual revision 7 21k Appendix Command Line Operation Seasave V7 ignorenmeachecksum Ignore checksum from a NMEA device cabled directly to computer not cabled to a Sea Bird deck unit or interface box This allows data to still be acquired by Seasave even if your NMEA device incorrectly calculates checksum when this parameter is not specified Seasave will give an error message and will not acquire data if checksum is incorrect nodeckunit 9plus only Provides smoother operation for a 9plus CTD used without an 11plus Deck Unit Note If specifying multiple parameters insert a space between each parameter in the list Running Seasave with Command Line Parameters general instructions Notes e If the path includes any spaces To run Seasave with a Command Line Parameter enclose the path in quotes path See the examples 1 In the Windows Start menu select Run The Run dialog box appears e An alternative method of running Enter the command line parameter s as shown below Seasave with a Command Line Parameter is from a command Path seasave exe parameter parameter2 prompt where Path is the location of seasave exe on your computer
201. onductivity S m T temperature deg C ITPS 68 P pressure in decibars double R RT RP temp suml sum2 result val IG Ay if C lt 0 0 result 0 0 else C 10 0 convert Siemens meter to mmhos cm TE Ph BrE R EBE PIR Te Al P A2 P A3 val Ch a a K S a CB e N E O S Ye temp pow RT double i 2 0 suml a i temp sum2 b i temp val 1 0 0 0162 T 15 0 if val result suml sum2 T 15 0 val else result SOO as return result 127 Manual revision 7 21k Appendix IV Derived Parameter Formulas Seasave V7 sound velocity m sec sound velocity can be calculated as Chen Millero DelGrosso or Wilson Sound velocity calculation C Computer Code Sound Velocity Chen and Millero double SndVelC double s double t double p0 sound velocity Chen and Millero 1977 JASA 62 1129 1135 s salinity t temperature deg C ITPS 68 p pressure in decibars double a a0 al a2 a3 double b b0 bl double C0 Cly G2 c3 double p sr d sv p pO 10 0 scale pressure to bars if s lt 0 0 s 0 0 sr sqrt s d 1 727e 3 7 9836e 6 p bl 7 3637e 5 1 7945e 7 t b0 1 922e 2 4 42e 5 t b b0 bl p a3 3 389e 13 t 6 649e 12 t 1 100e 10 a2 t 1 6002e 10 t 9 1041e 9 t 3 9064e 7 al 0122e 10 t 1 0507e 8 t 6 4885e 8 t 1 2580e 5 t 9 4742e 5 a0
202. or the SBE 16 Seacat CTD SBE 16 Seacat C T Recorder Configuration Strain gauge Digiquartz with or without temperature compensation or no pressure sensor If no pressure sensor or Digiquartz without Temp Comp is selected eu Data button accesses dialog box to input additional Configuration file opened None parameter s needed to process data Pressure sensor type No Pressure Sensor See reply from DS Used to determine strain gauge External voltage channels 2 pressure sensor data format Firmware version Versiond lt 4 0 Select to have Seasave append time seconds since January 1 1970 GMT to each data scan Sample interval seconds P 15 Shaded sensors cannot be removed T 7 or changed to another type of J NMEA position data added Scan time added sensor All others are optional Channel Sensor New to create new con 1 Frequency Temperature or xmlcon file for this Conductivit SID 2 Frequency n Open to select different 3 A D voltage 0 User Polynomial Save con or xmlcon file Save or Save As to 4 A D voltage 1 P R lradiance Biospherical Licor Se eiren Conor xmlicon file settings Click a non shaded sensor and click Select to pick a _ different sensor for that channel A dialog box with a Select F list of sensors appears Select sensors after number Click a sensor and click of voltage channels have been specified above Modify to change calibration coefficients
203. ostics in Section 6 Configure Outputs Notes e The program setup psa file contains all information entered in Configure Inputs and Configure Outputs instrument con or xmlcon file path and name CTD serial port water sampler TCP IP input and output ports serial data output etc as well as size placement and setup for each display window e The configuration con or xmlcon file defines the instrument sensors sensor channels calibration coefficients etc Seasave uses this information to convert the raw data stream into engineering units for display during real time data acquisition Sea Bird supplies a con or xmicon file with each instrument The con or xmicon file must match the existing instrument configuration and contain current sensor calibration information A display setup dsa file defines the size placement and setup for a display window The information in the dsa file is also incorporated into the program setup psa file You can import and export dsa files allowing you to create the desired displays once and then reuse them later for other instruments deployments Even if you do not export the display setup to a separate dsa file the changes in the display are incorporated in the psa file the next time you save the psa file See Section 7 Display Setting Up Seasave Displays Section 2 Installation and Use Seasave V7 Tools gt Convert shared file output xml file to sp
204. otes on Viewing Shared File in XML Format If you select XML format for the output shared file the resulting xml file cannot be opened with a web browser such as Internet Explorer 7 or FireFox For example if you try to open the xml file with Internet Explorer 7 the error message looks like this Only one top level element is allowed in an XML document Error processing resource The output contains a top level tag for the settings and a top level tag for each scan of data making it incompatible with these browsers The xml file can be viewed using any of the following e Microsoft Notepad e Symbol Click XML Marker e Seasave Remote see Remote Display above Notes on Converting Shared File in XML Format to Format Compatible with Spreadsheet Software After data acquisition is complete you can convert an output xml file to a tab delimited txt format that can be opened in Microsoft Excel To convert the file 1 Inthe Tools menu select Convert shared file output xml file to spreadsheet format 2 A dialog box appears Browse to the desired xml input file and select the path and file name for the output txt file and then click the Convert button 3 The resulting txt file can be opened in Excel 76 Manual revision 7 21k Section 6 Configure Outputs Seasave V7 Mark Variables Note The mrk file has the same path and file name as the data file For example if the data file is test1 hex the mrk file i
205. other always test the setup with the computer you will be using at sea to ensure proper operation Output data to serial port defined on Serial Ports tab in ASCII format Rate at which data for selected variables is sent to COM port Time between updates interacts with instrument s data output baud rate number of output variables selected and whether transmitting ASCII or XML data output format affects number of characters that must be transmitted for each variable Seasave will not work properly if data is presented to COM port faster than COM port can transmit it at selected baud rate For full rate data set to 0 Configure Outputs C Program Files Sea Bird Seasave 7 Seasave psa x SBE 11plus Alarms SBE 14 Remote Display PC Alarms Header Form Diagnostics Serial Data Out Serial Ports Shared File Out Mark Variables TCPAP Out TCP IP Ports serial port on your computer For converted data Seasave applies calibration coefficients to the raw data to calculate converted data in engineering units To enable and set up serial data output click Configure Outputs In the Configure Outputs dialog box click the Serial Data Out tab Select the serial port for serial data output on the Serial Ports tab Output data to serial port If selected data is output in XML format instead of ASCII format I XML format Seconds between updates 9 900 Variable Name unit D
206. ownloading the software from the FTP site 1 Ifnot already installed install Seasave and other Sea Bird software programs on your computer using the supplied software CD A Insert the CD in your CD drive B Double click on SeasoftV2_date exe where date is the date the software release was created C Follow the dialog box directions to install the software The default location for the software is c Program Files Sea Bird Within that folder is a sub directory for each program The installation program allows you to install the desired components Install all the components or just install Seasave Manual revision 7 21k Section 2 Installation and Use Seasave V7 Seasave Use Notes Seasave Window e When you start Seasave you may get a message stating that Windows Firewall has blocked some features of this program to e Double click on seasave exe _ protect your computer if TCP IP default location c Program Files Sea Bird SeasaveV7 or output is enabled in the program e Left click on Start and follow the path Programs Sea Bird SeasaveV7 setup psa file Click Unblock to permanently unblock the TCP IP features of Seasave Seasave can be run from the command line See Appendix l Command Line Operation To start Seasave Seasave s main window looks like this EEE Seasave SBE 91 Iplus 917plus CTD C Documents and Settings dbresko My Documents Testing Seasave asa Payback completed T00MOT dat
207. pen throughout the cast Remote Fire Bottle Fire x Fired 0 Bottle Firing Sequence Client is not connected 135 Manual revision 7 21k Appendix V Seasave Remote for Remote Display and Bottle Firin Seasave V7 4 On the remote computer double click on SeasaveRem exe Seasave Remote has menus a Status bar and fixed scrolled and or plot displays as well as a bottle fire control window Wickes Bo eet J tires Wing iequerce 1 2 3 Nios bette fi Dismet FreBetle j He Bottle fire IScrolled control Display 46 gt 24 aly on ee 5 In Seasave Remote click the TCP IP Ports menu the TCP IP Ports Note dialog box appears Define the address of the computer running Seasave To get the Server address and the ports used for transmitting data if transmitting data via TCP IP instructions are for Windows XP and for remote bottle firing commands and status the ports must match the 1 On the computer that is running ports defined on Seasave s TCP IP Ports tab in Configure Inputs or click Start gt Control Configure Outputs anel Double click Network Connections 6 gt Double click Local Arca Network In Seasave Remote s Data menu select Data Source the Data Source Connection Click the Support tab dialog box appears Select the Data Source for the displays TCP IP or to see the computer s IP address Shared File If you select Shared File browse to the path and file
208. ply from DS Firmware version Versiond 2 0 e NMEA Select if NMEA navigation eal time data output rate fi scan sec device used and select whether device is connected directly to Deck fee Unit or to computer if connected to v NMEA position data added E NMEA depth data added computer define serial port and i 7 baud rate on Configure Inputs Serial NMEA device connected to deck unit 7 NKEA time added Ports tab You can also append NMEA depth data 3 bytes and C NMEA device connected to PC NMEA time data 4 bytes after Lat Lon data Seasave adds current latitude longitude and universal IV Surface PAR voltage added I Scan time added time code to data header appends NMEA data to every scan and writes NMEA data to nav file every Channel Sen Sh ded New New to create new i i 3 xmicon file for time Ctrl F7 is pressed or Add to Temperature sect ARR eee nav File is clicked see Adding 1 Frequency Temp i cannot be Open nis CTD NMEA Data to nav File in Section 8 2 Frequency Conductivity aaar e Open to Select Real Time Data and Real Time Fa ET changed to fa different all Control Real Time Data 3 Pressure voltage Pressure Strain Gauge another type of Save xmlcon file Acouisition am taMmsstulMsi sensor All others Save or Save As to ASER 4 A D voltage 0 Oxygen SBE 43 are optional Save is Save current con or xmicon file settings 1 NMEA time can only be appended 5 A D v
209. pressure sensor 7 serial number 46 FGP pressure sensor 7 calibration date 47 FGP pressure sensor 7 scale factor offset 48 Primary OBS Nephelometer Seapoint turbidity meter sensor serial number 49 Primary OBS Nephelometer Seapoint turbidity meter sensor calibration date 50 Primary OBS Nephelometer Seapoint turbidity meter gain scale 51 Secondary OBS Nephelometer Seapoint turbidity meter sensor serial number 52 Secondary OBS Nephelometer Seapoint turbidity meter sensor calibration date 53 Secondary OBS Nephelometer Seapoint turbidity meter gain scale 54 Fluorometer Dr Haardt Yellow Substance sensor serial number 55 Fluorometer Dr Haardt Yellow Substance sensor calibration date 56 Fluorometer Dr Haardt Yellow Substance AO Al BO Bl which modulo bit gain range switching By Fluorometer Chelsea Minitraka serial number 58 Fluorometer Chelsea Minitraka calibration date 59 Fluorometer Chelsea Minitraka vacetone vacetonel00 offset 60 Seapoint fluorometer serial number 61 Seapoint fluorometer calibration date 62 Seapoint fluorometer gain offset 63 Primary Oxygen SBE 43 serial number 64 Primary Oxygen SBE 43 calibration date 65 Primary Oxygen SBE 43 Soc Tcor offset 120 Manual revision 7 21k Appendix Il Configure con or xmlcon File Format Seasave V7
210. proximately sounding of alarm caused by ship heave Alarm set point meters 20 db to prevent alarm from turning See drawing below on while CTD is on ship deck or as it Example You want alarm to turn on at 10 is entering water when altimeter is m set set point 10 m There is a 0 5 m Minimum pressure to enable alarm decibars measuring distance to deck or to top swell set hysteresis 1m which should of water surface be sufficient to account for possible 0 5 m E upward movement due to ship heave V Enable bottom contact switch alam Enable bottom contact switch alarm in PC Alarm sounds at 10 m above sea bottom and stays on until altimeter goes above 11 m when it shuts off until it falls to 10 m again Tone for alarms TestAam C PCintemal speaker PC sound card Set up and test alarm tone emitted by computer running Seasave Tone is provided through PC s internal speaker or PC s sound card for transmission to external speakers or headphones Sound alarm when pressure is greater than decibars 1000 gt Alarm hysteresis meters For a visual alarm see Alarms in Section 7 Display Setting Up Seasave Displays Report Help OK Cancel Make the desired selections Click OK or click another tab in Configure Outputs Sea Surface Alarm on when pressure in this range F P 9 Altimeter alarm not on regardless of altimeter reading Minimum___ _______________
211. pth meters to determine bottle firing Fire bottles on upcast when pressure db is less than 300 000000 Depth type Enable mixed mode allowing Salt water or Fresh water used to calculate depth from manual firing of some bottles with measured pressure if depth in meters is selected auto firing of other bottles Allow manual firing e For salt water algorithm estimates local gravity from latitude It uses latitude from NMEA navigation device if NMEA is Bottle enabled in con or xmicon file If your system does not have NMEA enter desired latitude on Miscellaneous tab in Configure Inputs For fresh water algorithm ignores gravity variation with latitude because fresh water applications are usually shallow and effect of gravity variation is insignificant Pressure Position Bottles with pressure or depth greater than 10 500 for example bottle 1 is set to fire at 15 000 or less than 0 for example bottle 12 is set to fire at 50 will not be fired automatically ensuring user manual firing of those bottles Also bottles with pressure or depth greater than Fire bottles on upcast when pressure or depth is less than for example 900 db will not be fired automatically Other bottles can also be fired manually but only if user fires them before water sampler reaches specified pressure or depth b TE 5000 Bottles may be closed in any order desired Enter pressures depths in any order wh
212. puters running Windows 98 2000 and NT If the file Sea Bird s strong editing is not performed using this technique SBE Data Processing may recommendation as described A f A reject the edited data file and give you an error message above is to always convert the raw data file and then edit the converted file 1 Make a back up copy of your hex data file before you begin 2 Run WordPad 3 Inthe File menu select Open The Open dialog box appears For Files of type select All Documents Browse to the desired hex data file and click Open 4 Edit the file as desired inserting any new header lines after the System Upload Time line Note that all header lines must begin with an asterisk and END indicates the end of the header An example is shown below with the added lines in bold Sea Bird SBE 21 Data File FileName C Odis SAT2 ODIS oct14 19 ocl15 99 hex Software Version Seasave Win32 v1 10 Temperature SN 2366 Conductivity SN 2366 System UpLoad Time Oct 15 1999 10 57 19 Testing adding header lines Must start with an asterisk Place anywhere between System Upload Time amp END of header NMEA Latitude 30 59 70 N NMEA Longitude 081 37 93 W NMEA UTC Time Oct 15 1999 10 57 19 Store Lat Lon Data Append to Every Scan and Append HF F 4 HF HF OF to NAV File When lt Ctrl F7 gt is Pressed Ship Sea Bird xx Cruise Sea Bird Header
213. r Java is a product of Sun Microsystems The versions cited above can be downloaded for free from http java sun com javase downloads index jsp Remote Display Note To get the Server address instructions are for Windows XP 1 On the computer that is running Seasave click Start gt Control Panel Double click Network Connections Double click Local Area Network Connection Click the Support tab to see the computer s IP address this is the address to enter as the Server address in the Seasave Remote Fixed Display window To set up a remote display for converted data in XML format transmitted from Seasave via TCP IP 1 In Seasave s Configure Outputs on the TCP IP Out tab select Output converted data to socket using TCP IP and select XML format Click Select Variables pick the desired variables for viewing remotely and click OK Click OK to exit the Configure Outputs dialog box 2 On the remote computer double click on FixedDisplay jar The dialog box looks like this Remote Fixed Display for Seasave Connect to Seasave Connect 18 x Server address 127 0 0 1 Port ore A Set Server address to the address of the computer running Seasave B Set Port to match the Send converted data port on the TCP IP Ports tab in Configure Inputs or Configure Outputs in Seasave 138 Manual revision 7 21k Appendix VI Java Applications for Remote Display and Bottle Firin Seasave V7 C C
214. r 500 MHz processor 256 MB RAM and 90 MB free disk space for installation Instruments Supported Seasave supports the following Sea Bird instruments SBE 91 1plus and 917plus CTD system SBE 16 Seacat C T optional pressure Recorder SBE 16plus Seacat C T optional pressure Recorder SBE 16plus V2 Seacat C T optional pressure Recorder SBE 19 Seacat Profiler SBE 19plus Seacat Profiler SBE 19plus V2 Seacat Profiler SBE 21 Seacat Thermosalinograph SBE 25 Sealogger CTD SBE 25plus Sealogger CTD SBE 45 MicroTSG Thermosalinograph SBE 49 FastCAT CTD Sensor Additionally Seasave supports many other sensors instruments interfacing with the instruments listed above including Sea Bird oxygen pH and ORP sensors SBE 32 Carousel Water Sampler SBE 55 ECO Water Sampler and assorted equipment from third party manufacturers Differences from Seasave Win32 Seasave was previously available as Seasave Win32 Seasave V7 is an entirely new version of Seasave Following are the improvements and changes 1 More robust data acquisition and increased stability with a new architecture for data acquisition Seasave V7 is actually two applications Seasave exe automatically launches SeasaveAcq exe when data acquisition is commanded to start Both programs run simultaneously on the same computer 2 Easier to use and more intuitive user interface 3 Support for transmission of data to a remote computer over TCP IP and remote bottle f
215. r this type of application e Use the autostart parameter to automatically restart Seasave after each time it shuts down e Use the u parameter to create a unique output hex file name based on current date and time for each time that Seasave restarts e Use MS DOS w parameter to wait until Seasave completely closes before starting it again Note these additional requirements when using a batch file to run Seasave with Autostop e You must use the forward slash instead of the dash in front of each parameter in the batch file for example use w instead of w e A file path in the Start line of the batch file cannot contain any spaces regardless of whether the path is enclosed in quotes A small amount of data is ost at the end of each specified time interval because Seasave briefly shuts down and then restarts Testing at Sea Bird with several instruments showed a 10 20 second gap in the data each acquisition was stopped and restarted using this technique The gap is dependent on the instrument and its setup and configuration we suggest running a test with your specific setup before implementation in the field Example bat script ond cd cd Program Files cd Sea Bird cd Seasavev7 repeat_ forever start w seasave exe autostart C test psa u autostop 60 goto repeat forever automatically start Seasave and data acquisition based on setup in test psa but ignore hex file specified in psa and s
216. re SBE 50 pressure sensor SBE 63 Optical DO Sensor WET Labs sensor up to 3 channels up to 2 GTDs DO or Serial RS 2320 sensor Temperature SBE 38 Sample interval seconds fi 0 gt NMEA position data added nitrogen or Optode Must agree with 16p us V2 setup see reply from GetCD or DS Channel Sensor table lists RS 232 sensors below voltage channels Shaded sensors cannot be removed or changed to another type of sensor All others are optional Channel Sensor New New to create new con or 1 Count Temperature xmicon file for this CTD n Open Open to select different 2 Frequency Conductivity con or xmlcon file 3 Count Pressure Strain Gauge Save Save or Save As to save current con or xmlcon file Oxygen SBE 43 Save As settings Fluorometer Turner SCUFA Temperature SBE 38 4 A D voltage 0 5 A D voltage 1 6 Seral RS 232 Click a non shaded sensor and click Select to pick a different sensor for that channel A dialog box with a list of sensors appears Select sensors after number of voltage channels have been specified above Click a sensor and click Modify to change odify calibration coefficients for that sensor m Rgport Help ek Cancel Opens a txt file for viewing only cannot be modified that shows all parameters in con or xmlcon file Click to exit dialog box If you made changes and did not Save or Save As Seasave ask
217. re gt 5 0 or SVx firmware lt 5 0 x 0 1 2 3 or 4 channels see reply from DS Voltage channel 0 in con or xmicon file corresponds to sensor wired to channel 0 on end cap connector voltage channel 1 corresponds to sensor wired to channel 1 on end cap connector etc NMEA Select if NMEA navigation device used and select whether device is connected directly to Deck Unit or to computer if connected to computer define serial port and baud rate on Configure Inputs Serial Ports tab You can also append NMEA depth data 3 bytes and NMEA time data 4 bytes after Lat Lon data Seasave adds current latitude longitude and universal time code to data header appends NMEA data to every scan and writes NMEA data to nav file every time Ctrl F7 is pressed or Add to nav File is clicked see Adding NMEA Data to nav File in Section 8 Real Time Data and Real Time Control Real Time Data Acquisition Note NMEA time can only be appended if NMEA device connected to computer Click a non shaded sensor and click Select to pick a different sensor for that channel A dialog box with a list of sensors appears Select sensors after number of voltage and frequency channels have been specified above Repot Help Opens a txt file for viewing only cannot be modified that shows all parameters in con or xmlcon file SBE 21 Thermosalinograph Configuration In July 2009 Sea Bird updated the SBE 21
218. readsheet format Convert an output xml file from Shared File Output to a tab delimited txt format that can be opened in Microsoft Excel If selected a dialog box appears allowing you to browse to the desired xml file and to select the path and file name for the output txt file After you select the input xml file and enter the name for the output txt file click the Convert button The resulting txt file can be opened in Excel gt Display log file for Seasave Display diagnostics output for Seasave exe which is the user interface portion of the program gt Display log file for Seasave Acq Display diagnostics output for SeasaveAcq exe which is the data acquisition portion of the program Options gt Prompt to save program setup changes If selected when you exit Seasave by selecting Exit in the File menu or clicking the close button in the upper right hand corner of the window Seasave prompts you to save the program setup psa file if desired gt Automatically save program setup changes on exit If selected when you exit Seasave by selecting Exit in the File menu or clicking the close button in the upper right hand corner of the window Seasave automatically saves the program setup psa file before exiting Note If neither Prompt to save program setup changes or Automatically save program setup changes on exit is selected Seasave will not provide a warning and will not save changes to the program
219. red for salinity the SBE 16plus V2 and 19plus V2 and depth corrections The internal salinity must match the value you See the CTD manual for required programmed into the Optode the value is ignored if you do not enable the setup for the Optode Salinity correction If you enable Salinity correction Seasave corrects the See Calibration Coefficients for oxygen output from the Optode based on the actual salinity calculated from Voltage Sensors above for voltage the CTD data If you enable Depth correction Seasave corrects the oxygen output Oxygen sensors including output from the Optode based on the depth calculated from the CTD data the SBE 43 61 7 21k Section 5 Configure Inputs Part Ill Serial Ports Water Sampler TCP IP Ports Miscellaneous amp Pump Control _Seasave V7 Section 5 Configure Inputs Part Ill Serial Ports Water Sampler TCP IP Ports Miscellaneous and Pump Control This section describes the setup of the following in Configure Inputs Note e Serial ports Setup of all parameters in e Water sampler Configure Inputs is included in e TCP IP ports e the Seasave program setu i prog y Miscellaneous parameters required for output of specific variables psa file To save the setup you must save the psa file depth average sound velocity descent rate acceleration oxygen File menu Save Setup File plume anomaly and potential temperature anomaly before exiting Seasave e
220. rm Maximum pressure alarm Alarm on when pressure in this range Alarm on when pressure in this range The SBE 14 Remote Display can display depth pressure and or altimeter height for a CTD system and can be set up to turn on an alarm based on minimum and maximum pressures an altimeter integrated with the CTD and or a bottom contact switch integrated with the CTD To enable and set up the SBE 14 click Configure Outputs In the Configure Outputs dialog box click the SBE 14 Remote Display tab Configure Outputs C Program Files Sea Bird Seasave Seasave psa_ xj Serial Data Out Serial Ports Shared Fie Out Mark Variables TCP IP Out TCP IP Ports SBE 11plus Alarms SBE 14 Remote Display PC Alarms Header Form Diagnostics Enable sending data to SBE 14 using serial port defined on Serial Ports tab M Send data to SBE 14 remote display Affects Seasave s depth calculation Select the serial port for SBE 14 Remote Display on the Serial Ports tal e Salt water Program estimates local Benoe aadA gravity from latitude from NMEA navigation beoeiaeisituo DE device if NMEA enabled in con or xmlcon Depth type Salt water lt file If system does not have NMEA enter latitude on Miscellaneous tab in Configure Seconds between updates 1 Inputs g JV Enable minimum pressure alan e Fresh water Program ignores gravity variation with latitude fresh water fo applications are usually shallow effect of
221. rms on the PC Alarms tab you can with the CTD and or a bottom contact switch integrated with the CTD enable a visual alarm in Seasave in addition to the sound alarm by selecting Alarms in the Display menu See Alarms Display in Section 7 Display Setting Up Seasave Displays Altimeter alarm is available only if the selected configuration con or xmicon file has a CTD with To enable and set up the alarms in the computer click Configure Outputs In the Configure Outputs dialog box click the PC Alarms tab altimeter Configure Outputs C Program Files Sea Bird Seasave 7 Seasave psa_ x Bottom contact switch alarm SBE 9plus Always available Serial Data Out Serial Ports Shared File Out Mark Variables TCP IP Out TCPAP Ports All other CTDs Available only if the SBE 11plusAlams SBE 14 Remote Display PC Alarms HeaderFom Diagnostics selected configuration con or xmicon file has a CTD with bottom contact switch JV Enable minimum pressure alarm Enable minimum maximum pressure alarm in PC see Sound alarm when pressure is less than decibars f2 S drawing below V Enable maximum pressure alarm Enable altimeter alarm in PC Set Alarm set point at altimeter reading where you want alarm to sound Set Alarm hysteresis greater than expected ship VV Enable altimeter alarm Set Minimum pressure to enable heave swell to prevent on off on off i alarm greater than ap
222. rom Seasave and automatically if Auto Fire was selected on the Water Sampler tab in Configure Inputs and Allow manual firing was selected in the Auto Fire Table Entry dialog box see below Firing Bottles by Command from Seasave To fire bottles Sequentially by User Input or by Table Driven entries 1 2 Set up the water sampler in Configure Inputs In the Real Time Control menu select Fire Bottle Control The Bottle Fire dialog box appears you can leave this open throughout the cast shown below is the dialog if you selected Sequential firing in the Water Sampler setup Step 1 Sequential Bottle Fire x Fired 0 Next bottle to be fired i Fire Bottle Start real time data acquisition If you selected Sequential or Table driven in the Water Sampler setup Step 1 the Bottle Fire dialog box displays the number of the next bottle to be fired If you selected User Input in the Water Sampler setup Step 1 select the bottle you want to fire next When desired click Fire Bottle When Seasave receives a bottle fired confirmation from a water sampler it e for SBE 91 1 plus with SBE 32 Carousel Water Sampler or G O 1016 or SBE 19 19plus 19plus V2 25 25plus or 49 with SBE 33 Deck Unit and SBE 32 Carousel Water Sampler or SBE 19 19plus 19plus V2 25 25plus or 49 with SBE 33 Deck Unit and SBE 55 ECO Water Sampler Writes a line to an output file same filename as the data file with a bl extension The
223. rt of data acquisition Only lines with text prompts on them will appear Completed header along with system time instrument type and serial numbers will be written to beginning of data file and also output to file with same name as data file but with hdr extension Include Default Header Information in File User will not be prompted to add any header information at start of data acquisition User defined default header form will be written as is to beginning of data file and also output to file with same name as data file but with hdr extension Don t Include Header Information in File User input header information will not be added to data file or placed in hdr file Configure Outputs C Program Files Sea Bird Seasave Seasave psa Serial Data Out Serial Ports Shared File Out Mark Variables TCP IP Out TCP IP Potts SBE 11plus Alarms SBE 14 Remote Display PC Alarms Header Form Diagnostics eader Choice Prompt for Header Information X Prompt for line 01 fS hip If Prompt for Header Information was selected above these user prompts will appear to left of blank fields for user to input information at start of data acquisition If Include Default Header Information in File was selected above this would be all the user input information in the file Prompt for line 02 fS tation Prompt for line 03 Operator Prompt for line 04 fL atitude Prompt for line
224. s 1 Click Display and select Import Display Settings dsa file 2 The Open dialog box appears Select the desired dsa file and click OK 88 Manual revision 7 21k Section 7 Display Setting Up Seasave Displays Seasave V7 Editing Display Window Exporting Display Window Note Seasave display setup dsa file defines the size placement and setup for a display window The information in the dsa file is also incorporated into the program setup psa file You can import and export dsa files allowing you to create the desired displays once and then reuse them later for other instruments deployments 1 To change the content ofa display A Right click in the desired window and select Modify B The display dialog box appears The selections in the dialog box vary depending on the display type see Fixed Display Scrolled Display and Plot Display Make the desired selections and click OK 2 To change the display window size and or location e Click Display and select the arrangement type horizontal tiles vertical tiles or cascade Seasave automatically sizes and arranges all the windows OR e Use standard Windows click and drag methods to resize and move the window s as desired You can export the setup of a display window for reuse later for another instrument and or deployment 1 Right click in the desired window and select Export Display Settings dsa file 2 The Save As dialog box
225. s In 298 15 T 273 15 T e A0 2 00907 Al 3 22014 A2 4 0501 A3 4 94457 A4 0 256847 AS 3 88767 e B0 0 00624523 B1 0 00737614 B2 0 010341 B3 0 00817083 e C0 0 000000488682 Weiss Oxsat T S exp A1 A2 100 T A3 In T 100 A4 T 100 S B1 B2 T 100 B3 T 100 where e Oxsat T S oxygen saturation value ml l e S salinity psu e T water temperature IPTS 68 C e T absolute water temperature T 273 15 e Al 173 4292 A2 249 6339 A3 143 3483 A4 21 8492 e 6B1 0 033096 B2 0 014259 B3 0 00170 Oxygen percent saturation is the ratio of calculated oxygen to oxygen saturation in percent Oxygen Oxygen saturation 100 The Oxygen Saturation value used in this calculation is the value that was used in the Oxygen calculation e SBE 43 if you selected the Sea Bird equation in the con or xmlcon file the software uses the Garcia and Gordon Oxsol in this ratio if you selected the Owens Millard equation in the con or xmlcon file the software uses the Weiss Oxsat in this ratio e SBE 13 23 or 30 the software uses the Weiss Oxsat for this ratio Nitrogen saturation is the theoretical saturation limit of the water at the local temperature and salinity value but with local pressure reset to zero 1 atmosphere This calculation represents what the local parcel of water could have absorbed from the atmosphere when it was
226. s test1 mrk Mark Variables allows you set up Seasave to copy the most recent scan of data to a mark mrk file as desired during real time data acquisition Seasave writes the sequential mark number system time and all selected variables to a mrk file each time Mark Scan is clicked during data acquisition If a plot display is set up to show mark lines Seasave also draws a horizontal line in the plot each time Mark Scan is clicked during data acquisition The mrk file can be used to manually note water sampler bottle firings compare CTD data with data acquired at the same time from a Thermosalinograph or mark significant events in the cast winch problems large waves causing ship heave etc for later review and analysis of the data To enable and set up Mark Variables click Configure Outputs In the Configure Outputs dialog box click the Mark Variables tab x SBE 11plus Alarms SBE 14 Remote Display PC Alarms Header Form Diagnostics Serial Data Out Serial Ports Shared File Out Mark Variables TCPAP Out TCPAP Ports Configure Outputs C Program Files Sea Bird Seasave Seasave psa Variable Name unit Digits Pressure Strain Gauge db 4 Salinity PSU 5 Temperature ITS 90 deg C 5 Selected variables and number of decimal points to right of decimal place for mark variables Click Select Variables to change Dialog box with list of variables appears select desired variables and
227. s if you want to save changes 25 Section 3 Configure Inputs Part Instrument Configuration con or xmlcon file Seasave V7 Manual revision 7 21k Shown below is an example status DS response in a terminal program that corresponds to the setup shown in the Configuration dialog box above Shown below the appropriate lines are the commands used in the terminal program to modify the setup of parameters critical to use of the SBE 16plus V2 with Seasave as well as any explanatory information SBE l6plus V 2 0 SERIAL NO 6001 24 Oct 2007 14 11 48 vbatt 10 3 vlith 8 5 ioper 62 5 ma ipump 21 6 ma iext0Ol 76 2 ma iserial 48 2 ma status not logging samples 0 fr 3463060 sample interval 10 seconds number of measurements per sample 1 Sample interval SampleInterval must match Sample interval seconds in con or xmicon file pump run pump during sample delay before sampling 2 0 seconds transmit real time yes Real time data transmission must be enabled TxRealTime Y to acquire data in Seasave battery cutoff 7 5 volts pressure sensor strain gauge range 1000 0 Internal pressure sensor PType must match Pressure sensor type in con or xmlcon file SBE 38 yes SBE 50 no WETLABS no OPTODE no SBE63 no Gas Tension Device no Selection enabling of RS 232 sensors SBE38 SBE50 WetLabs Optode SBE63 GTD DualGTD must match
228. s jar The dialog box looks like this alot ll Connect l Fire Server address 127 0 0 1 Command port 49167 Status port 49168 Connect Disconnect A On the Connect tab Set Server address to the address of the computer running Seasave Set Command port to match the Receive commands port and set Status port to match the Send Status port on the TCP IP Ports tab in 1 On the computer that is running Configure Inputs or Configure Outputs in Seasave Seasave click Start gt Control B On the Connect tab click Connect On the Remote Fire Bottle Fire Panel dialog in Seasave Step 2 it should now show Connected to on Double click Network Connections ports and Double click Local Area Network xj Connection Click the Support tab to see the computer s IP address Fired 0 this is the address to enter as the Connected to 127 0 0 1 on ports 49167 Server address in the Remote and 49168 Bottle Fire for SeasaveV7 window Disconnect Note To get the Server address instructions are for Windows XP Bottle Firing Sequence 140 Manual revision 7 21k Appendix VI Java Applications for Remote Display and Bottle Firing Seasave V7 C On the remote computer click the Fire tab The dialog box looks like this ioi xi Connect Fire Water sampler Type Number of bottles Firing Fire Next bottle 1 Number fired Sequence If t
229. scellaneous 70 Data acquisition 14 103 pump control 71 Data format 142 serial ports 62 Data processing 113 TCP IP 69 Demo files 13 water sampler 65 Density 125 Installation 8 Depth 70 126 Instrument configuration 17 118 seafloor 126 Irradiance 56 134 Derived parameter formulas 124 Descent rate 70 134 J Diagnostics 87 Dialog box positions 110 Java application 68 80 138 Display adding 88 editing 89 L exporting 89 Lat Lon display 100 109 fixed 90 Latitude 70 GPS 100 importing 88 M Lat Lon 100 NMEA 100 109 Manual bottle fire 65 66 plot 92 Mark scan 77 109 printing 89 Mark variables 77 109 remote 135 138 Menus 11 remote 102 Methane 53 Remote 78 81 Miscellaneous 70 resizing 89 Mixed mode bottle fire 66 scrolled 91 status 100 N Dynamic meters 125 eA Navigation display 100 109 Nephelometer 53 E Nitrogen saturation 133 ECO 60 65 74 107 NMEA display 100 109 Editing data files 113 Editing display 89 O Example files 13 Exporting calibration coefficients 43 OBS 53 Exporting display 89 Options 115 Optode 61 ORP 54 F Output File extensions 15 diagnostics 87 File formats 15 header 85 Firing bottles 107 mark variables 77 Fixed display 90 SBE 1 Iplus 82 Fluorometer 48 SBE 14 Remote Display 74 83 Format serial data 73 74 hex data 142 shared file 75 Formulas 124 TCP IP
230. se changes will appear when you open the other dialog box Click Configure Outputs In the Configure Outputs dialog box click the Serial Ports tab Deradiisare shown forinstromentselededon Configure Outputs C Documents and Settings dbresko Application Data Sea Bi Instrument Configuration tab in Configure Inputs and are typical settings for that instrument If your instrument will not communicate at settings shown e Many instruments have a user programmable baud rate your instrument may have been programmed to communicate at a different baud consult manual for baud command AND OR Your instrument may have a custom modification that affects baud data bits and or parity consult manual shipped with instrument for settings SBE 11plus Alarms SBE 14 Remote Display PC Alarms Header Form Diagnostics SeralData Out SerialPort Shared Fie Out Mark Variables TCPAP Out TCPAP Ports CTD Serial Port COM port Baud rate Data bits Defaults for SBE 911plus CTD with RS 232C Baud Rate 19200 COM1 v 19200 Y Data Bits 8 8 v Parity None None v Set to Defaults Parity COM port connected to SBE 11plus Deck Unit Modem Channel connector or SBE 33 Deck Unit Carousel Data connector to send commands to and receive replies from water sampler Note Same COM port is used to send pump control commands to a custom Qplus this does not interfere with water sampler operation COM port baud data bits stop bits
231. sing program that converts edits processes and plots data for a variety of Sea Bird instruments e Plot39 program for plotting SBE 39 and SBE 48 data This manual covers only Seasave which e acquires real time raw data frequencies and voltages and saves the raw data to the computer for later processing e displays selected raw and or converted engineering units real time or archived data in text and plot displays Additional Seasave features include the ability to e send commands to close water sampler bottles e save user input header information with the CTD data providing information that is useful for identifying the data set e output selected raw and converted engineering units data to a computer COM port or file on the computer e setup pressure altimeter and bottom contact switch alarms in the computer running Seasave e output data to and set up pressure altimeter and bottom contact switch alarms in an SBE 14 Remote Display e setup pressure and altimeter alarms in an SBE 1 1 p us Deck Unit e mark real time data to note significant events in a cast e input commands from remote software via TCP IP for controlling water sampler bottle firing e output raw data and selected converted engineering units data to remote software via TCP IP Manual revision 7 21k Section 1 Introduction Seasave V7 System Requirements Sea Bird recommends the following minimum system requirements for Seasoft V2 Windows 2000 or late
232. ssseee 118 xmicon Configuration File Format ccccsccssessseesceeseeeseeeeceeeeeseeseenseenees 118 con Configuration File Format ccccccccscecsseesseseeeeeeeeseeeseeeceeenseenseenseenaes 118 Appendix IIT Software Problems ccssccsessssssessssssesessssesseesssesseseees 123 Known Bugs Compatibility Issues ccccecceesseesceeseeeeceeeceeeesecseeeeeeeeeneenes 123 Appendix IV Derived Parameter Formulas cscsscssssssssssssesseseees 124 Appendix V Seasave Remote for Remote Display and Bottle Firing 135 Appendix VI Java Applications for Remote Display and Bottle Firing csscssssssessscsssesesesscseseeessseseeseees 138 Remote Display sscss cee aer E REEE agsts Baise acess os 138 Firing Bottles via TCP IP from a Remote Computer eeeeceeeceeteereeteees 140 Appendix VII Seasave hex Output Data Format csscssssssssssseees 142 VINO G E E TTT 143 Manual revision 7 21k Section 1 Introduction Seasave V7 Section 1 Introduction This section includes a brief description of Seasoft V2 and its components and a more detailed description of Seasave Sea Bird welcomes suggestions for new features and enhancements of our products and or documentation Please contact us with any comments or suggestions seabird seabird com or 425 643 9866 Our business hours are Monday through Friday 0800 to 1700 Pacific Standard Time 1600 to 0100 Universal Time in winter and 0800
233. t data transmitted to a shared file must be in XML format Seasave Remote SeasaveRem exe is installed when you install Seasave to the same folder as Seasave default location C Program Files Sea Bird Seasave V7 Basic instructions are provided below for viewing data on a remote computer and firing bottles from a remote computer using Seasave Remote see Seasave Remote s Help files for more details 1 In Seasave s Configure Outputs select one of the following methods for transmitting data to a remote computer e Onthe TCP IP Out tab select Output converted data to socket using TCP IP and select XML format Click Select Variables pick the desired variables for viewing remotely and click OK Click OK to exit the Configure Outputs dialog box OR e On the Shared File Out tab select Output data to shared file and select XML format Click Select File define the path and file name for the shared file and click Save Click Select Variables pick the desired variables for viewing remotely and click OK Click OK to exit the Configure Outputs dialog box 2 In Seasave s Configure Inputs on the Water Sampler tab set up the water sampler and select Enable remote firing see Water Sampler in Section 5 Configure Inputs Part III Serial Ports Water Sampler TCP IP Ports Miscellaneous and Pump Control 3 In Seasave s Real Time Control menu select Fire Bottle Control The Bottle Fire dialog box appears you can leave this o
234. t Rhodamine Fluorometer sensor calibration date 225 Seapoint Rhodamine Fluorometer gain offset 226 Primary Gas Tension Device sensor serial number 227 Primary Gas Tension Device sensor calibration date 228 Primary Gas Tension Device type 229 Secondary Gas Tension Device sensor serial number 230 Secondary Gas Tension Device sensor calibration date 231 Secondary Gas Tension Device type 232 Sequoia LISST 25A sensor serial number 233 Sequoia LISST 25A sensor calibration date 234 Sequoia LISST 25A Total Volume Conc Const Sauter Mean Diameter Cal Clean Water Scattering Clean Water Trans 235 SBE 45 output conductivity Output salinity Output sound velocity Use 90402 junction box SBE 38 remote temperature 121 Manual revision 7 21k Appendix Il Configure con or xmlcon File Format Seasave V7 236 SBE 21 remote temperature type 237 SBE 50 serial number 238 SBE 50 calibration date 239 Secondary Chelsea Aqua 3 fluorometer serial number 240 Secondary Chelsea Aqua 3 fluorometer calibration date 241 Secondary Chelsea Aqua 3 fluorometer scale factor slope offset vacetone vb vl 242 Chelsea UV Aquatracka serial number 243 Chelsea UV Aquatracka calibration date 244 Chelsea UV Aquatracka a b 245 SBE 49 temperature sensor serial number 246 SBE 49 temperature sensor calibration date 247 SBE 49 temperature sensor A0 Al A2 A3 slope and offset
235. t update rate computer Font and font size apply to everything Faster than 1 sec can be difficult to view Set to O for full rate data on plot title axis labels numbers on grid etc For Display downcast only or Enable upcast line colors Sea surface Pressure decrease to determine upcast upcast enabled if pressure decrease exceeds this Set greater than peak to peak ship heave to avoid Seasave calculating that upcast has begun because of pressure change associated with ship heave Minimum pressure to determine upcast set close to expected maximum cast depth 93 Manual revision 7 21k Section 7 Display Setting Up Seasave Displays Seasave V7 For TS Plot Setup Ifa TS plot type is selected on the Plot Setup tab the TS Plot Setup button is enabled The TS Plot Setup defines the contour lines for the plot the user selects from the following contour types e Density contours Seasave calculates and plots sigma t contours if temperature is plotted or sigma theta contours if potential temperature is plotted see Axis Tabs below for selection of temperature parameter e Thermosteric anomaly contours The units for the parameters in the input data file do not affect the contour calculations For example temperature could be in C or F ITS 90 or ITS 68 Seasave performs the required conversions to calculate the contours If the TS Plot Setup button is clicked the following dialog box appears TS Plot Setup
236. t water p pressure in decibars latitude in degrees double x d gr if dtype FRESH WATER fresh water d p 1 019716 else salt water x Sin latitude 57 29578 xX xX xX gr 9 780318 1 0 5 2788e 3 2 36e 5 x x 1 092e 6 p d 1 82e 15 p 2 279e 10 p 2 2512e 5 p 9 72659 p if gr df gx return d seafloor depth depth altimeter reading m 126 Manual revision 7 21k Appendix IV Derived Parameter Formulas Seasave V7 practical salinity PSU Note Salinity is PSS 78 valid from 2 to 42 psu Absolute Salinity TEOS 10 is available in our seawater calculator SeaCalc Il in SBE Data Processing see the SBE Data Processing manual Seasave outputs only Practical Salinity and all parameters derived from salinity in Seasave are based on Practical Salinity Practical Salinity calculation Using the following constants Al 2 070e 5 A2 6 370e 10 A3 B4 3 107e 3 CO 6 766097e 1 C1 C4 1 0031e 9 C Computer Code static double a 6 constants for salinity calculation 0 0080 0 1692 25 3851 14 0941 7 0261 2 7081 3 989e 15 Bl 3 426e 2 B2 4 464e 4 B3 4 215e 1 2 00564e 2 C2 1 104259e 4 C3 6 9698e 7 static double b 6 constants for salinity calculation 0 0005 0 0056 0 0066 0 0375 0 0636 0 0144 Salinity double C double T double P compute salinity c
237. ter SeaTech Chelsea AlphaTracka WET Labs Cstar M B path length Fluorometer SeaTech sensor serial number Fluorometer SeaTech scale factor offset woflalrafafaps w rmfe fof P PALA RP ay N oO NIN Nje N w N S N uo 118 Manual revision 7 21k Appendix Il Configure con or xmicon File Format Seasave V7 26 Tilt sensor serial number 27 Tilt XM XB YM YB 28 ORP sensor serial number 29 ORP M B offset 30 Primary OBS Nephelometer D amp A Backscatterance sensor serial number 31 Primary OBS Nephelometer D amp A Backscatterance gain offset 32 Altimeter scale factor offset hyst min pressure hysteresis 33 Microstructure temperature sensor serial number 34 Microstructure temperature pre m pre b 35 Microstructure temperature num denom A0 A1 A3 36 Microstructure conductivity sensor serial number 37 Microstructure conductivity AO Al A2 38 Microstructure conductivity M B R 39 Number of external frequencies number of bytes number of voltages instrument type computer interface scan rate interval store system time deck unit or Searam 40 Data format channels 0 9 41 Data format channels 10 19 42 Data format c
238. the calibration coefficients for that sensor or right click on the sensor and select Modify Calibration or double click on the sensor the calibration coefficients dialog box for the sensor appears example is shown for a pH sensor Serial number oo Calibration date Slope ooo 0 Offset O00 Import Export ILo Cancel 42 Manual revision 7 21k Section 4 Configure Inputs Part Il Calibration Coefficients Seasave V7 Importing and Exporting Calibration Coefficients Calibration coefficient dialog boxes contain Import and Export buttons which can be used to simplify entering calibration coefficients These buttons are particularly useful when swapping sensors from one instrument to another allowing you to enter calibration coefficients without the need for typing or the resulting possibility of typographical errors An example dialog box is shown for a pH sensor SS 8 amp 8 l Serial number Calibration date oO Slope jooo ooo Offset ooo Import Export ILo Cancel The Export button allows you to export coefficients for the selected sensor to an XML file If you move that sensor onto another instrument you can then import the coefficients from the XML file when setting up the con or xmlcon file for that instrument The Import button allows you to import coefficients for the selected sensor from another con or xmlcon file or from an XML file When you click the Import button a dialog box app
239. this Plot Display 1 4 x Plot Setup Y Axis X Axis 1 XAxis 2 Print Options Save Options Copy Options Seasave automatically uses selected format metafile JPG Use format selected below when copying plot to clpboar or bitmap when copying plot to Seasave prompts you to select clipboard format metafile JPG or bitmap Show dialog to select format when copying plot to clipboard when copying plot to clipboard Copy metatie to clipboard options Size determined by Plot display size e Plot display size Uris Miimeter z Width fisa Height fizo 00 dimensions of plot as shown Peele Oe Copy JPG to clipboard options Size determined by Vales entered below x e Values Entered Below dimensions entered in Units are pixels Width 512 Height 384 dialog box mm inches or Copy bitmap to clipboard options Size determined by Pict display size points for metafile pixels for Units are piwels Width 512 Height E Size determined by JPG or bitmap Help OK Cancel 98 Manual revision 7 21k Section 7 Display Setting Up Seasave Displays Seasave V7 Viewing Seasave Plots Shown below is an example plot iii gt gt alaly l 9 a 0 000 0 000 1 600 Toolbar Click appropriate button to scroll zoom undo print copy to clipboard or save Temperature IT5 90 deg C 3 200 4 600 6 4
240. time data output rate 4 Hz or 8 Hz NMEA Select if NMEA navigation device re used and select whether NMEA device is Iv NMEA position data added a NMEA depth data added connected directly to Deck Unit or to computer if connected to computer NMEA device connected to deck unit jil define serial port and baud rate on Configure Inputs Serial Ports tab You C NMEA device connected to PC can also append NMEA depth data 3 bytes and NMEA time data 4 bytes V Surface PAR voltage added I Scan time added Select to have after Lat Lon data Seasave adds current nee re latitude longitude and universal time time seconds code to data header appends NMEA Configure SPAR Sensor since January 1 data to every scan and writes NMEA 1970 GMT to data to nav file every time Ctrl F7 is pressed or Add to nav File is clicked see Adding NMEA Data to nav File in Section 8 Real Time Data and Real Time Control oe Data Acquisition R eport H elp Exit Cancel 1 NMEA time can only be appended if NMEA device connected to computer 2 NMEA depth can only be appended if NMEA device connected to computer or if using SBE 25plus with SBE 33 or 36 Deck Unit firmware gt 3 0 or PN 90488 or 90545 Interface Box Select if using with deck unit connected to Surface PAR sensor Seasave Enter verify calibration coefficients each data scan for Surface PAR sensor See Application Note 47 appends Surface PAR data to ever
241. tion Note 54 for complete description of calculation of Seapoint fluorometer calibration coefficients Note See Application Note 77 for complete description of calculation of Seapoint ultraviolet fluorometer calibration coefficients Notes e See Application Note 9 for complete description of calculation of WET Labs FLF and Sea Tech fluorometer calibration coefficients Offset and scale factor may be adjusted to fit a linear regression of fluorometer responses to known chlorophyll a concentrations Manual revision 7 21k Section 4 Configure Inputs Part Il Calibration Coefficients Seasave V7 Seapoint Enter gain and offset Concentration V 30 gain offset where Gain is dependent on cable used see cable drawing pins 5 and 6 Note Seasave can process data for an instrument interfacing with up to two Seapoint fluorometers Seapoint Rhodamine Enter gain and offset Concentration V 30 gain offset where Gain is dependent on cable used see cable drawing pins 5 and 6 Seapoint Ultraviolet Enter range and offset Concentration V range 5 offset Note Seasave can process data for an instrument interfacing with up to two Seapoint ultraviolet fluorometers Sea Tech and WET Labs Flash Lamp Fluorometer FLF Enter scale factor and offset Concentration voltage scale factor 5 offset where Scale factor is dependent on fluorometer range Switch Sele
242. to every scan Adds 2 channels to Channel Sensor table Do not increase External voltage channels to reflect this External voltage channels reflects only external voltages going directly to 19plus V2 from auxiliary sensor See Application Note 47 R Hel Scan time added Select to append eport elp time seconds since January 1 1970 GMT to each data scan change calibration Click a non shaded sensor and click Select to pick a coefficients for different sensor for that channel Dialog box with a list of that sensor sensors appears Select sensors after number of voltage channels have been specified above Opens a txt file for viewing only cannot be modified that shows all parameters in con or xmlcon file Click to exit dialog box If you made changes and did not Save or Save As Seasave asks if you want to save changes Exit Cancel 31 Section 3 Configure Inputs Part Instrument Configuration con or xmlcon file Seasave V7 Manual revision 7 21k Shown below is an example status DS response in a terminal program that corresponds to the setup shown in the Configuration dialog box above Shown below the appropriate lines are the commands used in the terminal program to modify the setup of parameters critical to use of the instrument with Seasave as well as any explanatory information SBE 19plus V 2 2 SERIAL NO 4000 05 Jun 2009 14 02 13 vbatt 9 6 vlith 8 6 ioper 61 2
243. ts dV dt derivative of oxygen signal volts sec Oxsat T S oxygen saturation ml l from Weiss Note Seasave can process data for an instrument interfacing with up to two SBE 43 oxygen sensors 55 Notes See Application Note 11General for multiplier values for output units other than uEinsteins m sec See Application Notes 11QSP L Biospherical sensor with built in log amplifier 11QSP PD Biospherical sensor without built in log amplifier 11Licor LI COR sensor and 11Chelsea for complete description of calculation of calibration coefficients for underwater PAR sensors Selection of Par Irradiance Biospherical Licor as the voltage sensor is also applicable to the Chelsea PAR sensor For complete description of calculation of calibration coefficients for surface PAR see Application Note 11S SBE 11plus Deck Unit or 47 SBE 33 or 36 Deck Unit Notes e See Application Notes 18 1 18 2 and 18 4 for complete description of calculation of pH calibration coefficients Seasoft DOS lt version 4 008 ignored temperature compensation of a pH electrode The relationship between the two methods is pH pH old 7 2087 K For older sensors run pHfit version 2 0 in Seasoft DOS using Vout pH and temperature values from the original calibration sheet to compute the new values for offset and slope Manual revision 7 21k Section 4 Configure Inputs Part Il Calibration Coefficien
244. ts Seasave V7 PAR Irradiance Calibration Coefficients Underwater PAR Sensor Enter M B calibration constant multiplier and offset PAR multiplier 10 10 V 8 calibration constant offset where calibration constant M and B are dependent on sensor type multiplier 1 0 for output units of pEinsteins m sec e Biospherical PAR sensor PAR sensor with built in log amplifier QSP 200L QCP 200L QSP 2300L QCP 2300L or MCP 2300 Typically M 1 0 and B 0 0 Calibration constant 10 gt wet calibration factor from Biospherical calibration sheet PAR sensor without built in log amplifier QSP 200PD QSP 2200 PD or QCP 2200 PD M and B are taken from Sea Bird calibration sheet Calibration constant Cs calibration coefficient from Sea Bird calibration sheet 6 022 x 10 3 Cy from Biospherical calibration sheet e LI COR PAR sensor Calibration constant is in water calibration constant in units of uwamps 1000 umoles m sec from Licor or Sea Bird calibration sheet M and B are taken from Sea Bird calibration sheet e Chelsea PAR sensor Calibration constant 10 0 046 M 1 0 log e Al 1000 1 0 0 43429448 A1 1000 M loge AO A0 AI 1000 where AO and A1 are constants from Chelsea calibration sheet with an equation of form PAR AO Al mV Note Seasave can process data for an instrument interfacing with up to two underwater PAR irradiance sensors Biospherical Surface
245. ts dialog box click the TCP IP Out tab Configure Outputs C Program Files Sea Bird Seasave 7 Seasave psa SBE 11plus Alarms SBE 14 Remote Display PC Alarms Header Form Diagnostics Serial Data Out Serial Ports Shared File Out Mark Variables TCP IP Out TCP IP Ports Output raw data in ASCII format If selected data is output in XML format instead of ASCII format Output converted data Seasave applies calibration coefficients to raw data to calculate converted data in engineering units in ASCII format If selected data is output in XML format instead of ASCII format You must select Converted Data in XML format if planning to use Seasave Remote or FixedDisplay jar to view data on a remote computer Select the TCP IP ports on the TCP IP Ports tab Rate at which raw data is output For full rate data set to 0 Rate at which data for Raw data Output raw data to socket using TCP IP XML wrapper and settings Seconds between raw data updates selected variables is Converted data converted to engineering Output converted data to socket using TCP IP units and output For full rate data set to 0 XML format required for Seasave Remote Seconds between converted data updates 0 000 Variable Name unit Digits Pressure Strain Gauge db 4 Salinity PSU 5 Temperature ITS 90 deg Selected variables and number of decimal points to right of dec
246. tup report file which documents psa file settings created when you click Report in Configure Inputs or Configure Outputs dialog box Seasave creates this as a temporary file to save it to document your settings select Save and exit and enter desired file name and location e Configuration report file which documents con or xmlcon file settings created when you click Report in Configuration dialog box Seasave creates this as a temporary file to save it to document your settings select Save and exit and enter desired file name and location e Seasave Diagnostics log files default SSLog txt and SALog txt created if you enable diagnostic log s on Diagnostics tab in Configure Outputs Default location USERPROFILE Application Data Sea Bird example c Documents and Settings dbresko Application Data Sea Bird e Seasave Remote Diagnostics log file default SRLog txt created if you enable a diagnostic log in Seasave Remote Options menu Diagnostics Default location USERPROFILE Application Data Sea Bird example c Documents and Settings dbresko Application Data Sea Bird Windows metafile graphic from Plot display when you click Save to file icon in plot toolbar or right click in plot and select Save as xml File in XML format e Output file created if you configure Seasave to output data to a shared file and select XML format Note You can later convert xml file to a txt file using the Tools menu e S
247. udes all measured parameters that are selected in configuration con Temperature ITS 90 deg C or xmlcon file as well as all parameters that can be calculated from those measured parameters Make selection and click OK Enter axis Minimum and Maximum values to display Values that fall outside range will plot at Plot axis from highest to lowest minimum or maximum as value Typically used when applicable unless Auto pressure or depth is plotted on Y page this axis selected Minimum is Maximum Bo axis so pressure depth starts at i 15 l 30 0 at top of plot and increases as C Logarithmic Reverse directior YOU Move down vertically Plot axis on linear or logarithmic scale Axis Label Variable name Number of Major divisions on axis and number of Minor divisions between major Chay eric ue a If Auto page this axis is divisions Example With range Major divisions 3 Auto page this axis selected display pages up or from 15 30 C 3 major f ca down if data falls outside divisions provides tick marks Minor divisions 5 Auto page percent 100 minimum maximum range If every 5 C 5 minor divisions you change Auto page provides tick marks every 1 C Decimal digits 4 Col percent for 1 axis it Enter axis Minimum and automatically changes for all Maximum values to display axes Values that fall outside range Select desired Line type does not appear on Example Axis is set up for will plot at minim
248. ugh Seasave s menus generating a unique output file for each data acquisition aa filename p filename Automatically start Seasave and playback archived data using program setup psa file defined by filename Filename must include path and extension psa Seasave uses con or xmlcon file setup in Configure Inputs and Configure Outputs displays and input data file name defined in psa file Automatically start Seasave using program setup psa file defined by filename Filename must include path and extension psa Seasave opens with con or xmlicon file setup in Configure Inputs and Configure Outputs and displays defined in psa file Note This command line parameter does not start data acquisition or playback of archived data it simply launches Seasave autofireondowncast Allow user to set up auto fire for bottles at user input pre defined pressures or depths on downcast when this parameter is not specified auto fire can only be set up for upcast which is recommended for most applications See Section 5 Configure Inputs Part III Serial Ports Water Sampler TCP IP Ports Miscellaneous and Pump Control to set up auto fire Note Mixed mode firing firing some bottles manually is supported for firing on downcast as well as on upcast autostop time Automatically stop Seasave real time data acquisition and shut down Seasave after time in minutes This can be used in conjuncti
249. um or tab for first axis Y axis tab in this example 15 30 C but actual cast maximum as applicable exceeds 30 C If Auto page unless Auto page this axis percent 100 minimum selected Help OK Cancel maximum adjusts to 30 45 C to continue to display data If Auto page percent 80 Ter minimum maximum adjusts Number of Decimal digits to display after to 24 39 C to continue to decimal point display data 95 Manual revision 7 21k Section 7 Display Setting Up Seasave Displays Seasave V7 Full page If selected scale plot to fit 8 5x11 inch page Note If selected size selections are grayed out Print with white background If selected make background colors white Print Options Tab The print options tab defines the size and orientation for when the plot is output to the printer The Print Options tab looks like this Plot Display 1 i x Plot Setup Y Axis X Axis 1 X Axis2 Print Options Save Options Copy Options Orientation Landscape Portrait or print Driver default Orientation Driver default Y Full page Print with white background Size determined by Size determined by Values entered below e Plot display size dimensions of plot as shown on screen or Width 160 00 e Values Entered Below dimensions entered in dialog box Height 120 00 mm inches or points Units Milimeters Y 96 Manual revision 7 2
250. ut 0 7 settings in 25p us See Real Time Setup for baud and real time output rate limitations Cancel Opens a txt file for Click to exit dialog box If viewing only cannot be you made changes and modified that shows all did not Save or Save As parameters in xmlcon Seasave asks if you want file to save changes 37 Manual revision 7 21k Section 3 Configure Inputs Part Instrument Configuration con or xmicon file Seasave V7 Note Click the Real Time Options tab This tab is grayed out if you selected Process XML file uploaded from CTD memory on the first tab because data is memory is always saved at 16 Hz and NMEA Surface PAR and scan time data is not available in an uploaded file Configuration for the SBE 25plus Sealogger CTD File T C P Voltage Sensors Serial Sensors Real Time Options Select if deck unit used and select baud rate at which CTD is set to C No deck unit communicate 3 Note If no deck unit is used this baud SBE 33 or SBE 36 deck unit rate must match CTD Serial Port baud on Serial Ports tab in Configure Inputs CTD baud rate SetBaudConsole Realtime data output rate is calculated by the 25plus based on number of voltages exported CTD baud rate and if CTD baud rate is 4800 historic rate Must agree with SetHistoricRate in 25plus See reply from GetCD Historic rate 0 Real time data output rate 2 Hz or 4 Hz Historic rate 1 Real
251. vailable All other CTDs Available only if selected configuration con or xmicon file has a CTD with bottom contact switch Select converted data to display e Altimeter Height 3 digits e Depth 4 digits e Pressure 4 digits e Altimeter Height Depth altimeter height and depth alternate on display e Altimeter Height Pressure altimeter height and pressure alternate on display Note Altimeter height available only if altimeter included in configuration con or xmlcon file Updates at very fast rate make display hard to read Also time between updates interacts with data output baud set in SBE 14 to 300 baud cannot be changed and number of variables transmitted Seasave will not work properly if data is presented to COM port faster than port can transmit it to SBE 14 Enable altimeter alarm in SBE 14 Set Alarm set point at altimeter reading where you want alarm to sound Set Alarm hysteresis greater than expected ship heave swell to prevent on off on off sounding of alarm caused by ship heave See drawing below Example You want alarm to turn on at 10 m set set point 10 m There is a 0 5 m swell set hysteresis 1 m which should be sufficient to account for possible 0 5 m upward movement due to ship heave Alarm sounds at 10 m above sea bottom and stays on until altimeter goes above 11 m when it shuts off until it falls to 10 m again Minimum___ __________________ pressure ala
252. ved Data playback If selected Seasave checks the temperature and conductivity sensor serial numbers in the data file header against the serial numbers in the con or xmlcon file if the serial numbers do not match it provides a warning that there is an error but continues with playback Maximized plot may cover Seasave If selected when you maximize a plot display it fills the entire monitor screen covering up the Seasave title bar menus and status bar Otherwise a maximized plot display remains within the Seasave window Help Help files contain much of the same information in this manual 12 Manual revision 7 21k Section 2 Installation and Use Seasave V7 Getting Started Displaying Archived Data Sea Bird Demo Files Note Seasave can be used to display archived raw data in a hex or dat file dat files were created by older Sea Bird provides example files with the software to assist you in learning versions of Seasave Version lt 6 0 how to use Seasave These files are automatically installed on your hard drive from the real time data stream from an when you install Seasave the default location is SBE 911plus C Program Files Sea Bird Seasave V7 Demo The demo files include e a data file demo hex e an instrument configuration file demo con defines instrument sensors calibration coefficients etc e a program setup file demo psa The psa file defines all information entered in Conf
253. x with Start Archiving button appears Click this button when ready to begin saving scans to file or select Start Archiving in Real Time Data menu e Do not archive data for this cast to not save data to a file Real time data will still appear in displays Data Archiving Options Begin archiving data immediately C Begin archiving data when Start Archiving command is sent Do not archive data for this cast Output data HEX file fc Documents and Settings dbresko My Documents 1 Splustest hex Click Select Output Data File Select Output Data File Name Name Save Archived Data As dialog box appears browse to desired file location enter desired file name and click Save Configuration Options Currently selected instrument configuration con or xmlcon file is shown To select different con or xmicon file or modify input configuration con or xmlcon file serial ports water sampler TCP IP s 3 ports miscellaneous and or pump control click Configure Configuration Options Inputs To modify outputs serial data output serial ports shared file output mark variables TCP IP output TCP IP 5 i i ports SBE 11plus alarms SBE 14 remote display PC Instrument configuration xmlcon or con file to change select Configure Inputs alarms header form and or diagnostics click Configure Outputs See Sections 3 4 and 5 Configure Inputs and 5 Section 6 Confi
254. xit Close Seasave Recent Setup Files Provides a list of the 10 most recently used psa files Configure Inputs setup of instrument configuration con or xmlcon file defining sensors and sensor coefficients serial ports water sampler TCP IP ports miscellaneous parameters and pump control for a custom 9plus CTD see Sections 3 4 and 5 Configure Inputs Configure Outputs Set up of serial data output serial ports shared file output mark variables TCP IP output and ports SBE 1 1p us alarm SBE 14 remote display and alarm PC alarm header form and diagnostics see Section 6 Configure Outputs Display Set up of fixed scrolled and plot displays as well as displays to view status and NMEA data see Section 7 Display Setting Up Seasave Displays Real Time Data Acquire process and display real time data see Section 8 Real Time Data and Real Time Control Real Time Data Acquisition Real Time Control Control water sampler bottle firing mark scans NMEA scans to file and custom 9p us CTD only turn the CTD pump on or off see Section 8 Real Time Data and Real Time Control Real Time Data Acquisition Archived Data Process and display a previously acquired data file see Section 9 Archived Data 11 Manual revision 7 21k Note The Display log file tools are available only if Keep a diagnostics log is selected on the Diagnostics tab in Configure Out See Diagn
255. xmlcon file SBE 38 yes SBE 50 no Gas Tension Device no Selection enabling of RS 232 sensors SBE38 SBE50 GTD DualGTD must match Serial RS 232C sensor in con or xmlcon file Ext Volt 0 yes Ext Volt 1 yes Ext Volt 2 no Ext Volt 3 no Number of external voltage sensors enabled Volt0 through Volt3 must match External voltage channels in con or xmicon file echo commands yes output format raw HEX Output format must be set to raw Hex OutputFormat 0 to acquire data in Seasave serial sync mode disabled Serial sync mode must be disabled SyncMode N to acquire data in Seasave 24 Manual revision 7 21k Section 3 Configure Inputs Part Instrument Configuration con or xmlcon file Seasave V7 Channel Sensor table reflects this choice 0 1 2 3 4 5 or 6 Must agree with 16p us V2 setup for VoItN N 0 1 2 3 4 and 5 see reply from GetCD or DS Voltage channel 0 in con or xmicon file corresponds to first external voltage in data stream voltage channel 1 to second external voltage in data stream etc Time between scans Must agree with 16p us V2 setup SamplelInterval see reply from GetCD or DS Select if using with deck unit connected to NMEA navigation device Seasave adds current latitude longitude and universal time code to data header appends NMEA data to every scan and writes NMEA data to nav file every time Ctrl F
256. y fire any bottle regardless of the pressure or depth you specified in the Auto Fire Table Entry The bl file has the same path and file name as the data file For example if the data file is c test1 hex the bl file is c test1 bl 1 Auto Fire Bottle Fire Fired 0 Set up the water sampler for Auto Fire in Configure Inputs select Allow manual firing in the Auto Fire Table Entry dialog box In the Real Time Control menu select Fire Bottle Control The Bottle Fire dialog box appears you can leave this open throughout the cast shown below is the dialog if you selected SBE Carousel SBE ECO or G O 1016 in the Water Sampler setup Step 1 x m Manual fire Bottle Fire Selected Bottle Bottle Firing Sequence Automatic fire Next bottle B Start real time data acquisition The Automatic fire portion of the dialog box shows the next bottle that has a valid pressure or depth in the Auto Fire Table Entry pressure or depth greater than 0 and less than 10 500 The Manual fire portion of the dialog box shows the next bottle that has an invalid pressure or depth in the Auto Fire Table Entry pressure or depth less than 0 or greater than 10 500 these are bottles that must be fired manually Select the desired bottle to fire manually and when desired click Fire Selected Bottle When Seasave receives a bottle fired confirmation from a water sampler e for SBE 91 1plus with SB
257. y scan 38 Manual revision 7 21k Section 3 Configure Inputs Part Instrument Configuration con or xmlcon file Seasave V7 Shown below is an example status GetCD response in Seaterm232 that corresponds to the setup shown in the Configuration dialog box above Shown below the appropriate lines are the commands used in Seaterm 232 to modify the setup of parameters critical to use of the SBE 25plus with Seasave as well as any explanatory information S gt getcd lt ConfigurationData DeviceType SBE25plus SerialNumber 0250003 gt lt Serial gt lt SerialPort0 gt lt baudconsole gt 4800 lt baudconsole gt lt echoconsole gt 1 lt echoconsole gt lt SerialPort0 gt lt SerialPortl gt serial sensor 1 setup data lt SerialPort1 gt lt SerialPort2 gt serial sensor 2 setup data lt SerialPort2 gt lt Serial gt lt Settings gt assorted settings lt Settings gt lt RealTimeOutput gt lt output format gt 0 lt outputformat gt lt historicrate gt 1l lt historicrate gt lt vout0 gt 1 lt vout0 gt lt vout1 gt 0 lt vout1 gt lt vout2 gt 0 lt vout2 gt lt vout3 gt 1 lt vout3 gt lt vout4 gt 0 lt vout4 gt lt vout5 gt 1 lt vout5 gt lt vout6 gt 0 lt vout6 gt lt vout7 gt 0 lt vout7 gt lt outputrate gt 2 lt outputrate gt lt RealTimeOutput gt lt ConfigurationData gt lt Executed gt Number of auxiliary voltage sensors enabled Set VOut must match real time output select

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