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  Category : Measurement Related (40) | | Question : MR 01: What does it mean that the RDCP 600 has multiple column feature? (1) | | Question : MR 02: How does RDCP studio work, what are the advantages with this software and what should we look at to get a quick overview of the data and their quality? (1) | | Question : MR 03: What is the maximum number of cells? (1) | | Question : MR 04: What is the minimum number of cells in a column? (1) | | Question : MR 05: Is the Recording Doppler Current Profiler RDCP 600 well suited for surface current measurements? (1) | | Question : MR 06: What is cell overlap? (1) | | Question : MR 07: What is the benefit of cell overlap? (1) | | Question : MR 08: What is the difference between referring the measurement to the surface versus the instrument? (1) | | Question : MR 09: Can the Recording Doppler Current Profiler RDCP 600 be programmed to measure both surface referred and instrument referred cells in the same sample period? (1) | | Question : MR 10: What is the instrument’s maximum measurement range? (1) | | Question : MR 11: What is the most important factor when range is determined? (1) | | Question : MR 12: How much cell overlap is possible? (1) | | Question : MR 13: How much cell overlap is recommended? (1) | | Question : MR 14: How close to the instrument can the Recording Doppler Current Profiler RDCP 600 measure? (1) | | Question : MR 15: How close to the surface can the Recording Doppler Current Profiler RDCP 600 measure? (1) | | Question : MR 16: Which parameters can the Recording Doppler Current Profiler RDCP 600 measure in addition to current? (1) | | Question : MR 17: What are the available ranges for Temperature and Conductivity sensors? (1) | | Question : MR 18: Can Water Level data be sampled at different intervals than the Current measurements? (1) | | Question : MR 19: Will extra protecting rods on the In-line frame affect the instrument and the measurements? (1) | | Question : MR 20: Temperature, salinity and depth are used as calculation parameters when estimating 'speed of sound'. How important are the different parameters when it comes to accuracy? (1) | | Question : MR 21: How is current measured? (1) | | Question : MR 22: My results indicate that the data in one of the beams are useless, is it possible to remove those data from the dataset? (1) | | Question : MR 23: Is the vertical direction upwards defined as positive or negative? (1) | | Question : MR 24: What do I do to make the instrument look down? (1) | | Question : MR 25: Is it possible to use the signal strength from the RDCP 600 to measure particle concentration in the water column, i.e. is there a correlation between signal strength and turbidity? (1) | | Question : MR 26: Can the cell size be smaller than the pulse length? (1) | | Question : MR 27: At retrieval, I found that the current measurements were missing, while the other sensor parameters were fine. What have happened to the current data? (1) | | Question : MR 28: My data gives me that I have got a pitch of 10 and a roll of 5, what does this mean? (1) | | Question : MR 29: How is the heading defined? (1) | | Question : MR 30: Will the configuration setting be stored on the RDCP if I remove the battery? (1) | | Question : MR 31: What is important when measuring the surface current? (1) | | Question : MR 32: Is it possible to store several configuration settings on the instrument? (1) | | Question : MR 33: Is it possible to store configuration settings on the MMC card in order to transfer them to another instrument? (1) | | Question : MR 34: When we compare pressure data with depth data there are big disparities. Why? (1) | | Question : MR 35: I have done some testing with my RDCP 600 in my office. Relative pressure does not follow absolute pressure in the period with minimum pressure, but flats out. Why? (1) | | Question : MR 36: Is there any recommendations on how the short external battery case should be mounted in the 'old' white bottom mooring frame? (1) | | Question : MR 37: We have acoustic release on our instrument, will this influence the measurements and how is this seen? (1) | | Question : MR 39: What sensors do I need to have surface referred columns? (1) | | Question : MR 40: How do I determine range of RDCP 600 in a deployment? (1) | | Question : MR38: Do I need to calculate speed of sound to get good measurements? (1) | | Category : Power Supply, Maintenance and General (28) | | Question : PS 01: How can I ensure that the power consumption is low enough to last the entire deployment period? (1) | | Question : PS 02: Will the instrument show the power consumption? (1) | | Question : PS 03: What parameter should I change to increase the battery's lifetime? (1) | | Question : PS 04: How can we check the battery performance (lithium battery)? (1) | | Question : PS 05: How can the ping count data be used for troubleshooting? (1) | | Question : PS 06: My ping count values decrease during my deployment. What should I do? (1) | | Question : PS 07: My ping count numbers fluctuates around the given ping count value, is that normal? (1) | | Question : PS 08: My ping count numbers decreased during the deployment, but the current data looks fine for the whole deployment period. May I use the data? (1) | | Question : PS 09: How is the quality of the data influenced by the number of pings? (1) | | Question : PS 10: The pressure sensor, the oxygen sensor and the temperature sensor seem to fail at approximately the same time. My conductivity sensor 4019 does not fail. Why? (1) | | Question : PS 12: How do fouling affect the current measurements? (1) | | Question : PS 13: How often is maintenance necessary? (1) | | Question : PS 14: What is the Recording Doppler Current Profiler RDCP 600's internal degree of protection(IP)? (1) | | Question : PS 15: How is the compass tested on site? (1) | | Question : PS 16: How well verified are the electronic principals used in the RDCP 600? (1) | | Question : PS 17: What about warranty? (1) | | Question : PS 18: How likely is it that my storage card gets full under deployment? (1) | | Question : PS 19: How can I upgrade my instrument? (1) | | Question : PS 20: Will there be a test unit similar to that used for the RCM 9/11? (1) | | Question : PS 21: What is the clock accuracy of the RDCP 600? (1) | | Question : PS 22: Which main parameters affect the power consumption? (1) | | Question : PS 23: Is it necessary to remove the internal battery when I use power from land? (1) | | Question : PS 24: Is it OK to apply anti-marine-growth paint or resin film on the surface of the transceiver head and the temperature sensor? If this causes any problems, what are they? (1) | | Question : PS 25: How can we see that the instrument starts to be covered by sand, mud and corals? (1) | | Question : PS 26: Where is the compass located? (1) | | Question : PS 27: Is it possible to use both intern and extern battery at the same time? (1) | | Question : PS 28: How can I make my own batteries for RDCP 600? (1) | | Question : PS 29: How can I save error logs from RDCP 600? (1) | | Category : RDCP Studio (24) | | Question : RS 01: Which software may be used to analyse the data stored on the RDCP 600? (1) | | Question : RS 02: How does RDCP studio work, what are the advantages with this software and what should we look at to get a quick overview of the data and their quality? (1) | | Question : RS 03: What are good values of signal strength? (1) | | Question : RS 04: What is attenuation? (1) | | Question : RS 05: What are good values for single ping standard deviation and what are bad values? (1) | | Question : RS 06: What is beam speed? (1) | | Question : RS 07: What are good values of beam speed? (1) | | Question : RS 08: Why is heading important to measure? (1) | | Question : RS 09: What is tilt compared to roll and pitch? (1) | | Question : RS 10: How is tilt compensated in the velocity calculation? (1) | | Question : RS 11:In RDCP Studio, why is some of the time scaling missing on some plots? (1) | | Question : RS 12: Why is the scaling of the plots not adjusted to the data? (1) | | Question : RS 13: What does the 'Scatter Graph' plot show? (1) | | Question : RS 14: What does the 'Rose Graph' plot show? (1) | | Question : RS 15: How can I export data to ASCII text format? (1) | | Question : RS 16: When I open my data in RDCP Studio I only get the configuration information, the data is missing. Why? (1) | | Question : RS 17: When I open my data in RDCP Studio I only get the configuration information and some of my data list. What have happened with the missing data? (1) | | Question : RS 18: My data consists of a deployment that lasted for a long period; I am not interested in all of the data. Is it possible to save only parts of the records? (1) | | Question : RS 19: What does the .rds file contain? (1) | | Question : RS 20: When I analyse my data in RDCP Studio, I realize that some of the cells give poor data. How can I remove these cells? (1) | | Question : RS 21: Is it possible to export data from RDCP Studio for use in MATLAB? (1) | | Question : RS 22: I have a column with only one cell. Why are my 3D plots in RDCP Studio empty? (1) | | Question : RS 23: Where do I find the standard deviation for my current measurements? (1) | | Question : RS 24: My ping count drops in short periods, why? (1) | | Category : Settings, Storage and Communication (13) | | Question : SS 01: Do I need to connect a PC to the Recording Doppler Current Profiler RDCP 600 to set it up? (1) | | Question : SS 02: Is it possible to configure my instrument after deployment? (1) | | Question : SS 03: Does the RDCP 600 include any configuration assistance? (1) | | Question : SS 04: Can a log file for all commands be produced? (1) | | Question : SS 05: Is it possible to download the settings and configurations (copy the library) in case it may disappear during an upgrade? (1) | | Question : SS 06: What is the data storage capacity of the Recording Doppler Current Profiler RDCP 600? (1) | | Question : SS 07: Can data be downloaded via USB for faster transmission of data? (1) | | Question : SS 08: Can the memory card withstand moisture from wet fingers/salt water etc? (1) | | Question : SS 09: How can we get real-time data? (1) | | Question : SS 10: I’m planning to replace my Doppler Current Meter DCM 12 with an Recording Doppler Current Profiler RDCP 600 for use together with an Automatic Weather Station AWS 2700; how should I transfer data? Are there any special considerations to take into a (1) | | Question : SS 11: Is PDC-4 raw data and which coefficients are needed? (1) | | Question : SS 12: How can real-time data be displayed? (1) | | Question : SS 13: What type of MMC-card do you recommend? (1) | | Category : Wave Analysis Program (2) | | Question : Can the RDCP 600 measure waves? (1) | | Question : For which wave periods can the RDCP 600 measure waves? (1) |
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