AQUAlogger 210 Deployment Guide

The AQUAlogger 210 has many settings, that we hope meet every need of the user. Deployment settings are listed below as a guide to how you can use the instrument. All of these settings are configurable via Windows software.

Logger Description

All Aquatec Loggers have a user defined text field that allows the user to store detailed information about the particular deployment.

Deployment Start Time

All are Loggers have inbuilt Real Time Clocks that can be set up to the users time prior to deployment. The user can then set up a start time so that they can ensure all their loggers start logging at the same time. Alternatively the logging can be started instantly. Either way you know your logger is reading parameters correctly via the real time display on the software.

Channel Set-Up

It is possible to enable all or some of the sensors on a logger. Typically the logger will have a minimum of the main sensor channel (e.g. temperature) and a battery voltage channel. Channels can be enabled or disabled as required - disabling channels will reduce the data storage requirement. Also all channels have an averaging option to allow the data to be averaged over a period of time. Aditionally, where a sensor such as turbidity is used, a gain setting for each individual channel can be set. See right for an example setup.

Logging Rate / Burst Mode

Loggers can operate in two modes: - burst and continuous.
Burst Mode - Data is acquired in bursts with a time stamp for each burst. A burst can have multiple samples, or just one sample, but each burst has a time stamp in addition to the data, to allow the user to know when the burst was aquired.
Continuous Mode - Bursts are not used and samples are stored without time stamps (as their interval is determined by the regime used in setting up the logger).

logging Duration / Memory

Aquatec data loggers can log for a set number of samples or unitil the memory is full, or the battery is flat. If the battery does become flat during a deployment no data is lost as the memory is non-volatile.