
ZENO
®
-3200 USER MANUAL
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atttn<CR><LF> where ttt is the time in seconds required to make the measurement and n is the
number of values that will be collected.
The ZENO
®
-3200 waits for the time specified by the SDI-12 Sensor.
Once the waiting is complete, the ZENO
®
-3200 sends one or more aDx! commands to recover the
measured data where x begins with 0 and increments by one for each successive command required
to recover all of the measured data. A data message sent by SDI-12 Sensor with address 0 in
response might look like 0+1.1-4.5+6+7.7<CR><LF>. Each + or - sign delimits the data
fields.
Continuous SDI-12 Sensor Specifics
A Continuous SDI-12 Sensor operates very similarly to a regular SDI-12 Sensor. The difference is that
the continuous SDI-12 Sensor is continually taking measurements. No aM! command is required.
Instead, a series of aRx! commands are sent to recover the data similar to the aDx! commands sent for
regular SDI-12 Sensors.
Concurrent SDI-12 Sensor Specifics
The Concurrent SDI-12 Sensor type operates quite differently from any other serial sensor type because,
as the name implies, it allows data collection from up to four Concurrent SDI-12 Sensors simultaneously.
The setting of Line Items #10 and #17 in the Sensor Menu are different from the standard and Continuous
SDI-12 Sensor types:
Line Item #10: since up to four Concurrent SDI-12 Sensors can be specified, the Sensor Sample
Count must contain the sum total of the number of data fields reported by up to all four sensors. For
example, data will be collected from three Concurrent SDI-12 Sensors that report 5, 8 and 7 data
fields respectively. The total number of data fields from all three sensors is 5 + 8 + 7 or 20 data
fields. Line Item #10 must be set to 20 by typing the command C10/20{ENTER}.
Line Item #17: similarly, up to four, single-digit SDI-12 addresses can be specified. No delimiting is
used. For example, data will be collected from three Concurrent SDI-12 Sensors whose addresses are
1, 4 and 7. Line Item #17 must be set to 147 by typing the command C17/147{ENTER}. The
ZENO
®
-3200 will interpret each character as individual Concurrent SDI-12 Sensor addresses.
When the ZENO
®
-3200 is ready to collect data from the multiple Concurrent SDI-12 Sensors, the
following steps will occur:
The ZENO
®
-3200 will issue an aC! (start concurrent measurement) command for each configured
Concurrent SDI-12 Sensor, where a is the concurrent SDI-12 sensor address. Each sensor should
respond with the message atttnn<CR><LF> where ttt is the time in seconds required to make
the measurement and nn is the number of values that will be collected.
The ZENO
®
-3200 will collect the data from each configured sensor in ascending order based upon
each sensor's required time to complete a measurement; i.e., the sensor that requires the least amount
of time to complete a measurement will have its data collected first, and so on. To collect the data,
the ZENO
®
-3200 will send one or more aDx! commands where x begins with 0 and increments by
one for each successive command required to recover all of the measured data for that sensor. A data
message sent in response by a Concurrent SDI-12 Sensor with address 0 might look like 0+1.1-
4.5+6+7.7<CR><LF>. Each + or - sign delimits the data fields. This process will be repeated for
each Concurrent SDI-12 Sensor as its data becomes available.
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