Spectra Precision ProFlex 800 User Manual
ProFlex™ 800
Getting Started Guide
Backpack
Conguration
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Table of Contents
What is ProFlex 800? .................................................................1
Scope of this Guide ....................................................................2
System Components Overview......................................................3
ProFlex 800 Basic Supply ......................................................3
Standard Accessories.............................................................4
Optional Accessories..............................................................5
Equipment Description & Basic Functions ....................................7
Front View ............................................................................7
Rear View .............................................................................9
Buzzer................................................................................11
Battery Model & Battery Compartment...................................12
Special Button Combinations................................................12
Charging Batteries Before Use...................................................14
Removing the Battery from the ProFlex 800...........................14
Charging the Battery ............................................................14
Inserting the Battery in the ProFlex 800 ................................15
Display Screens .......................................................................16
Power-On Screen .................................................................16
General Status Screen..........................................................16
Memory Screens..................................................................18
Receiver Identification Screen ..............................................19
Position Computation Screen................................................19
ATL Recording Screen..........................................................20
Memory Management Screen................................................21
Screen Backlight .................................................................22
Data Transfer Screen ...........................................................22
Mounting Options.....................................................................23
Backpack Mount..................................................................23
Tripod Mount ......................................................................23
Bottom Mount .....................................................................23
Cradle Mount ......................................................................23
Temporary RTK Base Setup.......................................................24
Prerequisites.......................................................................24
ADL Vantage (Pro) Radio Link...............................................25
Embedded Transceiver (ADL Foundation)...............................26
RTK Rover Setup......................................................................27
Prerequisites.......................................................................27
Preparing the Backpack .......................................................27
Logging Raw Data ....................................................................30
Starting/Stopping Raw Data Logging......................................30
Downloading Raw Data.........................................................30
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What is ProFlex 800?
Congratulations! You have just acquired a ProFlex 800 GNSS
receiver from Spectra Precision!
GNSS have revolutionized control surveys, topographic data
collection, construction surveying, marine surveying and
machine guidance and control. Purchasing the right tools for
a professional job is essential in today's competitive business
environment. Learning to put these tools to work quickly and
efficiently will be the focus of this manual.
ProFlex 800 is a flexible, rugged and high-performance
GNSS receiver integrating the best of today’s technologies,
including the exclusive Z-Blade™ algorithms and multiconstellation (GPS+GLONASS+GALILEO+SBAS+QZSS)
capabilities.
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Scope of this Guide
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This guide is designed to help you rapidly familiarize yourself
with your new equipment. It is more particularly focused on
land surveying applications, when the ProFlex 800 is carried
in a backpack and used with a data collector and survey field
software.
However, other applications (machine guidance and marine
surveying) are suggested in this guide, for example when
describing the receiver (connectors, available accessories,
etc.), and when presenting the different ways of installing the
receiver. For detailed information about using ProFlex 800 in
applications other than land surveying implying the use of a
backpack, please refer to the ProFlex 800 Reference Manual.
For the sake of conciseness, only a selection of the many
ProFlex 800 functions are presented in this guide.
Most notably, in the survey setups section, only the use of
radios is fully described in the implementation of the data
link. The other solutions are only outlined. For a full
description of these solutions, please refer to the ProFlex 800
Reference Manual.
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System Components Overview
The tables below provide an overview of the different key
items composing the ProFlex 800. The list of items is
intentionally limited to those more particularly required to
operate a temporary base, and a rover in backpack
configuration. The complete list of items is provided in the
ProFlex 800 Reference Manual.
Depending on your purchase and based on the type of survey
you wish to perform, you may only have some of the listed
items. Please refer to the packing list for an accurate
description of the equipment that has been delivered to you.
Spectra Precision reserves the right to make changes to the
items listed below without prior notice.
ProFlex 800
Basic Supply
ProFlex 800 Basic: ProFlex 800 L1/L2 GPS
Receiver with standard accessories:
• 1 x Li-Ion rechargeable battery pack
• AC/DC power supply kit
• USB cable, host to device, 20 cm
• Serial interface cable
• Ethernet cable
• Bluetooth antenna
• Cellular antenna
• 2-Hz update rate
• Transport bag
• Dual-frequency tracking [P]
• Limited RTK [L]
– No limitation in base mode
– Baseline limited to 3 km in rover mode
– All protocols available: RTCM-2.3, RTCM3,
CMR/CMR+, ATOM
(+ DBEN and LRK in rover mode)
ProFlex 800 Basic (above) + ADL Foundation
radio (internal transceiver TRx 430-470 MHz)
NOTE: UHF antenna not included in this part
number but available as a separate item.
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Item Part Number Picture
990658-ASH
990658-30ASH
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Standard
Accessories
(Can also be ordered separately as spare parts using part
numbers mentioned below.)
Item Part Number Picture
Cellular antenna (quad-band) 111397
Bluetooth antenna 111403
7.4 V-4.6 Ah Li-ion Battery Pack (rechargeable) 111374
USB Host-to-Device Cable, 0.2 m
Makes ProFlex 800 a USB device.
Ethernet adaptor cable
Serial data cable 700461
AC/DC Power Supply Kit (includes external AC
adapter, battery charger and cable extension for
powering ProFlex 800 directly from the AC
adapter)
Transport bag 206490
702104
702426
802064
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Optional
Accessories
GNSS Antennas
Item Part Number Picture
ASH-661 L1/L2/L5 GNSS antenna,
gain: 38 dB
ASH-660 L1 GNSS antenna,
gain: 38 dB
802135
802133
UHF Antennas
Item Part Number Picture
Whip antenna, TNC adapter, 410-430 MHz C3310190
Whip antenna, TNC adapter, 430-450 MHz C3310196
Whip antenna, TNC adapter, 450-470 MHz C3310188
Transmitter Kits
Item Part Number Picture
87330-00: ADL Vantage Kit, 430-470 MHz,
4 W
87330-20: Accessory kit, 430-450 MHz
87330-10: Accessory kit, 450-470 MHz
ADL Vantage
ADL Vantage Pro
Each accessory kit includes a unity-gain
antenna, a range pole mount, a tripod
mount system, a battery accessory kit (without the battery) and a Vantage/Vantage Pro
programming cable.
87400-00: ADL Vantage Pro Kit, 430-470
MHz, 35 W
87400-20: Accessory kit, 430-450 MHz
87400-10: Accessory kit, 450-470 MHz
Each accessory kit includes a unity-gain
antenna, a range pole mount, a tripod
mount system, a 35-W radio battery bag
with 2 x 6’ cables (without the battery) and a
Vantage/Vantage Pro programming cable.
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Transmitter
alone
Transmitter
alone
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Other Accessories
Item Part Number Picture
Survey Backpack Kit, includes:
•Backpack
• 7.4 V-4.6 Ah Li-ion Battery Pack (rechargeable)
• GNSS cable with push-pull system consisting of PP-m/TNC-m 50-Ohm coaxial cable,
1.50 m, and PP/TNC-m 50-Ohm coaxial
cable, 0.75 m.
• Range pole for UHF antenna (includes 0.50meter pole with 5/8” female adaptor, TNC
receptacle and TNC-female/TNC-female
cable extension, 0.80 meter long)
• HI measurement tool
890309
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Equipment Description & Basic Functions
Front View
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From left to right:
Bluetooth Antenna
A coaxial female connector (reverse SMA type) allowing you
to connect a Bluetooth antenna for wireless communication
with a field terminal or other device.
Cellular Antenna
A coaxial female connector (SMA type) allowing you to
connect a cellular antenna. A cellular antenna is required
when the ProFlex 800 sends or receives RTK or differential
corrections data via its internal cellular modem (GSM).
Take care not to swap the Bluetooth antenna and the cellular
antenna. The picture below shows where the shorter and
longer antennas should be connected.
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USB Host & Device
A nine-contact female connector (Fischer type). Depending
on how it is configured, the USB port can be used in two
different ways:
1. For a USB host, such as a mass storage device using
optional device cable P/N 702104.
2. For a USB device allowing ProFlex 800 to be seen as a
disk from the computer connected to this port. In this
configuration, files can be transferred between the
ProFlex 800’s internal memory and the computer using
the USB cable provided (P/N 702103).
Display Screen
The display consists of a 128 x 64-pixel, 1.5-inch
monochrome yellow screen using organic LED technology
(OLED).
Used in conjunction with the Scroll button, the display screen
allows you to view different pages of information. See Display
Screens on page 16 for a detailed description of the
information available from this screen.
After a few seconds of inactivity (i.e. Scroll button idle),
screen luminosity turns from high to low level.
Power button
To turn on the ProFlex 800, hold the Power button pressed
until the power LED lights up.
To turn off the ProFlex 800, hold the Power button pressed
until the “Ashtech” screen is displayed. Then release the
button and wait until the ProFlex 800 shuts down.
Power LED
• This indicator light is off when the ProFlex 800 is off and
no external power source is connected to the DC power
input.
• It is on and red when an external power source is present
at the DC power input and the ProFlex 800 is off.
• It is on and green when the ProFlex 800 is on, regardless
of whether it is powered from the internal battery or an
external power source.
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