Trimble 6734890 Users Manual

Version 4.15
Revision A
April 2010

GETTING STARTED GUIDE

Trimble SPS852 Modular GPS

Receiver

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SPS852 Getting Started Guide

Table of Contents

Introduction ........................................................................................................................................................... 3

Related information .......................................................................................................................................... 3

Technical support ............................................................................................................................................. 3

Your comments ................................................................................................................................................ 3

Safety Information ................................................................................................................................................ 5

Use and care ..................................................................................................................................................... 5

Regulations and safety ..................................................................................................................................... 5

Type approval .................................................................................................................................................. 5

Exposure to radio frequency radiation ............................................................................................................. 5

Installing antennas ............................................................................................................................................ 7

Battery safety ................................................................................................................................................... 7

Changing the Radio module ............................................................................................................................. 8

Wet locations .................................................................................................................................................... 8

Use of Power over Ethernet ............................................................................................................................. 9

Batteries and Power ............................................................................................................................................ 10

Battery safety ................................................................................................................................................. 10

Charging the Lithium-ion batteries ................................................................................................................ 10

SPS Modular with internal battery only ......................................................................................................... 11

Using the Lithium-ion battery as a Universal Power Supply (UPS) .............................................................. 11

Removing t he rechargeable Lithium-ion battery ............................................................................................ 11

Storing the Lithium-ion battery ...................................................................................................................... 11

Power over Ethernet (PoE) ............................................................................................................................. 12

External power ............................................................................................................................................... 12

Keypad and display ............................................................................................................................................. 14

Button operations ................................................................................................................................................ 15

Power button operations ..................................................................................................................................... 16

Home screen ....................................................................................................................................................... 17

Status screens ...................................................................................................................................................... 19

Radio status .................................................................................................................................................... 19

Configuri ng system settings ................................................................................................................................ 20

Turning off AutoBase technology .................................................................................................................. 21

SPS852 signal tracking ....................................................................................................................................... 22

Managing application files .................................................................................................................................. 23

Default Settings ................................................................................................................................................... 24

Default receiver settings ................................................................................................................................. 24

Resetting the receiver to factory defaults ....................................................................................................... 24

Default behavior ............................................................................................................................................. 25

Logging data .................................................................................................................................................. 25

Adding Radio Frequencies .................................................................................................................................. 26

Adding receive frequencies for the 450 MHz internal receive radio .............................................................. 26

Setting UHF reception radio frequencies using the web interface ................................................................. 28

Troubleshooting .................................................................................................................................................. 29

Glossary .............................................................................................................................................................. 30

Legal Notices ...................................................................................................................................................... 35

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