Aloha, Hardline228:
I received mine last weekend. Still struggling to get it to work. Scott McLain was big help to get me going. Still trouble shooting.
Why type of gun and dc are you connecting Parani to?
I bought exact same setup you've purchased with one extended battery to go at the gun. I am powering the Parani with USB from the dc.
SD1000 connects but dc and gun are still not communicating.
Hmm, very interesting. I'm very eager to receive mine. I hope you resolve your issues and it is a simple matter.
My setup is a Trimble 5603 and a TSC3 using Access.
I intend to cut the extra wire and make a adapter to go to the car battery I use with my 5600, make sure that as long as the gun it running so is the radio.
Aloha, Hardline228:
Still no luck with it. I've posted several questions and hoping to find a method that would work. I will post all the details as soon I got it to work.
Keep me posted if you get yours to work.
> I ordered my setup over the weekend:
>
> Item Sku Qty Subtotal
> Dipole Antenna - RP-SMA Right-Hand Thread, 3dBi DAT-G01R 2 $12.00
> DC Power Cable DPA-G01 1 $2.00
> Parani-SD1000 Bluetooth Serial Adapter (No power adapter, No Antenna) SD1000-A1 2 $172.00
> USB Power Cable UPA-G01 1 $3.00
> Subtotal $189.00
> Shipping & Handling $6.95
> Grand Total $195.95
>
> I expect to take delivery by the end of the week and will report back.
Any luck getting yours to work? I still could not get mine to work...
I see there has not been a post on this issue in a while, but I have been attempting to attach the SD1000 to my 5603-TSC2 and it is just not working. I have tried everything under the sun that I can think of but I just cant get the instrument to talk to the DC. I get a little green light action on the RS232-Tx/Rx but that is it. There is a nice article on line about this setup and I have followed it exactly and no luck. One thing I find odd is that the article says to make sure the "data collector instrument will need to be set to communicate with the instrument directly. The normal Baud rate settings will be 9600, 8, None, 1." For the life of me... 1. I can't figure out where to go to tell the DC to communicate directly with the instrument or set the Baud settings. On the instrument settings the model is set to Trimble Auto Detect and has no Baud or direct connect settings. Is there someone out there that can please help me? I have to get rid of the heavy radio it is killing me!
G1survey, post: 408678, member: 12399 wrote: I see there has not been a post on this issue in a while, but I have been attempting to attach the SD1000 to my 5603-TSC2 and it is just not working. I have tried everything under the sun that I can think of but I just cant get the instrument to talk to the DC. I get a little green light action on the RS232-Tx/Rx but that is it. There is a nice article on line about this setup and I have followed it exactly and no luck. One thing I find odd is that the article says to make sure the "data collector instrument will need to be set to communicate with the instrument directly. The normal Baud rate settings will be 9600, 8, None, 1." For the life of me... 1. I can't figure out where to go to tell the DC to communicate directly with the instrument or set the Baud settings. On the instrument settings the model is set to Trimble Auto Detect and has no Baud or direct connect settings. Is there someone out there that can please help me? I have to get rid of the heavy radio it is killing me!
You can't get rid of the radio but you can leave it behind:) leave the setup exactly like you would without the parani but connect the radio brick to the parani and the data collector to the parani. the internal radio in the instrument will speak to the radio brick which is then connected to the data collector by a virtual Bluetooth cable. you can leave the brick at the tripod for most work, or to get a longer range you can leave the brick between you and the instrument as a relay. Hope that helps
Sean R-M, post: 408691, member: 7138 wrote: You can't get rid of the radio but you can leave it behind:) leave the setup exactly like you would without the parani but connect the radio brick to the parani and the data collector to the parani. the internal radio in the instrument will speak to the radio brick which is then connected to the data collector by a virtual Bluetooth cable. you can leave the brick at the tripod for most work, or to get a longer range you can leave the brick between you and the instrument as a relay. Hope that helps
Wow thanks for the reply. I never thought of that! Much like before I only get a green flash on the RS232 but no action or flash on the radio light. Unfortunately, still no luck. I tried using the SD 1000 on an old serial printer and it worked. I also tried putting the sd 1000's between a recon and topcon 7003i and no luck, but I did get a red flash on the RS232 light. Anyone have any more ideas??? Could it be the way the gender changer is working?
hmm not sure what the problem is. I assume that without the parani you are able to connect to the instrument. You have a cable going from the radio to the tsc 2? is there a serial cable on both ends of this connection? is the gender changer you are using a null modem cable or a straight cable. The setup should be pretty simple so it's probably something simple that's wrong. when I first tried to get the paranis working I bought a SD-1100 instead of an SD-1000 by accident and I couldn't get it to work at all so I know what it's like. I finally realized that I bought the wrong one and they were nice enough to take it back and send the correct ones over
Sean R-M, post: 408807, member: 7138 wrote: hmm not sure what the problem is. I assume that without the parani you are able to connect to the instrument. You have a cable going from the radio to the tsc 2? is there a serial cable on both ends of this connection? is the gender changer you are using a null modem cable or a straight cable. The setup should be pretty simple so it's probably something simple that's wrong. when I first tried to get the paranis working I bought a SD-1100 instead of an SD-1000 by accident and I couldn't get it to work at all so I know what it's like. I finally realized that I bought the wrong one and they were nice enough to take it back and send the correct ones over
Hey thanks for the reply. I know, I thought it was going to be so simple too. I am not sure if the gender changer I bought is a null modem and I did not buy it with the sd-1000's. I went ahead and ordered a new one directly from sena, so I hope that would be it. Would there actually be gender changer that did't reverse things? And yes everything works fine with the radio.
All a null modem does that effects the Geod5600 set up is the reversal of pins 2 and 3. You should also wire through pin 5, but, a null modem doesn't change it. Pin diagram https://surveyorconnect.com/community/threads/parani-yet-another-thread.316742/
