I recently purchased a Trimble S3 and to delay the expense of addinig an internal radio to my Ranger 3 I have been using a set of Parani bluetooth radios for communication. I have one radio at the instrument connected via a Trimble db9 to lemo cable and the other radio connected to the dc via a serial cable. The setup has worked great with no delays in communication with great range. The only problem I have is when the dc tries to reconnect to the instrument after communication has been broken by the dc turninig off, a cable comming loose or getting in the truck to drive to a point. The dc will re-find the instrument and try to connect but seems to crash. It will keep finding the instrument and trying to connect but wont reconnect until I reboot the dc. Im not sure if the comm port is crashing or what is happening and I can usually avoid communication being broken, but was wondering if anyone had any ideas for setting that may eliminate the problem. The dc is running survey pro 5.2.1 setup to for a direct/cable connection and I have the Paranis set for a baud rate of 115200.
That is something that Trimble equipment will not allow. Save yourself the headache and just have the internal radio installed. The ease of operation will be your pay off.
I plan on adding the internal radio, just trying to postone the $3,000 upgrade.
Which part are you reffering to that Trimble won't allow? For two months now the bluetooth radios have worked great after the initial connection and seem to give more range than the internal radio that I demoed. The only hicup is on the rare occasion that it has to reconnect when communication is broken. Communication is only broken if the dc powers down or a cable comes loose, or the rod is put in the truck to drive to a point. I can avoid most of these situations, but it seems that if it connects the first time it should do it again.
Good to know the Parani situation is working with Trimble.