leica 1100 robotic controllers

I am running my 1998 model TCA 1100 with an older Ranger with TDS Survey Pro software. My radios are long range bluetooth put together by Troy Deaton:

http://www.geo-tronics.com

Hi Brad

Thanks for the reply. Are you able to send me a photo of your setup? You use bluetooth so you have swapped the standard 1100 radio for an external bluetooth radio on the instrument? What about on the Ranger?

I'll have a look at the link you sent aswell.

Thanks

Matt

Hi Brad

Brilliant. Ok, so one attaches to 1100 via lehmo plug and the other steps to you pogo/rod and attaches to Ranger.

I'm guessing there are some settings that need altering on the 1100 as your no longer using the standard radio?

mattb, post: 382617, member: 8629 wrote: Hi Brad

Brilliant. Ok, so one attaches to 1100 via lehmo plug and the other steps to you pogo/rod and attaches to Ranger.

I'm guessing there are some settings that need altering on the 1100 as your no longer using the standard radio?

The settings are pretty straight forward. Really what you're doing is tricking the robot into thinking it's being run by a wired connection. I ran a 1105 with an Allegro CX for a while using this method but with Piranni SD Bluetooth radios. That setup worked slick and had very measureable increases in productivity over using the original RCS1100 controller.

In my opinion nothing beats the Allegro CE/CX with integrated radio pod and SurvCE with the 1100 robots. You'll need a TPS27 or RM2410 base radio, external battery, and Y cable to make it work.

Let me know if you need some help finding these items.

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I've known Troy for many, many years, and he developed the Bantam radio system for Hayes when he was the service manager for them. The parani radios are what is inside of the black cases. Hayes no longer sells the Bantam radios now that Troy is no longer there.

He has a similar setup available at his website.

I am using a TDS Nomad with a Parani SD 1000 trimmed and fitted inside the GPS cap ( no gps card inside ). I ran 5 wires inside the case from the bottom serial boot to the top cap. 3 wires for Rx, Tx, G and 2 more wires for charging parani's extended battery. This way , when I change the DC, I charge the radio as well. The extended battery is supposed to last 16 hours. I never ran out of juice in either DC, or the radio. I drilled a hole on top of the GPS cap to run the antenna connector through it and I tightened the antenna on top of a thin rubber gasket. This setup it's been in rain and snow many times and it still works. At the Robot (TCRA 1103) side I am using an external 12V battery to power both the Instrument and the radio. I am using a Y cable for this setup. Survce 5 drives the robot without any problems. Range is great (400m). I lost power search ability before I lost Bluetooth connection.

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