I think that's what Mike uses. I am browsing El Boardo and about to pour another cup of coffee and then head on over to Keller and start learning the in's and out's of this instrument.
When Mike and I went and did that pool location survey a few days back, I was pretty impressed with the gun. It was the first time I had seen a robot in action. Mike has some work planned for me this coming week and I want to get down the basics on using a robot before doing anything that really counts.
Just call me Button Pusher guys
What data collector are you using, we use Allegro's running SurvCE on out 1201's and 1205's.
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Very good gun, spend a good deal of time learning how to reacquire lock. All robots lose lock, just part of the limitations inherent with anything. The ability to get going again is very important. When all else fails, I jump into stakeout mode and stake the last shot if it is close, then go back to it and the gun will have the correct vertical. The lights are your friends, use them with the joystick feature to dial back in again.
Everything else is nothing you haven't seen before, just a matter of familiarizing yourself with where the menus are located.
If you use a clinometer to set the Zenith angle you can run the instruemnt left and right until you catch the lights then you can acquire lock with no problem. I use a 1100, and with a little experience getting lock back isn't too difficult.
T.W.
I use a guy named Jason, he points the gun at me and operates the DC too!
Sometimes he uses me for the same thing.
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Feel my pain, I bought an older used TCA 1103 without the EGL feature, so no lights. I can see where someone who had never used one would lose interest pretty quickly.
The DC is a Leica and the software is Carlson. I'm getting the hang of it, and like it was said, it's just getting familiar with the menus and so forth.
I do like what I have seen..:good:
The big difference in Leicas is whether or not it has "Power" in the name. Power search is awesome, just be careful as it can lock onto other things sometimes.
Leica 1200 Robot..Adam
Power Search is an option.
Leica 1200 Robot..Adam
I know, does the one your using have it?
Tom Wilson
Howdy TW, glad to see you found beer leg!
I am still struggling to get my Leica TCA 1100 to talk to my recently delivered DC 50.
John E has been less responsive these last few weeks than I thought he would be.
I will keep you posted.
Leica 1200 Robot..Adam
I know, does the one your using have it?
Yes it does Adam
Then you shouldn't experience too many of the problems mentioned above.
Just remember to wear safety vests wrong side out. You'll see what I mean.
Keep an eye on your angles, if they are constantly changing while you are moving you're probably locked, but if you are not sure stand still and cover the prism with your hand, if you lose lock it's got you. I always thought that was a quick and easy way to make sure the gun is locked onto you and not a tail light.
Things to watch out for: Pieces of quartz in mortar joints, reflective tape, holographic stickers on the backs of road signs, road signs, tail lights, etc.
All of these are from experience.
Learn to use your EGL's and you should be fine. Leica robots track really well for the most part, though.
One other thing I like to do is to watch the coded linework in map view. This is always a quick QC on the robot tracking.