Hello Arnel,The survey plus(?) software package gives you half of those anyway for ~$700 or about $300 just for reference line which is the most usefu...
> Also, just to note: if SOME of my observations were off the face of the glass, and some not, we'd see 35mm or more of error. We don't, so it's so...
Hello amdomag,We own 2 TCRP+ instruments, one with an RX controller and the other being run by a CS15 VIVA controller. I have also used a few differen...
> > Lastly, I hope you are scribing your distances and re-measuring the actual distances rather than using the distance you were trying to scrib...
Hello rfc,I have a couple of suggestions which Kent may have covered. Please post the un-rounded measurements. Either make a bracket which squares its...
> I know there was a thread on this earlier but I could not find it so I apologize in advance if this has been answered. > The other day I was s...
hey Kent, can I email you some testing results? you got an email to send to?
> ...why can't I just build a very short right angle bracket that holds my zero-offset prism to a beam of appropriate design?You can do that.> M...
Hello rfc and Kent,I'm going rudimentary on this one. This is just for cyclic error.Go and buy one of the cheap 'Leica style' 17.5mm offset prisms wit...
Hello rfc,Even if you had made all of your measurements (tape and EDM) correctly you still would have a funny graph. The graph in the Rueger test show...
Hello bykhed,Screw the tribrach footscrews almost as tall as they can go, undo the 3 screws holding the plummet to the tribrach and drop it out. Once ...
> part of the reason for the similarity could be that Leica only builds 1" instruments, and then once assembled puts them through a battery of test...
One Face Sighting Does Not Account For Real World Problems> Out in the field you do not get the luxury of perfect setups.> > Interesting test...
ConradA company I once worked for had it; I made them pay for it. But, alas, It went missing when we moved. Lots of interesting stuff in there.
Conrad> For Dr. J.M. Rueger work you want his Monograph 18; Electronic Surveying Instruments, A Review of Principles, Problems and Procedures. Orde...
> One the other hand, since the form of the periodic errors is so well known, it should be possible to figure out the phase of the periodic error w...
Thanks Dave,I would absolutely love to know If what I'm seeing is what is the reality. Two different independent test procedures seem to suggest it is...
> Conrad; very nice charts you have been showing. Have you read any of the literature> on encoders? (just wondering, it looks like you have. If ...
> I'd be interested to see an example of the target design. Previously, I believe you had described targets that were lines of very nearly the same...