> > file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/User1/My%20Documents/Downloads/KiG7a_Solaric_N.pdfHello Kent,That link looks like it's to your own har...
> Could this be confirmed by performing the following simple test?:> 1. Set up the instrument and a single target group consisting of two fairly...
Pretty much identical to the field test that finally showed me we had a systematic 'error' in our 1205+.Cheers.
> 1. Instruments like the Leica TPS1200 and now the new Viva TS11 and TS15 are all built the same. They could all be 1 second instruments. It i...
Leica TPMIf the TPM is the machine mentioned in the white paper for the TS30 then yep I've heard of it.
The Leica PatentFrom the patent:>Sources of error, such as, for example, circle graduation errors, can also be determined and appropriately correct...
Kent, the network adjustment was minimally constrained so the position for each round was recomputed from all available data.Just about my procedures,...
Don't worry about the thread title; obviously such a subjective description of a good scientific instrument was a bit tongue-in-cheek.
Not to be argumentative...> but my 5" Total Station doesn't suck...ha ha, I'm sure she's lovely!
Hello Jimmy,As a staff member of a semi-rural practice I do any kind of work that is put on my desk, which is usually cadastral survey of rural or urb...
Hello rfc,I've been a member at another forum, discussing motor oils of all things, and they have several members from the pointy end of the industry ...
Hello Dave,The more I think about circles being graded and sorted according to how good they are, and that the difference between 1", 5" and 10" is ba...
> But when you rotated the tribrach, you used the resection to determine the coordinates of the new instrument center, right? Over how large a sect...
> I wonder if perhaps I've misunderstood some element of the test procedure. Just to confirm: the target array you measured directions to consisted...
Similar to the thoughts I posited a few posts above.
Hello Larry,Thanks for the info.From which manufacturer or manufacturers do you take your information, and which manufacturer was running these roboti...
TargetsHello rfc,I'm not relying in any way on comparing the absolute distance between the targets compared with the apparent distance at different vi...
> Have you ever found any more detailed descriptions of how your instrument is constructed, as in numbers and arrangement of circle readers?There i...
> Why do you suppose there are four periods in th graph?I wouldn't have a clue!I'm going to go waaaaaaaay out on a limb here and posit, without pro...