Topic: Climatronics 102683

[My-Spot]

Hi All,

Not expecting anyone to know the answer to this, but I though I would try. I picked up a couple Climatronics 102683 Sonimometers. I have hooked them up via RS-232 and they seem to work, however the data output seems to be non-standard. I have popped an email to Climatronics' support but I do not expect a reply. Anyway, Per the manual, the output format should look like this...

01+H0012 02+006.8 03+063.2CR/LF

However it looks like this instead...
...
-00.9, -00.6, 050.2,*0926
-01.0, -00.6, 049.8,*0932
-00.8, -00.5, 050.1,*0923
...
 This seems to be a diagnostic mode or a custom non-standard output. This is mostly decipherable: NS Vector, EW Vector, Compass Heading deg, and *???? (no idea!)

A query to the firmware shows...
Climatronics 102683 - V1.2.5 - S/N: 0598 - 0100 - JOB: 8671
Firmware Version Main=1.2.5 Sonic=1.1.1

Any thoughts? Anyone recognize this output format (esp the "code" at the end) or know anyway to reset the output to something standard?

Frank

[Clarkey]

N-S Vector, E-W Vector, Compass Heading in Deg adjusted for Mag Decl setting, Checksum
The 'code' is just a checksum value ...

This model has a special customer specific Firmware version and the only way to change the output string is to return to the factory for standard Firmware as far as I know

[My-Spot]

N-S Vector, E-W Vector, Compass Heading in Deg adjusted for Mag Decl setting, Checksum
The 'code' is just a checksum value ...

This model has a special customer specific Firmware version and the only way to change the output string is to return to the factory for standard Firmware as far as I know

Thanks - Your confirmation is useful as I eventually came to the same conclusions - The first sample I got had a glitch in the output that made it tricky to decipher, the second (replaced for free) was stable and made figuring out the output pretty easy, I have not yet worked out the checksum but it hasn't been a high priority. The output is totally usable for the purposes of my DIY WX stations...