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Table of Contents
I. INTRODUCTION & QUICK START........................................................................................1
A. LASER DIFFRACTION AND THE LISST-DEEP............................................................................1
B. GENERAL DESCRIPTION.........................................................................................................4
C. QUICK START TUTORIAL ........................................................................................................6
II. OPERATION DETAILS.........................................................................................................20
A. STEP BY STEP PROCEDURES...............................................................................................21
1. Installing Software ........................................................................................................21
2. Establishing Communication with the LISST-Deep......................................................22
3. Saving and Evaluating Clean Water Backgrounds.......................................................23
4. Configuring Data Collection..........................................................................................26
5. Offloading and Deleting Data Files from Internal Memory ...........................................30
6. Processing a Single Raw Data File ..............................................................................31
7. Batch Processing Multiple Raw Data Files...................................................................33
8. View Processed Data File.............................................................................................35
9. Data Quality Control .....................................................................................................36
10. Real-Time Data Processing with LISST-200X Software..........................................38
11. Autonomous Real-time Data Processing .................................................................40
12. Collecting Data from External Analog Sensors........................................................42
13. Configuring the LISST-Deep as a Sensor for a CTD...............................................43
B. START AND STOP CONDITIONS.............................................................................................44
C. INSTRUMENT COMMUNICATION.............................................................................................46
D. DIRECT COMMAND SUMMARY ..............................................................................................47
E. COMMAND DETAILS .............................................................................................................48
1. Display Commands.......................................................................................................48
2. Setup Commands.........................................................................................................51
3. Acquisition/Action commands.......................................................................................56
F. PERFORMANCE OPTIMIZATION .............................................................................................58
G. MOUNTING AND ORIENTATION,STORAGE .............................................................................61
APPENDIX A: TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS...........................................................................62
APPENDIX B: PARTICLE SIZE BINS ..........................................................................................64
APPENDIX C: DATA FILE FORMATS .........................................................................................65
APPENDIX D: MATLAB DATA PROCESSING............................................................................68
APPENDIX E: CONNECTORS .....................................................................................................70
Communications and Power Connector................................................................................70
Auxiliary I/O Connector..........................................................................................................71
Viewing and Setting the Auxiliary I/O Configuration..............................................................72
APPENDIX F: PARTICLE SHAPE MODELS ...............................................................................74
APPENDIX G: ANALOG OUTPUTS.............................................................................................75
APPENDIX H: TROUBLESHOOTING & SUPPORT....................................................................76
REVISION HISTORY.....................................................................................................................77
