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Trimble 5600 / Geodimeter 600 Battery Replacement

Does anyone know how to remove & replace the internal CR2430 Lithium Coin Battery 3V on a Trimble 5600/Geodimeter Alpha CU kepad as in the photo. It has a clip holding it in place and I cant extract the battery. Any help much appreciated.

Started by John Jones in Trimble Equipment

7 Replies · Reply by Alfredo Rico Sep 8, 2023

GEO Ambassador

Trimble 5600 Service Tips/ batteries

Did you know? (Service Tips)

If your Trimble Geodimeter Series 600 or 5600 displays an "Internal Memory Battery Expired" message, the internal memory backup batteries must be replaced as soon as possible or you risk the loss of the Firmware, BIOS, Hex

Started by Skip Farrow

2 Replies · Reply by Rich Aug 3, 2023

Land Surveyor

5601 HELP

I purchased a 5601 +dr 200. The controller says program lost. Do I send it back or can I use with a trimble data collector/ controller. I have a limited time to return it but id like to keep it. I would like to set it up for one man boundry survey

Started by Wayne Porter in Trimble Equipment

2 Replies · Reply by Jerry Gilleland Apr 27, 2022

Land Surveyor

Trimble R8-3 Dropping Satellites

I have a R8-3 with TSC2 with Access 2016.02. I use as a VRS rover and when I start a session I usually have 20 to 24 satelites. After a while I will get the message girl telling me "waiting on satellites" and I will have to shut down and restart the

Started by Ronald Berry in Trimble Equipment

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Land Surveyor

Including Taped distances as observations in Trimble Access to help with Network adjustments for ALTA/NSPS minimum standards reports

Hello everyone,

My name is Chris Siebern and a am a professional land surveyor in Indiana, United states of America. We have survey procedures in place that keep all of our staked corners within the ALTA/NSPS minimum standards most of the time. Wher

Started by Chris Siebern in Trimble Support, Trimble Equipment, and How-to Trimble

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Student Surveyor

5603 Stake Out Question

I am a home builder that purchased a 5603 with TCS2 data collector running Surveyor Pro 4.7.

I have no experience in surveying but I am slowly learning to use the machine.

My question or problem is I have experimented with staking out a 25'x25' square

Started by Mike Patalsky in Trimble Support and How-to Trimble

1 Reply · Reply by Patrick Perkins Mar 23, 2021

Seeking Employment

Trimble SX10 any comments on this new tool.

I tried the SX10 this week. Has anyone else.

Started by Maurice Heter

1 Reply · Reply by Allan F Martin Dec 13, 2020

Retired Surveyor

Robotic Trimble S5 - functionality

Anyone has a manual for this particular equipment please to share.

I accompanied a junior surveyor on one topo survey and showed me that the machine shows some reading results such as Horiz. Angles, Veritical Angles etc but what puzzled him was a Vert

Started by Romano Reo in Trimble Support

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Land Surveyor

GPS Configurator Trimble 5800 R8

Hello

This screen from GPS Configurator Trimble 5800, show neither "Log data" nor " Base", and memory left 0kb, I don't know why, What have I to do?, Please help

Started by Mario Alberto Piza in Trimble Equipment

1 Reply · Reply by ⚡Survenator⌁ Sep 25, 2019

Land Surveyor

GPS CONFIGURATOR TRIMBLE 5800 R8

Hello

This screen from GPS Configurator Trimble 5800, show neither "Log data" nor " Base", and memory left 0kb, I don't know why, What have I to do?, Please help

Started by Mario Alberto Piza in Trimble Support

0 Replies

Land Surveyor

Upgrade Trimble GPS 5800 R8

I am attempting to update an R8 receiver for the upcoming GPS week rollover. Currently it has v2.31 and according to Trimble v2.32 needs to be installed to handle the rollover. After downloading the WinFlash utility and while it is configuring the

Started by Mario Alberto Piza in Trimble Support, Trimble Equipment, and How-to Trimble

2 Replies · Reply by Mario Alberto Piza Jun 11, 2019

Land Surveyor

Trimble TSCE Data collector, trouble connecting to a computer to download data.

Tried using a 9 pin serial cable, would a blue-tooth adapter work best. Has a 26 pin, 9 pin and infrared outputs, Any ideas?

Started by JEROME LORD

7 Replies

Land Surveyor

Trimble TTS 500

good evening all,

im looking for manuals, info, brochures... anything for our Trimble TTS 500. I recently acquired one of these with TSC1. I have searched and searched everywhere and nothing. Any help would be great!

Started by A.J. Blaker

5 Replies

Government Professional

Trimble Post Processing

Hi! I am using a Trimble SPS852, SPS882 and a TSC2 controller. I would like to know if any one here knows how to get data for post processing in the following format: DAT, Rinex2, Rinex3, T01, T02 and Quark. Or does anyone know any tutorial links for

Started by Lord Byron abriz

8 Replies

Land Surveyor

reuse activation disks?

Version 2.0 GPSurvey and related programs no longer are resident on the dongle, is there any way to reuse the activation disks?

Started by Carl Sundet

0 Replies

Land Surveyor

TGO1.63 problems

Have been using TGO 1.63 for years on Windows 7 Pro with no problems until now....

Trimble Coordinate System Manager is not propertly intalled.
Application cannot proceed.
Class not registered.

Anyone know what's going on and how to fix...thanks, Ron..

Started by Ronald Berry

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What is the difference between Track and STD mode on the S6?

What is the difference between Track and STD mode on the S6? I cannot find any information on the S6 settings.

I have a Trimble S6 with TSC2 running Survey Controller 12.50. When I stake out a point I get the dynamic readout (go in, go right, etc.), b

Started by Daniel Messerich

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Land Surveyor

TSC2 and R-8 model 3 VRS connection

Never had a problem using my 5800 and tsc2 with survey controller to hook up with my VRS network. Just got my hands on a R-8 model 3 with tsc2 with access and have been having trouble connecting or initilizing with the network.

Green light flashes sho

Started by Ronald Berry

3 Replies

Trimble Pathfinder Pro XRS

Dear fellow surveyors,

i recently bought Pathfinder Pro 12-channels XRS receiver, with integrated GPS/Beacon Anthena and TSCe1 data logger, with all the cables and backpack, but don't have any batteries. I haven't tried it yet and i could really use

Started by Stefan Danailov Dobrev

0 Replies

Seeking Employment

Trimble Business Center.

Hi all.

I have a question about TBC- Trimble Business Center? Do you have to have the key to use this program? We have the TBC at work but it works if you insert the key. Any comments? Bye.

Maurice

Started by Maurice Heter

3 Replies