RDCP 600
The RDCP is a 600 kHz self-recording profiler, which measures current conditions at a medium range (depending on the scattering conditions in each deployment). RDCP 600 is also a multiparameter platform. The standard RDCP 600 can be deployed down to 300m depth.
Manufacturer
Aanderaa Data Instruments Inc.
P.O.Box 34 Slåtthaug
N-5851 Bergen
Norway
+47 55 60 48 00
+47 55 60 48 01
Technical specifications
| Frequency | 606 kHz |
| Max. profiling range | Low power: 35 to 70 m High power: 40 to 80 m |
| Cell size | 1 to 10 m (0.1 m increment) |
| Operating depth | 300 or 2000 m |
| Max. transmit | Low: 20 Watts High: 80 Watts |
| Blank distance | 300m version: 1m 2000m version: 2m |
| Accuracy | Horizontal: 5 mm/s Vertical: 10 mm/s |
| Max. water velocity | 5 m/s |
| Number of cells | 100 - 150 |
| Max. ping rate | - |
| Transducer | 4 Beam |
| Transducer beam angle | 25º |
| Housing | - |
| Communication | RS232 or RS485 |
| Internal memory | 2 GB using CFor standard MMC card stores 512 MB |
| Transducer assembly diameter | 187 mm |
| Housing diameter | 160 mm |
| Overall length | 580 mm |
| Weight in air | 19 kg (300 m version) 22 kg (2000 m version) |
| Weight in water | 12 kg (300 m version) 14.6 kg (2000 m version) |
| Temperature accuracy | ±0.05 ºC |
| Temperature range | Wide: -0.64 to 32.87 ºC Low: -2.70 to 21.77ºC High: 9.81 to 36.66ºC Arctic: -3.01 to 5.92ºC |
| Tilt accuracy | ±1.5 ºC |
| Tilt range | ±45º |
| Compass accuracy | ±4º for 0 to 35º tilt |
| Compass max. tilt | 0 to 360º |