When preparing beacons for deployment, it is important to ensure that they have sufficient remaining battery capacity for the intended deployment, and to consider the most appropriate beacon addresses.
The first important decision is whether the WB2, or WB2+ signal set is most appropriate. Note that the ‘+’ on the end of WB2 does not mean ‘better’, it indicates longer signals, which carries with it higher battery consumption, and potentially more reverberation noise in the water. WB2 signals should be the default choice unless there is a specific reason to choose WB2+.
It is usually more effective to tune power and gain than using longer signals; however longer signals are useful at the margins of detectability.
Sonardyne can provide support in predicting battery life given an expected signal set, power level, interrogation, and telemetry rate.
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