Any suggestions on where to look?Trimble makes the adpater for a 52 mm filter, but they no longer the filter.
thanks for your help
searching for solar filter for Trimble 5603
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Personally, I would never use a total station for a solar. Too big of a risk to frying the edm. Our old T-16 still does the job. Ian, we sometimes still do solars. In areas where the canyons run east-west and GPS coverage is questionable, I can do a solar in 20-30 min and be done instead of 2-3 hrs of gps and traversing to my site. Not often used but a useful tool in the box.
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RAM:
With the wide open spaces where I practice, I often forget about those huge green things that stick up, those things with all the water flowing in them and the like. We have narrow canyons down this way, too. I rarely seem to have satelite accquisition problems though.
Back almost 20 years ago, I used to do solar shots for Basis of Bearings when every we couldn't find a pair of pipes quickly. We could blast out a solar shot in 20 minutes at the beginning of the day or the end of the day with a very high degree of accuracy.
BTW - I've used solar filters on a T-16 as well as on a Topcon GTS3B and GTS303. With the through the lens view finder optics, the TS were much easier to find the Sun with. I never had a problem with the edm "frying".
We also used the filter on the 3B to watch an eclipse of the Sun back in the early '90's.
And, you're right, many times, the old tricks are still very useful!
Ian
With the wide open spaces where I practice, I often forget about those huge green things that stick up, those things with all the water flowing in them and the like. We have narrow canyons down this way, too. I rarely seem to have satelite accquisition problems though.
Back almost 20 years ago, I used to do solar shots for Basis of Bearings when every we couldn't find a pair of pipes quickly. We could blast out a solar shot in 20 minutes at the beginning of the day or the end of the day with a very high degree of accuracy.
BTW - I've used solar filters on a T-16 as well as on a Topcon GTS3B and GTS303. With the through the lens view finder optics, the TS were much easier to find the Sun with. I never had a problem with the edm "frying".
We also used the filter on the 3B to watch an eclipse of the Sun back in the early '90's.
And, you're right, many times, the old tricks are still very useful!
Ian
Ian Wilson, P.L.S. (CA / NV / CO)
Alameda County Surveyor
Alameda County Surveyor