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Sokkia SET2B total station theodolite survey instrument
This is an older Survey tool that is in very good shape for a used tool. It comes with a battery charger and two batteries. One battery is factory, in good shape and the other one has recently been re-built in 2009 and increased to a 2.7 AH capacity. Also included is the factory rain cover. It does not have the full manual, but it comes with several laminated cards explaining basic instrument operation. This instrument is made to connect to a data collector, however I have never connected it to one so I can only assume it works based on the tests ran by Monsen Engineering in 2004 (see intrument report, last picture). All the motion clamps work perfectly and the motion knobs feel tight and new. The upper motion is a Dual Speed (coarse and fine) that works excellent. The cross hairs are clear and bright and in good shape. The tribrack is in good shape and all leveling screws are in excellent working order. The instrument has level compensation. Also the instrument stays very well on the back-sight with very little drift usually 2 or 3 seconds per setup and check.
The last photo explains a error code that I was receiving immediately after purchasing the used instrument from Monsen Engineering Co. in 2004. It was a mystery what was causing error code 101, and they could not explain it. Later I discovered that it was a leveling error that was causing the compensater to send the code. The instrument has a rapid electronic setup screen (displayed with a X=0 00'00" Y=0 00'00") which was designed for quick setup. It is apparently out of adjustment and the compensator would then trigger the code.(Which is quite common, on the last three "Set" instruments I have used they all were out of adjustment ???). However by carefully using the horizontal bubble instead, to level the instrument carefully, It would no longer give me code 101. I do not know if the rapid electronic setup can be adjusted or not, I never asked my repair facility.
