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1313 Follow these guidelines to decide where to mount your two Lighthouse base stations:
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15- - They should be centered above and facing the area that will be occupied by the lighthouse receivers.
16- - The distance between the receiver and the transmitters should not exceed 3 meters. Each base station
17- has a 120° field of view. However, position measurements are noisier when receivers are at the boundary
18- of the transmitters' range, so leave a safe margin. A receiver must be in range of both transmitters
19- in order to measure position.
15+ - They should be centered above and facing the area that will be occupied by the lighthouse receivers.
16+ - The lighthouses should have the same orientation.
17+ - The distance between the receiver and the transmitters should not exceed the maximum range. This depends
18+ on the sensitivity of the receiver's photodiode on the headstage and is best determined experimentally. Each
19+ base station has a 120° field of view. However, the photodiode has a larger chance of being obstructed from
20+ the transmitter by parts on the headstage at larger angles.
21+ - Position measurements are noisier when receivers are at the boundary of the transmitters' range, so leave a
22+ safe margin.
23+ - A receiver must be in range of _both_ transmitters in order to measure position.
2024 - Secure the base stations such that they can't be easily jostled or moved.
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2226 .. tip ::
2933 using Bonsai to acquire Onix data to do this, visit the OpenEphys.Onix1 Bonsai package
3034 `Getting Started page <https://open-ephys.github.io/bonsai-onix1-docs/articles/getting-started/index.html >`_.
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3336 The image below shows a cartoon of what a lighthouse setup might look with a commutator as well mounted
3437 on extruded aluminum rail. The overlapping green area represents the region where a TS4231 device is in
3538 range of both base stations and can measure position.
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