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source/Hardware Guide/Lighthouses/setup.rst

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

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