ADV Vectrino Data #456

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1. jmcvey3 commented on Jul 14, 2026

   

   jmcvey3

   on Jul 14, 2026

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   I don't have a lot of experience with Vectrinos, but these are my thoughts:

   1. Nortek discontinued the instrument line some years ago and don't sell new products
   2. They are laboratory flume specific, and laboratories I'm aware of that use them have code for them
   3. It's relatively easy to find some of this code online
   4. There are several different Vectrino probe types, all of which have 4 probes, so there will probably need to be some instrument-specific changes to the rotation code
2. jmcvey3 commented on Aug 20, 2026

   

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   @browniea I did a quick look into the Nortek integrator guide for Vectrinos and discovered that there is no IMU or compass unit inside the instrument. Technically, if one does a good job keeping the unit level, one could rotate directly from local instrument reference frame to the principal reference frame, but otherwise you can't correct for any instrument rotation.
3. akeeste commented on Sep 15, 2026

   

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   @browniea will follow-up on this and close out. Likely no changes we want to bring into MHKiT