LED Patterns

Ranger uses its on-board LED to indicate various states during its boot sequence and ranging modes.

Boot

when Ranger boots, it will display a pattern on the LED to indicate which mode it is starting in.

LED Pattern	Description
Single Amber Blink	20° FOV Mode
Double Amber Blink	15° FOV Mode
Triple Amber Blink	27° FOV Mode
Quadruple Amber Blink	DETECT mode
Continuous Red Blink	Sensor failure, contact SWYFT support
No LED	Power failure, contact SWYFT support

Ranging (FOV Mode)

After boot, when in any FOV mode, ranger will use the LED to display the status of the data it receives.

LED Pattern	Description
Green	Ranging data is good, the strength of the green LED represents the distance measured
Amber	Ranging data is ok, either noisy or weak signal
Red	Ranging data is bad, target is missing or target is highly reflective

DETECT Mode

After boot, when in DETECT mode, ranger will use the LED to display if there is an object within its configured measurement window.

LED Pattern	Description
Green	Object is present in the configured window.
Amber	Object is present, but outside the configured window.
Red	Ranging data is bad, or no object is detected.

DETECT Mode Configuration

LED Pattern	Description
Continuous Slow Amber Blink	Ranger is preparing to take minimum distance measurement
Continuous Fast Amber Blink	Ranger is preparing to take maximum distance measurement
Solid Amber LED	Ranger is currently taking the measurement
Quadruple Green Blink	Measurement is good, and has updated previous measurement in flash memory.
Quadruple Red Blink	Measurement is bad, and has not updated previous measurement in flash memory.