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Press the MINUS button until the LCD screen says:
Capture: Off
This indicates that the Capture function has been turned off and new readings will no
longer be stored.
When you turn Capture off, MicroSet stores a marker in the data to indicate where the
end is. This allows you to turn the timer off and still be able to Dump the data at a later
date. The data is stored in nonvolatile memory, and you can leave MicroSet off for an
hour, or a month, and still get the data out. However, if you turn Data Capture “On” again,
it will start a new data session and any previous data will be erased.
You can capture more than one “session” of data with the Capture function. You can stop
the Time Mode (or use any other function of MicroSet), or set up on a different watch,
and then Capture more data. If you wish to do this, do NOT turn the Data Capture off.
As long as Data Capture is left on, the data will go into memory and it can be dumped
to a PC later. If you turn off the Capture function you cannot add any more data.
Dumping captured data
When you’re ready to transfer your captured data to the PC, plug MicroSet into the serial
port of your Windows computer with the cable provided. To Dump the data, put MicroSet
in the Time Mode and press the BEGIN button to access the Time Mode Options. Press
BEGIN until the LCD screen says:
Dump?
Be sure the Windows Interface Program is ready to accept data (the “Plot: On” button
is selected) and press PLUS on the timer. This will start the data dump. Every reading
stored in the timer will come flying out of MicroSet. The numbers will appear on the LCD
screen so fast that they will be illegible. New data points will appear on the computer
screen as fast as your computer is able to display them. When the dump is complete,
the timer will return to the start of the Time Mode. You can dump the data as many times
as you like; it will stay in memory until you turn Data Capture “On” again, which resets
the storage area and begins a new capture.
Here are some things to keep in mind about the Capture process.
1) You can use Data Capture whether MicroSet is configured to display Seconds
Per Beat or Beats Per Hour. But the data captured will always be saved as
Seconds Per Beat. When you dump the data to the PC, even though MicroSet
may have been displaying Beats Per Hour, you will dump Seconds Per Beat.
You can see Beats Per Hour on the computer screen if you configure it to show
Beats Per Hour.
2) Normally, when you capture readings from the timer on the computer, the computer
stores the time of day that each reading was taken. When you examine the
data on the PC screen, you can tell when each sample was taken because it
has a “time stamp”. When you dump data from the timer’s Capture function, it
all comes in very quickly, even though it may have taken days to collect it. The
time stamp associated with each sample will be the instant it transferred to the
computer, not the actual time it was captured. The Windows Interface Program
has a command to correct the time stamps. It’s called “Change timestamps”
and can be found under the Operations menu. To correct the timestamps you
must know the time that the first reading was captured and the number of beats
between each captured reading. For example, if MicroSet was set to Time 30
beats, there were 30 beats between each reading. But if you set the Capture
count to “Capture: 10”, there would be 300 beats between each captured reading.
