Campbell PC208W, Instruction Manual

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Section 1. Setting Up the Network and Communicating with the Datalogger
PC208W, Version 3.3, Instruction Manual 1-11
1.3 Connect
brings up a window which gives you real time access to
any of the dataloggers in your Device Map.
You can transfer programs to a datalogger, set the datalogger clock, collect
data from the datalogger, collect data from the storage module, and display or
graph datalogger measurements. From the CONNECT window you may
connect to only one datalogger or storage module at any given time.
Only dataloggers and storage modules are shown on the CONNECT screen.
You can switch to a different device by clicking on it with the mouse pointer.
If you are connected to a device, PC208W will warn you and ask if it should
close the current connection.
PC208W assumes a double click on a different datalogger means you want to
switch regardless of the current connection. It will close the connection in an
orderly fashion and switch to the new CONNECT screen. Note that PC208W
saves the location and appearance of the screen for each datalogger, so
switching to a new one may appear to make the screen “ jump” from one
position to another.
1.3.1 Handy Things That May Not Be Obvious
TOOLS Tab
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Check the Pause Clk Update to stop the clock display. This can speed up
manual data collection on a slow communication link. Be careful; if you
pause the clock display AND the numeric display, there will be no visual
clues as to when you are connected. In fact, PC208W may not stay
connected as there is nothing to do. If you pause everything for more than
about 40 seconds, the datalogger may time out and hang up the link from
its end to conserve power.
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If you associate a datalogger program (.DLD file) in which you labeled
your Input Locations, then you will have labels in the Numeric Display
and Graphs.
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The Pause Both checkbox stops updating the numeric displays and
graphs. This can speed up manual data collection on a slow
communication link.
Ports/Flags
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A port or flag can be given a unique label. Right click on the port or flag
and type in a new label. Labels are saved individually in an *.ILL file in
the Inifiles subdirectory for each datalogger in the Device Map.