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Automatically Recording Traces
Instead of starting a recording manually, by clicking
Start
, you can have MultiView start the recording
automatically, when one of the MultiView traces rises above, or falls below, a specified value. Once the recording
starts, MultiView records for the length of time you specify, or until you click
Finish
.
You have two options for starting to automatically record traces, as follows.
•
Triggers
The triggers feature is primarily for recording data. Triggers don’t give you any visual indication in the display,
when the traces exceed your specified limits. You can’t set a qualification time for triggers, because a
trigger starts
recording immediately when the trigger level is exceeded
—
see section below.
•
Go/No-Go
The Go/No-Go feature is primarily for helping you view events in the data on the display (see page
). During a
recording initiated by a Go/No-Go event, subsequent events extend the recording time, which is not true for
triggers
—
see section below.
Recording with Triggers
Once recording has started, any subsequent trigger events are ignored. When recording stops, any active trigger
event can start a new recording.
To record vibration data using triggers:
1)
In the
Record Data
menu, use the
For
lists to set the length of time for the recording. You can choose
recording times of up to four hours. Note that four hours of recording at 1,000 data points per second will fill
about 150 MB of disk space. Once triggered, MultiView records data for the specified length of time (or until
you manually stop or pause recording), regardless of any subsequent trigger events.
