Davis Instruments GroWeatherLink, User Manual

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View Log
Information about the automatic download of your station(s) is automatically
written to a file called “download.log” which is saved onto the hard disk in the
directory “ahead” of the station’s directory. The log will sow you whether the
download was successful or not for each station and give you the time and date at
which it started and completed.
Note: It is possible, after continued use, for the log file to become too large for Window’s Notepad to
open. If this occurs, delete the entire file from your hard disk. The software will create a brand
new file at the next automatic download.
1. Choose View Log from the File menu.
The automatic download log appears.
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2. To close the log window, choose Exit from the File menu.
Hang Up
To hang up on a phone modem connection, choose Hang Up from the File menu.
Merge Data
To fill in missing weather data, you can supplement one weather station’s data
with another. The database you want to supplement is called the
original data-
base; the database that provides the missing data is called the source database.
Before merging the databases, keep in mind the following tips and suggestions:
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Make sure you have enough space on the disk containing the Windows Temp direc-
tory to hold a file with the combined size of the original and source databases.
The operation creates a new data file in the Windows Temp directory that is
erased once the merge operation is complete.
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Best results are obtained if the original files and the source files have the same
archive interval.
If the archive intervals are different, try to merge the file with the longer
archive interval into the one with the shorter interval. For example, if one
database has 15-minute intervals and another has 30, open the station with the
15-minute interval and merge the 30-minute interval files into it. This way the
shorter interval database will not add twice as many, possibly conflicting, data
points.