Dynamic SFC332L, Operator'S Manual

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Dynamic Flow Computers SFC332L Manual Data Entry
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Date: 8/1/2019
SCHEDULED AUTO POLLING
Automatic Data Polling
Use the Historical Data | Scheduled Auto Polling to retrieve report information from devices in
a periodic basis automatically.
These are the following settings:
Enable Automatic Data Retrieval: Check this option to enable the automatic polling. If the
automatic polling function is enabled an “AUTOPOLL” message will appear on the application’s
status bar (bottom-right corner of the application window).
Reports to Retrieve: check the reports you want to get from the devices, you can select as many
as you want, just make sure the polling interval is long enough to allow the PC to retrieve the
archive. For example, if the computer is programmed to poll 100 reports every 10 seconds, there
will not be enough time to get the report before the next poll starts and data will be overlapped.
Report Name: provide a name to the reports captured so they will be available for viewing, printing
and exporting.
Starting Day: Type the date where the poll is going to start. Select “Every Day” is the date doesn’t
matter.
Polling Time: select the time you want the automatic polling to start, then select “Poll One Time”
if you want to execute these poll only once or select “Poll Every…” and type the polling interval
for periodic polls. For example, to poll every hour and a half select “Poll Every…” and type 90 in
the Minutes field.
IMPORTANT: Do not use straight hours as starting time (i.e. 7:00, 8:00). The
flow computer calculates and updates its information at the beginning of the hour so if data is
retrieved at this time it might be erroneous. Allow about 5 minutes for the flow computer to update
the data.
Polling List: Add all the units you want to get data from on every poll. You can add up to 100 units. To add
a unit, just click “Add” and then type the unit’s
Modbus ID number.
NOTE: The file C:\AutoPoll.log will contain all the logs for the automatic poll, it will tell if there was a
problem or if the data was retrieved successfully.