Eurotherm 6100, User Manual

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100/180MM DISTRIBUTED GRAPHIC RECORDER: USER GUIDE
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Issue 11 Oct 14 User Guide
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9.3.2 REPORTS CONFIGURATION (Cont.)
STYLE
See fi gure 9.3.2b for examples of ‘Normal’, ‘Bold’, ‘Emphasised’ and ‘Banner’ print styles. For all styles, if the
text is too long to fi t on one line it ‘wraps round’ as shown (for normal style) in fi gure 9.3.2b, below.
Figure 9.3.2b Text style examples
POINT
Allows a point to be chosen when ‘Process value’ has been selected as Field Type. The point is selected from a
pick-list containing all the input channels, derived channels, totalisers etc. in the instrument.
LINE FEED
Appears only when ‘Line Feed’ has been chosen as Field Type. Allows the user to enter the required number
of blank lines (up to 10) which are to be inserted.
9.3.3 ASCII Input Filtering
An enhancement has been added to the ASCII input feature in instruments with software versions 5.4 up-
wards. This feature provides a number of text fi lters, each with their own timeouts, to be applied to the ASCII
input so that only speci fi c text strings are recognised. The feature has been designed for use, in particular,
with GPS systems to allow only relevant data to be logged.
TEXT FILTERS
Three text fi lters are provided each up to 20 characters long. Only messages containing con fi gured patterns
will be processed i.e patterns that are not blank strings. Each of these has a timeout of up to 9999 seconds,
only allowing fi ltered messages through at this rate. If this is set to 0 all the messages for the fi lter will be
processed.
CONFIGURATION
In con fi guration level set the ‘Protocol’ parameter to ASCII (input) as shown in the screen view on the next
page. Select the serial port and communications parameters as described in the previous sections.