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B-8 G60 Generator Protection System GE Multilin
B.3 FILE TRANSFERS APPENDIX B
B
e) READING DATA LOGGER FILES
Familiarity with the data logger feature is required to understand this description. Refer to the Data Logger section of Chap-
ter 5 for details. To read the entire data logger in binary COMTRADE format, read the following files.
datalog.cfg
and
datalog.dat
To read the entire data logger in ASCII COMTRADE format, read the following files.
dataloga.cfg
and
dataloga.dat
To limit the range of records to be returned in the COMTRADE files, append the following to the filename before writing it:
• To read from a specific time to the end of the log: <space> startTime
• To read a specific range of records: <space> startTime <space> endTime
• Replace <startTime> and <endTime> with the number of seconds since Jan. 1 1970 as numeric text
f) READING EVENT RECORDER FILES
To read the entire event recorder contents in ASCII format (the only available format), use the following filename:
EVT.TXT
To read from a specific record to the end of the log, use the following filename:
EVTnnn.TXT
(replace
nnn
with the desired starting record number)
To read from a specific record to another specific record, use the following filename:
EVT.TXT xxxxx yyyyy
(replace
xxxxx
with the starting record number and
yyyyy
with the ending record number)