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ADVField Software Manual (September 1, 2001) 8
2.3. Setup Mode
Figure 2 shows the setup screen for the ADVField software program.
The upper right part of the screen shows the current PC date and time, as well as the ADV speci-
fied in
ADVPROBE.DEF
.
Ready
indicates the ADV is properly installed and operational.
Fail
indi-
cates that the processing module was not found or that it failed an internal test.
Upon startup,
ADF.EXE
runs a built-in test on the ADV defined in the probe definition file. The
program displays this information on the screen, but does not try to communicate with the ADV
until after you execute
START Data Acquisition
. At that time, the program tries to wake up the
ADV and send your data collection parameters. While this is being done, the program displays
and records (in a file named
ADF.LOG
) all commands sent to the ADV.
The left of the screen shows the data collection parameters you can set. To change these param-
eters, move through the menu using the up/down arrow (or PgUp/PgDn) keys. The highlighted
item can be executed/changed by pressing <Enter>. After pressing <Enter>, you are prompted to
enter a new value or to choose from a set of alternative values. If you accidentally select an op-
tion, you may recover by pressing <Esc> to leave the parameter unchanged. A description of each
item in this menu follows.
Units System
(Multiple choice)
Sets the units displayed as
Metric
(cm/s, cm, °C) or
English
(ft/s, inches, °F). This also affects the
units extracted from the binary data file using the data conversion software (Section 3).
Figure 2 - Data Acquisition Software “Setup Mode”