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Edit/Compare Configuration parameters
Section 7: Tools commands
3410 Series Gas Ultrasonic Meters Operations Manual
June 2016
3-9000-777 Rev D
1.
Click
Read
to collect and display a configuration from a connected meter.
2.
Click
ALL
to display the meter’s extended configuration or
Metrology
to display only the
metrology portion of the configuration.
3.
Double-click the
Value
to change a parameter and select the option from the drop-
down list or if a caret is displayed, enter the value (
see Figure 7-3
).
If you change a data register, the
Value
displayed in the dialog turns yellow and the
check box is selected. You can later choose to only
Write Checked
values to the meter.
Figure 7-3 Edit/Compare configuration parameter changes
4.
Click the question mark, icon to the right of a data point to display the additional
information.
5.
Click
Write All
to write the full configuration to a meter. Depending on the
View
selected, the displayed configuration may not be the full configuration. Click
Write
Checked
to write only the values with a selected check box next to the value and are
visible in the currently selected view. Select any values to write and clear any values you
don’t want to write to the meter before clicking
Write Checked
.
6.
Open a configuration in the editor and select
Meter
or select
File
to compare it to a
configuration saved as a file.
7.
Click
Compare
to either read the configuration from the meter or open the
Open
dialog
box to select the configuration to compare to the one in the editor.
Once the configurations are selected, a dialog displays, providing options to further
customize the compare operation.
a.
Exclude registers that are typically different:
includes items that could change
regularly such as SpecFlowPressure, SpecFlowTemperature, Gas composition,
etc. A complete list is defined in
reg_list_compare_config_exclude.txt
found
under the installation directory for Daniel MeterLink.
b.
Include read-only registers:
includes, in the compare, read-only registers stored in
the collected configurations. This includes points like firmware version, K-
factors, etc.