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connected to the V-Link

®

 inputs.  The channel plot will continue along the X-axis 

until 5000 sweeps (~6 seconds) has elapsed.  

See Figure 9.  

This indicates that the 

node is successfully streaming its sensor data.

 

 

Move your mouse pointer within the black area of the 

Streaming Graph

.  Right-

click and a pop-up menu will appear. 

 

Click 

Save Stream

.  A 

Save As

 dialog box appears.  Accept or modify the 

File 

Name

 for the CSV file that will be saved.  Click 

Save

.  The dialog box will 

disappear.  

This indicates that the streaming data was successfully saved to file on 

your PC.

 

 

Right-click on the node and a pop-up menu will appear. 

 

Click 

Configure

.  The 

Configuration

 window will appear.   

 

Click the 

Datalogging

 tab.  Uncheck box for 

Continuous Datalogging

.  Uncheck 

box for 

Enable Sensor Event Driven Trigger

.  Enter the value 1000 into the 

Sweeps

 scroll box.  Enter the value 256Hz in the 

Sample Rate

 drop-down.  Note 

that a datalogging session of approximately 3.9 seconds has been set.  Click 

Apply

.  Click 

OK

 

Right-click on the node and a pop-up menu will appear. 

 

Click 

Datalogging

.  Click 

Erase.

  A confirming message box will appear.  Click 

Yes

.  A progress bar will appear and disappear.  

This indicates that the 

datalogging memory of the node was successfully erased.

 

 

Right-click on the node and a pop-up menu will appear. 

 

Click 

Datalogging

.  Click 

Trigger Session.  

A progress bar will appear and 

disappear.  

This indicates that a datalogging session was successfully triggered.

 

 

Right-click on the node and a pop-up menu will appear. 

 

Click 

Datalogging

.  Click 

Download.  

A progress bar will appear and disappear.  

This indicates that all datalogging sessions were successfully downloaded.

 

 

Right-click on the node and a pop-up menu will appear. 

 

Click 

Datalogging

.  Click 

Browse Triggers.

  The 

Trigger Browser

 window will 

appear. 

 

Click the 

+

 sign to the left of the trigger label (example: July 20, 2009 09:36:07) 

and 

Trigger 1

 will appear.  Highlight 

Trigger 1

 and click 

Open Trigger

.  The 

data in 

Trigger 1

 will be displayed in spreadsheet format (assuming you have 

Microsoft® Excel installed).  

This indicates that the data from 

Trigger 1 

was 

successfully saved to file on your PC.

 

 

Close the spreadsheet.  Click 

OK

 on 

Trigger Browser

 window.

 

 
Congratulations! 

You are off and running!  Please read the V-Link

® 

user manual and the Node 

Commander

®

 software manual to learn how to successfully put your wireless data 

acquisition system to work. 
 

Further Support 

MicroStrain Support Engineers are always available by phone, email or SKYPE to 
support you in any way we can.

 

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