Configure a logger
Before you enable a logger schedule, you can configure the logger to suit your
requirements.
The instructions to configure a TWR-2050 logger, which measures waves, are different.
If your logger schedule is already enabled when you decide to change the configuration,
you must stop running the schedule, make your changes, and enable the schedule again.
However, any data stored so far on the logger will be lost.
Tip
: You can preserve the data by downloading it to a file before you enable the schedule
again.
You can click Revert settings at any time. Note that this action resets the settings on both
the Setup/Basic Configuration tab and the Setup/Schedule tab to those settings used the
last time you enabled the schedule for this logger.
Note
: Whenever the Setup tab is in focus, the battery is being used as indicated by the
battery icon on the tab and the animated battery icon in the Navigator view. You can click
the Information tab to save power.
For any XR logger with an external power connector, the logger can be set to start logging
automatically on power-up. The logger sets the time to 2000/Jan/01 00:00:00 on power-up,
and starts logging at 2000/Jan/01 00:00:10. The end time is set to 2004/Jan/01 and the
sampling period that you previously set is used until the power is removed, you stop the
logger, or the memory is full, assuming data storage was not inhibited. If your logger
supports this feature, you can activate it by selecting the Enable streaming data check box
on the Setup/Basic Configuration tab.
Steps
1. While the logger you want is highlighted in the Navigator view, click the Setup/Basic
Configuration tab in the Properties view.
If any settings are not available for your logger, they are grayed out.
2. If you want to connect another instrument to the deployed logger to “listen” to the logger
and take action under certain conditions or while still connected to the logger you want
to view a graphical display of the live data samples taken according to your schedule,
select the Enable streaming data check box. We recommend that you also select the
Enable data storage whilst streaming data check box so that the data will not be lost.
Note
: Your logger may not support this feature.
For more information, see “Fetching and streaming data” on page 18.
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