LISST - 25 User’s Guide
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display the results to the screen, and store them in the flash ram datafile.
Line 3 will wait for 20 seconds before continuing to the next batch line.
Line 4 will return to batch line 2. This batch file will take data
continuously until the memory fills or a “
CTRL-C”
is entered.
Step 11: Execute a
batch file
To view the current contents of the batch file enter “
BP
”, short for Batch
Print. The following text will be printed to the screen.
L25>>
L25>>BP
Batch File in Memory
Line Command Line Command
---- ------------- ---- -------------
1 DS 14
2 GR 5 15
3 WT 20 16
4 GT 2 17
5 18
… …
12 25
13
L25>>
Enter “BS”, short for Batch Start, to start the execution of the batch file.
As each sample is taken a green LED on the connector endcap will light.
This can be very useful in visually confirming that the instrument
continues operating before deployment.
Step 12: Download
stored data
The batch file will continue until
Stop
button is pressed or a
CTRL-C
is
entered.
Stop
or
CTRL-C
will exit to the main prompt. Enter a “
DM
”
command. The amount of samples stored in memory will be displayed to
the screen. To download the data, choose
Download
from the
LISST-25
menu. Enter a file name for the binary file to be downloaded. We suggest
using an extension of
.dat
.
The data will remain in memory until the
Erase
option of the
LISST-25
menu is executed.
Special Note:
There has recently been some problems with incomplete
datafile transfers occuring with the LISST-25.EXE program. Until this
problem is resolved it is recommend that the program TFTOOLS for
Windows be used to offload the data. See Appendix D for details.
