Method 1: Download Sidepak Internal Memory Using TrakPro
If you chose to use the internal memory of the Sidepak for storing the air monitoring data, then
you will need to use the TrakPro software to retrieve that data from the Sidepak.
Follow these steps:
1.
Plug your Sidepak into your computer using the provided USB cable. Make sure
you have already installed TrakPro on the computer
2.
Turn on the Sidepak by pressing the leftmost purple PAGE button on the front
control panel
3.
Open the TrakPro software by double-clicking on the desktop icon
4.
Once inside the TrakPro software, select the RETRIEVE... item from the FILE
menu
5.
You will see a list of data runs. Select all the appropriate ones and click on OK to
retrieve these data
6.
Once the data have been retrieved from the Sidepak over the USB cable, select
Export.. from the FILE menu
7.
Select all of the data runs you want to export into a single file and click OK.
8.
Choose a directory and an appropriate name such as “
My Sidepak Data 3/21/08 to
3/27/08.CSV
” and a delimiter format. The comma delimiter (CSV format) is the
easiest to use with other software such as Excel.
9.
Press OK to save all the data runs in a single data file
Method 2. Open the “SidePak Buddy” Data File
If you chose to visualize and save the Sidepak data using the
SidePak Buddy
software, then to
retrieve the data you simply need to locate the data file, which is most likely the same directory as
where the software icon is located. The default name of the data file contains the date and time
that the run was started, e.g., “
SP-DATA_2008-04-21_12:34:09.csv
”
Follow these steps:
1.
Locate the folder on your computer where the Sidepak Buddy software was
installed. This is most likely on your desktop.
2.
Look for a file that begins with “SP-DATA...” and ends with the “.csv” extension
meaning that it is in “Comma Separated Value” format.
3.
There may be multiple files of this format in the folder. The middle part of the
data files contain e date and time for each time that you started a new run with the
SidePak Buddy
software.
4.
Look for the data file that has the time and date corresponding to the time period
that you want.
