Instruction manual

SECTION 1. SETTING UP THE NETWORK AND COMMUNICATING WITH THE DATALOGGER
PC208W, Version 3.0, Instruction Manual 1-7
1.3.1 HANDY THINGS THAT MAY NOT BE OBVIOUS
TOOLS Tab
• Check the Pause Clk Update to stop the
clock display. This can speed up manual
data collection on a slow communication
link. Be careful; if you pause the clock
display AND the numeric display, there will
be no visual clues as to when you are
connected. In fact, PC208W may not stay
connected as there is nothing to do. If you
pause everything for more than about 40
seconds, the datalogger may time out and
hang up the link from its end to conserve
power.
• If you associate a datalogger program
(.DLD file) in which you labeled your Input
Locations, then you will have labels in the
Numeric Display and Graphs.
• The Pause Both checkbox stops updating
the numeric displays and graphs. This is
useful to speed up manual data collection of
large data files on slow communication
links.
Ports/Flags
• A port or flag can be given a unique label.
Right click on the port or flag and type in a
new label. Labels are saved individually for
each datalogger in the Device Map.
Numeric Display
• Right click on any cell in the Numeric
Display to invoke a pop-up box. From this
box you can choose to Add locations to the
display; Delete locations from the display;
Setup the Numeric Display's update
interval, delete options, or decimal place
settings.
• Double click on value labels to edit them.
Changing the labels only affects the
Numeric display and will not change the
datalogger program.
• Double click on a value, then edit it and
press <Enter> to store the new value in the
datalogger’s Input Location.
• You can drag and drop individual Input
Locations to different locations on the
display.
• Press and hold the <Ctrl> key before
starting to drag a label, and the label will be
inserted when you drop it. If <Ctrl> is not
held, the label will replace the current label
if one exists.
• You can drag a label from the ADD Inloc
List and drop it on the numeric display
instead of using the Paste button. You can
drag and drop multiple locations at once by
first highlighting labels using conventional
<Ctrl>-click and <Shift>-click keystrokes.
• A cell must be highlighted on the numeric
display in order to paste new input
locations.
• <Ctrl>-click and <Shift>-click allow you to
highlight multiple Input Locations for a
subsequent DELETE.
Graphs
• If you are using the “power of 10
autoscaling” and a trace goes off scale,
select the Rescale button to scale the value
back to the Y-axis again.
• You can leave one or more graphs up with
all other PC208W windows minimized, but if
you close the CONNECT screen or the
main PC208W toolbar, the connections are
dropped and the graphs are also closed.
• Use the Capture button to save a graph to
a WMF (Windows Metafile) format. This
file can be printed or imported into other
programs.
TERMINAL Tab
• If you are not connected to a datalogger,
the Open Port button will allow you to
manually dial and work with the
communication devices. If you are
connected, selecting the TERMINAL tab will
stop all other communication with the
datalogger until you return to the TOOLS
tab. To enter the Remote Keyboard Mode
on the datalogger press <Enter> to get an
“*” and then press “7H <Enter>” (CR10(X),
CR500, or CR23X) or “2718H <Enter>” (any
datalogger). BE CAREFUL! This mode
allows you to delete program instructions
and may result in erasing the datalogger’s
memory!