User Manual

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II. SelectDataTab
1. SelectFile‐toselectthedatafilerecordedusingtheVibraScout™ software. A prompt window will
pop up asking for data file to be selected. Navigate to folder where file exists and double click
on data file. 
Note:allexportedfileswillbesavedtothesamedirectoryastheoriginaldatafiledirectory.
2. ModelNumber‐Oncefileisopened,Modelnumberofthetransducerwillbedisplayedinthis
field.
3. SerialNumber‐Serialnumberofthetransducerwillbedisplayedinthisfield.
4. Temp[deg©]‐Averagetemperaturerecordedduringtestwillbedisplayedinthisfield.
5. Continue‐ClickonContinuetoproceed.
6. Channel‐SelectthechannelinAxiswiththevibrationinthespecifieddatafile.
Thiswillallowuserto
zoominonspecificwindowofthevibrationtimehistory.
7. Zoom‐allowsusertozoomandselectaspecificwindowoftherecordeddataasopposedtoprocessing
thefulltimehistory.Thisfeatureworkswiththecursorsin#9.Youhavetosetthe
cursorsatthe
desiredwindowandthenpressZoom.
8. Reset‐IfthezoomedwindowisNOTthedesiredwindowin#9,thenpressresettodisplayalldataread
fromthedatafileagain.Thiswillallowusertodisplayzoomedplotsmultipletimesuntildesiredwindow
isselected.
9. Plot‐Setthecursorstothedesiredwindowtobeprocessed.Thisincombinationwiththezoombutton
willdefinethewindowtobepostprocessed.SettingthecursorsalonewillNOTdefinethewindow.
Zoomhastobepressedtoselectthedesiredwindow.
10. Continue‐Oncedesiredwindow
isselectedPressingcontinuewillallowtoproceedtothenextsteps.
Note:IfContinueispressedwithoutZoom,alldatarecordedindatafilewillbeprocessed.Thiswilltake
longertoprocessdependingonoriginalfilesizeanddesiredoutputfiles.
III. SetSamplingParametersTab
11. Type
inOperatornameandTestDescriptiontobeexportedonSelectedOutputPlots.
12. SelectOutputFormat‐Selectthedesiredoutputfileformatsbycheckingtheboxnexttothem.The
softwareoutputsthefollowingformats
a. ASCII‐isacommaseparatedtextfilesavedin.csvandcanbeimported
toExcel.Thisfilecanget
verylargebasedonthewindowselected.
b. TDMSBinary‐isacombinationofbinaryandtextfileformat.Thisfileformatismore
convenientasitcanbeopenedinExcelbydoubleclickingthefile.Itwillseparatetheheader
informationand
there‐sampledrawdatain2differentsheetsinexcel.
c. JPEG‐willexporttimehistoryplotsofallchannelsin*.jpgfileformat.
d. UFF58‐istheuniversalfileformatinbinary.Thisfileformatallowsforfurtherdata
manipulationinotherpostprocessingsoftwaresuchasMatlab,C++,
LabVIEW,etc.
e. PowerSpectralDensity‐willexportthePowerspectraldensityplotsofallchannelsin*.jpg
format.(seenote13and14forfurtherparameters)
f. FastFourierTransform‐willexporttheFFTPlotsofallchannelsin*.jpgformat.