User Manual

5. Operation and handling
5.1 Sequencing and logging
Sequencing is the step by step processing of a value table, which can control the device almost
automatedly. Those tables can be created in MS Excel or OpenOfce Calc or similar, saved as
so-called CSV les (seperator: semicolon) and loaded in EasyPS2000. The rows of the table de-
ne conditions, which the device shall set for a certain time. The setup of the table is dened as
explained below. There is also an example sequence le for each model type, single or triple, in
subfolder \data of your EasyPS2000 software installation path.
The application will check the format of the table and the given values after a sequence le is
selected in the Options window. Errors are reported immediately and point the user to the corre-
sponding column and row. As long as the sequence le is not clear of errors, sequencing can not
be started.
Note: Sequencing requires the device to be in remote control mode.
Logging is the data logging of actual values and device status into a text le of type CSV. The
entries are seperated by semicolons and thus the le can be loaded and analysed with table cal-
culation software, such as MS Excel or OpenOfce Calc. Logging is always possible. It means,
even if the device is not in remote control and just monitored. In order to maintain compatibility to
MS Excel, every log le can only contain a maximum of 65450 logged data rows. If an overow
occurs, a new le is created with a counter in the le name like _001, _002 etc.
The window Sequencing/Logging depicts the actual log row with the last actual values and status
read from the device, as well as a percental progress bar for sequencing. The progress is related
to the number of rows in the sequence le and not to the total time that would result from the times
given in every row.
Figure 19. Sequencing / Logging example from a single output model