Manual

Chapter 3 Getting Started
3.1 Moving About the Screen .........................................................................................................................3-1
3.2 What the Screens Mean ...........................................................................................................................3-3
3.2.1 Status Line ......................................................................................................................................3-3
3.2.2 Disk Status ...................................................................................................................................... 3-3
3.2.3 Button Bar .......................................................................................................................................3-4
3.2.4 Date/Time Window .......................................................................................................................... 3-4
3.2.5 Graphics Window ............................................................................................................................ 3-4
3.2.5.1 Bar Charts.............................................................................................................................. 3-4
3.2.5.2 Digital Windows .....................................................................................................................3-5
3.2.5.3 Alarm/Events Data Window ................................................................................................... 3-5
3.2.5.4 Trend Window ........................................................................................................................ 3-6
3.2.5.5 Transient Windows ................................................................................................................3-7
3.3 Browsing, Compressing and Searching Data ........................................................................................... 3-7
3.3.1 Compressing Data ..........................................................................................................................3-7
3.3.2 Searching Data By Time ................................................................................................................. 3-8
3.3.3 Searching Data By Value ................................................................................................................3-8
3.3.4 Interactive Browse ........................................................................................................................... 3-9
3.3.5 File Browsing ...................................................................................................................................3-9
3.4 Getting to the Points ...............................................................................................................................3-11
3.5 Using Chart Scales ................................................................................................................................. 3-12
3.6 Programming .......................................................................................................................................... 3-13
3.7 Programming Time and Date .................................................................................................................. 3-13
3.8 Programming Points ............................................................................................................................... 3-14
3.8.1 Point tag ....................................................................................................................................... 3-14
3.8.2 Input Scale ...................................................................................................................................3-14
3.8.3 Output Scale ................................................................................................................................ 3-15
3.8.4 Engineering Units .........................................................................................................................3-15
3.8.5 Chart Scale .................................................................................................................................. 3-15
3.8.6 Alarms .......................................................................................................................................... 3-15
3.9 Programming Point Scales ..................................................................................................................... 3-15
3.9.1 Programming Scales ....................................................................................................................3-15
3.9.1.1 Scale Ends ..........................................................................................................................3-16
3.9.1.2 Scale Units ..........................................................................................................................3-16
3.10 Recording Data .................................................................................................................................... 3-16
3.10.1 Using the Recorder to format a floppy/zip disk or PCMCIA card ................................................ 3-17
3.10.2 Selecting the Record Mode ........................................................................................................ 3-17
3.10.2.1 Fill to End .......................................................................................................................... 3-17
3.10.2.2 Cyclic ................................................................................................................................3-17
3.10.2.3 Average or Instantaneous Recording ................................................................................ 3-17