Operator`s manual

Q-DL-2100 Operatorʼs Manual
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B.2 TeraTerm Pro Communications Setup
Tera Term Pro is an open source free software terminal emulator (terminal communication
application) for MS-Windows. It provides for a very convenient means of communicating with
the Quaesta Instrument Q-DL-2100 datalogger, and its displayed output can be more easily
configured than Windows Hyperterminal.
An alternative is the Windows Hyperterminal program if using Windows 2000 or
Windows XP. Windows Hyperterminal is no longer available in Windows Vista.
See Steps 1-4 below to install and set up Tera Term Pro on a Windows 2000 or Windows XP
machine.
Step 1. Installation
Unzip the file tterm23.zip file into a subdirectory of your choice. This zip file may be
downloaded from the internet or can also be obtained from Quaesta Instruments LLC
personnel.
Step 2. Run setup.exe.
Follow directions in the Windows installer screens.
Step 3. Starting Tera Term.
Select the Tera Term Pro application from the Windows Start Menu.
Figure B-10 shows a main window for Tera Term Pro.
Figure B-10.
Step 3. Setting up a Connection.
Upon startup, one may be prompted with a New Connection window as in Figure B-11.
Select Serial for the connection type and the appropriate serial port number and click OK.
Note that if using the dataloggerʼs USB COM port to communicate with the datalogger the
Port number must match the dataloggerʼs USB Virtual Serial port number as found in
Appendix A, Step 3.