Manual

Chapter 3

Using the “WATERLOG” Software

DH-21 Using the “WATERLOG” Software 3-1

Note: The communications cable to the “WATERLOG” Logger must be connected for the software to

operate correctly. The cable installation is discussed in Chapter 2.

3.1 Software Overview and Installation

This chapter explains the menu options available for setting up and running the “WATERLOG”

software from either the floppy or hard disk on a PC, Palmtop or laptop computer. The

minimum system requirements for running this W

ATERGEN

software program is a 8088

processor with 640 K bytes of RAM. Note: This is not the WATERWARE

Graphical

program.

The “WATERLOG” software program WATERGEN.EXE contains the menus that control and

setup the “WATERLOG”. This guide shows a step-by-step run-through of the options. The

purpose of this guide is to give you a complete understanding of each menu option and how it

works. The order of our explanation may not necessarily show the exact sequence of operations

you would choose when setting up your unit. Menu options can later be invoked in the order

needed to satisfy your setup requirements.

For best performance we recommend loading the software to a hard drive. This can be done by

typing the following: (this assumes that the hard disk is the C drive and the floppy drive is A,

change these as needed).

C:\>cd \

C:\>md WATERLOG

C:\>cd WATERLOG

C:\>copy a:*.* c:

The program WATERGEN.EXE can be configured to use either COM1 or COM2.

Note: WATERGEN.EXE uses the standard IBM PC serial port interrupt configuration;

IRQ4 for COM1 and IRQ3 for COM2. COM1 is default. COM2 can be used by entering the

following: WATERGEN.EXE <PORT> where PORT is defined as follows: <1> = COM1, <2>

= COM2. For example: entering “WATERGEN 2" on the command line will select COM PORT

2 for communication with the sensor, provided the sensor is connected to COM PORT 2. To run

the program, just type “WATERGEN” at the DOS prompt. If it does not run, make sure you are

in the right directory. Type:

C:\> cd \

C:\> cd WATERLOG

C:\WATERLOG> WATERGEN (for COM 1) or WATERGEN 2 (for COM 2)