Owner's manual
<9 DATA FILES AND FORMAT> 9-2
IM 11Y01B02-01E-A 4th Edition September 11, 2012-00
-------- .cap
Capture
Individually named spectra captured
manually
Theselesaretheindividuallynamedspectrathatare
“Captured” by the user at any given date or time during
operation.Eachlecanhaveupto8numeralsinits
name which are entered at the time the “Capture” is
performed.
Example:
110307.cap
100008.cap
alarms .his
Alarms History
A historical log of analyzer alarm events
AlarmHistory-intheformofASCIIdatalesthatcan
beopenedwithMicrosoft“Notepad”assimple.txtle
formats. The content can then be copied and pasted
into Microsoft Excel spread. Each Alarm incident is
loggedwiththedate(MM-DD-YYYY)andtimethatitoc-
curred,theMode(WarningorFaultorUserAlarm),the
specicconditionwithintheMode(e.g.DetectorSignal
Lost)andthestate(ONorOFF).
Example:
10-10-200713:21:36Fault(peakcenteroutofrange)
OFF
10-10-200719:00:25Warning(detectorsignallow)ON
alarms .bak
Alarms History Back-Up
A back-up of the historical log of ana-
lyzer alarm events
AlarmHistoryBack-up-Whenthealarms.hisleex-
ceeds100KBsizethecontentsissavedtothis.bakle
andthe.hisleisemptied.This.bakleisintheform
ofASCIIdatalesthatcanbeopenedwithMicrosoft
“Notepad”assimple.txtleformats.Thecontentcan
then be copied and pasted into Microsoft Excel spread.
EachAlarmincidentisloggedwiththedate(MM-DD-
YYYY)andtimethatitoccurred,theMode(Warningor
FaultorUserAlarm),thespecicconditionwithinthe
Mode(e.g.DetectorSignalLost)andthestate(ONor
OFF).
Example:
10-10-200713:21:36Fault(peakcenteroutofrange)
OFF
10-10-200719:00:25Warning(detectorsignallow)ON
calibr .his
Calibration History
A historical log of analyzer calibrations
CalibrationHistory-intheformofASCIIdatalesthat
canbeopenedwithMicrosoft“Notepad”assimple.txt
leformats.Thecontentcanthenbecopiedandpasted
intoMicrosoftExcelspread.EachCalibrationand/or
Validationeventisloggedwiththedate(MM-DD-YYYY)
andtimethatitoccurred,theMode(Calibrationor
Validation),thespecictype(TransmissionCalibration,
ZeroCalibration,etc.)andthe‘K’(constant)factorused
for the event
Example:
11-14-200714:11:19span_calibrate612814.899250.84
152665.88
11-14-200714:50:16transmission_cal14.95