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IM 11Y01B01-01E-A 6th Edition :Feb 13, 2013-00
<10. Data Files anD Format>
alarms .his Alarms History
A historical log of analyzer
alarm
events
Alarm History - in the form of ASCII data les that can
be opened with Microsoft “Notepad” as simple .txt le
formats. The content can then be copied and pasted into
Microsoft Excel spread. Each Alarm incident is logged
with the date (MM-DDYYYY) and time that it occurred, the
Mode
(Warning or Fault or User Alarm), the specic condition
within the Mode (e.g. Detector Signal Lost) and the state
(ON or OFF).
Example:
10-10-2007 13:21:36 Fault(peak center out of range) OFF
10-10-2007 19:00:25 Warning(detector signal low) ON
alarms .bak
Alarms History Back-Up
A back-up of the historical
log of
analyzer alarm events
larm History Back-up - When the alarms.his le exceeds
100KB size the contents is saved to this .bak le and the
.his le is emptied. This .bak le is in the form of ASCII
data les that can be opened with Microsoft “Notepad” as
simple .txt le formats. The content can then be copied
and pasted into Microsoft Excel spread. Each Alarm inci-
dent is logged with the date (MM-DD-YYYY) and time that
it occurred, the Mode (Warning or Fault or User Alarm), the
specic condition within
the Mode (e.g. Detector Signal Lost) and the state (ON or
OFF). Example:
10-10-2007 13:21:36 Fault(peak center out of range) OFF
10-10-2007 19:00:25 Warning(detector signal low) ON
calibr .his
Calibration History
A historical log of analyzer
calibrations
Calibration History - in the form of ASCII data les that
can be opened with Microsoft “Notepad” as simple .txt le
formats. The content can then be copied and pasted into
Microsoft Excel spread. Each Calibration and/or Validation
event is logged with the date (MM-DD-YYYY) and time
that it
occurred, the Mode (Calibration or Validation), the specic
type (Transmission Calibration, Zero Calibration, etc.) and
the ‘K’ (constant) factor used for the event
Example:
11-14-2007 14:11:19 span_calibrate 612814.89
9250.84 152665.88
11-14-2007 14:50:16 transmission_cal 14.95
calibr .bak
Calibration History
Back-Up
A back-up of historical log
of analyzer calibrations
Calibration History - When the calibr.his le exceeds
100KB size the contents is saved to this .bak le and the
.his le is emptied. This .bak le is in the form of ASCII
data les that can be opened with Microsoft “Notepad” as
simple .txt le
formats. The content can then be copied and pasted into
Microsoft Excel spread. Each Calibration and/or Validation
event is logged with the date (MM-DD-YYYY) and time
that it occurred, the Mode (Calibration or Validation), the
specic
type (Transmission Calibration, Zero Calibration, etc.) and
the ‘K’ (constant) factor used for the event
Example:
11-14-2007 14:11:19 span_calibrate 612814.89
9250.84 152665.88
11-14-2007 14:50:16 transmission_cal 14.95