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original transducer’s Adrs field is replaced with the new address for the new transducer. After this, simply Query again to read all the
information from the new transducer. If there are multiple transducers on your Site Net, then it is necessary to perform the ‘File | New’
function from the “main” menu instead. You must click the Auto Disc button, follow all the prompts carefully, and then wait for all
transducers to be recognized. In this case a Query is already done for you, but you can always click the Query button again to be sure
that the latest information is read from all transducers. Each transducer on your serial port’s network must have a unique address, and
operate at the same baud rate, for this to be successful. If Auto-Discovery fails for one or more transducers, some my have non-unique
addresses – or some may be set to operate at different baud rates. The best way to troubleshoot such cases is to connect just one
transducer at a time to your network, and use Auto-Discovery to weed out non-working units or find other incompatible differences
in the transducers.
4 . 0 O P E R A T I N G T R A N S D U C E R S ( R U N )
This chapter details the Run function which operates all or selected transducers on the current Site Net Map. It is also used to
Configure (view/edit) all user-visible internal transducer options. Chapter 3 described how to activate Run from the main Data Scout
Advanced window’s menu. In this chapter, the separate Run window, with its own unique menu bar, status bar, visual control frames,
data display, MenuTip status bar, and other associated windows are described in their fullest functional detail with pictures and
examples.
4.1 INTRODUCTION
Run’s data acquisition function is able to acquire various kinds of “live” data (on demand, continuously, or periodically) from any or
all of its assigned transducers. These acquired data are displayed in a selectable format (spreadsheet-like table, trend plot or both) and
may also be optionally recorded (i.e., written to a disk file in one of two useful formats).
The Run window can also configure tests to load into the Level Scouts. Such transducers may then be deployed and moved to field
locations, where they can autonomously acquire and record (log) the test data that they were programmed to collect. Later, these
transducers can be reconnected to a PC to allow Data Scout Advanced to extract all data. Data Scout Advanced also records these
extracted data to files and can display them in table, AutoLog plot format, or both. A portable PC with Data Scout Advanced installed
may be easily moved from site-to-site for servicing remote transducers or the transducers themselves may be moved to a central PC site
for test programming and data extraction. If the portable PC solution is impractical, then a subset of Data Scout Advanced software,
Data Scout Mobile, is available separately for use in an handheld PC running Windows Mobile
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2003 SE and has a compact flash slot..
All data files the Run window generates (whether “live” recordings or extracted “AutoLog” data) are text and can be viewed directly by
a text editor or spreadsheet program. They may also be post-processed and plotted by the Playback application (DSPlay.exe).
The Run window’s Configure menu permits every user-visible option of a single selected transducer to be displayed and edited as
necessary. Whenever these options are modified the user may elect to store the changed value back to the selected transducer or
broadcast the change to all the transducers assigned to the Run window. Configuration data affecting the transducer are remembered
in the transducer’s own persistent (non-volatile) memory. The Run window remembers its own internal operating options
persistently by writing a file (Run.ini) when it exits. These options are restored the next time the Run window is started.
To activate the Run function, click the Run menu item on the main Data Scout Advanced window to reveal a submenu with two items
in its top section and one item in its bottom section (figure 4.1).
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Figure 4.1