YSI Data Scout Advanced - Manual (Page 33)

For the All Transducers sub-menu item, there is no need for any transducer to be highlighted on the Site Net Map of the main window
since the term ‘All’ means all working transducers. However, if any transducers on the main Data Scout Advanced window are not yet
working (i.e., have not been successfully queried to fill in their necessary ID string information) they will not show up on the Run
window until they are working.
Selecting the second Run submenu item labeled Run | HiLi Xdcr(s) requires that one or more transducers be selected (highlighted) on
the main Data Scout Advanced window’s Site Net Map before it is chosen. Click any transducer row to select it alone.
Either selection will open the Run window (figure 4.2).
Figure 4.2
In figure 4.2, the Run window’s menu bar and Acquire control frame buttons are all enabled and ready to start the Acquire function
immediately. During a short initialize period (immediately after Run function is initiated for the first time during the current Data
Scout Advanced session), these options will be disabled. This period may last for several seconds, depending on the transducer types,
number of transducers, and their common baud rate. The operating mode, write-protect status, and current pressure/level and
temperature units of each transducer are determined during this period. It provides Run with all the information it needs to operate
these transducers and display the data from them correctly.
The Run window may also be moved anywhere on the screen after it starts by dragging its title bar. Its size may also be altered by
dragging its boundaries. Thereafter, Data Scout Advanced remembers its new size and new location.
The third Run submenu item labeled Run | All Xdcrs (Emergency) is rarely used. When selected, it operates just like the first submenu
item, except that it enters the Run window even if one or more Query operations have failed on the main Data Scout Advanced
window. It also bypasses reading transducer data during the Run window initialize period described above. Instead, it sets default
values for each transducer as follows: (1) it is assumed protected (locked), (2) it has psi pressure units assigned, and (3) it has C°
temperature units assigned. This emergency entry is very useful to quickly view or reconfigure some transducer parameter with the
Run window’s Configure menu. It is also used to “repair” a failed firmware update operation (section 4.2.7).
Notice that whenever the Run window is visible and active, the Configure, Run, and Test menus on the main Data Scout Advanced
window are unavailable for use. This essentially prevents unwanted changes to the site network configuration while the Run window is
active. It also prevents the Run window (and other Test windows) from being active at the same time.
4.2 THE RUN WINDOW’S FUNCTIONS
The Run window has its own title bar, menu bar, and status bar. These are independent of similar ones on the main Data Scout
Advanced window. Most of its menu functions are also duplicated, for convenience, as visual controls found in the control frames
(rectangular boxes) labeled Acquire, Display, Record, and AutoLog that appear below the window’s status bar across the middle of the
window. These controls act as convenient shortcuts to the equivalent menu items.
The Run window also has its own spreadsheet-like data table (list view) control, but this feature has an entirely different function than
the similar Site Net Map on the main Data Scout Advanced window. On the Run window this table displays the latest samples of data
as they are acquired “live” from any transducers or when they are extracted from stored AutoLog tests. In the Run window example
above, no data were acquired yet, so these display table cells were only filled with “placeholders” showing what kind of data is
YSI Incorporated Data Scout Advanced 29