MTS Series 793 Application - Manual (Page 49)

About Counters
MTS MultiPurpose TestWare® Performing Common Tasks 49
2. Start your test.
On the Station Controls panel click the run button to start the test. Look at
and listen to your test station after you start the test. If everything seems
normal, you can let your test run to completion.
Note After the completion of a test you have to press the reset button or create
a new MPT specimen to run subsequent tests.
About Counters
When you create a procedure with MPT, you define the parameters of each
process in the procedure, including counter parameters.
In procedures, counters are linear tools used to indicate test progress and
facilitate recovery. It is important to understand counters and to realize that how
you define a counter can affect your test outcome and, as a result, the data that is
generated from the test.
Note Counters are not the only tools provided by the MPT application to
indicate test progress. The MPT Procedure Editor displays special
symbols when individual processes are active.
The various types of counters available for procedures are displayed on the MPT
control panel, provided the MPT control panel has been configured to display
them.
For more information
See “About the MPT Control Panel” on page 25 for more information.
See “Procedure Table” on page 40 for more information about process indicators.
Types of Counters
The most prominent counters on the MPT control panel are the Run Time
counter, the Channel Counters, and the Sequence Counters.
There are also specialized counters that display only in association with specific
types of processes, such as:
• Profile counters, that appear only with the Profile Command and Profile
with ALC processes
• Status counters, that appear only with the Time History Input, Time History
Output, and Road Surface Output processes