YSI PC6000 - Manual (Page 26)

PC6000 Menus Section 4
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Under DISPLAY-FORMATS change any default values that are not appropriate by typing in the
correct format.
Date format: mdy
Date separator: /
Time separator: :
Radix mark: .
Users may specify any order of day (d), month (m), and year (y) by selecting Date format. The
other options are used primarily outside of the US where other characters are sometimes used to
separate numbers in dates, times, or decimals.
Use the options below to specify what type of monitor your computer has, and change the colors of
both menus and plots as they are displayed on the screen.
Menu colors
Plot colors
Graphic Mode
The color selections have no effect on the printed output of reports and plots. Simply press Enter
to activate either the Menu or Plot color selections, scroll through the choices with the Arrow keys,
and after selecting a color scheme, confirm it by pressing Enter again. If none of the color schemes
are to your liking, you can setup a User Defined color scheme. See Section 5, Advanced Setup.
From the list provided, choose a graphics mode which best matches your video adapter and
monitor. If you have difficulty, consult your video adapter's instruction manual.
Under MORE-SETUP there are two important menu options. Each has been given a separate
subsection. Section, Data Capture/ Real-Time Setup, provides the instructions for you to
configure your sonde to provide “real-time” graphical display of in the discrete sample mode.
4.3 DATA CAPTURE / REAL-TIME SETUP
When Real-time mode has been properly set up, you will be able to view the data in real-time as it
is taken in the Discrete sample mode by the sonde. Each reading is displayed at the bottom of the
real-time screen, and plots are updated with the arrival of each data point. In addition, the data will
be automatically stored to the disk drive that you select.