Casella CEL Nomad portable weather station - Manual (Page 5)

Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Page
1. INTRODUCTION TO THE NOMAD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
1.1 Three Versions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
1.2 Features and Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
2. COMMISSIONING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
2.1 Schedule of Parts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
2.2 Siting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
2.3 Preparing for Use . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
2.4 Deploying the Sensors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
3. OPERATION USING A DIRECT LINK BETWEEN PC AND NOMAD, VIA
FLASH CARDS, CABLE, GSM MODEM, OR HIGH POWER RADIO . . 15
3.1 Start Logging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
3.2 Get Stored Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
3.2.1
Download Sensus Store . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
3.2.2 Download to a CompactFlash Card . . . . . . . 16
3.2.3 Download CompactFlash Cards . . . . . . . . . 16
3.3 Read Data from the Sensus Display . . . . . . . . . . . 16
3.4 Display Real-Time Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
3.5 View Downloaded (Cloned) Data . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
4. OPERATION USING A PASSIVE RADIO LINK BETWEEN PC
AND NOMAD
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
4.1 Start Logging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
4.2 Display Real-Time Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
4.3 View Downloaded (Cloned) Data . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
5 ONLINE PRO APPLICATION SOFTWARE . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
5.1 Introduction to Online Pro, Version 1.2 . . . . . . . . . 21
5.2 Installation / Un-Installation on Windows
TM
95, 98,
ME, NT 4 & 2000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
5.2.1 Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
5.2.2 Un-Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
5.2.3 Starting Online Pro for the First Time . . . . . . 23
5.2.4 Password Protection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
5.2.5 Loading a Default File . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
5.3 Operation in Real-Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
5.3.1 Viewing Pages and Operating in Real-Time . . . 26
5.3.2 Setting Up Pages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
5.3.3 Adding Real Time Display Items . . . . . . . . 29
5.3.4 Saving the Display File . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
5.3.5 Web Page Output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
5.4 Working with Historic Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
5.4.1
Downloading (Cloning) Data . . . . . . . . . . 35
5.4.2 Downloading from CompactFlash
TM
Cards . . . . 36
5.4.3 Converting Online and CompactFlash Files . . . . 36
5.4.4 Viewing Historic Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
5.5 Dynamic Data Exchange . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
6. THE NOMAD SYSTEM COMPONENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
6.1 The Sensors Used with Nomad Systems . . . . . . . . . 41
6.2 Combined Air Temperature and Relative Humidity Sensor 42
6.2.1 Temperature Sensor Specification . . . . . . . . 42
6.2.2 Humidity Sensor Specification . . . . . . . . . 42
6.2.3 General Specification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
6.3 Wind Speed Sensor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
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