Gentec-EO Beamage-3.0 - Manual (Page 44)

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The “Duration” defines the time for which the acquisition will keep running. The countdown starts as soon
as the user presses the “Start Data Acquisition” button located in the “Main Controls”. The user can select
the number of days, hours, minutes and seconds.
The “File Name” allows the user to specify a name and a path for his file. A filename must be defined to
start an acquisition. If the “Full images and measurements” is selected, then a series of “.BMG” files with
the same filename concatenated with its corresponding increment will be saved.
The “Sample Rate” defines the rate at which the samples are saved. When choosing the “Measurements
only” acquisition mode, the sample rate is defined as 1/X images. To save every frame computed, enter
the
value “1” in the box. To keep track of only a small amount of frames, enter a higher value. When
choosing the ‘Full images and measurements” acquisition mode, the sample rate is defined temporally.
The fastest rate is limited to 1 per second.
Warning
Each *.BMG file can take up to 8.50 MB on the hard drive. Acquiring
multiple frames can quickly sum up to multiple GigaBytes. If the total
acquisition if over 1 GB, a warning message will appear. If there is only 10
GB left on the hard drive, a warning message will appear and the
acquisition will be stopped.
Fast acquisition should be done on the computer’s hard drive and cannot
be done on an external drive or on a server hard drive since it could slow
down the acquisition.