Innovate Motorsports OT-1 - Manual (Page 20)

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4. Getting Started With LogWorks
LogWorks is Innovate’s award winning data acquisition and analysis software. It is an extremely
powerful tool and users would do well to refer to the LogWorks User Manual (installed with the
Innovate Software Suite). However, for user who, like us, like some more immediate gratification
before slogging through another manual we have included this brief getting started guide. It will
both help you create your first log and point out a few OT-1 specific ‘gotcha’s’.
4.1 Make sure LM Programmer is not running!
Only one application can access a COM port at one time. So, if LM Programmer is running,
LogWorks cannot connect to the same device. In fact, the COM port will not even appear as an
available option! This simple ‘gotcha’ has reared its head many times.
4.2 Starting LogWorks
The application can be launched via Start->Programs->LogWorks2->LogWorks2 in the Windows
Task Manager. Almost immediately, a Splash Screen should appear.
4.3 Select the COM port to Log from
After the Splash Screen the first dialog that appears in LogWorks is the ‘connection’ dialog:
From the drop list, select the COM port assigned to your OT-1 and press the Connect button.
Within a few moments, the main, real time display should appear. By default, the first six
channels will appear as round gauges. This can be reconfigured (see the LogWorks User
Manual):