Campbell Scientific PC208 Datalogger Support Software - Manual (Page 31)

SECTION 1. PC208E
1-7
FIGURE 1.5-1. Collect Now From Multiple Stations
1.4.8 WAIT OPTION
Selecting the WAIT button will cause the PC to
wait between calls to the stations in the
schedule. A /W is added to the end of the
schedule. While the PC is waiting between
calls during scheduled data collection, pressing
ESC will abort the schedule and return the PC
to the PC208E program.
Collecting data with a schedule
Select DATACOLLECTION | SCHEDULED to
start the active schedule.
1.5 COLLECTING DATA FROM ONE OR
MORE STATIONS ON DEMAND
Data collection on demand for one or more
stations can be done with the
DATACOLLECTION | CALL NOW (MULTI
STN) option. When selected the dialog box
above is displayed (Figure 1.5-1).
Up to nine stations may be added for collection.
The number to the left of the station file name
indicates the order in which the stations will be
called. Any scheduling information in the
station files is ignored and the calls are started
when the START COLLECTION button is
selected. This creates a temporary schedule.
This option is always available. If PC208E has
a station active and on-line, that link will be
terminated before collections is started.
1.6 THE VIEW AND DISPLAY MAIN
MENU OPTIONS
The VIEW option on the main menu allows the
viewing of ASCII (text) files. The two default file
extensions are ERR (error files) and DAT (data
files). Files with other extension may be viewed
by changing the extension in the file dialog box.
NOTE: Only the first 255 characters of
lines longer than 255 characters will be
displayed.
The DISPLAY option has two submenu
selections; SCREEN and GRAPH OPTS
TOGGLE. The SCREEN selections allow the
color palette selection for PC208E. The
GRAPH OPTS TOGGLE allows several options
relating the graphical monitor mode to be
toggled. See Section 3.5.1 (GRAPHTERM) of
the PC208 manual.
1.7 HELP
Context sensitive help is displayed on the
bottom right portion of the main screen. This
will give information about the highlighted menu,
button, or control. Additional information is
available by pressing the F1 key. A help index
and a getting started section are available from
the main menu.