YSI 610DM - Manual (Page 26)

YSI Incorporated Displays and Loggers 24
The YSI 610 can emulate a “dumb” RS-232 terminal, allowing you to configure and
operate devices that communicate using ASCII characters. No handshaking lines are used
in the YSI 610 Terminal Emulator. Select Terminal from the YSI 610-D Main menu, or
from the YSI 610 –DM Communications menu.
You should be familiar with the terminal interface of the target device, or have its
operations manual handy. This will avoid accidental disruption of the device’s operation.
The Terminal emulator maintains an 80 character wide by 25 line image from the target
device. The cursor is always on the bottom line of this image. The Arrow keys are used to
pan left and right, and to back-scroll to lines that have scrolled off the screen. Panning
and scrolling are indicated on the top line of the screen.
A special interpreter has also been embedded into the Terminal Emulator. The interpreter
traps raw data from YSI’s type 1029/1144/1152 Water Level Series products, and
displays the data in engineering units. The interpreter also swallows all ANSI escape
sequences to avoid cluttering the screen.
In addition, two other keys have special use in the Terminal Emulator. The Ins keys
sends an ASCII Escape character to the target device, and the Skip key pans/scrolls the
screen directly to the cursor position.
SMART TERMINAL
The YSI 610 provides a Smart Terminal feature that allows convenient access to the
sondes advanced features. All sondes except the 6000UPG have this capability. The
Smart Terminal allows the menus that are built into the sonde to flow out through the YSI
610 screen. The menu name, messages, all items on the menu, and any data being
displayed all come directly from the sonde. Sometimes, however, the YSI 610
abbreviates text from the sonde so that it will fit on the YSI 610 screen.
There are several ways to get into Smart Terminal mode. The direct way is from the
Communications menu, highlight Smart Terminal and press Enter. The YSI 610 also
enters Smart Terminal automatically when you enter Setup Sensors, Setup Parameters,
Calibration or the Deploy menus. The YSI 610 indicates that it is in Smart Terminal
mode by showing the menu name (top left corner of the screen) in narrow font.
When you display data in the Smart Terminal mode, you can not Capture, Add or Store
the readings.
DATA TRANSFER
Kermit 610
→
PC: To transfer files from the YSI 610 to a PC, see Section 5.2.
Kermit 610
←
Sonde: To receive a file from a 6000UPG, 6920, 6600 or 600XLM
sonde to the YSI 610, see Section 5.1, Files.