What Chartview And Chartview Plus Provide - Omega Engineering OMB-NETSCAN 1500 User Manual

Some of the data acquisition scenarios pertaining to ChartView are as follows:
1) Waiting for Trigger
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Acquisiton Device
Data is received by acqu isition device, but not stored. Selected
cha nnels can be view ed graph ically in scrolling cha rts, as well
as in one or m ore m e te rs (analo g, digital, or bar graph).
3) Buffering Acquisition in Instrument
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Acquisiton Device
Acquired data (from poin t of trigger) is received by acquisition device
and tem porarily stored in device b uffer. A s in the previous scenarios,
selected display channels can be viewed.

What ChartView and ChartView Plus Provide

ChartView and ChartView Plus provide you with the capability to connect to, and control any member of the
ChartScan, NetScan, MultiScan, or TempScan family of data acquisition instruments, as well as:
Create and edit chart display setups ....................................
Set up analog input parameters (selecting: Channels, ............
TC types, Units) to acquire data.
Configure alarms, log alarms..............................................
Configure and arm an acquisition.........................................
View real-time display of channel data via the Main Window....
Save data to disk..............................................................
Transmit data to Microsoft Excel via DDE (Dynamic Data ........
Exchange).
Start PostView, an independent application that allows you to...
graphically view data channels from a file.
Use remote RS-232 communications by attaching the .............
acquisition device to a modem configured for Auto Answer
NetScan User's Manual
2) Acquiring & Uploading Acquisition
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4) Uploading Data from Instrum ent B uffer
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F ou r B asic D a ta A cquisition Scena rios
S e n sor
B u ffe r
Acquisiton Device
Device has been triggered. Data is te m porarily stored in device
buffer prior to being uploaded to PC system hard disk. As in the first
scenario, selected displa y channe ls ca n be view ed.
S e n sor
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Acquisiton Device
Acquired data is uploaded to the PC hard disk from the device buffer.
As in th e previous scenarios, selected display chan nels can be
view ed.
See Display Configuration, beginning on page 4-9 and
Chart Setup Wizard, beginning on page 4-41.
See Setup Window, beginning on page 4-33.
See pages 4-24, 4-33, and 4-36.
See Acquisition Setup Dialog Box, page 4-36.
See Main Window, beginning on page 4-4.
See File, page 4-16 and Data Destination, page 4-39.
See Data, beginning on page 4-20.
See Chapter 5, PostView.
See Device, page 4-23.
ChartView Software Reference
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