Connecting The Model 3945-B To Your Computer - AEMC PowerPad 3945-B User Manual

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NOTE: The installation of the drivers may take a few moments. Windows may

even indicate that it is not responding, however it is running. Please wait for

it to finish.

14. When the drivers are finished installing, the Installation Successful dialog

box will appear. Click on OK.

15. Next, the Installation Wizard Complete window will appear. Click on Finish.

16. A Question dialog box appears next. Click Yes to read the procedure for con-

necting the instrument to the USB port on the computer.

NOTE: The Set-up window remains open. You may now select another option

to download (e.g. Adobe

17. Restart your computer, then connect the instrument to the USB port on the

computer.

18. Once connected, the Found New Hardware dialog box will appear. Windows

will complete the driver installation process automatically.

Shortcuts for DataView

installation process have been added to your desktop.

NOTE: If you connected your instrument to the computer before installing

the software and drivers, you may need to use the Add/Remove Hardware

utility to remove the instrument driver before repeating the process.

6.2 Connecting the Model 3945-B to your Computer

The Model 3945-B is supplied with an optically isolated serial interface cable

required for connecting the instrument to the computer. This cable (Cat. #2140.18)

is equipped with a 9-pin connector on one end, and an optical connector on the

other end.

To connect the Model 3945-B to your computer:

1. Connect the optical connector end of the cable to the serial port on the

side panel of the Model 3945-B PowerPad

2. Connect the 9-pin connector end of the cable, to an available serial port

on your computer. If your computer does not have a serial port, you can

obtain a serial port to USB converter from many computer stores.

You are now ready to use the DataView

Power Quality Analyzer Model 3945-B

Reader), or close the window.

and each instrument control panel selected during the

software with the PowerPad

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