Dataq Instruments DI-151RS DI-195B User Manual

Windaq/lite/pro/pro+ waveform recording software / windaq waveform browser playback and analysis software / software configurable analog and digital i/o board / 2-channel serial port i/o module with signal conditioned inputs
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Software Configurable Analog and Digital I/O Board
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2-Channel Serial Port I/O Module with Signal Conditioned Inputs
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  • Page 1 The distribution of this material outside the company may occur only as authorized by the company in writing. Dataq Instruments’ hardware and software products are not designed to be used in the diagnosis and treatment of humans, nor are they to be used as critical components in any life-support systems whose failure to perform can reasonably be expected to cause significant injury to humans.
  • Page 2 DATAQ Instruments, Inc. warrants that its hardware will be free from defects in materials and workmanship under normal use and service for a period of one year from the date of shipment. DATAQ Instruments’ obligations under this warranty shall not arise until the defective material is shipped freight prepaid to DATAQ Instruments.
  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    Table of Contents Introduction ..........................1 Conventions Used in the Documentation ....................1 General Conventions ........................1 Mouse Conventions ........................1 /Lite Operating Modes........................2 Getting Started..........................3 Step 1. Installing the Hardware........................3 Step 2. Installing W Software......................3 Step 3. Connecting Your Input Signals to the Instrument................4 Fast Start to Recording Waveforms with W /Lite ............7 Step 4.
  • Page 4 Show Dynamic Range..........................27 Undo................................27 Assign Channel............................27 Grow 2X ..............................28 Shrink 2X ..............................28 Waveform Down 1 Pixel..........................28 Waveform Down 10 Pixels ........................28 Waveform Up 1 Pixel ..........................28 Waveform Up 10 Pixels ..........................28 Reviewing Recorded Waveforms with W Waveform Browser ..........
  • Page 5 Less Bottom Y............................55 Left Limit..............................55 Right Limit ..............................55 Toggle Pane..............................55 Fourier Transform Operations........................56 Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) ....................... 57 FFT Generation....................... 57 Exiting the FFT Mode..................... 60 Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT) ....................61 DFT General Information....................61 Generating a DFT Using Limit Cursors................
  • Page 7: Introduction

    Introduction playback and analysis software. /Lite waveform recording software can be used with any Dataq Instruments hardware product. It allows you to record waveforms directly and This manual contains information designed to continuously to disk while monitoring a real time familiarize you with the features and functions of display of the waveforms on your computer screen.
  • Page 8: Win Daq /Lite Operating Modes

    lowest displayed waveform valley.” When not selected from the File menu. RECORD is used to specified, the left mouse button is assumed for the stream waveform information to disk. While in this procedure. mode, all waveform recording features and functions are available (with some restrictions) except the •...
  • Page 9: Getting Started

    Save the original packing Browser playback and analysis material in the unlikely event that your unit must, software. for any reason, be sent back to Dataq Instruments. 1. Start Windows™. Step 1 2. Insert the W Resource CD into your CD Installing the Hardware drive and close the drive tray.
  • Page 10: Step 3. Connecting Your Input Signals To The Instrument

    However, if you are unsure of what to do next or if you need additional information, contact Dataq Instruments technical support. 7. When W /Lite software has successfully been installed, double-click the My Computer...
  • Page 11 connected to a screw terminal. Unless you would signal to be measured is ground-referenced, or the like to make temperature measurements with the signal to be measured is isolated from ground. In thermistor, remove it completely from the DI- either case, it is important to properly connect the 151RS.
  • Page 12 RIGHT APPROACH √ One ground on the signal circuit eliminates noise-inducing ground loops instrument input terminals signal source signal differential lead amplifier shield Potential difference (no path for current to circulate) Isolated Signal Sources — An isolated signal source is one that is not connected to ground at any point. However the signal shield should still be grounded as before to reduce noise.
  • Page 13: Step 4. Enabling Channels For Acquisition

    Fast Start to Point to the Edit menu and drag down to Channels… Recording This causes the Ch: block cursor to blink in the Channels: field on the status bar. The currently active list of enabled channels are displayed in this Waveforms field, immediately to the left of the cursor (initially, only channel 1 is enabled for recording).
  • Page 14: Step 5. Viewing Enabled Channels

    Step 5 Step 6 Viewing Enabled Specifying a Sample Rate Channels You must specify a sample throughput rate (or total This step allows you to display onscreen all enabled scanning rate) for waveform recording. channels. For example, if you wanted to acquire four channels If you enabled more channels in the previous step, of data all at 60 Hz, you would require a sample rate you will want to display them all onscreen.
  • Page 15: Step 7. Specifying Gain And Measurement Range

    skip this step. Otherwise, continue with this step to select higher gain factor (thus narrower measurement range) best possible measurement resolution. Since gain and measurement range can be assigned per-channel, the desired channel must first be selected. 1. Select an analog channel for gain adjustment: Click the left mouse button in the unselected Although thousands of different sample rates may be channel’s annotation margin.
  • Page 16 leave the Unipolar box unchecked, thus specifying bipolar. When the desired channel is selected, gain adjustments to that channel are now possible. Reset Cal. Button Whenever the gain or unipolar/bipolar setting is 2. Select the Channel Settings… command: changed, any calibration is preserved and adjusted to reflect the new gain or unipolar/bipolar setting.
  • Page 17: Step 8. Calibrating Your Input Signals

    for gain, unipolar/bipolar, sample rate, etc., without closing this dialog box. To calibrate a waveform using this high/low calibration method: Step 8 1. Select the window that contains the desired Calibrating Your Input waveform: Signals Click the left mouse button in the Calibration allows you to view and record your unselected window’s annotation margin.
  • Page 18 Input level This is where you enter the high calibration data value that is to be assigned to the input voltage Cal value level. For instance, referring back to our previous Engr. units examples: a) For the case where the transducer output is -1 volt known, we would enter “100”...
  • Page 19: Step 9. Recording Waveforms To Disk

    1. Select the Record command: 8. Type convenient top and bottom chart-edge values in their respective text boxes. Point to the File menu and drag down to Record. 9. Complete the chart-edge value entry as follows: This displays the Open dialog box. Here is where Click OK.
  • Page 20 This suspends data storage to disk, but the real time cut and paste portions of waveforms, and do all display remains active. The status field in the forms of interpretive analysis, launch the W bottom annotation line indicates STBY when Waveform Browser by clicking or double-clicking acquisition has been stopped.
  • Page 21: Additional Waveform Recording Functions

    periodically pointing to the View menu and Additional selecting Refresh. /Lite Scroll Mode, Waveform Oscilloscope Mode, & Pause Graphics Recording Waveform information can be displayed on your monitor in either a continuous smooth scroll mode or in a triggered sweep oscilloscope mode. Functions These functions are not requisite for recording or will not necessarily be used every time...
  • Page 22 To enable/disable the waveform display pause Slope option buttons - The slope option buttons feature: allow you to select the slope (positive or negative) at which the waveform display will trigger. Selecting the + option button triggers the display to start at the trigger level, but on the waveform’s rising slope.
  • Page 23: Open Reference File

    display in the left annotation margin changes to Current Data - Enables/disables the display of the indicate trigger level. When set where desired, current waveform data value in the left or right clicking the left mouse button sets a new trigger annotation margin.
  • Page 24: Toolbox

    /Lite Data display enabled ToolBox When enabled, a floating “toolbox” of buttons is displayed on your screen. The toolbox buttons Limit Display - Displays or hides the upper and provide quick access to commonly used commands. lower chart-edge limits in the left/right annotation To display the toolbox: margin.
  • Page 25: User Annotation

    Start/Stop Recording — When activated with a /Lite data file already open, recording starts immediately. User Annotation… When activated without a data file open, the Open Allows you to display a custom message (up to 30 dialog box appears prompting you to specify a new characters) on the baseline of each display channel file name or select an existing file.
  • Page 26: Time Base

    Point to the Edit menu and drag down to Compression x2. To divide the current compression factor by 2: Point to the Edit menu and drag down to This function is simply a “graphics adjuster” that Compression /2. only affects how the display looks on your screen. Data acquisition is independent of this function and Perhaps these two functions are most useful when is always recorded (gap-free) at a compression factor...
  • Page 27: Close

    To enable the beep on file full function: /Lite Insert Mark, Insert Point to the Options menu and drag down to Commented Mark Beep on File Full. This function allows you to insert event markers (either commented or uncommented) at any point in When enough data has been recorded to fill the the data stream going to disk.
  • Page 28: Remote Events

    its position in the data file the instant the event marker function is enabled. Data acquisition to disk /Lite continues while you enter your comment. Remote Events +, Remote Events -, Remote If the Cancel command button is chosen while Storage 1, Remote recording, the event marker will not be deleted from Storage 0...
  • Page 29: Help

    it is not possible to enable them locally. Nor are /Lite comments possible when recording with remotely Help triggered event markers. HELP is a complete online reference tool that you can use at any time to display a brief summary of REMOTE TRIGGERING OF DATA STORAGE /Lite software contents.
  • Page 30: Functions Common To Recording And Playback

    To invert the waveform: Functions Point to the Scaling menu and drag down to Invert. Common to A subsequent activation of the Invert command flips the selected waveform back to its original Recording and orientation. /Lite & WWB Playback Next, Previous, & User Palette Allows the selection of one of 16 pre-defined display palettes.
  • Page 31 To change a palettes color scheme: Decrement command button - Displays the color scheme that defines the previous palette. Activating this button decrements the Palette # and updates the 1. Using the technique described above, background, waveform, and grid lines and user display the palette you want to change.
  • Page 32: Exit

    selecting the Cancel button, followed by SAVE As a general rule, do not assign the inverse color of DEFAULT SETUP (from the File menu), then the background to any other parameter (grid lines selecting the OK button. and user annotation, 1st waveform, or 2nd waveform) and do not make both waveforms the Exiting From the W Waveform Browser...
  • Page 33: Show Dynamic Range

    Subsequent activations of the Show Dynamic Range command does nothing, the function does not toggle. To revert to the previous display (prior to activating the Show Dynamic Range function), use the Undo command on the Edit menu. /Lite & WWB Undo Allows you to reverse the last screen scaling or offset operation performed on a selected channel.
  • Page 34: Grow 2X

    /Lite element is the window number. The second element & WWB is the analog channel assigned to that window. Grow 2X, Shrink 2X, Waveform Down 1 Pixel, Waveform Down 10 Pixels, Waveform Up 1 Pixel, Waveform Up 10 Pixels Used to dynamically scale or offset a specified channel's waveform on the real time display.
  • Page 35: Reviewing Recorded Waveforms With Win Daq Waveform Browser

    This also contracts specified used make timing amplitude waveform one-half its original size. measurements, review event markers, overlap waveforms to examine interdependencies, cut and Moving the Waveform Down ( ↓ ↓ Offsetting) paste portions of the waveform, and do all forms of Point to the Scaling menu and drag interpretive analysis.
  • Page 36: Autoscroll Right

    beginning or end of the data file. The left mouse button can be held down to scroll rapidly until the slider box reaches the mouse pointer. The keyboard's number lock (NUM LOCK) function must not be enabled when waveform scrolling is activated.
  • Page 37: Export (Using Save As

    but instead is a “calculated” channel, created by as a percentage of full scale (+100.00%) if this is a Advanced CODAS Analysis Software (available as “calculated” channel created by Advanced CODAS an extra-cost option). Analysis Software. Sample rate (Hz) - Displays the sample rate (in Hz) Input units - Displays volts if the channel was used that was used to record this channel.
  • Page 38 The range of data to be exported is user-definable. Created data files may be read by user-generated, or standard (i.e., ASYST, Lotus 1-2-3, Excel, Quatro Pro, etc.) software analysis packages, or by Advanced CODAS' CALC package. Before data may be exported to a disk file, the copy range must be selected.
  • Page 39 Note the Visible channels only check box at the top of the Save As dialog box. This option must remain ASYST - When this data storage format is selected, unselected (no X appears in the check box) for the playback software stores channel data in a fashion export function to work on all channels in the data that is directly compatible with the ASYST data file.
  • Page 40 Contact DATAQ INSTRUMENTS for details on changing the 1. A new data file is created on disk carrying the delimiter from a comma to whatever your program file name you supplied when EXPORT was first requires.
  • Page 41: Data Cursor

    EXPORT is used, and the SPREADSHEET or Point to the Search menu and drag down ASYST(ANT) storage format is selected, the sample to Peak on Screen. This moves the rate figure automatically added to the comment lines cursor to the highest waveform peak will be divided by the compression ratio that was displayed on the screen in a selected active at the time the export function was selected.
  • Page 42: Eof (Distance To End Of File)

    obscured. When the cursor is turned off, the check disabled, or disables it if enabled. mark is not displayed. When the live display field is enabled, a check mark ( √ ) is displayed on the Options menu immediately Note that highest peak and lowest valley searches can also be done within the limits of a selection preceding the Enable Live Display command.
  • Page 43: Extract Channels (Using Save As

    the previous event marker. Waveform Browser Extract Channels Insert an Event Marker (Using Save As…) Point to the Edit menu and drag down to Insert Mark. This inserts a positive- Allows you to copy a range of waveform information going event marker on the selected from selected channels in an existing data file and window’s waveform at the point of export them to a new file in a variety of different...
  • Page 44: Free/Lock Cursor

    Select the storage format by: 3. Move the cursor (in either direction) to the other Clicking the desired format option button. end of the desired range (by dragging the left mouse button in the bottom annotation margin). With the desired format selected, enter in the text box the name of the data file (including desired path names) to which W Waveform Browser is to...
  • Page 45: Jump To Beginning/End Of File

    moves the display back to the original position. Pressing the SCROLL LOCK key will free the cursor and allow you to position it anywhere on the screen using the ← and → Go to Range… - This function instantly moves the cursor control keys.
  • Page 46: Go To Time

    range. If this text box is left blank, the low end of the range is unbounded. This limit is retained until a search is done on a different channel or a new file is opened. When limits are assigned, the << Inside Range, <<...
  • Page 47: Commented Note

    annotation. 3. Click OK. The data sent to the target file are those data points from each channel coincident with the position of The procedure for writing data and text information the data cursor at the time the NOTEPAD function is to a notepad file is similar.
  • Page 48: Print

    time marker was enabled at the time the NOTEPAD function was invoked, time marker data will be annotated in scientific notation. If the time marker WAS NOT enabled, column two will contain nine zeros 000000000 indicating that the time marker was not enabled.
  • Page 49 Best Fit Option Stretch to Page Option by pointing to the Options menu and dragging down to Enable Time Marker; or by choosing Options Enable Time Marker with ALT, O, M keystrokes) Entire Window Window Excluding Title and Menu Bars 3.
  • Page 50 waveform hard copy will begin at your printer. Interpreting the Hard Copy Record — The following describes the information provided by the record: File Information - Original CODAS-formatted data file name, and the date and time the file was acquired. Your comments (if any) are shown as entered when the hard copy was enabled.
  • Page 51: Refresh

    compressed, hard copied, then used as a tool for Waveform determining where detailed analysis should begin Browser Save and end. In this manner, the feature allows you to get a handle on large quantities of data in a purely Saves a copy of the file you are working with on logical and organized fashion.
  • Page 52 Live display field the time marker position and the current cursor shows the percent position. To display the difference from TM point in change in waveform values at the point of the live display field: time marker and cursor. 1. Point to the Options menu and drag down Cursor to Select Live Display.
  • Page 53: Select Marker Display

    indicates on because the function is undefined. samples in the section of waveform bounded by the cursor and time marker. If waveform compression is enabled, the data values Cursor reported by the time marker and cursor will be MID, Time marker MIN, or MAX line segment values rather than a single data point value that would be displayed on an uncompressed waveform.
  • Page 54: Open

    marker. To display the frequency (in cycles/minute) offsets, compressions, calibration constants, etc.) of the selected cycle in the marker display field: before returning you to the Program Manager. 1. Point to the Options menu and drag down to Select Marker Display. 2.
  • Page 55: Enable Time Marker

    Save Calibration… command button - Saves the calibration data only. The next time the data file is reviewed, all waveforms will appear calibrated without needing to repeat the calibration process. Proceed with No Save… command button - Proceeds to the Program Manager window without saving calibration or state.
  • Page 56: Start Time

    transpiring with the data cursor on. This displays the date and time the file was closed Since cursors for all channels align perfectly in time, for acquisition in the E display field at the lower the time difference for events on channels other than right corner of the bottom annotation line.
  • Page 57: Acquisition Assignments

    enable Data Display (if disabled, or disable it if option is enabled, the logical vs. physical channel enabled): number assignments revert to engineering units instead of toggling off when acquisition assignments are disabled. To enable Acquisition Assignments (if Point to the Options menu and drag down to disabled, or disable them if enabled): Data Display.
  • Page 58: Compression

    All the Waveform Browser channels in Compression Select an the data file annotation for with their Allows the waveform data file to be compressed: a) editing from current user entirely onto one screen width or b) to any given this list… annotation.
  • Page 59: Data Cursor

    file compressed formats. 1. Click the desired option button (either When time compression is disabled, the compression MID, MIN, MAX, or MxMn). ratio displayed in the Compression text box reverts to a 2. Click OK. value of 1. The currently active cursor mode is automatically Compression to Any Given Ratio reported at the bottom of the screen where the The value displayed in the Compression = text box...
  • Page 60: Event Markers

    Waveform Browser Activating the To Clipboard command button copies Event Markers… all event marker columnar information to the Allows you to: automatically locate event markers clipboard in text format. Since the data is copied to that were enabled during data acquisition; display the clipboard in text format (as opposed to the date and time at the current cursor position;...
  • Page 61: Split

    columns (except EVENT #) will display **. ESC key. The TM column is active only if the time marker was enabled before Event Markers… was chosen EXIT/ENTER SPLIT Function - This command from the View menu. If the time marker was not allows you to toggle between the regular and split enabled, ** will be displayed in the TM column.
  • Page 62: Fourier Transform Operations

    LEFT LIMIT Function - This command selects the left limit cursor in the Y-T waveform area (or upper pane), allowing you to reposition it with the ← and Waveform → cursor control keys. Repositioning the left limit Browser Fourier Transform cursor allows you to adjust the amount of data to be Operations transformed, however the amount of travel is...
  • Page 63: Fast Fourier Transform (Fft)

    FAST FOURIER TRANSFORM (FFT) FFT GENERATION The FFT is ideally suited for homogeneous-type waveforms (waveforms that have the same structure throughout, or have a similar cyclic repetition) but need not be limited to this type. Before an FFT can be generated, the channel you wish to transform must be moved into display window one (e.g., type “1=5”...
  • Page 64 A power spectrum always information on the Fourier transform algorithm, ranges from the dc level (0 Hz) to one-half the sample request Dataq Instruments’ free Application Note rate of the waveform being transformed, so the number number AN-11, Waveform Analysis Using the of points in the transform defines the power spectrum Fourier Transform).
  • Page 65 possible to display a 32-point FFT option by reducing the window to its minimum horizontal size and selecting an overlapped screen format. The FFT algorithm also supports input averaging. Input averaging allows you to perform FFTs on more data points than the value selected in the Number of Points list box.
  • Page 66: Exiting The Fft Mode

    conditions and the power spectrum data. This data is magnitude scale margin with the left mouse button updated as the cross hair, displayed on the power held down allows you to drag the horizontal cross spectrum plot, is moved. A typical display with the hair anywhere on the plot and simultaneously update cross hair placed over a frequency of 6.40 Hz with a the decibel or magnitude value in the analysis...
  • Page 67: Discrete Fourier Transform (Dft)

    If you exit from the split screen mode with the The window designation is replaced by a C or E option of saving the W Waveform Browser (which denotes the DFT approach that was applied) state, the state that existed at the time the program and by the factors of 2 in the compression factor was terminated becomes the default condition the applied to the waveform being transformed.
  • Page 68: Defining The Dft Range Using Limit Cursors

    DFT range chart edges (or wherever desired) of window 1 and Note limit cursors are at extreme left and right chart edges then perform the DFT. Such a procedure is described as follows: Defining the DFT Range Using Limit Cursors Before generating a DFT, the right limit cursor and left limit cursor should be adjusted to enclose an integer or whole number of cycles on the waveform...
  • Page 69: Defining The Dft Range Using The Time Marker And Cursor

    points. For example, each displayed point on the waveform represents a combination of 15 acquired points if a compression factor of 15 is enabled, making precise end-point placement difficult. For this reason, a second DFT placement approach is available. This approach defines end-points through use of the time marker and cursor.
  • Page 70: Power Spectrum Measurements

    2. Assign the waveform to be transformed DFT with an averaging factor of 1 to window 1 by pointing to the View menu and dragging down to Assign DFT with an averaging factor of 3 Channel…, then entering the desired channel number.
  • Page 71: X-Axis Scaling

    amplitude frequency spikes often encountered in a to fit on one screen width. This is fine for spotting power spectrum plot. You control the amount of the overall trend of a spectrum but what if you smoothing by specifying the moving average factor. wanted to examine a selected portion of the plot Available factors are no averaging (1) or factors of 2, more closely? This can be done by scaling the...
  • Page 72: Panning The Power Spectrum

    bar appears at the bottom of the plot area, allowing extreme bottom of the screen). you to pan the entire plot. CHANGING POWER SPECTRUM AMPLITUDE Activating the shrink command button decreases the UNITS magnification factor to a limit of ÷p, where p = The strength of the frequency component can be [(n/2+1)/640]+1 and is the number of pages needed displayed in either engineering units or relative...
  • Page 73 It is possible to reproduce the spectrum with Waveform Browser software. This is useful when you wish to see phase information for a plot currently displaying magnitude and frequency information. ASCII files are saved in the form of a three column spreadsheet preceded by a header. The header contains the set up information used in the transform calculation including: the filename of the waveform, the assigned channel, position in the file...
  • Page 74: Inverse Fourier Transformation (Ift)

    A DFT spectrum may be reproduced as follows: origin), position the cross hair origin at the desired point on the spectrum and: 1. In original file, waveform compression factor to 1. Point to the Transform menu and drag down to Low-pass Filter. 2.
  • Page 75: Statistics

    computers without a numeric coprocessor, a status F, M, C, W, S, and A times are roughly proportional indicator in the form of a letter (A, C, D, F, L, M, S, to the number of transform points and machine or W) is displayed in the analysis reporting area to instruction times.
  • Page 76: X-Y Plotting

    not yet been specified. To specify a filename, you Waveform Browser must first activate the Open New File command X-Y Plotting button. When activated, you will be prompted to enter a file name (and path) on the Open Statistics Allows any two amplitude/time (Y-T) oriented File dialog box: waveforms to be plotted versus each other, one waveform designated as the independent (or X-axis)
  • Page 77 Waveform Browser display mode. In other words, the way you review and analyze the waveforms is 1. Position the mouse pointer in the still the same regardless of the fact that the analysis reporting area, directly waveforms are displayed in a smaller window space. underneath the data cursor.
  • Page 78 measurements, the cross hair origin is positioned anywhere within a confined region of the X-Y plot Analysis reporting area before the area fill command is activated. We will This example discuss this capability in greater detail in paragraphs displays X-Y excursion data to follow.
  • Page 79 in units of PSI and channel Y's in units of Liters, the rate of change is expressed in units of Liters/PSI. Where the value to the left of TNSLOPE is equal to the instantaneous rate of change between the points Calculating Areas Bounded By Curves to the left and right of the point chosen (cross hair Using the cross hair to target specific bounded areas...
  • Page 80 When this feature is activated, the two end points of X-Y Plot Grids, Annotation, and Hard Copy the X-Y plot are connected with a straight line The Grid pattern and ±full scale annotation for the allowing the now closed area to be calculated using X-Y plot assume the same state as that enabled for the procedure described above.
  • Page 81: Using Activex Controls

    2. A window will open with all of the components Using ActiveX that are installed on your computer. Check the boxes in front of the five DATAQ Instruments components. Then click “OK”. Controls Before ActiveX controls, programming was a complete chore.
  • Page 82 DataqSDK may be used with all Dataq Instruments’ hardware, including the DI-22x/4xx/5xx/7xx series The primary advantage of this control is to relieve devices.
  • Page 83 and a stream approach that guarantees waveform continuity. • Allows asynchronous access to the hardware’s digital input and output ports and analog output ports. Cautionary note: During program development, while your program is still in the interpretive mode, ensure that the Windaq application is not terminated before the program that is accessing the application.
  • Page 84 Event Marks, 38 Exit, 26, 28 —%— Exit/Enter Split, 57, 62, 65 %EOF, 38 Exit/Enter XY, 72 Exit…, 62 —A— —F— Acquisition Assignments, 53 Adjust Area, 75 Format Screen, 11 Area, 75 free run, 18 Assign Channel…, 30, 65 free run check box, 19 ASYST, 35 ASYSTANT, 35 —G—...
  • Page 85 —P— Slopes, 74 Split, 56 Pause Graphics, 18 Spreadsheet Print, 36 Peak on Screen, 37 STANDBY operating mode, 2 Percent Change from Time Marker Point, 48 Start Time, 51 point, 2 Statistics, 71 Previous Mark, 39 STBY, 2, 23, 28 Previous Palette, 27 Stop, 2, 16 Print…, 44, 45...
  • Page 87 DATAQ Instruments, Inc. 241 Springside Drive Akron, Ohio 44333 Telephone: 330-668-1444 Fax: 330-666-5434 E-mail: support@dataq.com Vertrieb: / Distributed by: ALTHEN GmbH Mess- und Sensortechnik Frankfurter Str. 150-152 Tel.: +49 (0)6195 7006-0 http://www.althen.de 65779 Kelkheim / Deutschland Fax: +49 (0)6195 700666 E-Mail: info@althen.de...

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