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- Page 1 Outram Research Ltd A Start Guide for the Ranger PM7000 Welcome to the Ranger family and to our top of the range Power Master Ranger, the PM7000. PM7000 in Australia PM7000 Start Guide Issue 1 090608...
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Page 2: Table Of Contents
Make the communication between the computer and the PM7000 Seventh Step: (Optional) Using the Simulator Eighth Step: Make a first recording with the PM7000 by measuring the live mains (or using the Simulator) Ninth Step: Download the PM7000 PM7000 Start Guide Issue 1 090608... -
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Because you will be attaching the PM7000 to a potentially hazardous live circuit, you must be suitably qualified. Before you make any such connection or... - Page 4 CAT IV (Category IV) type high fault current electricity supplies. You may safely connect the PM7000 input terminals to hazardous live circuits in normal operation provided that you take the following sensible precautions: Never use damaged leads.
- Page 5 For your safety and to avoid damage to the logger do not connect your PM7000 to a live voltage source outside the specified range of 0-600 (+ 10%) Vac. For measurements between 600 and 1000 Vac please refer to the manual.
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Page 6: Second Step
Four Voltage probes 1000V Cat III (600V Cat IV), braided One earth voltage probe (600V Cat IV) • Three Neutral Common Leads • • Mains lead or charger (US) • USB lead Pronto for Windows Analysis Software • Customer CD • • PM7000 Start Guide Issue 1 090608... -
Page 7: Third Step
Third Step: Put your PM7000 on charge Immediately you take delivery of your PM7000 plug it into the mains, using the mains lead or wall charger, to charge the batteries ready for use. Whenever your logger is in use, that is, attached to a voltage source above 90 Volts, the batteries will be charging automatically. -
Page 8: Fourth Step
After using it off the cable we recommend you leave it on charge when not in use. (A car charger to charge the PDA could be a useful addition to your kit if you will be using the logger at different geographical locations.) PM7000 Start Guide Issue 1 090608... -
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Number part of the text may have been truncated. This will not matter if you have only one PM7000 but it could be ambiguous if you have more than one. To avoid the latter you may wish to list a number of loggers in purely text form. To change between icon and text listing, touch on the View option on the bottom right of the screen and select the “view by text”. - Page 10 PM7000. [On the other hand before you go any further you may wish to explore the PM7000 menu interface in some detail without involving the logger. You can do this is via a PmScreens Simulator which will come up on your computer screen.
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Page 11: Sixth Step
PM7000 Hardware Drivers” and follow the instructions. If you are unsure whether or not you have the drivers install them anyway. There is no adverse effect from re-installing them. Then launch Pronto. Follow the “Start Up Assistant” to connect to your PM7000. The first time you make a new connection there are four steps. - Page 12 Click on ‘Next’. In the following step 2 for this first connection select ‘Create new connection settings’. PM7000 Start Guide Issue 1 090608...
- Page 13 Click on ‘Next’to bring up Startup Assistant Step 3. This will give you the list of Ranger products supported by Pronto. PM7000 Start Guide Issue 1 090608...
- Page 14 The PM7000 is at the top of the list and will appear in the window. Click ‘Next’ to select it and bring up the final Startup Assistant Step 4 screen. Now you are going to search for the USB communication port.
- Page 15 Note the Baud rate (the speed at which traffic flows between the logger and the computer). For the PM7000 it is 921600 and Pronto will choose this value for you when you select PM7000. (Different Ranger models may have different baud rates).
- Page 16 Here is the opportunity to change the name, add comments or alter the baud rate if you ever need to do so. Click on ‘Edit’ and bring up an ‘Edit an Existing Logger Address’ screen. PM7000 Start Guide Issue 1 090608...
- Page 17 Pronto Help and advice on the correct baud rate). Currently the correct baud rate for the PM7000 is automatically chosen by Pronto. In the future if further types of communication mode become available (such as over the mobile phone network) it may be necessary to change the baud rate.
- Page 18 PmScreens. If your requirement is to play back data or start a recording click on the appropriate button here. To access PmScreens click ‘Close’. Up comes the main Pronto screen. PM7000 Start Guide Issue 1 090608...
- Page 19 Now you can talk to your Ranger via the computer. The screen to come up will be whichever you used the last time you talked to your PM7000. For the first time you will see the initial screen of your PM7000 on the computer in front of you. This is the default screen with a 3 phase 4w Wye Hook Up.
- Page 20 V1 has a proper signal in this case. This is an example of the initial screen for a 3 phase 4 wire wye application showing the current correctly in phase with the voltage. PM7000 Start Guide Issue 1 090608...
- Page 21 If however you use a different port subsequently, Pronto will ask you to go through a similar selection process, and then it will remember that connection also. PM7000 Start Guide Issue 1 090608...
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Page 22: Seventh Step: (Optional)
Use the Simulator for learning about PmScreens Before you do your first recording (or after) you may wish to play with the PM7000 simulator. We suggest that as you read through the rest of this guide or the manual you have the Simulator open on the computer and follow the steps in parallel with the Simulator. - Page 23 PmScreens on the computer screen. Select the Simulator by clicking on ‘connect’ on the top tool bar of PmScreens. Follow the path from ‘Launch Simulator’ to ‘PM7000’ after which the Simulator screen will arrive. See below. If no logger is connected, when you open Pronto the following advice window will come up:...
- Page 24 For the same reason you are told “Access to this comms. port has been denied”. Click on “No”. This window will go away. In this example there is no logger connected and therefore no live PmScreen Click on “Connect” on the ‘PmScreen’ tool bar, PM7000 Start Guide Issue 1 090608...
- Page 25 “Launch Simulator” and select “PM7000”. The Simulator will arrive. Yet another way into the Simulator is to click on PmStart on the customer CD and follow the steps indicated. Now you have the initial Simulator screen in front of you.
- Page 26 If you hold down a button on PmScreens for a few seconds, most of the time you will stimulate the popping up of a help message. This message will explain the function of the button you are pressing. We hope you find it useful. PM7000 Start Guide Issue 1 090608...
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Page 27: Eighth Step
Simulator or doing it for real on the logger itself. If using the PM7000, plugging it into the mains will give you readings of Phase A voltage. Let us measure this voltage. If you don’t have a mains cable you will need to clip voltage probes onto Phase A line and return. - Page 28 For the moment we want to our initial set up as configured by the factory. Review screen shows our general set ups such as duration of recording. PM7000 Start Guide Issue 1 090608...
- Page 29 In the PM7000 you have the facility to rank the wave sets, choose a time during which the trigger is captured, allows you to decide which signals to capture, which type of fault condition to trigger and how much memory to allocate to each type.
- Page 30 Now we touch and bring up the ‘start recoding’ screen. If you want to give this first session a different name touch the box on the above screen and bring up the Keyboard screen. PM7000 Start Guide Issue 1 090608...
- Page 31 Now you have a screen showing you something similar to the above details. If you change your mind it is possible to your recording set up and redo it. PM7000 Start Guide Issue 1 090608...
- Page 32 The PM7000 is now set to record for 1 week. If the recording logger is interrupted by a power outage, once power is resumed it will automatically restart in the same session for all the time the restart is within that set period.
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Page 33: Ninth Step
To Download the PM7000 To take the data out of the PM7000 requires a computer and the USB serial link supplied or a USB memory drive. The recording will either have stopped because it reached the end of the recording period or because it was stopped manually, or the logger will still be recording. - Page 34 Use the list to select PM7000 if you have connected it to your computer previously. The control panel always gives you the current status of your recordings and will be useful in the future. For the quick start we can close it.
- Page 35 The next screen to come up invites us to stop the recording if we have not already done so. Click on ‘yes’. Now we watch the playback. Next you will be invited to ‘Erase logger memory’ PM7000 Start Guide Issue 1 090608...
- Page 36 Many computers these days have clocks updated automatically from reference clocks on the internet. If yours is one of these you may wish to click ‘yes’. However, the Ranger loggers have good clocks that keep their time better than the average PC. So generally speaking, click on ‘No’.
- Page 37 In the example we select the default folder, ‘Projects’. Our first project can be called ‘Test session’. Type it into the box ‘File name:’ (We can discard it later.) New recordings may go in a new or an existing project. PM7000 Start Guide Issue 1 090608...
- Page 38 NB, if you have multiple sessions in your logger, Autosave saves all of them to the same project. Patience while data decoding takes place. Finally we are asked how we would like to graph our data. We’ll use the Graph Assistant. PM7000 Start Guide Issue 1 090608...
- Page 39 At this stage we have not created any templates so we automatically select the only choice. This is <new view using graph assistant>. Click ‘OK’. The ‘graph assistant’ will come up. PM7000 Start Guide Issue 1 090608...
- Page 40 In the first step you have the opportunity to select the data streams you want to graph. ‘P’ on the left hand side in the above example refers to Point Store. The Factory set up in your new PM7000 will show red ‘A’s, as the recording mode is Adaptive Store.