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10.5.9 PST Menu Items
Use the following menus as needed:
File Menu
D
Open a previously saved setup data file.
D
Save the setup data to a file.
D
Exit the program.
View Menu
D
Select the Parameter Table view (Table View).
D
Select the Chart Recorder view (Chart View).
Port Menu
D
Select the PC's serial port connected to the governor
controller.
Help Menu
D
Help on the PST for generator sets.
D
Help on the governor controller that is currently in
communication with the PC.
D
Information about the PST for generator set
application.
10.5.10 Parameter Setup
The Parameter Setup panel displays a table where each
row shows the name of a user-programmable
parameter, the current value, and the parameter's
(default, minimum, and maximum) values.
To modify a parameter's current value, select the value
by double clicking the left mouse button on a cell in the
table. The selected cell will be highlighted and the value
can be modified. After entering the new value, press the
PC Enter key to change the governor controller value.
To get help on a particular parameter, left click the
parameter's value, then press <Control> F on the PC.
To see the current values for all of the generator set's
parameters, left click Read All.
Left click Write All to transmit all parameter values to the
governor controller automatically. The Write All button is
very useful when reusing saved setup data to configure
a new system the same as a previously created one.
Load an existing set of previously saved parameter
values into the Parameter Setup table using Open a
Setup Data File from the File menu and then left click
Write All.
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10.5.11 Status View
The Status View panel is displayed only after left clicking
View Status. The Status View panel is part of the Table
View display mode.
The Status View panel displays a table where each row
shows the Name of a read only parameter and its current
Value when Auto Read is ON.
Left click Start Monitoring to have the PST program
automatically refresh the values.
Monitoring to disable automatic refresh.
10.5.12 Tuning View
The Tuning View panel is displayed only after left
clicking View Chart. The Tuning View panel is part of the
Chart View display mode.
To modify a tuning parameter's current value, select the
value by double clicking the left mouse button on a cell in
the table. The selected cell will be highlighted and the
value can be modified. After entering the new value,
press the PC Enter key to change the governor
controller value.
10.5.13 Chart Recorder
The Chart Recorder is part of the Chart View display
mode. Each time Chart View is entered, the last Data
File is reset, the vertical scale defaults to a preset value,
and the horizontal scale defaults to 20 seconds.
The vertical and horizontal scale options control the
chart recorder's display characteristics.
horizontal scale to provide a chart recorder display at 60,
30, 20, 10, or 5 second intervals.
compress the display while smaller numbers expand the
display.
The Data File button opens a dialog box to name the file
and path where chart recorder data is saved.
Use the Data Reset button to start data collection over
using the current data file. The progress bar to the right
of this button indicates the capacity of the data file. Each
data file can hold approximately 10 minutes of data and
the data is sampled 100 times per second. The progress
bar displays the message The Data File is Full when it
can no longer accept chart recorder data.
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