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BRAND® and Titrette® are brands of BRAND GMBH + CO KG, Germany. Insofar as other owners' brands or protected terms, symbols or illustrations are used, this occurs merely for reference purposes and without any claim of right. Reproduced brands are the property of the respective owner.
4.1 Instrument Window..........................4.2 Instrument Manager ..........................4.2.1 Tool tips............................. Connecting the instrument (Instrument Window, tab Titrette®) ..........Transmission of titration data to the PC (Instrument Window, tab Data Logging)...... 11 6.1 Transmission of titration volume ....................... 11 6.2 Starting a log file..........................11 Transmission of titration data into the target application (Instrument Window, tab Target Ap- plication) ..........................
1 Introduction This program is designed to transmit titration data from the Titrette® bottle-top burette to a PC. The titration data can be transmitted either immediately or later into a spreadsheet program, e.g., into an Excel-file. The connection between instrument and PC is done with the included connector cable for RS 232 communi- cation interface (COM-connection).
2.3 Before installing If there is a former version of Titrette® Software installed on your PC, it has to be uninstalled. To do so, click- Start > BRAND > Programme > Titrette® >Uninstalland follow the instructions on the screen.
3 Connecting Titrette® and the PC Connect the bottle-top burette Titrette® with the RS 232-port (COM-connection) of your PC using the deliv- ered cable, respectively use an USB/RS 232-adapter to connect the cable to an USB port. To connect the instrument, plug the cable into the locking socket of the instrument, the red dot facing up- wards.
4 Start programm a. Start the program with a double-click on the icon BRAND - Titrette® on your desktop, or with Start > All Programs > BRAND > Titrette® > Software 4.01. b. After starting the program the BRAND – Instrument Window opens on your desktop and the BRAND – In- strument Manager opens in a minimized view (task bar).
5 Connecting the instrument (Instrument Window, tab Titrette®) a. Click the tab Titrette® and choose the appropriate COM-port in the pull-down menu at Port for the con- nected instrument. Click the button “Connect“ at the lower window border. b. When you set a checkmark at “Reconnect at start“, the connection will be established automatically at restart of the program.
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In the window Log File Selection, you may enter the file name (example: QS P1) and the folder location (example: C:\BRAND\Logfiles) for your measurement. QS P1) and the folder location (example: C: \BRAND\Logfiles) for your measurement. For confirmation click on the button “Open”.
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Now enter the name of your burette into the field Individual Name (example: QS Place 1), in the tab Titrette® and click the button “Enter“ in the field Identification. f. Now this data is adopted automatically in the first line of the Instrument Manager.
After titration, the displayed titration volume is transmitted into the chosen logging file (example: C: \BRAND\Logfiles\QS P1.Ptk) by a double-click on the instrument’s CLEAR key. Note: If the gap between the two clicks is to long, the display will be set to zero at the first key press (the sign for PC-connection is flashing) and with the second key press the titration value will be restored.
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Transmission of titration data to the PC (Instrument Window, tab Data Logging) Note: In the initial settings the window “Log File Selection” opens automatically with every restart of the pro- gram, so that you can choose a file. If you remove the checkmark at ”Select log file at connection“ than the program will start automatically with the last log file used.
For transmission of data from the data logging into the target application e.g., in a spread sheet you have to start the spread sheet program first (e.g., Microsoft Excel). Apply ”Standard” as line format and save the file with its name (example: Titrette Test1) in the designated folder. 7.1 Setting of the tab Target Application a.
Transmission of titration data into the target application (Instrument Window, tab Target Application) 7.2 Transmission of data into the target application 7.2.1 From Data Logging You may transmit the data later on into your target application, by selecting the designated data in the tab Data Logging.
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