Inputs - Mantracourt T24 User Manual

Inputs

This is where you define which transmitter modules are to be providing data to this module.
You can either add the channels manually, by entering the Data Tag of the transmitter modules you want, or by
selecting Auto Mode where the list will be populated automatically as data is received.
The list will show the last value delivered by each channel or the word Timeout! if no data has arrived for longer
than the T24 Timeout setting.
On RDC versions that support it an LQI (Link Quality Indicator) value will be displayed. This list is not updated in
real-time, click the Refresh button to update the list.
The advantage for manually entering the channel list is that you know exactly what each channel refers to and this
will not change. This makes it easy to refer to the required channel in reports (<1>, <4> etc.) and you also know
what each column represents in the CSV data. In this mode the CSV header will be labelled Ch1, Ch2 etc.
The advantage of using Auto Mode is that transmitter channels can be added at a later date without
reconfiguring the T24-RDC module. In this mode the CSV header is labelled with the Data Tag of the channel
because the order is not known beforehand.
Some disadvantages of this mode are that it makes it difficult to refer to specific channels in reports although
reporting of channels which trigger certain report types will be reported correctly. (See Tokens later in the
manual)
Also note that if the channels are cleared using the Clear button (or deleted using the edit list) then when they are
detected again they will be added in a different order than before so any existing data will be in the incorrect
columns. If you clear the channels in Auto Mode then it is advisable to also clear the CSV data from the Data
Collection page.
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