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Summary of Contents for PPM Technology SPC-1
- Page 1 PPM SPC-1 Operation Manual SPC-1 Single Point Controller Operation Manual NOTICE: PPM Technology Limited shall not be liable for errors that may appear herein or for incidental or consequential damages in connection with or arising from the use of this material.
- Page 2 PPM Technology range of hand-held instruments that enables the discrete-time monitoring of hazardous formaldehyde. Monitoring software used together with its related hardware enables the SPC-1 to allow 8 PPM Technology hand-held instruments to be automated when connected to either the COM or USB ports of your PC.
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Page 3: Getting Started
2.1 Software Installation Please place the CD into the CD-ROM drive and the software will automatically run the installation program. Clicking on to the “SPC-1 for Windows XP / 2000” button to launch the installation wizard. Using the installation wizard, complete the installation by following the instructions onscreen. - Page 4 PPM SPC-1 Operation Manual 2.3 Hardware Installation Connect instrument(s) to PC via the SPC-1 box either using Serial or USB. For USB please use supplied USB to Serial adaptor, device drivers and USB cable. For installation instructions for the USB to Serial adaptor see the included device documentation.
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Page 5: Program Screens
Figure 3.1.1 – Screenshot of the main screen. The main screen of the SPC-1 Single Point monitoring software has eight buttons, which are: • Log On / Log Off •... - Page 6 – if you do not have access then the button will be grayed out. Figure 3.2.2 - A screenshot of the main screen of the SPC-1 Single Point monitoring software when logged on as Administrators.
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Page 7: Monitoring Screen
PPM SPC-1 Operation Manual 3.3 Monitoring Screen By clicking the Monitor button, a list of available instruments (units) is shown. This list is common to several screens and will change automatically when units are connected and disconnected. An indicator is situated next to every unit on the list. - Page 8 PPM SPC-1 Operation Manual 3.3 Monitoring Screen Figure 3.3.2 – A screenshot of the enlarged graph in the monitor screen. By clicking on one of the small graphs in the monitor screen you are able to view a zoomed version of this graph. In Figure 3.3.2, the information at the...
- Page 9 PPM SPC-1 Operation Manual 3.3 Monitoring Screen Figure 3.3.3 – A screenshot of the enlarged graph in the monitor screen, sensors section. By changing to the Sensors tab on the top right hand corner of the Monitor screen more information about the readings is shown, these include: Maximum, Minimum and Mean - When a graph is displayed, the highest, lowest and mean values are displayed here.
- Page 10 PPM SPC-1 Operation Manual 3.3 Monitoring Screen Calculated T.W.A. and S.T.E.L. values - These are the calculated values for Time Waited Average and Short Term Exposure Level based on the current and previous readings. The values shown in these boxes are for the primary y-axis.
- Page 11 PPM SPC-1 Operation Manual 3.4 Schedules Screen The Schedules Screen allows the user to allocate schedules to individual units. Figure 3.4.1 – A screenshot of the Schedule Screen. A Schedule can be set any time during a 24-hour period for each day of the week.
- Page 12 PPM SPC-1 Operation Manual 3.5 Setup Screen The Setup screen consists of two tabs: Unit and Sensors. The Unit tab is for general setup options whilst the Sensors tab contains sensor specific options. The Unit section allows the names of the units to be changed from the...
- Page 13 PPM SPC-1 Operation Manual 3.5 Setup Screen Clicking on a Sensor name allows us to view and edit the values for that sensor. The Sensor section allows the names of individual sensor to be changed from their defaults. The sensor can also be disabled from this screen by using the Disable this sensor checkbox.
- Page 14 PPM SPC-1 Operation Manual 3.6 Reports Screen The Reports Screen is used to generate Reports in printed or Coma Separated Variable (.csv) format. The type of reports is selected in the Output section. The information shown in the reports can be filtered by units or by schedules.
- Page 15 PPM SPC-1 Operation Manual 3.7 System Admin Screen The System Admin Screen allows the Administrator to control the internal sections of the program. The System Admin is split up into 4 sections: Users/Groups: Groups are used to categorise users. By default these are...
- Page 16 PPM SPC-1 Operation Manual 3.7 System Admin Screen Preset Times: When scheduling units, the ability to select existing preset times can save a great deal of set up time. Any preset times created here will appear in the schedule screen.
- Page 17 Com Port Exclusions let you control which ports are scanned each minute for units and thus can improve performance. Use the Device Manager to check which Comm Ports are on your systems (in this case COM11 and COM12). Only enable ports that have SPC-1 devices connected to them.
- Page 18 PPM SPC-1 Operation Manual 3.7 Admin Screen Company Information: This section allows the user to make amendments to the company information should it become necessary. The Company Information is used within the reports section. The Fields that are indicated with a star are required and the Company Information will not Save without values in these fields.
- Page 19 3.9 About Screen The PPMonitor SPC-1 program version number and release date is given in the About PPMonitor SPC-1 screen. Contact information for PPM Technology if any problems occur and quote these details.
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Page 20: System Operation
PPM SPC-1 Operation Manual 4 System Operation 4.1 Introduction In this section we will give examples of how the program can be used. To find all available units Log In as Administrator, go to Admin and select System Information. Let us assume for the purpose of our example that we have two units F0066 and F0021 connected to our system.
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