Downloading Data - Fluke Datapaq Food Tracker User Manual

Downloading Data

The procedure described here uses the Insight software's Logger Download dialog.
If you are less sure of the process, you can instead use the Logger Download
Wizard to guide you, step-by-step, through this stage of running a profile: click
on the Insight toolbar, or select Tools > Wizards from the menu.
1. Connect the logger to the PC with the communications lead. The red LED
on the logger should flash five times to confirm that the connection between
the communications lead and the logger has been made.
2. Open the Logger Download dialog (click
key F3, or select Logger > Download from the menu bar) and wait while the
data is downloaded to the PC. For an explanation of any error messages
generated during this process, see p. 61.
Logger stopped due to going over temperature
the data logger's maximum-permitted internal temperature has been exceeded,
and it may have suffered damage. Contact Datapaq for advice. The reason for
the excessive temperature, which may be the result of process operational
problems or the use of an inappropriate thermal barrier, must be resolved
3. The Select Process dialog then appears in order that you may choose a
process file to apply to the results. If the process file and its components
have been given names, these are shown when the process file is selected.
Click No Process if you do not want to apply a process file.
If you will normally not wish to apply a process file to the results, you can opt
not to have the Select Process dialog displayed immediately after a download
(from the menu bar, select Tools > Options > Process File); a process file may
4. The newly downloaded data then appears on screen and can be displayed
(numerically and graphically), analyzed and printed as you wish; see Insight's
online Help system. Save the data as a 'paqfile' (select File > Save or
Save As).
You can set alarms to be triggered during a logger download, to warn you of
incomplete data recorded during the profile run (from the menu bar, select
Tools > Options > Run Alarms).
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Running a Temperature Profile
If you see the message
before further profile runs take place.
still be applied subsequently.
on the toolbar, or press function
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