Running The Software And Viewing Realtime Data; Recording Measurements To A File - Badger Meter Flo-tech Flo-Check F7164 Series User Manual

Running the Software and Viewing Realtime Data

RUNNING THE SOFTWARE AND VIEWING REALTIME DATA
1 Connect the USB cable from the Hydraulic System Analyzer to the computer
N OTE: This is required before starting the software This allows the software application to detect a connected unit
2 Start the software application from the Start menu, or by double-clicking on the Flo-tech Hydraulic System Analyzer
icon on your desktop
3 Click Run
4 Data on the digital displays and the strip-chart are updated once per second
5 Click Stop to halt the collection of data

RECORDING MEASUREMENTS TO A FILE

All measurements can be saved to a comma-separated value ( csv) file This file type is a generic text file with the data
separated by commas and can be read by many spreadsheet applications such as Excel and Corel Quattro Pro These
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spreadsheet programs can then re-graph and manipulate the data
All measurements taken (see Table 1 on page 6) are saved once per second to the file For example, recording for 2 minutes
yields 120 points of data Even though data points are only recorded once per second, pressure spikes and dips are captured
by recording the maximum or minimum pressure during each measurement period Therefore, the precise shape of the
pressure spike is not recorded, but its amplitude and the time it occurred are both recorded
Figure 2: Example file
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