Canon Model 6401 B Copyright Notice

Copyright Notice

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Contents

Page Copyright Notice 1. INTRODUCTION PORTABLE DATA LOGGER FIELD TEST UNIT 1.3 CASSETTE STORAGE 4. PLOTX - EXTENSIONS 7.1 DISPLAY FORMAT 7.2 DISPLAY OF THE LOGGERS CURRENT MEMORY VALUES USER DEFINED SCREEN FORMAT Page 1.1 PORTABLE DATA LOGGER 1.1.1 Memory structure 1.2 FIELD TEST UNIT 1.2.1 Why use a FTU 1.2.2Installation 1.2.3Switching on the FTU 1.2.4 Running a Program 1.3 CASSETTE STORAGE 1.3.1 Attaching the cassette 1.3.2 Saving a Program 1.3.3 Loading a Program 2.1 PROGRAMS 2.1.1 Filename Extensions 2.2 FTU MEMORY GUIDE Section 2. GETTING STARTED 2.3 FTU INITIALIZATION 2.4 LOADING “PLOT’ IN 16K RAM FTU 3.1 STANDARD FEATURES 3.2 COMMAND FILES 3.3 COPY(ING) FILES 3.3.1 Running COPY Section 3. (UN)LOAD, PLOT & COPY Baud Rate 3.4 (UN)LOADING TO CASSETTE/RAM 3.4.1 Running LOAD 3.5 PRINTING & PLOTTING RECORDINGS 3.5.1 Running PLOT 3.6LOAD/PLOT - OPERATOR RESPONSES file file name,type Ram file Buffer number (0-7) B,L,C Unload Time Enter Date & Time HHMM DDMMYY & buffer Bypass Skip buffer or Done Log interval 3.7 PRINT/PLOT/LOAD/COPY - Examples 3.7.1 PRINT - Example Question Response 3.7.2 PLOT - Example LOAD - Example Section 3. (UN)LOAD PLOT& COPY Page 3.7.4 COPY - Example 4.1RUNNING PLOTX 4.1.1 PLOTX - Operator Responses QuestionMeaning (,log size) Colour 03, Probes, Time or All Section 4. PLOTX - EXTENSIONS Page 5.1 FTU FILE FORMAT 5.1.1HEADER Message Format HEADER message - Line 1: 5.1.2 DATA Message Format DATA messages - Line 2: onwards 5.1.3 END Message Format END message Section 5. DATA STORAGE FORMAT 6.1 OPERATION 6.1.1L COMMAND 6.1.2 B COMMAND 6.1.5 ‘space’ COMMAND 6.3 CHANNEL ADDRESSES 6.4 “NFTU.X07” - PROGRAM LISTING Section 6. NFTU COMMANDS 7.1 DISPLAY FORMAT 7.2 DISPLAY OF THE LOGGERS CURRENT MEMORY VALUES 7.3 USER DEFINED SCREEN FORMAT Key Stroke Function 7.4 MEMORY ADDRESSING 7.5 CURSOR KEYPAD 7.6 SCREEN FORMAT FILES FTU to lock up on power on 7.7 COMMANDS TO MODIFY DATA LOGGER 7.7.1 “P” - Put 7.7.2 “T” - TIME 7.7.3 “d” - DISPLAY 7.7.4 “r” - RESET 7.7.5 “j” & “a” - JUMP TO LOG & ADDRESS toggle 7.7.6 “D” - DATA 7.7.7 “J” - JUMP to ADDRESS 7.8 X-07DIRECT COMMANDS FROM FTU-PROM 7.8.4 “b” - BAUD 7.9 INDIRECT AND MISCELLANEOUS COMMANDS 7.10 SUMMARY OF COMMANDS