Reference, Installation, and Operations Manual

Section 5: Startup and meter configuration

3-9000-743 Rev S

June 2013

 

 

 

5.9.1Log Format

Maintenance logs can be generated in one of two formats: Microsoft® Excel® and Comma- Separated Values.

Microsoft® Excel

This is the recommend format for Maintenance logs in order to get the full benefits of this utility. This option however is only available if you have Microsoft® Excel® 2000 or later installed on your PC. The Excel® file generated by this utility has up to five worksheets as follows:

•Charts - Contains charts of the data collected and stored on the Raw Data worksheet. This worksheet is laid out to print two sheet per page on a standard 8 ½ x 11 sheet of paper.

•Inspection Report -The inspection report is a one page summary of the configuration and status of the meter. The report contains site information, meter configuration information, alarms, and meter status. Click here for information on customizing this worksheet.

•SOS Sheet - (Available in Deluxe Edition of Daniel MeterLink Only) If a Computed SOS value was entered, it will be included on this sheet.

•Config - Contains the meter’s configuration. This configuration is called an extended configuration because is contains registers that are read-only and are not viewable in the Edit/Compare Configuration tool. These are registers used in the other worksheets of the Maintenance logs.

•Raw Data - Contains all of the data collected from the meter. Each row is a record polled from the meter. Each record contains a date and time stamp based on the meter’s time when the record was completely received. Each column of data following the date and time stamps is a data point collected from the meter. Below all of the polled records are rows that analyze the data and detail the minimum, maximum, average, the difference from minimum to average, and the difference from maximum to average for each column of data. The cells for SystemStatus and StatA through StatD will contain a comment that can be displayed by moving the mouse cursor over the marker in the upper-right corner of the cell. The marker is only present if the cell is indicating an alarm (i.e. non 0x0000 value).

•When using the Microsoft® Excel® log format, the following options are available:

•SOS to use for comparison - To include a comparison of the meter’s measured SOS to a calculated SOS, select one of the following methods for entering this data.

•Manually entered SOS - Allows you to enter a speed of sound calculated from a 3rd party package. This option is always available. After the Maintenance Log is complete a dialog will be displayed in which you will enter a speed of sound to compare against the meter. This data will be saved in the Maintenance log.

•None - No speed of sound comparison will be performed or included in the Maintenance log.

—Default view -The Technician view displays the following data:

—Meter Volumes, Temperature, Pressure, System Status, Flow Velocities, Sound Velocities, Chord Statuses, Performance, Gains, Validity alarms, Flow direction.

Log Format

175