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CHAPTER 16 POSSIBLE ERRORS:
1)If the ACC2 program do not understand your new
timer or sequence file the reason can be that it is not a real ASCII file. Rewrite the sequence file with EDIT in DOS.
Then try once more.
2)If the image processing capabilities of the PMIS program is used when the ACC2 program is running, the communication between ACC2 and PMIS can be lost (timed out). This message window will appear:
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Run time error '286'
Timeout while waiting for DDE response
Then the user has to stop the ACC2 program, (Stop and Exit). Then he can start it again. The ACC2 program remember the last image number stored to harddisk and will continue storing the images with image number after this. No files are overwritten.
3)If the ACC2 program "runs off" the end of the timer file the program will stop. It is then wise to have a sequence in December 1999 as the last sequence. (The ACC2 program have not been checked for the «year 2000 problem».)
4)After changing the timer file or the sequence file, the ACC2 program should be restarted
5)If the Garmin GPS 12XL receiver is running on battery power, or lost track of all GPS satellites for a period of 10 minutes, it shuts itself off. It has to be restarted manually. (The first data after a manual start is not the time sequence and is ignored by the ACC2 program.)
6)If you in the sequence file have selected different settings for normal mode and burst mode for the same second, the normal mode selection for this second is overwritten by the burst mode selection.
7)The PMIS software requires the Screen is set to 256 colours. This is set in the Windows 95 Control Panel, Screen. This must be set to 256 colours even if you have a great display adapter with a lots of memory. This implies the computer can not display a lot of colours at the same time. Then in order to display the image the Image_1 window must be in focus. The user must click the left mouse button when the mouse cursor is in the Image_1 window in order to make the window in focus. Then the upper border of the Image_1 window is blue (not grey). (Hopefully the user has not changed the standard Windows 95 windows colours).
