Omega FOB100 manual Window menu, Help Menu

7.5.1.3Advance serial port setting

This command allows the user to force the exclusion of one or more COM ports from being scanned when clicking the “Refresh” button. This may be useful when one finds that the automatic COM port refresh feature of FOB100-SOFT is interfering with equipment that are using defined COM ports. You can check all ports that you want to exclude from the automatic scanning process. This window looks like this:

7.5.1.4Quit

Select Quit from the File menu to exit FOB100-SOFT. Any configuration or setting that you might have done to any parameters is automatically saved, so the same configuration will be available the next time you open FOB100-SOFT.

7.5.2 The Window menu

From this menu, you can open the following 5 windows:

•Console view

•Trend view

•Thermometer view

•Digital view

•Analog (dial) view.

7.5.2.1Open Console

Open Console can be very useful for developers and other users who want to interrogate the “internal” parameters of an Omega thermometer. It should be used only by experienced users.

7.5.2.2View Trends

Select this menu item to open a window that gives you a graphical representation of your temperature readings, as a function of time. Up to 64 curves can be simultaneously displayed. The sampling time base is adjustable.

7.5.2.3View Thermometers

Select this menu item to display thermometers that will give you temperature data on up to 16 channels. Sampling rate is fixed at one reading per second.

7.5.2.4View Digital meters

Select this menu item to display digital readouts that will give you temperature data on up to 32 channels. Sampling rate is fixed at one reading per second.

7.5.2.5View Analog Dial meters

Select this menu item to display analog dials that will give you temperature data on up to 16 channels. Sampling rate is fixed at one reading per second.

7.5.3 The Help Menu

This is a standard Windows Help menu.

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