1-14 ChartScan – Unit Startup and ChartView Tutorial ChartScan User’s Manual
3. Configure Channels & Alarms
Configure channels and alarms as follows.
◊ (14) On ChartView’s Main Window, click on Setup in the pull-down menu row. The Setup pull-down
menu appears, allowing you to make more specific selections.
◊ (15) Click on the Channels & Alarms selection. The Channel and Alarm Setup dialog box appears, similar
to that shown in the following figure.
◊ (16) Enable the desired channels. You can enable channels by double-clicking on the applicable channel’s
“On” column, obtaining “On” indicating enabled or “Off” indicating disabled. You can also use a
pull-down list which appears for enable/disable. See Chapter 4 if more detail is needed.
Note: Channels set up for your display will be automatically enabled. You can enable additional channels
for data acquisition. These additional channels will not appear on ChartView’s Main Window, but
data from them will still be acquired.
◊ (17) Click on the “Enable SpreadSheet Reading” button (see previous figure). This activates the display
scanned data in the reading column. Since we are in the Simulated Instrument mode, the Reading
column of the Analog Input SpreadSheet will now display simulated data. Selecting the Enable
SpreadSheet Reading button again will freeze the Reading column’s display.
4. Configure Acquisition.
◊ (18) Click on the Acquisition Setup tab (see previous figure). An Acquisition Configuration dialog box
appears. The box can be in either of two modes – (1) Normal, or (2) High-speed, single channel.
Note that you can also access the Acquisition Configuration dialog box from the Setup pull-down
menu or the Channel Configuration button (item 8, page 1-8).
The information entered in the Acquisition window is used by the Arm Acquisition command to set up
the acquisition of data to disk. When the trigger is satisfied, the scans are collected at the selected scan
frequency and stored to disk in the designated file.