Omega Vehicle Security 1400 manual What ChartView and ChartView Plus Provide, Waiting for Trigger

Some of the data acquisition scenarios pertaining to ChartView are as follows:

1) Waiting for Trigger 2) Acquiring & Uploading Acquisition

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Data is received by acquisition device, but not stored. Selected channels can be viewed graphically in scrolling charts, as well as in one or more meters (analog, digital, or bar graph).

Device has been triggered. Data is temporarily stored in device buffer prior to being uploaded to PC system hard disk. As in the first scenario, selected display channels can be viewed.

3) Buffering Acquisition in Instrument 4) Uploading Data from Instrument Buffer

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Acquired data (from point of trigger) is received by acquisition device and temporarily stored in device buffer. As in the previous scenarios, selected display channels can be viewed.

Acquired data is uploaded to the PC hard disk from the device buffer. As in the previous scenarios, selected display channels can be viewed.

Four Basic Data Acquisition Scenarios

What ChartView and ChartView Plus Provide

ChartView and ChartView Plus provide you with the capability to connect to, and control any member of the ChartScan, NetScan, MultiScan, or TempScan family of data acquisition instruments, as well as:

Create and edit chart display setups ………………………………	See Display Configuration, beginning on page 4-9and
	Chart Setup Wizard, beginning on page 4-44.
Set up analog input parameters (selecting: Channels, …………	See Setup Window, beginning on page 4-33.
TC types, Units) to acquire data.
Configure alarms, log alarms……………………………………….	See pages 4-24,4-33,and 4-36.
Configure and arm an acquisition…………………………………..	See Acquisition Setup Dialog Box, page 4-36.
View real-time display of channel data via the Main Window….	See Main Window, beginning on page 4-4.
Save data to disk……………………………………………………..	See File, page 4-16and Data Destination, page 4-42.
Transmit data to Microsoft Excel via DDE (Dynamic Data ……..	See Data, beginning on page 4-20.
Exchange).
Start PostView, an independent application that allows you to…	See Chapter 5, PostView.
graphically view data channels from a file.
Use remote RS-232 communications by attaching the ………….	See Device, page 4-23.
acquisition device to a modem configured for Auto Answer

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