NetScan User’s Manual ChartView Software Reference 4-15
Channel Configuration
The “Channel Configuration” button brings up the Setup Window with one of three “tabbed” dialog
boxes displayed: Acquisition Setup (page 4-33), Channel & Alarm Setup (page 4-33), or Data
Destination (page 4-39). The information entered in the Acquisition Setup dialog box 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. The
Channels & Alarms dialog box is used to configure channels and alarms; the Data Destination dialog
box is used to assign a filename and folder location for data, select an Excel or binary format (.TXT or
.IOT respectively), and to select optional Time/Date and/or Alarm Stamps (to be included in the data)
if desired. You can tab back and forth from each one of these dialog boxes to the other.
PostView post-acq data viewer
The “PostView post acquisition data viewer” button accesses the PostView program. This independent
program allows you to view waveforms recorded by data acquisition programs such as ChartView,
ChartView Plus, and TempView. PostView is detailed in Chapter 5 of this manual.
Arm Acquisition
You can use the Arm Acquisition button to activate an acquisition. When you click on this button the system is
“armed” to begin collecting data by a recognized trigger (as set in the acquisition setup dialog box.) Three cases
are as follows:
1) If there is no Pre-trigger defined, the Trigger option under the Event Configuration portion of the
Acquisition Setup dialog box will determine when the Arm process is initiated.
2) When a Pre-trigger is defined, the Arm process is initiated as soon as the Arm Acquisition is selected.
3) If a keystroke is chosen as the trigger, the Console Trigger dialog box will appear when the Arm
Acquisition is selected.
Disarm...
Use the “Disarm…” button to deactivate the data acquisition process at any point during an active acquisition.
The following confirmation dialog box will appear when this item is selected.