Omega Engineering RD8900 DVR User Manual


 
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5.6 How to use PC software
After installing the PC basic software, Observer I, the user may find the two parts
Configuration and Historical Viewer. The extensive software Observer II is in three parts
Configuration, Real-time Viewer, Historical Viewer.
Configuration: Enter Configuration, click the icon New for a new project, key in
the new project name, and then choose CF card or Ethernet.
a. For CF card, click the icon File , and select the file path of the CF card. A question
appears - Do you want to receive configuration data now? Before confirmation, the user
needs to Save configuration and Dump measured data from the recorder to CF card, then
insert CF card to CF reader connected with PC. After confirmation, the PC will receive
configuration from the CF card. In the configuration table, the user may review
configuration by clicking the icons of Channel
, Display , Tools , Instrument
and System Information
. This configuration is used by the Historical Viewer to read
historical data and trend. If necessary, the user may change configuration on PC and Send
configuration to CF card, then Load it to the recorder. Anytime, the configuration of
the recorder is changed, the PC can Receive configuration from the recorder via CF
card.
b. For Ethernet, click the icon File , then key in the IP address of recorder. A question
appears - Do you want to receive configuration data now? After confirmation, PC will
receive configuration from recorder via Ethernet. In the configuration table, the user may
review the configuration by clicking the icons of Channel , Display , Tools ,
Instrument and System Information . If necessary, the user may change the
configuration on the PC and Send configuration
to recorder. This configuration is
used by the Historical Viewer to read historical data and trend.
Historical Viewer: Enter into Historical Viewer, open the project set under
Configuration as above.
Click the icon Import Measured Data to make the PC import measured data from the CF
card or from recorder via Ethernet. After importing procedure, a trend will be displayed.
Click the icon to show Even/alarm list.
Click the icon Print to do printing via PC.
Click the icon Page to choose the Page number.
Click the icon Export to export data in Excel format.
Click the icon Copy to copy curves to clipboard.
Click the icon Black or White to choose black or white background.