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Campbell Scientific CR200/CR200X-series Dataloggers User Manual

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Section 11. Programming Resource Library

Resources Laboratory, NOAA, Idaho Falls, ID; and MERDI, Butte, MT. In

these tests, the maximum differences in

and

have never been greater than a few degrees.

The final form is arrived at by converting from radians to degrees (57.296

degrees/radian).

11.6 TrigVar and DisableVar - Controlling Data

Output and Output Processing

TrigVar is the third parameter in the DataTable () instruction. It controls

whether or not a data record is written to final storage. TrigVar control is subject

to other conditional instructions such as the DataInterval () instruction.

DisableVar is the last parameter in most output processing instructions, such as

Average (), Maximum (), Minimum (), etc. It controls whether or not a

particular measurement or value is included in the affected output processing

function.

Note Together, TrigVar and DataInterval () grant functionality similar to Flag 0

in earlier generation CSI mixed-array dataloggers, such as the CR10X.

DisableVar grants functionality similar to Flag 9.

For individual measurements to affect summary data, output processing

instructions such as Average () must be executed whenever the DataTable is

called from the program - normally once each Scan. For example, for an average

to be calculated for the hour, each measurement must be added to a total over

the hour. This accumulation of data are not affected by TrigVar. TrigVar only

controls the moment when the final calculation is performed and the processed

data (the average) is written to the data table. For this summary moment to

occur, TrigVar and all other conditions (i.e. DataInterval) must be true. To

restate, when TrigVar is false, output processing instructions (e.g. Average ())

perform intermediate processing but not their final processing, and a new record

will not be created.

Note In many applications, output records are solely interval based and TrigVar

is set to TRUE (-1) always. In these applications DataInterval () is the sole

specifier of the output trigger condition.

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