MTS Series 793 Application - Manual (Page 135)

About Specimen.dat Files
MTS MultiPurpose TestWare® Working with MPT Specimens 135
See “About Specimen.mps Files” on page 139.
See “About Specimen.prm Files” on page 139.
About Specimen.dat Files
The Specimen.dat file contains data acquired by the data acquisition processes in
your procedure.
Each time you run a procedure against an MPT specimen (that is, each time you
press run after pressing reset), newly acquired data overwrites or is appended to
the current data in the Specimen.dat file. The specimen data file may contain data
from more than one test if more than one test has been run against the same MPT
specimen.
Note You can configure whether new data overwrites or appends to the
previous data with the MPT Options Editor.
If you configure a data acquisition process to write data to a user-
specified data file, then it will not write data to the Specimen.dat file.
Sample MPT specimen
data file
The following data file was created by a Peak/Valley Acquisition process that
monitored the displacement feedback and acquired data on the time and
displacement feedback signals.
This text string specifies the file format.