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Chapter 11: Programming for Phone Line Applications

4) As you begin to acquire more and more data in the datalogger database, the soft-

ware will start to take longer to perform a query.

Data Logger Start Time

You may program the Data Logger to start at a specific time to keep the data on a fixed

time schedule. For example, if you want to log data every minute, you could enter a start

time of 12:00:00PM and all of the time stamps would occur on the exact minute, starting at

12:00:00PM. To have the Data Logger start at a specific time, enter the time in the Next Log

box. Note that for the start time in the Next Log box to work correctly, the time must be

ahead of what the system time indicates. For this reason, the system time is provided just above

the Next Log programming box. After you have set the time in the Next Log box, click the

Enable Data Logger box. As soon as the System Time matches the Next Log time, the data

Logger will start.
If you do not enter a time in the Next Log box, you may simply click the “Enable Data

Logger” box. This will start the Data Logger immediately.

Stopping the Data Logger

To stop the Data Logger, click the “Enable Data Logger” button to remove the check mark.

This will stop the Data Logger from writing any new data.

Resetting the Data Logger

The Data Logger has two reset options: 1) reset all of the data, and 2) reset only the old data.

When you click the Reset All button, all of the data in the SCADA 3000 will be deleted and the

Records Used will return to 0. When you click the Reset Old button, only data that has been

downloaded previously will be deleted. Therefore any data that has not been downloaded yet

will remain in the unit. The Records Used parameter will reflect the number of records remain-

ing in the unit. Clicking the Reset Old button before downloading the Data Logger can be used

to reduce the download time. If multiple users will be downloading data from the Data Logger,

care must be taken to delete records ONLY after all users have downloaded or to instruct all

users never to delete the Data Logger.

Downloading the Data Logger

To get the Data Logger information from the SCADA 3000 to your computer you must down-

load it. This procedure retrieves the data from the SCADA 3000 and stores it in a database

on your hard drive. To avoid overwriting data in the SCADA 3000 you must always download

the data before the number of available records gets to zero. To download the Data Logger

click on the Download button on the lower left part of the form. When all of the data has been

downloaded the SCADA 3000 software will update the database and provide some statistical

information regarding the download process. You may choose to view the data at this time or

click OK to return to the datalogging form. The Datalog download form follows:

Figure 18: Datalog Download status

Viewing the Data

To view Data Logger data, click on the View Data button on the lower left part of the Data

Log form or from the Download form. Select one or more SCADA 3000 units whose data you

want to view. To select more than one unit, drag the mouse over the list or hold the control