Cooper Instruments & Systems ELF 4200 Flexiforce Paper Thin Sensor User Manual
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Close:
causes the currently active Real-time or Movie Window to close. If a movie has been recorded, but not
saved, the software gives the option of saving the movie file.
Save As:
will save the current movie with the specific file name and location of your choice. ELF movie files must
have the extension *.flf. Your system may limit filenames to eight characters. This menu item can be used to save
a movie file under more than one filename.
Save As ASCII:
saves the current Movie frame as an ASCII file, with the extension *.csv. Since these files are in
ASCII
(comma separated value) format, they can be imported into a spreadsheet program (e.g. MS Excel), or
they can be opened in a text editor or word processing program (e.g. MS Word) in order to review and manipulate
the data.
The force data is displayed as however many sensors you are measuring (1-16); the first is the elapsed time (in
seconds), and the others are the applied force value (in the selected units) at that point (shown below). A data point
is recorded each time the sensor data is read, so many more data points are recorded when "Fast Recording" is