Casella CEL Software for the Rainfall gauge system User Manual
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CONTENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . PAGE
1.
INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2.
INSTALLATION / UN-INSTALLATION ON WINDOWS
TM
95,
98, ME, NT 4 & 2000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
2.1
Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
2.2
Un-Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
2.3
Starting the System for the First Time . . . . . . . . . . . 6
3.
CONFIGURING YOUR SYSTEM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
4.
THE TIPPING BUCKET RAIN GAUGE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
4.1
Principles of Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
4.2
Construction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
4.3
Preparing the Rain Gauge for Use . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
5.
CONNECTING BETWEEN RAIN GAUGE AND PC . . . . . . . . 13
5.1
Temporary Connection Between a Rain Gauge
and Laptop PC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
5.2
Permanaent Connection Between a Rain Gauge and PC 14
6.
OPERATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
6.1
Displaying the Current Rain Gauge Status . . . . . . . . 15
6.2
Downloading Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
6.3
Initialising the Rain Gauge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
6.4
Viewing Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
6.5
File Menu Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
6.6
Maintenance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
7.
SERVICING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
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