User guide

4.11 ALT. LANG

The DC1250 supports English as the standard language to annotate the menus and other

interactive messages. It also supports an optionally user entered second language. This

second language can be entered into a file using a common text editor such as Windows

Notepad. That file is subsequently loaded in from a CF card and becomes available along

with the still available original English. See Appendix F for detail.

The ALTernate LANGuage menu option allows the user to select the Alternate Language.

The user can toggle between the languages selecting English or Other Language. Use the

Up Arrow (▲) or Down Arrow (▼) buttons to scroll and highlight ALT. LANG.. and press

the MENU button. The menu options are shown below. The Menuing functions as follows:

ENGLISH

Select English as the default language

OTHER LANG.

Select the other language loaded as the default

SAVE LANG.

Save the language file

LOAD LANG

Load the language file

4.12 UNIT TAG

The unit tag is used to identify the recorder. It is saved to the data file when recording and

can be read back by the analyzing software. It is also displayed on the top of the main

menu when the MENU button is pressed for the first time. It can be a maximum of 15

characters. Select this option then use the ▼▲► keys to adjust and the ◄ key to escape

or the MENU key to Save and Exit. See Entering Data above for details.

4.13 COMMS

This option allows the user to set the IP Address, Subnet Mask and Default Gateway for

the Ethernet Option. See below. Use the ◄ ►keys to select the digit to change (Indicated

by [123]) and ▼▲ to change it. Use the MENU to accept or to escape. The menu options

are shown below.

IP ADDRESS

Set the unit IP address as [123].123.123.123. Use ▼▲► keys to adjust

◄ to escape, MENU key to Save and Exit. Change IP as reqd.

SUBNET MASK

Set the unit subnet mask as [255].255.255.0. Use ▼▲► keys to adjust

◄ to escape, MENU key to Save and Exit. Change as reqd.

DEF. GATEWAY

Set the unit gateway as [123].123.123.123. Use ▼▲► keys to adjust

◄ to escape, MENU key to Save and Exit. Change as reqd.

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