Instructions

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 Delay
The Delay channel inserts a fixed delay between the execution of the channels immediately above and below it in the
tree view.
 Manual Channel
This channel type allows you to manually define one or more channels. It is useful for situations where the configuration
builder does not directly support the DT80 channel type you wish to use – for example the generic serial channel
(
SERIAL).
Anything you type here will be copied verbatim to the generated DT80 program – no syntax or consistency checking is
performed by the configuration builder.
One substitution that will be made, however, is that any occurrences of
$name will be replaced by the actual name of
the manual channel, as shown in its tree view entry.
Global Settings
Clicking on the top entry in the tree view will display the logger's global settings. A vertical menu of categories will be
displayed. If you click on a category name then a set of related controls will be displayed in the main part of the window.
These controls cause the configuration builder to generate appropriate profile settings, which will then be included in your
configuration. Controls vs. Profiles (P141) summarises the relationship between global settings controls and profile
settings.
Site information
This page is provided as a way of identifying and documenting a configuration.
Figure 35: SIte Information page
As shown in Figure 39, there are two controls:
• Name is an optional configuration name. This will be shown on the home screen of the DT80 LCD display. If not
specified then the job name will be shown, which is always CONFIG for a job generated by the dEX
configuration builder.
• Site details is a free text field, where you may wish to record further details about the site, a history of changes
made to the configuration, and so on. This information is not used by the DT80 at all.
Regional
The Regional page contains settings related to the region in which the logger is deployed:
• The Mains frequency setting should be set to the local power mains frequency. The DT80 integrates analog
measurements over an integral number of mains cycles, in order to provide maximum rejection of mains-related
noise.
• Set the Temperature units to the desired units to be used for all temperature measurements.
• Decimal point character is used to select the number format used in CSV and free format data returned by the
logger. See CSV Format Data (P31) for more details.