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Part C – Schedules
Schedule Concepts
What are Schedules?
Schedules are the workhorses of the DT80. They are the underlying structures that you use to manage the repetitive
processes of the DT80 such as
• scanning input channels
• evaluating calculations
• processing alarms
• managing output channels
• returning data to a host computer
• logging data
The DT80 supports the following schedules:
• 11 general purpose schedules, A-K, which can be triggered by a variety of different events
• a polled schedule, X, which is normally triggered by a poll command from the host computer (although most of
the other triggers can also be applied to it, making it effectively a 12th general purpose schedule)
• the immediate schedule, which executes once immediately after being entered
• the statistical schedule, which collects and accumulates data to be returned as statistical summaries by the
other schedules.
Schedule Syntax
A typical schedule definition is shown below:
RA"Test1"("B:",DATA:OV:14D)2S 1TK 6R(4W) 7TT
Schedule ID
Schedule Name
Schedule Options
Schedule Trigger
Channel List
Figure 7: Components of a typical schedule command
A schedule consists of a number of parts. Firstly the Schedule ID, next the schedule options and finally the schedule
trigger. There are no spaces between the different parts
Schedule ID
RA"Test1"("B:",DATA:OV:14D)2S 1TK 6R(4W) 7TT
Schedule ID
Schedule Name
Schedule Options
Schedule Trigger
Channel List
The Schedule ID consists of the letter R ("Report schedule") followed by a letter identifying the schedule. Each schedule
has a unique identifier; these are summarized in the following table:
Schedule ID
Quantity
Report schedules (P51)
RA, RB, RC, RD, RE, RF, RG, RH, RI,
RJ, RK, RX
12 available
Immediate report schedule (P56) No schedule ID
Each time you enter an immediate schedule it
replaces the previous one, if any.
Statistical sub-schedule (P57)
RS
1 available, but is applied to one or more of the
other report schedules