User's Manual

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Appendix 4: Low Duty Cycle with Agile-Link™ software
Low Duty Cycle
Low Duty Cycle (LDC) allows you to sample each sensor (each channel) on a node from
500 Hz to 1 sample per hour. Sensor data is ‘blipped’ to the base station and collected,
displayed and saved by Agile-Link™ software in real-time. Please review the Sampling
Rates section of this manual for sampling rate details.
Operating one node in LDC
• Low Duty Cycle use should be started by setting your configuration.
• Establish communication with the node and right-click to get the drop-down
menu.
• Click Configure and the Configuration window opens.
• Click the Channels tab and apply, as you normally would, the active channels, etc.
• Now click the Low Duty Cycle tab.
• Set the Sample Rate drop-down box to 1Hz, 1 sample per second. Note: You may
select any of a number of sampling rates ranging from 500 Hz to 1 sample per
hour.
• For finite LDC, uncheck the Continuous Low Duty Cycle checkbox.
• Set the Sweeps numscroll to 200, 200 samples over 200 seconds. Note: You may
select any number of sweeps ranging from 100 to 65500.
• Click Apply.
• Or…
• For continuous LDC, check the Continuous Low Duty Cycle checkbox.
• The Sweeps value is disregarded.
• Click Apply.
• Click OK to close the Configuration window.
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