SE376 HELP

Introduction

SE376 is a program for collecting data from thermometer through the connection to a computer. One may process these data with graphic or text style interface. The program is very easy to use with the graphic user interface. The users do not have to look for the functions in complicated menu structures. Instead, the major functions are all in the main window with large ico

Introduction

 

        SE376 is a program for collecting data from thermometer through the connection to a computer. One may process these data with graphic or text style interface. The program is very easy to use with the graphic user interface. The users do not have to look for the functions in complicated menu structures. Instead, the major functions are all in the main window with large icons.

 

System Required:

Windows NT 4.0/ NT2000/ XP/ VISTA/ Windows 7.

 

Minimum Hardware Required:

PC or Notebook with Pentium 800MHz or higher, 128 MB RAM;

At least 50 MB byte hard disk space available to install SE376.

 

Install SE-376 and USB-120 connector driver

1.We recommend close all other application before installing SE376.

2.Insert setup CD disk to CD disk drive to display install screen. You may also run mainsetup.exe in the directory of the CD.

3.Click Install to begin installation.

4.It will install USB-120 connector driver first:

5. While installing, it will show this window below, just click “next” to continue.(see Fig.1)

6. Select “Launch the CP210x VCP Driver Installer” option, then click Finish. (see Fig.2)

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(Fig.1)                                     (Fig.2)

 

7. Click Install.

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8.After finish installing USB-120 connector driver, it will install SE376 software automatically. it will copy SE376.exe ( executable file ) and help file to your hard disk ( default is c:\program files\SE376

 

9. After finish installation, plug USB-120 connector to PC usb port, execute

”start””My Computer”, then choose “View System Information” on the left top of the window, the window below will show up.

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10. Choose “Hardware” option and click “Device Manager” button, click “+” symbol on the left side of Ports(COM &LPT), if the device “CP2101 USB to UART Bridge Controller(COMx)” is in the list, the connector is ready to work.

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Main menu and button

 MainMenu

   Open - Retrieve files from the disk.

   Save - Save the present data to the disk.

   Print - Send data in the present table to the printer.

   Pause - Stop data recording.

   Run - Start data recording.

   Output To Graph - Send tabular data to another graph.

   New - Reset all the data.

 

Option - Setup dialog to set attributions of graph. (You can also double click on the graph.)

 

Sampling Rate - Time interval between each data to be recorded. If you want to change it, move mouse cursor to the digit you want to change and click, then input the new sampling rate. The change will be effective immediately.

It will keep up to 5000 data points, when data points exceed this limit, the oldest 100 points will be replaced sequentially.

 

Real Time Graph

Graph 

 

You can Zoom this graph by using mouse:

To Zoom:

1.     Press and hold the Shift key.

2.     Press the left mouse button and drag the cursor to select the new extents.

3.     Release the mouse button.

 

To Undo the Zoom:

Press the Alt+U key or click Undo Zoom button.

(Zooming method is not allowed in Real Time Graph Window.)

 

Tabular

 ow can be used to record real time data in a table format. The maximum number of records that the Tabular window can keep will be depending on how many available memory and hard disk space of the connected computer.

 

 

DataLogger

    When you have thermometer connected to computer, select "Load Data" to start loading the recoreded data from the thermometer. There will be a progress indicator to show the loading progress.

If error occurs, just click "Load Data" again.

 

    After the data has been successfully loaded to computer, the left side window shows how many data sets were loaded and their detailed infomation (start date, start time, recording rate, and record numbers).

 

For example:

                   

        It will transfer the first data set to graph and tabular on the right side window once you finish loading recorded data from the thermometer. You can click on at any data set to show its graph and tabular on the right side window.    You can choose a rectangle area on the graph to zoom in for detail.

 

        The vertical dash line in the graph will match the highlight row in the tabular. When clicking on another row in the tablar, the vertical dash line will move to the corresponding position to match the time.

                

 

Frequently Asked Question

 

1.     I have connected thermometer to computer serial port and turned thermometer on, but it still shows "NO CONNECTION."

Answer: It could be caused by that all serial port are occupied by other applications. Close all application, restart your computer, and run SE376 again.

 

2.     In TABULAR window, I saved a file. Can I use EXCEL to open this file?

Answer: If the decimal seperator is comma (,) in your area, you can not use CSV file because CSV file use comma to seperate data. This will cause confusion (for example 23,6,C,24.6,C). However, you can use TXT files instead. It uses tab to seperate to data (for example: 23.6    C        24.6  C) and it can be accepted in EXCEL.

3.     3.How to uninstall SE376?

Answer:Uninstall SE376 by launching the Add/Remove Programs applet out of the Control Panel, highlighting the SE376, and clicking on the Add/Remove... button, then it will remove the SE376 folder and files from your computer.