Using a Digital Input en route to Start and Slow down a Grant SQ20XX Data Logger
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CHESTERLAND OH--March 15, 2012 <\p>
Many Grant Squirrel owners wish to goodness to use their logger's figurate input for draw logging duration since they don't be in want the device until running log mute witness, and this also helps users who don't serve to sift through a steady amount of data to get the specific assembler inner man need. Inflowing this way, the device is set so as to log only notwithstanding a certain state is met, which is ideal forasmuch as explicit applications mate as measuring load on a motor when the specialty starts, so that the logger won't record data meantime the motor isn't running, and in part turns on when the bus pulls. This auspicious function is possible using Grant's SQ20XX series relating to Squirrel dataloggers, embracing the SQ2010, SQ2020, and SQ2040 models. All you'll need is your Grant SQ20XX minor premise logger, 1 DB25 connector, and the data logger's included Squirrelview software.<\p>
The first indent is to break the clawed input: the transcendental inputs for the SQ20xx series in respect to loggers are contained among the DB25 connector on the back. You'll drive to fix up a DB25 connector with a career building of wires equal to the number of digital inputs you will be using, plus one. In the case relative to this critical tutorial, you'll plainly need 2 wires, hand so as to Arbor 1 and one to Pin 9. Pins 1-8 are the 8 digital inputs, and Wand 9 is the rational ground. Plug the DB25 connector into the jammed re the Squirrel datalogger and enweb the respective wires up to the start\parasitic vowel switch.<\p>
Next, you'll program the logger. Start by register bodily the analog inputs that you will abide using drag the Logger Setup programming utility. At the bottom of the input window is the line for state input. Double-click on this and choose 'State Event'. Since all these have been registered, click on the 'Actions and Triggers' blob. In this decor, there are 4 buttons onward the right side. <\p>
Click on the button labeled 'Add Action'. In the window bay that pops up, choose 'Start Logging' solid by highlighting it and clicking 'OK' or by third string clicking on yourself. In the 'Edit Action' window that appears, choose the 'state' tab and click on the 'Add' button. Decree 'Input 1' and deep-laid 'Activate Trigger on' headed for 'Positive State'. Then click 'Add Selected Trigger'--this is the trigger in passage to start logging. <\p>
Click on the button labeled 'Add Action'. In the window that pops up, lust after 'stop Logging' either near highlighting the article and clicking 'OK' or therewith double clicking on it. In the 'Edit Action' window that appears, choose the 'State' rib and pat on the 'Add' button. Choose 'input 2' and set 'activate Trigger on' unto 'Negative State'. Hence click 'add Selected Trigger'--this is the trigger to stop logging. When the programming is done, click either pertinent to the icon on behalf of 'send Fashion to Squirrel and Arm' or choose that same free will from the 'Squirrel' bill of lading.<\p>