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BioPhotometer Data Transfer Software

Operating Manual

BioPhotometer Data Transfer Software — Operating Manual

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2008 Eppendorf AG, Hamburg. No part of this publication may be reproduced without

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BioPhotometer Data Transfer Software — Operating Manual

Table of contents

Table of contents

1 User instructions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

1.1 Using this manual . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

2 Product description. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

2.1 Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

2.2 Delivery package . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

2.3 System requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

3 Safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

3.1 Intended use. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

4 Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

4.1 Preparing installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

4.1.1 PC with serial interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

4.1.2 PC with USB-RS232 adapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

4.2 Install software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

5 Short Instructions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

6 Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

6.1 Work area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

6.2 Archive area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

6.3 Symbol bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

6.4 Menu bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

6.4.1 File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

6.4.2 Archive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

6.4.3 View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

6.4.4 Account . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

6.4.5 Help. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

6.5 Start and exit software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

6.5.1 Start software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

6.5.2 Exit software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

6.6 Gather data. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

6.6.1 Optional settings prior to saving data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

6.6.2 Gather data simultaneously for measurement at the BioPhotometer plus.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

6.6.3 Transfer data from the results memory to the BioPhotometer plus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

6.6.4 Interrupt data acquisition. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

6.7 Display files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

6.7.1 Work area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

6.7.2 Archive area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

6.8 Export data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

6.8.1 CSV Export from the Work area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

6.8.2 CSV Export from the Archive area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

6.8.3 CSV Export of calibration data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

6.8.4 Excel Export . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

6.8.5 Copy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

6.9 Create and open archives. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

6.9.1 Create archive file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

6.9.2 Open closed archive file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

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7 Further functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

7.1 COM Port setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

7.1.1 Manual setting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

7.2 User administration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

7.2.1 Activate user administration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

7.2.2 Structure user administration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

7.2.3 User . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

7.2.4 Change password . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

7.2.5 Create, edit and delete user . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

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8 Troubleshooting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

8.1 General errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

8.2 Error messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

8.2.1 User administration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

8.2.2 Print. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

8.2.3 Connection to BioPhotometer plus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

8.2.4 Select archive files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

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1 User instructions

1 User instructions

1.1 Using this manual

This manual describes the application of the BioPhotometer Data Transfer Software in
combination with the BioPhotometer plus. It also applies to the BioPhotometer.

 Please read this operating manual thoroughly before using the software for the first time.

 For the operation of the BioPhotometer plus or the BioPhotometer please read the operating

manual accompanying the device.

 Please view this CD with the operating manual as part of the product and keep it somewhere

easily accessible.

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2 Product description

2 Product description

2.1 Features

The BioPhotometer Data Transfer Software is a PC software for measurement data transfer from
BioPhotometer plus to the PC.

The received data can be saved in CSV format, opened and edited with calculation programs.
The data in CSV format is directly opened in Excel on a PC with Microsoft Office version 2000 or
higher.

With the BioPhotometer Data Transfer Software routine application results can be displayed
simply, archived and printed.

The BioPhotometer Data Transfer Software can only be connected to one BioPhotometer plus or

Hint!

2.2 Delivery package

one BioPhotometer.

Order No.
(International)

6132 854.007 952000500

Order No.
(North America)

Description

BioPhotometer Data Transfer Software

incl. null modem cable and CD with software and operating
manual

2.3 System requirements

Product description

Hardware

• Pentium III 1.0 GHz or higher

• > 1 GByte RAM free main memory

• Serial interface (RS232)

Alternatively: at least one USB Port to use a USB-RS232 adapter

• CD-ROM drive

Software

• Microsoft Windows XP SP2 or Windows Vista

• Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0

• Optional: Microsoft Office version 2000 or higher

BioPhotometer plus

• The menu language of the Biophotometer plus is set as LANGUAGE ENGLISH or

LANGUAGE U.S.ENGL.

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3 Safety

3Safety

3.1 Intended use

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The BioPhotometer Data Transfer Software is an accessory to the BioPhotometer and
BioPhotometer plus devices.

The BioPhotometer Data Transfer Software is a PC software which exclusively serves to transfer
measurement data from BioPhotometer and BioPhotometer plus to the PC.

The received data can be saved in CSV format, opened and edited with calculation programs.
The data in CSV format is directly opened in Excel on a PC with Microsoft Office version 2000 or
higher.

The BioPhotometer Data Transfer Software serves to display routine application results simply, to
archive and print them. It is not intended for work in the regulated area.

The BioPhotometer Data Transfer Software can only be connected to one BioPhotometer plus or
one BioPhotometer.

For a description of the intended use of the BioPhotometer and BioPhotometer plus devices
please read the respective operating manuals.

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4 Installation

4 Installation

4.1 Preparing installation

4.1.1 PC with serial interface

1. Connect BioPhotometer plus via the provided null modem cable to the serial interface of the
PC (see operating manual BioPhotometer plus).

2. Tighten the fastening screws of the null modem cable at BioPhotometer plus and also at the
PC in order to avoid any interruption of the connection.

4.1.2 PC with USB-RS232 adapter

1. Connect the USB-RS232 adapter to the USB-Port of the PC.

The computer detects new hardware. If applicable, a message box opens for the installation
of e.g. driver components. Follow the instructions step by step.

2. Connect the BioPhotometer plus via the provided null modem cable to the plug connection of
the adapters.

3. Tighten the fastening screws of the null modem cable at BioPhotometer plus and also at the
adapter in order to avoid any interruption of the connection.

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Installation

4.2 Install software

Hint!

Hint!

For the installation of the BioPhotometer Data Transfer Software the BioPhotometer plus must
not be connected.

In order to install the BioPhotometer Data Transfer Software onto your PC proceed as follows:

1. Make sure that all programs are exited.

2. Put the BioPhotometer Data Transfer Software CD into the CD drive of your PC.

If the autostart function is active on your PC installation starts automatically.

3. If the installation does not start automatically start the file Setup.exe from the CD.

You are guided step by step through the installation.

Other programs can interrupt the automatic installation of the BioPhotometer Data Transfer
Software. In such a case restart the installation with the file Setup.exe from the CD.

The installation is successful if the shortcut to the software appears on the desktop:

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5 Short Instructions

5 Short Instructions

Requirement

• BioPhotometer plus is connected to the PC with the provided null modem cable.

• The set menu language of the Biophotometer plus is LANGUAGE ENGLISH or

LANGUAGE U.S.ENGL. It may lead to faulty data transfer with a different language setting.

• The software is installed.

1. Switch the BioPhotometer plus on.

2. Start the BioPhotometer Data Transfer Software via the shortcut on the desktop.

The connected BioPhotometer plus is displayed by a corresponding message, e.g. Connected
device: BioPhotometer plus 6132 found at COM1.

3. Select a method at the BioPhotometer plus and start the measurement.

The data is automatically transferred during the measurement and is displayed in the section
Data Output of the Work area in the format of a device print.

4. For the results display in table format select the rider Samples in the Work area. With Methods
with calibrations the rider appears additionally Calibrations in which the calibration results are
displayed in table format.

You can print these formats directly via the icon Print or by selecting the corresponding
print options with Print in the menu File.

5. You have two possibilities to export data from the areas Samples or Calibrations:

1. Excel Export

Click on the icon Excel Export .

A dialog window opens. After entering the file name and path the data is saved as CSV
file and automatically opened with Excel.

2. CSV Export

Click on the icon CSV Export .

A dialog window opens. After entering the file name and path the data is saved as CSV
file. The data can be opened with a calculation program.

You can also save new measurement data in an existing CSV file. The new data is
automatically inserted at the end of the table.

6. Exit the BioPhotometer Data Transfer Software with the menu File/ Exit.

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Operation

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6 Operation

6 Operation

6.1 Work area

The Work area is divided into various sections:

Abb. 1: Work area

Fig. 1: Work area

1 Method List

Contains all transferred methods after starting the
software.

3 Data Output

Display of the data parallel to the measurement
procedure at the BioPhotometer plus. The display and
order of the data corresponds to the display of the
BioPhotometer plus and the corresponding device
print.

5 Calibrations

Display of the calibration data in table format. This
area only appears if data with calibration was
transferred.

2 File information

Archive file: name of the current archive file where the
recorded measurement data is saved.

Measurement ID: Identification code under which the
transferred measurement data are filed. The entry is
optional.

4 Samples

Display of the data in table format parallel to the
measurement procedure at the BioPhotometer plus.
The data does not differ as regards to contents form
Data Output. The order of the data corresponds to the
display of BioPhotometer plus.

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6 Operation

6.2 Archive area

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Abb. 2: Archive area

The Archive area is subdivided into various sections:

Fig. 2: Archive area

1 Method List

Displays all methods where measurement data has
been transferred into the open archive file. All:
Contains all measurement data of the different
methods in chronological order. The results are not
sorted according to methods.

Operation

2 File information

Archive file: Name of the opened archive file.

3 Search Filter

Search for measurement results within one method.
Date, User (for active user administration), ID (if
entered) and Device can be defined as filter.

5 Calibrations

Display of the calibration results of a method in table
format in chronological order.

4 Samples

Display of the measurement results of a method in
table format in chronological order.

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