Kintech Engineering EOL Zenith Quick User Manual

EOL ZENITH DATA LOGGER

QUICK USER GUIDE

EOL ZENITH DATA LOGGER | QUICK USER GUIDE

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HERE ARE THE THINGS YOU WILL LEARN WHEN YOU HAVE READ THIS QUICK USER GUIDE

A How to request a user account

B How to download and install EOL Manager

C How to understand the data management system

D How to set up your rst EOL Zenith data logger

E How to upload the conguration to your EOL Zenith data logger

F How to operate the EOL Zenith data logger in the eld

G How to download data from your EOL Zenith data logger

If you want to go into details please read our full user manual for the EOL Zenith data logger.
If you need technical support while setting up your data logger, please go to our website, www.kintech-engineering.com,
and click on “Technical Support.”
You can also contact our technical support directly via phone and/or email.

MeteorologyWind Resource

Assessment

Wind Farm
Monitoring

Solar Resource

Assessment

Cold Climate Wind

Resource Assessment

1.

Get your user account

2.

Setup your data logger

3.

Start measuring

EOL ZENITH DATA LOGGER | QUICK USER GUIDE

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SOFTWARE LICENSE

The EOL Manager software needs an active license
to run on your computer. You can get this software li­cense directly from your online user account. If your
license has run out, just click the “Renew License” but­ton under “Software Licenses” from your user account.

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

Operating System: EOL Manager is supported on Win-

dows 7, Windows 8 and Windows XP with .NET Frame­work version 3.5 SP3 or later version installed.

MMC card reader: You need an MMC card reader for ac­cessing the data on the MMC card from your PC and for

conguring the EOL Zenith with your logger settings.

Google Earth: If you want to see the exact position of
your wind measurement sites, you need to install Goo­gle Earth on your PC.

Telephone connection or Internet access: If you are
planning to connect to the data logger via a telephone
MODEM or Internet.

We recommend connecting to the data logger via an in­ternet connection. However you can connect via a mo­dem as well.

HOW TO REQUEST A USER ACCOUNT

If you do not already have a user account, please go to
our website www.kintech-engineering.com and request
a new user account.

With an user account, you have access to the following:

Your software licenses

Technical support les
Calibration certicates
Quality control certicates

Return authorization request
Customer feedback

HOW TO DOWNLOAD AND INSTALL EOL MANAGER

Log into your account with your username and pass­word. From the download menu within your account,
you can download the latest version of EOL Manager.

When you have downloaded the installation le
(EOLManagerSetup.msi), locate the le on your PC and
double click it. One single le (EOLManagerSetup.msi)

installs both the EOL Manager® and EOL Charting on
your PC.

The rst time you run the software, it will ask for the
folder to store all your the data les. That folder will

contain all other folders associated with all your future
wind measurement sites.

We encourage you to keep up to date with the latest
EOL Manager version. When you update to a newer ver­sion of EOL Manager, please uninstall the “old” version

rst and then install the new version. No data and/or
conguration les are lost during this uninstall and ins-

tall process.

1. Get your user account

EOL ZENITH DATA LOGGER | QUICK USER GUIDE

[e-mail] www.kintech-engineering.com

HOW TO UNDERSTAND THE DATA MANAGEMENT
SYSTEM

Before you start conguring your rst EOL Zenith data

logger you need to know how the overall data manage­ment works:

1. The .sit le (conguration le) has to be uploaded

to the data logger through EOL Manager and not by

copying the le to the SD card.

2. EOL Manager downloads the encrypted .log le from
the data logger. The .log le contains all the RAW

data (volts and hertzs stored from all the sensors
connected to the data logger).

3. EOL Manager then automatically converts the .log le
into .wnd le and .txt le using the active logger con­guration le (also stored on your PC).

How does EOL Manager convert the .log le? When you

set up your data logger in EOL Manager, you typed in the
slope and oset for the sensors you were going to con­nect to that data logger. EOL Manager uses those slopes

and osets to convert the .log le. It’s that simple.

EOL Manager also keeps a history of all your modica­tions to your logger congurations. Why is that impor­tant? Well, say for example you replaced an anemome-

ter on one of your met masts two weeks ago. You can

then modify the conguration le in EOL Manager and
manually convert/decode the last two weeks’ raw data
(the .log le) into new .wnd les.

.txt

.log

.wnd

.sit

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