Measurement DAQLog User Manual
Software User's Guide
DAQLog
For LGR-5320 Series Analog and Digital I/O
Loggers
Document Revision 1, June, 2010
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Table of Contents
Preface
About this User's Guide ....................................................................................................................... 7
What you will lear n from this user's guid e ......................................................................................................... 7
Conventio ns in this user's guide ......................................................................................................................... 7
Chapter 1
About DAQLog ...................................................................................................................................... 8
System requirements ........................................................................................................................................... 8
Hardware requirements ....................................................................................................................................... 8
Chapter 2
Getting Started ...................................................................................................................................... 9
Install DAQLog .................................................................................................................................................. 9
Install your DAQLog device .............................................................................................................................. 9
Connect signals to your LGR-5320 Series device .............................................................................................. 9
Insert the SD card ............................................................................................................................................... 9
Run DAQLog ..................................................................................................................................................... 9
Chapter 3
About the DAQLog user interface ..................................................................................................... 10
DAQLog menu bar ..........................................................................................................................................................10
DAQLog Toolbar .............................................................................................................................................................11
Chapter 4
Working with Devices ......................................................................................................................... 12
Viewing logger device inform a tion .................................................................................................................. 12
Synchronizing a device’s onboard clock .......................................................................................................... 12
Modifying a device’s configuration settings..................................................................................................... 13
Removing a device from the DAQLog configurati on ...................................................................................... 13
Chapter 5
Working with SD Drives ...................................................................................................................... 14
Adding an SD drive .......................................................................................................................................... 14
Removing an SD drive ..................................................................................................................................... 15
Chapter 6
Working with Settings Files a n d F o lder Locations ......................................................................... 16
Adding a settings folder location ...................................................................................................................... 16
Removing a settings folder location ................................................................................................................. 17
Creating a settings file ...................................................................................................................................... 17
Configuring the logging session.......................................................................................................................................17
Configuring analog input parameters ...............................................................................................................................19
Configuring counter input parameters..............................................................................................................................20
Configuring digital input parameters ...............................................................................................................................23
Configuring startup, timing, and duration parameters ......................................................................................................23
Configuring event log parameters ....................................................................................................................................26
Modifying a settings file ................................................................................................................................... 27
Modifying settings stored on an SD card .........................................................................................................................27
Modifying settings stored in a settings location ...............................................................................................................27
Modifying Log Setup parameters.....................................................................................................................................28
Modifying Channels parameters ......................................................................................................................................29
Modifying Acquisition parameters ..................................................................................................................................29
Modifying Events parameters ..........................................................................................................................................30
Saving your settings changes ...........................................................................................................................................30
Deploying a settings file to a LGR-5320 Series device .................................................................................... 30
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Deploying a settings file over a USB connection .............................................................................................................30
Deploying a settings file to an SD card in a card reader ..................................................................................................31
Locating a settings file ...................................................................................................................................... 32
Deleting settings files ....................................................................................................................................... 32
Chapter 7
Working with Data Folder Locations, Data Files, and Converted Data Files ................................ 33
Adding a data folder location ........................................................................................................................... 33
Removing a data folder location ....................................................................................................................... 34
Creating a data file ............................................................................................................................................ 34
Converting data files ......................................................................................................................................... 35
Setting converted data file storage parameters .................................................................................................................35
Converting a data file .......................................................................................................................................................37
Viewing data and event files ............................................................................................................................. 38
Deleting data files ............................................................................................................................................. 38
Chapter 8
DAQLog Walkthrough: Logging Data with a LGR-5320 Series Device ......................................... 39
Create a new logger settings fi le ....................................................................................................................... 39
Deploy the settings file ..................................................................................................................................... 41
Log data ............................................................................................................................................................ 42
Convert the data file ......................................................................................................................................... 42
View the converted data file ............................................................................................................................. 42
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Preface
About this User's Guide
What you will learn from this user's guide
This user's guide explai ns how to install and use the DAQLog so that you get the most out of its USB data
acquisition features.
This user's guide also r efers you to related documents available on our web site, and to technical support
resources.
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Chapter 1
About DAQLog
DAQLog is a configuration and data logging application developed for use with Measurement Computing’s LGR5320 Series of data acquisition and logging devices.
With DAQLog software and a LGR -5320 Series device, you can perform the following operations:
Create logger settings files for ac quiring and logging analog, digital, and counter data from LGR-5320 Series
devices. Settings files can include analog and digital triggers, event logging, counter debounce filters, and pacer
output.
Store logger settings files in dedicated folders for deployment, modification, and reuse.
Deploy logger settings directly to logger devices over a USB connection, or remotely through Secure Digital
(SD) and Secure Digital High Capacity (SDHC) cards.
Retrieve binary data and event files stored on SD/SDHC cards and convert them to comma-separated values
(.csv) files.
Easily navigate to stored settings, data, .csv, and event fi les.
System requirements
You can insta ll this DAQLog software package on a computer running one of these ope rating syst ems:
Windows XP with Service Pack 2 (SP2)
Windows VISTA (32- and 64-bits*)
Windows 7(32- and 64-bits*)
* Application is 32-bits, but software does include 64-bit drivers for accessing the device.
Hardware requirements
Minimum screen resolution of 800 x 600
Computer with Pentium® 4 processor and 256 MB of RAM
A Microsoft-compatible mouse
A Measurement Computing LGR-5320 Series device
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Getting Started
This chapter explains how to:
install the DAQLog software
install and prepare your LGR-5320 Series device to log data using DAQLog
where to insert your SD card
how to run DAQLog
Install DAQLog
Install DAQLog software before you install your device(s).
1. Insert the DAQLog CD in your CD drive and wait for the installation program to start.
If the installation program does not start automatically, use Windows Explorer to browse to the root o f the CD,
and double-click on
2. Follow the on-screen instructi ons to install the software.
Install your DAQLog device
Install.exe.
Chapter 2
If you are installing the device on your computer, refer to the LGR-5320 Series device’s user’s guide for installation
instructions.
Connect signals to your LGR-5320 Series device
Once your device is powered, connect your LGR-5320 Series device to the sources and grounds of t he analog,
counter, and digital data you want to acquire and log.
Refer to the screw terminal pinout tables in your LGR-5320 Series device’s user’s guide.
Insert the SD card
If your device is installed remotely from your computer, you need an SD card reader to transfer configuration and
data files between the device and your computer.
Otherwise, you can use your LGR-5320 Series device as an SD card reader over a USB connection.
For the logging exercise presented later in this guide, please remove any other SD, SDHC, or flash drives installed
in your computer.
Run DAQLog
Now that you installed the DAQLog software, and connected your DAQLog device to its data source(s), you can
start logging data using DAQLog.
Run DAQLog by selecting
Programs Measurement Computing DAQLog DAQLog from t he Start menu.
The main DAQLog window opens. This window is explained in more detail in the next chap te r .
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About the DAQLog user interface
When you first run DAQLog with a LGR-5320 Series device connected to your computer, the main DAQLog
window lists the areas shown below.
Chapter 3
Figure 1. External DAQLog main window
Menu bar
Toolbar
Locations pane (divided into Logger Devices, SD Drives (when an SD card is connected), Logger Settings
Folders, and Data Folders sections).
Available Items pane
Displays information on the selected device, SD drive, folder, or file. When you select a configuration settings files in the
Available Items pane, a Log Setup, Channels, Acquisition, and Events tabs. These tabs appear when a settings file is
selected pane
DAQLog menu bar
The File menu contains options that:
Save a logger settings file
Deploy a logger settings file to an SD card or connected device
Locate the file selected in the
Convert a binary data file of logged data to a comma-separated format
Help menu contains options to open the DAQLog help file and to open an About DAQLog dialog that displays
The
software version information.
Available Items pane
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DAQLog Software User's Guide About the DAQLog user interface
See “Removing a data folder location” on page 34.
DAQLog Toolbar
The toolbar contains options for working with connected LGR-5320 Series devices, SD drives, settings files (.set)
and folders, data files (.dat) and folders, and converted data files (.csv).
New
Settings
File
Delete
Add SD
Drive
Add
Settings
Folder
Add Data
Folder
Remove
Location
Save
Launches a series of dialogs used to create a new configuration that is saved to the
selected destination (device, memory card, or settings folder). This file contains the
data acquisition parameters.
For more information, see “Creating a settings file” on page 17
.
Deletes the selected file in the Available Items pane.
See “Deleting settings files” on page 32
See “Deleting data files” on page 38.
.
Opens a dialog used to add an SD drive to DAQLog.
See
“Adding an SD ” on page 14.
Opens a dialog used to add folders for storing settings files.
See “Adding a se ttings folder location” on page 16.
Opens a dialog used to add folders for storing converted data files or folders containing
binary data files.
See “Adding a data folder location” on page 33 for more information.
Removes the selected settings folder, data folder, or SD drive from DAQLog Locations
without affecting the folder its e lf.
See “Removing a device from the DAQLog configuration” on page 13
See “Removing an SD drive” on page 15.
See “Removing a settings fold e r location” on page 17.
Saves the co nfiguration settings made to the selected location.
See “Modifying a settings file ” on page 27.
Convert
Data File
Converts the selected .dat file(s) to .csv files and stores them in the folder specified by
Output Location.
See “Converting data files” on page 35.
Deploy
Settings
File
Refresh
Location
Locate File
on Drive
Copies a settings file to a connected logger device, or, if no device is connected, to the
SD drive specified in the SD Drives pane.
See “Deploying a settings file to a LGR-5320 Series device" on page 30.
Updates the contents of a data folder after the contents of the folder have changed
(files are added to or removed from the DAQLog directory).
Opens Windows Explorer to the directory path of a selected folder or file.
See “Locating a settings file” on page 32
.
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Chapter 4
Working with Devices
DAQLog automatically detects all LGR-5320 devices that are installed and connected to your computer’s USB port.
Devices are detected when you first run DAQLog, and also if you install a device while DAQLog is running.
Devices are listed in the
Logger Devices area of the Locations pane.
Viewing logger device inform a t ion
When you select a logger device and select Device Info in the Available Items location, the following information
about the device appears in the DAQLog window:
LGR-5320 Series device type
serial number
firmware version
FPGA ver s io n
Synchronizing a device’s onboard clock
The Onboard Clock field lists the current time set on the device's internal clock.
To synchronize the clock of a LGR-5320 Series device with your computer’s clock, click
Sync.
The onboard clock does not change for daylight savings time. It keeps real time relative to the time synchronized.
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Modifying a device’s c onfi guration settings
To modify the settings currently loaded on a LGR-5320 Series device:
1. Make sure the device is connected to a USB port on your computer.
1. Click on the d evice in the
2. Click on the Log Settings file in the
Logger Devices location.
Available Items pane.
Change the settings loaded on the LG R-5320 Series device from the Log Setup, Channels, Acquisition, and
Events tabs.
See “Modifying Log Setup parameters” on page 28 to learn how to modify settings using these tabs.
Removing a device from the DAQLog configuration
You can remove a device from the DAQLog configuration and the Logger Devices area in order to simplify the
number of deployment targets.
To remove a device from the DAQLog configuration, select it in the
Location icon from the DAQLog toolbar.
Right-mouse click method
You can also remove a device by right-clicking on it in the Logger Devices area and selecting Remove from t he
popup menu.
The device is removed from the Logger Devices area.
Logger Devices area and click the Remove
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Chapter 5
Working with SD Drives
You can store and deploy LGR-5320 Series device settings files to SD c a r ds installed on your computer or in the
device’s SD card slot. LGR-5320 Series devices also log data and events to files on an SD inserted in the device.
When you run DAQLog, you may need to manually add and remove SD cards from the DAQLog configuration.
Adding an SD drive
To manually add an SD drive to the SD Drives pane o n the main DAQLog window:
Add a volume name to your removable media
To differentiate between multiple SD cards and other removable media, use Windows Explorer to add a volume
name to each removable drive.
1. Click the Add SD Drive icon from the DAQLog toolbar.
Right-mouse click method
You can also add an SD drive by right-clicking anywhere in the Locations pane and selecting the Add…»SD Drive
option.
2. On the SD Drives pane, click on the SD card, and then click the Refresh Location toolbar icon.
The
SD Drive Selection dialog opens.
3. Click Continue».
The No New Storage Devices dialog opens if no SD card is detected. Connect an SD drive to the computer,
OK, and click Continue» again.
click
If an SD card is detected in a card reader or in a connected LGR-5320 Series device, another SD Drive
Selection dialog lists the available SD cards
4. Select the drive letter of the SD drive you want to add, and click
The SD drive is added to the SD Drives pane as a drive letter and volume name.
Once you add an SD drive to DAQLog, you can perform the following operations:
OK.
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