Precision Measurement Engineering, Inc.

Data Upload & Storage

SCAMP can contain 1 or many more profiles within its memory. This information must be transferred (‘uploaded’) from SCAMP to the host computer from time to time. Uploading occurs automatically whenever SCAMP is connected to the host computer. The steps for uploading are:

Establish communication with the SCAMP

Nothing else is required. When the SCAMP Control program begins operation it queries SCAMP about profiles. If any profiles are stored within SCAMP, then they are transferred to the host computer automatically. Thereafter, the SCAMP memory that contained the profiles is erased. There are screen displays that give the progress of this operation. USB transfers are very fast but owing to the volume of data that SCAMP can store, the transfer process may take several minutes to complete.

Uploaded profiles are stored on the host computer HDD using a file name constructed based upon the SCAMP time that the profile was begun (when any Starting Conditions for Data Recording became true). The format is day-month-year hour-minute-second .raw An example file name is

15JAN2004 162403.raw

These files will appear in the current directory of the host computer.

After uploading is completed the SCAMP control dialog screen appears.

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