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To start acquiring data, click the “START” button. Conversely, to stop the acquisition, click the
“STOP” button.
When subsequently trying to opening the *.tem file, it is possible that you may get the following message:
Select “Select the program from a list”, and click OK. In the next window, you should instruct Windows to
always open this type of file with Microsoft Excel.
If you get the following message, you should select “Read Only”.
In Excel, the data file should look like this:
Notes:
1) If a column shows “#######”, this means that this column is too narrow to display the data; use
your mouse to widen this column.
2) If you open a logging file during acquisition, the Excel window is not refreshed as the
acquisition is taking place. To get a more recent version of the file, close the Excel program, and
start Excel again.
3) A value of -999.xx indicates that no reading is available for this channel. Check the probe
connection.
If you stop the acquisition, and start it again with the same file name, the new values will simply be appended
to the existing file content. However, a new 4-line header is inserted first, as shown here:
