E-600 Rad Mapping Program
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1. E600RAD DOC Revised May 1997 Adding a Survey Point To add a survey point to a floor plan use the right button on the mouse and click on the screen position where you want to add the point If the password entered is a level 2 or level 3 a dialog box appears into which you may enter the survey point location identifier for the new point This identifier must match the identifier which will be used by the person taking the survey data If a bar code reader is used any ASCII string up to 20 characters may be used If no bar code reader is used all location identifiers must be numeric integers from to 500 Edit Existing Survey Point Filled Square A new survey point icon will appear immediately on the floor plan with the most recent reading if available for the new survey point Note that a maximum of 50 survey points may be added to each floor plan Moving a Survey Point To move an existing survey point make sure a level 2 or level 3 password is entered and then click the right mouse button when the mouse cursor is over the center of a survey point icon Click and hold the left mouse button as you drag the icon to its new position on the floor plan Release the left button and the icon will remain in its new position a i a en E600RAD DOC Revised May 1997 3 3 Deleting a Survey Point To delete an existing survey point make sure a level 2 or level 3 password is entered and then click the2. storing up to 500 data points internal to the instrument Each time you press the Log button on the E 600 handle the instrument responds with a single beep freezes the reading on the display and displays the next log data point identification number in the lower right corner of the LCD display At this point you may either 1 use the up and down arrows to the right of the handle to increment decrement the location identifier 2 press the LOG button a second time which causes the log data point to be stored with the currently displayed identification number or 3 scan in a bar code location identifier if the bar code option is connected to the RS 232 port on the E 600 Once you press the log button a second time three beeps occur indicating that the log operation is complete If you scan the location identifier in with a bar code device the log operation is completed automatically without pressing the log button a second time If you decide not to store the current reading after you have initially pressed the LOG button either wait fifteen seconds for the log operation to time out or press the STAR key to immediately return to operating mode and abort the log operation Retrieving Stored Log Data from the E 600 Once you have stored one or more log data points you may retrieve the log data using your PC and the E 600 Rad Mapping program Select Log Retrieve Log Data or Log Retrieve with Report from the main menu and the currently
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4. an instrument it is stored in the data file For this reason you should only retrieve data once Note that multiple instruments may be used to log data In this case the log data results are all stored in the same data files although you may generate individual survey reports for each instrument hm Jy ms ZZ sy 2 2 E600RAD DOC Revised May 1997 Using the Report Generator The Rad Mapping program contains a built in report generator used to extract information from the year specific binary log data files Data may be extracted in either an ASCII report format or a quotation comma delimited ASCII format suitable for importing into most database and spreadsheet programs To activate the report generator select either Log SurveyReport Report Format for an ASCII formatted report or Log SurveyReport Comma Delimited Format for an quotation comma formatted report from the main menu Report Generator The report generator dialog box shown above is displayed and the user must specify the following information Report File The report file name is a text file into which the extracted information is stored If you specify an existing file name you are asked whether or not the specified file may be overwritten Survey Location The survey location field is optional If the location identifier is left blank the search will inc ude all location identifiers If a location identifier is specified the search will exclude all other
5. ations and environments In addition to the normal capabilities provided by a portable radiation monitoring instrument the E 600 is capable of performing data logging operations which allow the operator to store readings in ratemeter peak trap or scaler modes which can be retrieved and stored in a personal computer This operating manual describes the operation of the Eberline E 600 Rad Mapping program which is a Windows application which supports collection of log data from one or more E 600 instruments display of the survey information on user defined bit map graphics floor plans and report generation based on user specified search criteria Software Installation This program will run on any IBM or compatible personal computer under the Microsoft Windows 3 1 or Windows 95 operating environment Although it is theoretically possible to install the interface software on a floppy drive computer this is strongly discouraged the program is intended to be run from a fixed hard disk drive Although a minimal configuration can be installed in only one or two megabytes of disk space several megabytes of free disk space should be available to accommodate data logging storage requirements To initially install the E 600 Rad Mapping program insert the distribution diskette in a floppy disk drive of the target computer start Windows click on the File command or type Alt F Start button in Windows 95 then Run the INSTALL progra
6. be operated from and you will have immediate access to these floor plans A floor plan data file e g floor dat for floor bmp is automatically created when you add a survey point to the floor plan Deleting the dat file e g floor dat is a quick way to remove all installed survey points on a floor plan RS E600RAD DOC Revised May 1997 3 1 Displaying Floor Plans 3 2 Select Floor Plans Display Floor Plans from the main menu to select the floor plan of choice to display Any survey points placed on the floor plan are shown with an E 600 icon and the most recent reading as stored in the master database Each time log data is transferred from an E 600 the master database and any affected floor plan are updated To display the survey point location and last survey date time for any survey point click on the survey point icon with the mouse The location title changes to a red color indicating it is selected and the survey point identifier and last survey date and time are displayed in the lower left corner of the screen To de select a survey point click on an area of the floor plan where no survey point icon exists Any survey point which has not been updated within the validity period specified by the System Parameters is labeled with the word O d next to the survey point reading Eberline Rad Mapping Program V3 00 Waste Storage Room 75 1 om Warehouse LAB 2 17E 05 Rehr 126 dpm Oid
7. m on the diskette The installation program will prompt for the desired hard disk directory into which the program will be installed E600RAD DOC Revised May 1997 1 1 Note that while the distribution diskette is not copy protected each copy is licensed for use on only one computer The license also permits one copy of the diskette to be made for backup purposes Once installed the interface program may be run by simply double clicking on the E 600 icon in the Windows program manager or from the Eberline program group from the Windows 95 Start menu Hardware Setup Communications between the host PC and E 600 instrument are established via an RS 232 serial interface A data cable Eberline part number CA 104 60 connects to a standard 9 pin serial port on the personal computer and to a 7 pin circular receptacle on the front of the E 600 If the PC in use has more than one serial data port it may be necessary to inform the program which port is connected to the E 600 This selection is made through the Edit System dialogue box To open this window click on Edit to pull down the submenu then click on System It may be necessary to enter the correct level two password to enable changes to this window stem Parameters 1 2 E600RAD DOC Revised May 1997 Den en asl tation see Note The Edit System dialogue window also contains a check box which turns the E 600 simulator on and off If the simula
8. ollection you will normally clear the log data stored in the E 600 to make sure no one re retrieves the data and causes double entries in the log data file To clear the log data in the attached E 600 select Log Clear Log Data in E 600 from the main menu ee 2 4 E600RAD DOC Revised May 1997 Section 3 Floor Plans Creating Floor Plans The floor plans used by the E 600 Rad Mapping program are Windows bit mapped graphics files with a file extension of bmp You may use the Paintbrush program supplied with Windows or any appropriate bit mapped graphics file generator to create your floor plan files You should be aware that the size of the graphics file is limited by the display hardware of the computer which will operate the E 600 interface program Unless you know that you will always be operating on machines with 1024 x 768 graphics resolution or better it is best to always limit the size of the floor plan graphics file to 620 x 400 pixels This allows you to display the floor plan on any computer with VGA resolution 640 x 480 pixels or better The full screen size cannot be used since there must be room left over for the menu An example bit mapped graphics floor plan file called floor bmp is supplied with your software You may load this file into Paintbrush to modify as you wish Once you have created one or more floor plan files simply copy these to the directory where the E 600 Rad Mapping program is to
9. right mouse button when the mouse cursor is over the center of the survey point icon you wish to delete Next click the delete button in the survey point dialog box and then click OK The survey point will disappear from the floor plan Printing a Survey Route Sheet When you review your floor plans you may notice that many of the survey points have old survey data or no data at all To allow you to update just those points which currently require updating you need a survey route sheet listing just those points To print a survey route sheet select Floor Plans Print Survey Route from the main menu You will be given a choice of either sending the survey route form to the printer or to a file The survey route sheet shows the survey point identifier location and the current reading for each survey point which needs updating along with a place to mark off each survey point as you make your way around the route 3 4 E600RAD DOC Revised May 1997
10. s The location identifier is case independent upper lower case does not matter Report Dates The final entry field lets you specify the report starting and ending dates Note that all extracted data must be within the same year Specify starting and ending dates of different years is not allowed If you need to extract report data from several years use the report generator once for each year E600RAD DOC Revised May 1997 2 3 aaa s EE EE ie sik r nae ee meats ART SE ee duo a SERE de Milena The following dialog box is provided for entering the dates when the Change button is pressed DATE RANGE SELECTION FROM gt TO Two buttons on the date entry dialog box are especially useful The This Year till Today button lets you quickly enter the dates from January 1 until today s date The Whole year button lets you specify a range of dates from January 1 until December 31 for the specified year Use the drop down list box for the year to specify the report year Resetting the Log Data Pointer In rare cases you may wish to re download all the log data not previously erased from an E 600 You would normally only do this if you had accidentally deleted a data file Before you can re retrieve the stored log data you must reset the log data pointer in the instrument to point to the oldest stored point Select Log Reset Log Dai2 Pointer from the main menu to reset the pointer Clearing Log Data Following data c
11. stored data points are retrieved and stored to a file named ALLLOG YY where YYis the log data year Note that the log data date is not E600RAD DOC Revised May 1997 2 1 l BRT ETT p P ie THe Tac es ois me AAA EE NRA FE ER EL necessarily the current date The log data date is the date the log data was stored in the instrument not the date it was collected at the PC Retrieved data is actually stored in two places The first is the binary data file ALLLOG YY described above and the second place is the binary master database file LOGDATA DAT which contains the most recent survey result for each survey point This database is memory resident for high performance and is used to update any displayed floor plan In addition if the Retrieve with Report menu option is selected the log data is stored in a report format in a text file specified by the user The information stored for each log point is Survey Location Log Date Log Time Log Mode operating mode of the instrument Channel Type Reading Gross Net to indicate whether or not background subtraction was enabled Units selected units for the stored reading E 600 S N and E 600 Address If you are using V2 00 or higher of the E 600 program the log data also includes Stored Background stored background for the channel Background Units and Status operating status at the time this measurement was taken Each time the stored data is retrieved from
12. tor is enabled the program will not attempt to communicate with a real E 600 even if one is connected In this case all data is transferred to and from an imaginary instrument While the simulator is operating the Simu ator On message is displayed in the menu bar Set the Selected Address value to 0 zero unless it is necessary to test the network address of a specific instrument All E 600s will respond to address zero regardless of their assigned address Password Protection The E 600 interface program supports three levels of password protection The password required for each window or dialogue box is shown as a small blue and gray icon which contains the number of the password level required to change values displayed in that window Passwords may be input through the Enter Password command which is in turn accessed via the Edit pulldown menu The default password for all three levels is EBERLINE The three passwords may be changed independently through the Edit Passwordcommand This function is also accessed from the Zdit pulldown menu Should the current password s be lost or forgotten the defaults may be restored by deleting the file SYSFILE DAT in the WINE600 directory This will also reset other program parameters to their initial values The file will be recreated whenever the program is restarted eee E600RAD DOC Revised May 1997 1 3 Section 2 Data Logging Storing Lo Data The E 600 has the capability of
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