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DATA RECORDING SOFTWARE FOR PC

This application software is used for collecting data of date, time, depth, draft, latitude,

longitude, speed and course from the Navigational Echo Sounder FE-700.

The interconnection between the FE-700 and PC is as follows.

DISPLAY

UNIT

FE-701

DISTRIBUTION

BOX FE-702

EIA232-TD

EIA232-RD

GND

PC*

Connect to COM port.

(Either port will do)

*: Local supply

FE-700

TB1 Cable * < <

<2< RXD

<3< TXD

<5< GND

< <

COM

Figure 1 Interconnection between FE-700 and PC

1. INSTALLATION

1.1 Installing the program

System Requirements

The DATARECORDING SOFTWARE FOR PC runs under Windows 95/98/ME or Windows

NT4.0/2000, and also 64 MB and more of RAM are recommended.

Procedure

1. Insert the program floppy disk supplied with the DATA RECORDING SOFTWARE FOR

PC kit into your floppy disk drive.

2. Double-click the floppy disk drive icon to display files in the floppy disk.

3. Double-click the Setup.exe icon. The installation program starts and guides you through

the installation process.

4. Follow the instructions displayed on the screen. DATA RECORDING SOFTWARE FOR

PC will be installed in the folder /Program Files/Fe700/Fe700 on default.

5. Keep your original floppy disk in a safe place.

(FE-700 Optional Kit)

1.2 Setting up the program

1. Click the START button on the Windows to open the Start menu.

2. Move the mouse pointer on the PROGRAM option to open the Program menu.

3. Move the mouse pointer on the Fe700 option. The application menu opens.

4. Move the mouse pointer on the application program icon Fe700 and click it. The DATA

RECORDING SOFTWARE FOR PC will start up. The following screen appears.

Figure 2 Start-up Display

1.3 Setting the serial port

1. Select Setting-Serial port from the menu bar.

2. Select the port (COM 1 to COM 6) which has been connected to the PC.

3. Press OK button.

2. OPERATION PROCEDURES

Note: If you open the system menu 1, 2 or 3 of the FE-700 during downloading,

“Communication error!” will appear. Press the OK button and repeat from beginning.

2.1 Downloading data

To download real time data (1 second intervals data) from the FE-700, press the Start

button on the toolbar, or select Download - Start from the menu bar. Also, pressing F9

key on your keyboard downloads real time data. The data is downloaded at 1 second

intervals and displayed in log (Log mode) or graph (Graph mode) form.

Ver4.0

Figure 3 Log Mode (text screen)

Line (green)

Figure 4 Graph Mode (graphic screen)

To change the mode, press the Log or Graph button on the toolbar or select

Mode - Log / Graph from the menu bar.Also, pressing F7 key or F8 key on your keyboard

changes the mode to log mode or graph mode, respectively.

To inscribe line (s) on the graphic screen, click the Mark button on the toolbar, or select

Option-Mark from the menu bar (or F1 key) at the moment you want to pay attention. M

mark is displayed on the text screen.

To stop downloading at any time, press the Stop button on the toolbar or select

Download - Stop from the menu bar.Also, pressing F10 key on your keyboard stops

downloading.

2.2 Downloading RAM data in the FE-700

To download one hour of data (1 second intervals data) or 24 hours of data (5 seconds

intervals data) in the RAM of the FE-700 (accumulated at the Echo Sounder FE-700), select

Download - Loading Option - 1h Data or 24h Data. The Download dialog box appears,

showing "Now downloading" and indicating data volume. You can cancel downloading at

any time by selecting Cancel.

Figure 5 Download dialog box

When downloading is completed, "Download Completed" is shown. Click the OK button.

The downloaded data is saved at a file named after date of the moment you just start

downloading. For example, 1 hour data file is named as “20000717_1h.dat”. (This file has

created at July 17, 2000.) When you open the file from the FILE menu, you can observe the

data in the log mode.

2.3 Setting option items

The Option menu provides various settings for downloading real time data or depicting

graphics.

To open the File dialog box, select Option - Option on the menu bar. Click the File tab if it

is not already selected. The File dialog box appears.

Figure 6 File tab on the Option dialog box

File Saving option

Create new files at 00:00:

New files will be automatically created every day at 00:00. (Initial file is

created when the Start button is pressed.) Files will be named as

“yyyymmdd” (year+month+day).

Create a new file at specific time period (1h - 24h):

Anew file is created and data is saved at a period of specified time (hour).

Set hour(s) between 1 and 24 hours at 1 hour period. If you set 1 hour, for

example only the recent one hour data is saved and old data is overwritten.

The file is named as “userfile.dat”.

Not saving:

Data received from the FE-700 is displayed on the screen, but not saved to

the hard disk of the PC.

Time Interval option

Select time interval to extract received data. Extracted data is displayed on

the text screen or graphic screen.

Auto Printing option

Log: Printing is automatically performed every 60 lines of text data.

Graphic: Printing is automatically performed every graphic page.

Off: No automatic printing.

To change a setting, press appropriate radio buttons or press up/down arrow button.After

setting as desired, press the OK button. The dialog box closes.

To open the Graphic dialog box, select Option - Option on the menu bar and click the

Graphic tab if it is not already selected. The Graphic dialog box appears.

Figure 7 Graph tab on the Option dialog box

Scale option: Select an appropriate depth scale for graphics, between 5 m to 800 m.

Pixels option: Select appropriate number of pixels to display per one received data from

the dropdown list to depict the contour of the seabed. The choices are 1, 2,

5 and 10 pixels.

Mode option: Select the drawing method for graphics. (Rect: Solid, Line: Outline)

Colors option: Select seabed color for graphics among gray, red and yellow.

Back Color option: Select background color for graphics, between black and white.

To change a setting, press appropriate radio buttons or press down-arrow button.After

setting as desired completed, press the OK button. The dialog box closes.

2.4 Opening a file

There are two methods to open a file: File option and Time Selection option.

To open a file and display it on the text screen, select the File - Open -File from the menu

bar (or Ctrl +O) or click File Open button .

The normal Windows Open File dialog box appears. Select an appropriate file and click the

Open button. You can observe the data on the text screen or graph screen.

Border line*

*:The border line appears where there is no data.

White: Background color is black.

Black:Background color is white.

Light-blue:There is no data for one day or more.

Figure 8 Graph Mode

To read data from specified start date/time to end date/time and display it on the text or

graphic screen, select File - Open -Time Selection from the menu bar. The Time

Selection dialog box appears. Enter start date/time and end date/time, then click the OK

button. You can display the time selection data on the text screen or graphic screen. (In this

method, the 1h-data file (xxxxxxx-1h.dat), 24h-data file (xxxxxxx-24h.dat) and userfile.dat

can not be opened.)

You can set the from/to period for maximum 11 hours 59 minutes.

Example: From Year 2000/Month 7/Dar 5/Hour 13/Minutes 1

To Year 2000/Month 7/Day 6/Hour 1/Minutes 0

Figure 9 Time Selection dialog box

2.5 Saving a file

The time selection data specified at previous section can be saved with any name in Excel

format. Select File - Save as from the menu bar or click the FileSave button . The normal

Windows Save as dialog box appears. Type file name, select the location to save and click

the OK button.

2.6 Printing a file

You can print out the time selection data specified at previous section. Select File - Print

from the menu bar(or Ctrl +P) or click Print button The normal Windows Print dialog

box appears. Click the OK button to print out the data.

2.7 Exiting the program

Select File - Exit from the menu bar. The program closes and return to the Windows

screen.

2.8 Error Messages

Below is a list of error messages shown on the screen.

Message Meaning Remedy

Initializing error!: COM Failed initialization of

COM port. For example,

other application uses

COM port.

Match the “serial port”

setting (section 1.3) with

the COM port connection

of the PC.

Communication error! Failed communication

with FE-700. Confirm the connection

between FE-700 and

COM port of PC.

Can not open! Could not read or save

data. No data

Not enough memory to

save! There was not enough

space on the hard disk on

the PC.

Delete unnecessary files.

Invalid data! Specified time was wrong. Try to specify date/time

again. (less than 12

hours).

Not found the data! There was no data in the

file at specified time. Try to specify date/time

again.

PUB. No. OME-23661

FE-700 DATA REC.SOFT

(

YOSH

)

FIRST EDITION : JUL. 2000

E : APR. 1, 2004

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