Picolario Device Dialog Introduction

The Picolario device dialog is used to read logged data out of the device. For later data visualization adaption the two inner tabulators enables data configuration according your needs. Depending of the available data the configuration requires more or less adaption. For adjustment the following options can be used :

A lot of hints are available by tool tips of the dialog itself and make this help nearly obsolete. The tool tips are visible by hovering the mouse over the fields of interest.

Usage

Afterwards the serial communication is configured using the device selection dialog and this dialog is opened, the only active button „Read number records“ must be pushed to read the actual available record number from the device (prerequisite is the Picolario is ready to transfer data). A sample result is shown in picture 1.

Image 1

In the second step it is possible to adjust the data configuration using one of the inner tabs. The visible tab will be used to manipulate data for visualization of the current red data. Normally a good choice is what is stored as default. If any further adjustment is required it can be done after reading the data.

As third step each single data set can read one after the other by select the record number and push the „Read selected record“. A better method is to read all the data in series. Depending the amount of data this can take a time. It is possible to display each data set in the display right after finishing read operation. To achieve this behavior the check box „Display data set right after read finished“ must be checked. To view and manipulate red data sets it is good to set the device dialogs not in application modal mode (application preferences).

An active device dialog is shown in next picture.

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The Configuration Tabulators

As mentioned in the introduction section the visualization of the data can be adapted as required. Do the height values require an offset of an amount what is not offered be combo selection a manual overwriting of the entry is possible.
The slope calculation might be performed using different algorithm and time intervals. A linear regression results in better smoothed curve, but as drawback a phase shift against the height curve can be recognized. This drawback is eliminated by using the none linear variant of the regression calculation, to simplify it's called „curve“.
To get the slope value at a point of interest it is possible to measure it by context menu selection Curve Selector -> Height -> Context menu -> Point difference.
Mainly two variants of curve adaption takes place in the daily usage. This is the reason to have the two inner tabulators to adjust the two configuration types independent.
To permanent use the other adjusted configuration tab values it is possible to shift the data set to use the other configuration tab. Therefor simply select the different tab according the channel configuration selector (the different one which is displayed in front after opening the dialog). The application ask if you really want to do this and shows the following message box.

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If the answer is yes, the data set uses the new configuration values of the selected tabs.

Note : After each display configuration change the visual data are adapted to be displayed using the new values. If new values should be used as defaults for the next data gathering operation the configuration adjustment can be made persistent by pushing the „Persist settings as defaults“.

The height can be displayed in feet by adapting the following in the Picolario.xml device configuration file from
<Property description="Height calculation Feet to Meter (1852 / 6076)" type="Double" value="0.304806" name="factor"/> to
<Property description="Height calculation Feet to Meter (1852 / 6076)" type="Double" value="1.0" name="factor"/>
and the section where the unit is given from
<unit>m</unit> to <unit>feet</unit>.
The file can be found in application configurations directory under ../Devices/Picolario.xml.

The main sense of the configuration tabs will focus on the statistic data. This is the reason the tabs are re-named to "Thermal" and "Motor". Using the motor configuration it is tried to filter the parts where a running motor can be assumed. The statistic values focus on the filtered areas (refer to the screen shots as example).

Image 4 showing a sample statistic of the thermal configuration Image 5 showing a sample statistic of the motor configuration

Later it is planned, to enable modification of the values needed for the statistic calculation by the dialog.