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Settings files allow you to create templates of typical experimental
settings. These can then be used by your students or technicians to configure
the PowerLab system for a particular experiment in just a few seconds.
LabChart and Scope for Mac and Windows let you save your experiment in different
formats to suit your different requirements. The default format is the
"Data file". Data files save both your data and the settings
last used with the file. Another useful format is the "Settings file".
Settings files let you save only the settings from an experiment. These
can then be used again to configure the PowerLab system to a particular
experiment.
PowerLabs and their preamplifiers are software controlled, as such settings
files let you automate as much or as little of the setup as you require.
You can choose to completely setup the system so all that your students
have to do is click the start button, or you can leave some of the setup
for them to do themselves.
To create a settings file, make sure you have the appropriate hardware
connected to your computer, then set up LabChart or Scope as if you were
going to record an experiment. Once you are ready to go, simply choose
the Save As option from the File menu, name the file and set the file
type to Settings. The file types for the different software are:
- LabChart for Mac: LabChart(Mac)Settings
- Scope for Mac: Settings File
- LabChart for Windows: LabChart Settings File (*.adiset)
- Scope for Windows: Settings File (*.sfwset)
Settings that are remembered include:
- Display settings: including Window sizes, settings
and positions, time scale, graticule and colour settings, Channel titles,
Comments, and Compression
- Sampling settings: including sampling rates and
trigger parameters
- Units Conversions and Scale settings
- Input amplifier and preamplifier settings such
as gain and filters
- Computed inputs and Channel calculations
- Stimulator settings
- Macros
- Notepad contents
- Data Pad settings
- Menu configuration
- Extension settings
Settings files can be used repeatedly. Once opened, settings files create
a new template and are not overwritten by saving the file created, unless
you specify the exact same file name and type. This makes them very robust
in a lab situation where multiple students often use the same settings
files.
For more information about Settings files or other file types, see your Getting Started with PowerLab manual, your User's Guide or contact your local ADInstruments distributor.
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