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Using Windmill to Configure your Measurement Hardware

The SetupIML program scans your measurement and control devices and builds a default set-up file. SetupIML might see, for example, a device with 5 K-type thermocouples called Temperature1, Temperature2, etc, whose measurements should be between 0 and 100 degrees Celsius. SetupIML lets you change these settings, and others, for all types of hardware, no matter how connected to the PC. For example you could have 3 of the thermocouples measuring between -100 and +200 ^oC, or Fahrenheit instead of Celsius. So no matter how large and diverse your data acquisition system, no matter how many different instruments and devices you have connected, the setup details for everything are contained in just one file. You can save a library of these setup files, making it very quick to switch between test rigs and experiments. You change the default settings using simple dialogue boxes. For example, you can:

• Change the engineering units, converting volts to millivolts for instance.
• Change the input or gain range: choose the range that most closely encompasses your signal and thus increase the resolution of that signal.
• Set alarm thresholds and link these to digital output lines, to sound a buzzer or switch off an appliance for instance.
• Enable filtering of noisy signals.
• Zero strain gauge bridges.
• Group digital channels so you can switch several digital outputs on or off at once.
• Name digital states: On and Off, Open and Shut, High and Low, etc.
• Name your input and output channels: Pressure, Humidity, Speed, Latitude, etc.

In SetupIML you can double-click a channel and change its settings.

You can create and save any number of set-ups containing all the details needed to configure your system. This means that once you have created a set-up you can change to that configuration with just a couple of clicks of the mouse.

SetupIML lets you specify alarm checking on analogue or digital inputs. You can set two alarm thresholds (warning and critical) and link these alarm conditions to digital output lines for instant control.

Not all channels need to be included in every set-up. Two experiments could be running at the same time, each one using a different set of channels. The experiments can be started and stopped independently.

While SetupIML is running it constantly checks each operation with the hardware and so immediately spots any errors.

SetupIML is free with every Windmill system.

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