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T ABLE OF CONTENTS
END USER LICENSE & SOFTWARE WARRANTY AGREEMENT............................................................ 5
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1.1
T/GUARD FAMILY AND NEOPTIX PROBE WARRANTY NOTICE .............................................................................. 8
2 INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................................................................ 9
2.1
T/GUARD-LINK-B PRODUCT SPECIFICATIONS ..................................................................................................... 10
2.2
CALIBRATION .................................................................................................................................................... 12
2.3
TRANSFORMER APPLICATIONS ........................................................................................................................... 12
3
UNPACKING ..................................................................................................................................................... 13
4 T/GUARD LINK-B™ HARDWARE REFERENCE ....................................................................................... 14
4.1
MATING CONNECTORS....................................................................................................................................... 16
5 SERIAL COMMAND PROTOCOL DESCRIPTION ..................................................................................... 17
5.1
USING OPTILINK-II ........................................................................................................................................... 17
5.2
USING OPTILINK CONSOLE................................................................................................................................ 17
5.3
USING HYPERTERMINAL IN WINDOWS............................................................................................................... 17
5.4
SERIAL COMMAND HELP MENU .......................................................................................................................... 18
5.5
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE ASCII COMMANDS .......................................................................................... 19
5.5.1
Recommended configuration, for transformer applications........................................................................ 21
5.5.2
Interpretation of “y” command results ...................................................................................................... 22
5.6
TYPICAL TEMPERATURE READING SEQUENCE ..................................................................................................... 22
5.7
ERROR CODES.................................................................................................................................................... 23
6 OPTILINK-II SOFTWARE DESCRIPTION .................................................................................................. 24
6.1
INSTALLATION AND INITIAL OPERATION ............................................................................................................. 24
6.2
ACQUIRE AND DISPLAY TEMPERATURE DATA.................................................................................................... 25
6.2.1
Data Acquisition, Logging and Graphing Rates ........................................................................................ 26
6.2.2
Graphs...................................................................................................................................................... 26
6.3
OPTICAL CHANNEL SETTINGS TOOL.................................................................................................................... 27
6.4
DOWNLOAD FILES TOOL .................................................................................................................................... 28
6.4.1
An example of status file............................................................................................................................ 28
6.5
FIRMWARE UPDATE TOOL .................................................................................................................................. 29
6.6
GENERAL PARAMETERS ..................................................................................................................................... 29
6.7
SERIAL PROTOCOL PARAMETERS........................................................................................................................ 30
6.8
TROUBLESHOOTING ........................................................................................................................................... 30
7 OPTILINK SOFTWARE PACKAGE .............................................................................................................. 32
7.1
THE “LITE” VS. THE “PRO” VERSION .................................................................................................................. 32
7.1.1
Differences between the 2 versions ............................................................................................................ 32
7.2
GETTING STARTED WITH OPTILINK .................................................................................................................... 32
7.2.1
Hardware and software requirements ....................................................................................................... 32
7.2.2
Installing OptiLink .................................................................................................................................... 32
7.3
A QUICK TOUR OF OPTILINK .............................................................................................................................. 33
7.3.1
Working with the Configuration Window................................................................................................... 33
7.4
ACQUIRING AND VIEWING TEMPERATURE DATA ................................................................................................. 35
7.4.1
Logging temperature data to a file ............................................................................................................ 36
7.4.2
Viewing temperature data ......................................................................................................................... 38
7.5
THE OPTILINK CONSOLE ................................................................................................................................... 40
7.5.1
Console help menu.................................................................................................................................... 41
7.5.2
Switching between calibration types .......................................................................................................... 42
7.6
OPTILINK FUNCTIONS ........................................................................................................................................ 42
7.6.1
The File menu ........................................................................................................................................... 42
7.6.2
The Window menu..................................................................................................................................... 43
Document no. G1047r03
Copyright Neoptix Canada LP
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