Single Phase Meter Software

SinglePhase Multifunction Meter Software For use with Single Phase Digital Multifunction Meter

Requirements: 1. RS232 Cable 2. One serial Port, or Serial to USB converter 3. Windows XP or higher 4. Atleast 256 MB RAM on computer 5. Dot Net runtime, redistributable package(free from Microsoft website, also included in CD) 6. Disk space usage of software: less than 10 MB

Figure 1: There are 5 tabs on the top, to select different pages. Setup is required to select a COM port , and start the meter. In case your computer does not have a Serial port, you can use a Serial to USB converter which generates a virtual COM port on your Desktop/Laptop.

Figure 2: The display page is what is normally used. All values can be seen simultaneously. Clicking on the Report button invokes a window to generate report , and save the data. The Current value is showing in red above, because it is out of the Set Point range selected in the “Set Point / Alarm” tab.

Figure 3 : Alarm Facility is Enables. Current Channel , only the upper limit is selected

Figure 4: In the frequency channel, both upper and lower limits are selected

Figure 5: the data Logger can be enables, giving the file. The period for data measurement can also be selected.

Figure 6: The date time(according to computer clock), and all the parameters are saved in comma separated format in the location specified in Figure-5 above i..e “abc.txt”.These can be viewed/processed more easily in Excel.

Figure 7: Data Imported in Excel for further analysis. Please see the document “Importing csv files in Excel” for more details.