
Section 11. Glossary
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Null‐modem
Adevice,usuallyamulti‐conductorcable,whichconvertsanRS‐232
portfromDCEtoDTEorfromDTEtoDCE.
offset
aterm,oftenaparameterinaCRBasicmeasurementinstruction,to
designatethey‐intercept,shiftingfactor,orzeroingfactorinalinear
function.Forexample,whenconverting°Cto°F,theequationis°F=
°C*1.8+32.Thefactor32istheoffset.
Ohm
Theunitofresistance.SymbolistheGreekletterOmega(Ω).1.0Ω
equalstheratioof1.0Voltdividedby1.0Amp.
Ohm'sLaw
Describestherelationshipofcurrentandresistancetovoltage.Voltage
equalstheproductofcurrentandresistance(V=I*R).
on‐linedatatransfer
Routinetransferofdatatoaperipherallefton‐site.Transferis
controlledbytheprogramenteredinthedatalogger.
operatingsystem
Theoperatingsystem(alsoknownas"firmware")isasetofinstructions
thatcontrolsthebasicfunctionsoftheCR1000andenablestheuseof
userwrittenCRBasicprograms.Theoperatingsystemispreloadedinto
theCR1000atthefactorybutcanbere‐loadedorupgradedbythe
CR
1000userusingDeviceConfigurationUtility
(p.92)software.Themost
recentCR1000operatingsystemfileisavailableat
www.campbellsci.com
.
output
Alooselyappliedterm.Denotesa)theinformationcarriergeneratedby
anelectronicsensor,b)thetransferofdatafromvariablestorageto
finalstorage,orc)thetransferofpowerfromtheCR1000ora
peripheraltoanotherdevice.
outputarray
Astringofdatavaluesoutputtofinalstorage.Outputoccurswhenthe
datatableoutputtriggeristrue.
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