Downloading data from the data logger

Requirement:

PC (Windows 2000 or later version)

Apple (X 1.3 or later)


	The data logger is the white box with 4 gray cords coming out of it. You will need to download data from both data loggers.
	(The data loggers are placed in the white plastic pipe in most cases.)
	Things to be careful: Make sure you are dressed properly for the condition. The metal part that locks the plastic pipe can be very cold. Wear gloves! The plastic lid can be difficult to take off. A tip is to evenly tap on the edges with something to push it up. The gray cables (temperature sensors) can be stiff from the cold temperature. Try not to pull too much on the gray cables. It will be hard to stuff the cables back in, and you may also move the sensors in the pipe. Check the labels on the data logger and the cables. You will have to plug them back together when you are done downloading the data.

	If you have a laptop, downloading can be done outside, on-site. Or you can bring the data logger inside where it may be easier to work.

Step 1

Separate all the cables attached to the data logger.
Now you have the data logger separated from the sensors.

Bring the data logger where you want to work.

(If you are working outside, you can have the sensor cables still attached to the box while you do the following steps.)

Step 2
Find the black cable that we left with you.	One end of the cable looks like this
	(odd end of the cable)

Step 3

Plug in the odd end of the cable to the data logger.
The other end is a regular USB and should be plugged into the computer.

The data logger is ready now!

Step 4

Open the application called “HOBOware” on the computer.

This software was left with you in a CD or downloaded onto one of your computer.

This demonstration is on a Mac, but the process is the same on a Windows machine (PC).

Step 5

	Click on the icon or open the application, and you should get a screen like this.

	When the data logger is connected it will say that that a device is connected. If it says check connections between the data logger and the computer.

Step 6

	From the menu select “Device” In the submenu select “Readout”.

	… then the computer will automatically download the data. While its downloading the screen will show the progress.

Step 7

Once the download is complete, the computer will ask to save the file.
Select a location and a file name (with .hobo at the end) for the data to be saved.
(It is useful to remember where it was saved, so you don’t have to look all over for the file that you saved.)

Repeat the procedures Step 1 through Step 7 to download the data from both data loggers,
and name the data from each data logger a different name.
This is usually done automatically by the computer.

These are the 2 files we want you to send us.

Congratulations!
You are done with the downloading process.

(If you wish you can stop here, but while you have this program open
you can look at what the data logger was recording.)

Step 8

Once you are done downloading the data from the data logger, it must be placed back in the plastic pipe at the site.

But before you do this please check to see that the small light is blinking on the data logger.

It should blink every 10 seconds. This red light shows that the data logger is working.


	If the light does not come on, please follow the instruction to start the data logger. (A very simple process now that you know how to download the data.)

Step 9

Plug the sensor cables back into the data logger.

Check the labels on the data logger to the labels on the cable. (Be sure they match.)

Carefully close the lid.
(Sometimes the cables want to pull out of the data logger when you close the lid.)

The tricky part might be lining up the holes on the lid to the holes in the pipe.

Push the big bolt thought the holes and put the lock back on.

	Congratulations !
	You have successfully downloaded the data and placed the data logger to collect more data for the future.