WinScope

PC Software for Monitoring and Archiving

of iL/iG/iS and ECON/INCON Controllers’ Quantities

Software version 1.0, February 2004

Prague, Czech Republic
Copyright  2004 ComAp s.r.o.
Written by: Adéla Klimentová

ComAp s.r.o., Svetova 7, 180 00 Praha 8, Czech Republic

Tel: +420-266 790 611, Fax: +420-266 316 647
WWW: http://www.comap.cz
E-mail:[email protected]
Table of Contents
Table of Contents .................................................................................................................................... 2
General description ................................................................................................................................. 3
What is WinScope for ?....................................................................................................................... 3
Controllers connection ........................................................................................................................ 3
Program installation................................................................................................................................. 4
Dongle driver installation ................................................................................................................ 4
Getting started ......................................................................................................................................... 6
Function description ................................................................................................................................ 7
Start program ...................................................................................................................................... 7
Menu: Connection ............................................................................................................................... 7
Open connection............................................................................................................................. 7
Close connection ............................................................................................................................ 7
Load data from file… ...................................................................................................................... 7
Save data to file…........................................................................................................................... 7
Menu: Terminal ................................................................................................................................... 7
Show .............................................................................................................................................. 7
Menu: Scope ....................................................................................................................................... 7
Start scope...................................................................................................................................... 7
Stop scope ...................................................................................................................................... 8
Channels ......................................................................................................................................... 8
Controllers....................................................................................................................................... 8
Period.............................................................................................................................................. 8
Chart ............................................................................................................................................... 8
Options............................................................................................................................................ 8
Windows.............................................................................................................................................. 8
Open connection window................................................................................................................ 8
Messages window........................................................................................................................... 9
Controllers window.......................................................................................................................... 9
Channels window............................................................................................................................ 9
Add channel window ..................................................................................................................... 10
Edit channel window ..................................................................................................................... 11
Period window............................................................................................................................... 11
Chart window ................................................................................................................................ 12
Options window............................................................................................................................. 13
Axes window ................................................................................................................................. 14
Plot window................................................................................................................................... 14
Main toolbar....................................................................................................................................... 15
Handling channels............................................................................................................................. 15
IS/IG/IL controllers ........................................................................................................................ 15
ECON/INCON ............................................................................................................................... 15
ECON/INCON Terminal .................................................................................................................... 15
Saving and loading files .................................................................................................................... 16
Saving and loading of data ........................................................................................................... 16
Saving and loading of configuration.............................................................................................. 16
Hot key list......................................................................................................................................... 16

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General description
What is WinScope for ?
WinScope is a PC tool to be used for monitoring, archiving and viewing trends of parameters and
quantities of InteliLite, InteliGen and InteliSys controllers.
It enables fast and convenient supervision of time behavior of quantities in controllers and therefore
easy adjusting of regulator parameters as to perform optimal functionality.
WinScope enables adjusting of Econ and Incon parameters (consult ECON or INCON User guides).
WinScope provides number of graphic functions and thus gives perfect look to the data. It reaches
down-to-date requirements in gen-set monitoring.

Controllers connection
Direct connection to controller is provided:

Direct
PC connection
IS/IG/IL
WinScope

PC Direct ECON/
connection INCON
WinScope

Note1:
Specification of the direct connection can be found in IG-6.0-IS-3.0-CommunicationGuide.pdf.

Note2:
Only one PC software dependent on DDE server can be connected to the controller at once
(WinEdit/WinScope/…).

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Program installation
WinScope will be included on each installation CD of WinEdit-6.3 and higher. The default directory for
installation is ...\Program files\ComAp\WinEdit\ and can be changed during the installation.

If you don’t have the appropriate WinScope dongle (HW key), the program shows a message “Demo
version” while starting and enables you to use WinScope only offline. You can find examples of data
saved by WinScope in the directory where WinScope is installed (../Data/…).

WinScope dongle can be ordered as separate product under order code “WinScope dongle”.

Dongle driver installation

First you have to install the HASP (dongle) device drivers:

1. Run DONGLE DRIVERS\HDD32.EXE file from IG-IS installation CD.

2. Select Typical setup:

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 3. Confirm the selection and wait while drivers are installed:

4. Click on Finish button to finish the installation:

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Getting started
A few recommendations for initial steps:

Step 1: Open connection – choose right controller type and COM address

Step 2: If the Messages window appears with message “Controller#1: No response” check whether
the controller has address 1. If you know the address of your controller, open the Controllers
window , click on the right number and push the button. If you don’t know the address,

you can push the button. WinScope will try to read configuration of controllers on all
addresses.

Step 3: It is recommended to open the Channels window and set which channels will be displayed.

Step 4: To use your channels configuration in future, you can save it into file.

Step 5: To see the quantities trends, open the Chart window and push the Start scope button.
Be aware of the period setting (Period window). If the required period is too small and the
samples are coming with longer period, the background of this window turns red.

Step 6: The total amount of samples that can be viewed is limited by the capacity of data-buffer set in
the Options window.

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Function description
Start program

Click on Menu Start → Programs → WinEdit → WinScope.

Menu: Connection
Open connection
Invokes Open connection window to establish communication between PC and controller.

Close connection
Terminates the communication between PC and controller. WinScope can still work off-line.

Load data from file…

Opens Browse window to select requested *.DAT or *.XML file.

Save data to file…

Opens Browse window to select directory where to save the file. This file can be opened only by
WinScope later on.

Menu: Terminal
Show
Opens the Terminal Window to operate ECON/INCON controllers (see ECON/INCON Terminal).

Menu: Scope
Start scope
Starts reading data from controller and depicting them in the Chart window. Only the data from
selected channels are read.

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 Stop scope
Stops reading data from the controller and depicting them in the Chart window.

Channels
Opens the Channels window.
It enables to select channels that are displayed in the Chart window, add and remove channels, edit
channels, save and load channels configuration.
Enables to set automatically the ECON/INCON channels.

Controllers
Opens the Controllers window.
Enables reading of configuration from the current controller.

Period
Opens the Period window.
Enables adjusting of time period between samples read or sent from the controllers.
Shows statistic information about read samples, e.g. total number of samples, last period, average
period etc.

Chart
Opens the Chart window.
Shows time trends of quantities selected in the Channels window.
All quantities are displayed on the right side of the window including units and optionally some other
information about the value of quantity in selected time moment or time difference between two
selected times.

Options
Opens the Options window.
It enables to set the capacity of data-buffer, i.e. the number of samples or fixed time range.

Windows
Open connection window

Controller type → select connection to InteliGen/InteliSys/InteliLite or ECON/INCON controllers

Address → select to which communication port of the PC the controller is connected

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Messages window

Shows error messages while WinScope is trying to connect to the controller or read the configuration
from the controllers.

Controllers window

Shows which controllers are available.

Toolbar:
… starts reading configuration from one selected controller

… starts reading configuration from controllers when their address is unknown

Channels window

Shows name, dimension, appropriate controller, communication object, color etc. of selected
channels.

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Toolbar:

… opens the Add channel window

… removes selected channel

… opens the Edit channel window

… moves selected channel up

… moves selected channel down

… sets channels to ECON/INCON defaults

… opens a browse window to load channels from file
… opens a browse window to save channels to file

Add channel window

Note1:
Com. object, Data len, Name, Dim, Color and in some cases Low and High values are filled in
automatically after choosing the communication object from the list of objects (in Select com. object
window).

Controller → choose from which controller will the

quantity be displayed
Com. object → number of communication object
appropriate to the selected quantity (this
number can vary for the same quantity in
controllers with different firmware)
Data len → length of data sample in Bytes
Decimals → number of decimal positions
Signed → determines whether the quantity will be
assumed as signed or unsigned
Select object → opens window Select com. object
which contains complete list of values and
setpoints available for monitoring
Name → name of channel (it is filled in automatically
when selecting object but it can be changed by
user as well)
Dim → dimension of quantity of selected channel
Color → color of graph line
Offset → adjustable offset of this channel (this value
corresponds to interval given by Low and High
values)
Low (Y-Axis = 0) → value of the quantity that will be set
as zero for Y axis
High (Y-Axis = 100) → value of the quantity that will be
set as 100 for Y axis
Note2:
The right address of controller must be chosen so that the Select object… button becomes visible.

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Edit channel window

The same items as in Add channel window.

Period window
Enables to change requested period from 10 to 10000 ms. (Possible when connected to IS/IG/IL
controllers; impossible when connected to ECON/INCON – fixed 10ms period.)

Total samples → total number of samples from

pressing Start scope button
Elapsed time → total time elapsed from pressing Start
scope button
Last period → duration of last period between two
samples [ms]
Last average period → duration of average period of
a few last periods [ms]
Total average period → duration of average period of
all periods [ms]
Max period → maximal length of period

Note:
If it is not possible to keep the requested period,
the background of some data in the Period
window turns red. This means that WinScope
doesn’t get samples from the controllers in the
right periods which can be caused by fail of
connection or too many active channels (overrun
of communication capabilities). In the later case
try to reduce number of active channels or
increase requested period.

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Chart window

Displays time trends of quantities selected by check-boxes in the Channels window.

Toolbar:
… changes time resolution: seconds/milliseconds

… opens the Axes window

… shows/hides individual axes for channels selected by check-boxes in the Channels window

… resets axes to default values

… time tracking on/off – if pressed, the time axis is moving and it is possible to see last sample
on the screen; if not pressed the time axis stops moving and it is possible to see only values in
this selection not the last samples

… zooms time to fit all data in the current window

… scroll mode – if pressed, moving of cursor across axes labels with pressed left mouse button
scrolls axes up/down or left/right

… zoom mode – if pressed, moving of cursor across axes labels with pressed left mouse button
invokes shrinkage or stretching of axes range

… zoom in

…zoom out

… zoom box – zooms area selected by mouse

… grid off

… thin grid

… dense grid

… opens window to set line width (1,2,3) – only when scope is stopped

… value markers on/off – when the scope is stopped pressing this button shows markers on
trends where the samples came

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 … measure time – shows two vertical lines; moving them left and right shows the time difference
between them in timestamp window
Moving:
←→ + Shift … moves left line
←→ … moves over 1 sample
←→ + Alt/Ctrl … moves over 10 samples
←→ + Alt + Ctrl … moves over 100 samples
Home … jumps at the beginning
End … jumps at the end

… measure values – shows one vertical line; when moving it left and right the time value and
values of all quantities are measured and shown on the right side of the chart; moving the
cursor is the same as for measure time cursor

… shows/hides annotations of channels for example for the purpose of print

… enables to move channel annotations

… opens window to edit chart title

… copy snapshot to clipboard

… print set by print preview

… print preview

… shows/hides legend table on the right side of the chart

… legend lines on/off

… show/hide current time, current values, maximal, minimal and average values
next to legend table

… advanced settings – opens the Plot window where many chart properties can be set; e.g. when
selecting Channels and Trace it is possible to choose line style and width

Options window

Allows to set capacity of data-buffer in number of samples or time range.

When Allow advanced chart settings is checked the button Advanced settings in the Chart window is
visible.

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Axes window

Enables to set axes ranges.

X Axis Range [s] → range of time axis in seconds

Y-Axis low → lowest value displayed on Y axis;
corresponds to Low value set in Edit
channel window
Y-Axis high → highest value displayed on Y axis;
corresponds to Hign value set in Edit
channel window

Note:
The range of Y axis (Y-Axis high – Y-Axis low) corresponds to value High – Low, i.e. if Y-Axis low is
set to 0, Y-Axis high is set to 100, Low = 0, High = 2000 and Offset = 1000 and the value of quantity is
1500 then this value is displayed as
(value+ Offset) (1500 +1000)
⋅ (Y - Axishigh-Y - Axislow)= ⋅ (100 − 0) = 125 .
High − Low 2000 − 0

Plot window

This window enables to change a wide range of chart settings.

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Main toolbar
… open connection button

… close connection button

… start scope button

… stop scope button

… period button – opens the Period window

… channels button – opens the Channels window

… controllers button – open the Controllers window

… terminal button – opens and closes the Terminal window

… opens the Chart window

… opens the Browse window to load data from .DAT or .XML file (see Saving and loading files)

… opens the Browse window to save data to .DAT or .XML file (see Saving and loading files)

Handling channels
Displaying of channels is slightly different for InteliSys/InteliGen/InteliLite controllers and
ECON/INCON controllers.

IS/IG/IL controllers
The number of channels is not limited but if it is too high, it can slow down communication and it is
then likely that the requested period will not be kept.
For reference trends a new WinScope window has to be opened.

ECON/INCON
Number of displayed trends is set to 4 channels at once. ECON and INCON controllers send the data
sample each 10 milliseconds.
The channels cannot be added in the Add channel window but it has to be added using ECON/INCON
Terminal if possible (see ECON/INCON Terminal). Only some versions of ECON enable to add
channels.

ECON/INCON Terminal
It is possible to adjust parameters of ECON and INCON via RS232 line from PC with WinScope
installed.

WinScope enables to enter and edit parameters, to show information about controller etc. in the
Terminal window:

The menu structure and interface handling is described in ECON and INCON User guides.
This interface is the same as it was in the Scope (previous DOS version of WinScope).

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Through the Terminal it is also possible to select channels displayed in Channels window.
Communication with ECON and INCON limits the number of displayed channels to 4 channels at
once.

Anytime the ECON button in the Channels window is pressed, the 4 default channels are set and
current settings are lost.

The data is sent in 10ms periods given by ECON/INCON so it is not possible to set the requested
period in the Period window.

Saving and loading files

There are two types of files that can be saved and loaded by WinScope - .DAT and .XML files.

Saving and loading of data

In this type of file the data that were read from controllers and displayed in the Chart window together
with channels settings are stored. (All data from Start scope to Stop scope are stored.)
The file has extension .DAT and can be opened only by WinScope.
To save and load these files use the Menu: Connection or buttons on the Main toolbar.

Saving and loading of configuration

In this type of file the channels configuration is stored.
The file has extension .XML and can be opened only by WinScope.
To save and load these files use buttons on the toolbar in Channels window.

Note:
To save graphs actually displayed in the Chart window, it is possible to copy snapshot in clipboard
using the appropriate button in the Chart window (see Chart window: Toolbar).

Hot key list

Scope:
Alt + O Start scope
Alt + S Stop scope

Cursor moving:
←→ + Shift moves second line of time interval measurement cursor
←→ moves cursor over 1 sample
←→ + Alt/Ctrl moves cursor over 10 samples
←→ + Alt + Ctrl moves cursor over 100 samples
Home jumps at the beginning of the graph
End jumps at the end of the graph

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