Saturday, December 1, 2012

Review: The New AnaBat SD2 - Part 2 Of 2

Review: The New AnaBat SD2 - Part 2 Of 2
Here is an example of how the AnaBat SD2 creates a small Log File, to record the various processes that take place.

AnaBat SD2 - CF Bat Detector
Firmware Version: V4060g
Serial Number: SN XXXXX
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YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS
2012-08-27 18:41:14   ------------ BOOT MODE ------------
2012-08-27 18:41:14   Wakeup from Power Button
2012-08-27 18:41:14   Startup Sensitivity set from Pot to: 50
2012-08-27 18:41:14   SD2 powered by Internal AA batteries: 5.15V
2012-08-27 18:41:14   Temperature is 21 deg C (+/- 3 deg C)
2012-08-27 18:41:14   Initialising USB CDC Class
2012-08-27 18:41:14   Initialising Low-Level Disk I/O Layer
2012-08-27 18:41:14   CF Drive Mounted.
2012-08-27 18:41:14   Checking for DATA.DAT File..
2012-08-27 18:41:15   Data.dat file found
2012-08-27 18:41:15    -> Reading Header Information..
2012-08-27 18:41:15       Data.dat is ok.
2012-08-27 18:41:15    -> Scanning for First Unused Data Sector..
2012-08-27 18:41:15       Data.dat says file size is 1963776 kB and data starts on CF at sector 0x247
2012-08-27 18:41:15       First empty sector found at address 0x4600 in Data.dat
2012-08-27 18:41:15   No monitoring begin / end time parameters set on the card
2012-08-27 18:41:15   ------------ FORCED RECORD MODE ------------
2012-08-28 04:36:56   Power Button Pressed
2012-08-28 04:36:56   Record Report:
2012-08-28 04:36:56    -> Internal AA batteries: 5.04V
2012-08-28 04:36:57    -> Recording session began at 18:41:15
2012-08-28 04:36:57    -> Recording session ended at 4:36:56
2012-08-28 04:36:57    -> You recorded 113 kB (226 sectors) during this session
2012-08-28 04:36:57    -> Total size of data in data.dat = 130 kB (261 sectors)
2012-08-28 04:36:57    -> Total space left = 1963645 kB (3927291 sectors)
2012-08-28 04:36:57   ------------ LOW-POWER MODE ------------

Here is a partial screen capture, (call of an Eastern Red Bat) - I "included" the Dialog box showing the version of AnaBat software:

 To be continued...

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