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To run CID-PRO the following minimum requirements are needed: • Win98, Winows 200 or WinXP • PC with Pentium processor 350MHz or higher • CD-ROM drive • one free serial interface • one free USB-port for hardware key • mouse • VGA video adapter(256 colours, 640 x 480 pixel) • a minimum of 64MB of memory • 100 MB free fixed-disk storage

Place the CD-ROM into the drive. It is highly recommended to exit all window programs before starting the installation. If the CD-ROM does not start automatically, open Windows-Explorer and start autorun.exe in the startup folder of the CD-ROM. Select your language. £1£ CTS GmbH - C lima Temperatur Systeme - English CID-PRO V3.00 full version: (english) Q or (german) Q manual (full version, PDF-file): (english) □ or (german) Q remote/demo version: Driver for the Hardware-Key (Dongle) Install sentinel driver Q ' Testproqram forth© ASCII-Protocol Adobe Acobat Reader version 6.0 install: (english)...

If you want to connect your cabinets via serial port, you must install the full version to communicate with the cabinets. In this case you need a hardware key. To use the hardware key his driver must be installed. If the cabinets are connected over network or if you want to monitor cabinets which are connected to an other PC, choose the Remote/Demo-Version. The test programme for ASCII-protocol installs an application that shows you data and protocol frame for ASCII-protocol. This is useful if you plan to control the cabinet with your own software and therefore want to see the protocol data....

Uninstall..: You can uninstall the CID-Software in system settings – software or in start - programme files – CID-PRO – uninstall CID. Uninstallation deletes all programme files for installation directory, files that where created during work with the programme (e.g. measure files, reports, configuration files) are not deleted. So after a consecutive installation your settings are kept. If you do not need them any more, you can delete all files from the installation directory of CID-Pro.

Before you start CID-PRO for the first time you must install the driver software for the hardware key. see cap. 3 Start CID-PRO with a click on the icon When you start the programme for the first time, the configuration mask will appear. (s. chapter 4.7) Enter here the amount of chambers you have, the port that they have been connected to and the intervals at which the chambers must be scanned. Don’t you get any connection to the chamber(s), please control the communication protocol. To do this: type ‘E ‘P’ ‘P’: now you had to see in the upper LCD ‘CID’, when not: toggle to ‘CID’ with the + /...

Status of the active chamber can be seen on the status mask. The chamber number and designation are shown in the upper right-hand corner: e.g. C03 C-10/350 Chamber: 3 is active Designation: C-70/350 The status window is sizeable. Using the maximize button in the upper right-hand corner of the title bar the window expands to size of screen. The menus are optimised for resolutions for 640x480 to 1024x768 pixels. Enlargement may result in little distortion of the screen.

You can reach other parts of the program by pressing the buttons in the menu section of the status screen. See following capture for more details. Over overview for 4 chambers (see. cap. 4.2) Editor create or edit temperature and humidity cycles. (see cap.4.3) Graph display of saved data for evaluation of measurement (see cap.4.4) Auto start testcycles / profiles (see cap.4.5 ) Record start / stop Recording of measure data by hand (see cap. 4.6) Config to set system parameters (see cap.4.7) Cycle shows operating hours and switching cycles (see cap 4.8) Report shows a configurable list of all...

The LED’s give you a short overview offer the status of the connected chambers. See list below for a description of the colours. selection C01 to C03 available With a click on a LED, the status mask changes and shows the present values of the desired chamber. Using the switch on the left of the LED for the chambers the range of LED’s can be changed, and if there are more than 16 chambers a different range can be used by this switch. Number ‘1’ mode represents chambers 1-16 and number 17 shows chambers 17-32.

The status mask is also used to manually change the index values. The analogue channels of the active chamber can be modified in two ways. You can move the arrow symbol directly below the channel name with the mouse as well as putting in the new index value in the box underneath the slides to set a new index value. To enter the value by keyboard you must activate the box by clicking into it with the mouse (colour changes). The new values are assigned to the chamber after confirmation by pressing ‘ENTER’. If the chamber is running in automatic-mode a message box appears to confirm the changes....

On the right-hand side of the status mask you find the buttons for the digital channels. If your chamber supports digital channels, you can activate/deactivate them here. You see three folders one behind the other. There you can find more digital channels if available. For the purpose to activate/deactivate click once with the mouse on the elevated button in the middle of both text fields. If the active chamber was able to confirm the new status, the colour of the digital button changes. On the right of this part of the screen you can see digital inputs and states of the chamber. Their actual...

Attention !: If an error occurs, always check the chamber for its possible reasons. Example of an error message The LED remains red until the failure has been eliminated. Pressing the keybutton: opens a window. Here you can see whether the chambers handset is locked or not. Display when control panel is locked A mouse click on one position of the switch changes the position. With the OK - button this setting is transferred to the chamber. When the handset is locked all keyboard hits are ignored. A power down or switching the mainswitch of the chamber off and on, removes the suspension of the...