La Crosse Technology 2800 series Weather Radio User Manual


 
CHARTS,GRAPHSANDTRENDS
HeavyWeatherProprovidestheabilitytoanalyzetheweatherdatacollectedfromtheweatherstationandits
sensorsusinggraphicalchartsofthedata.
Thesoftwarecollectsdatafromtheweatherstationandstoresitinahistorydatafile(~\My
Documents\HeavyWeather\History\history.datbydefault).Thestoreddatafileisthenusedtogeneratedifferent
kindsofgraphicalreportsforanalysis.
OVERVIEW
ThethreemainbuildingblocksofgraphicalanalysisinHeavyWeatherProarethehistoryfilethatstoresthedata
records,thetemplatesthatdefinethepropertiesofthecharts/graphsandthegraphsthemselves.
THEHISTORYFILE
ThehistoryfileisadatastoragefilegeneratedbytheHeavyWeatherProapplication.Itcontainssetsofweather
datacollectedbytheweatherstationduringaperiodoftime.Weusethisdatatoplotgraphsoveraspecific
periodoftimeforanalysis.
Historyfilescanberenamed,topreservespecificdatasuchasthedatacollectedduringabigstorm.
Towritehistorydatatoadifferentfilename,youmustenterthenewfilenameinthePCSoftwareSettingssection
ofHeavyWeatherPro.
Youcanhaveasmanydifferenthistoryfilesasyouwish,buttousethemforgraphingpurposes,theymustbein
thecorrecthistoryfolder‐(~\MyDocuments\HeavyWeather\History\bydefault).
WHATISATEMPLATE?
Toplotagraphyouneedtospecifycertainpropertiessuchastypeofdata
(temperature,humidity,etc),durationoftime,colorandaxisofthegraph,
minimumandmaximumoftheaxisvalue,etc.
Atemplatedefinesthesepropertiesandallowsyouusethemagain
andagainwithoutsettingthemupeachtime.Youcancreateand
saveanunlimitednumberoftemplatestosuityourownapplications.Thereisonly
oneprerequisitetocreatingatemplate‐youmusthaveatleastonehistoryfilein
thehistorydirectory
.
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