Creating and Editing Datalogger Programs

Dataloggers must be programmed before they can make measurements. LoggerNet offers three options for programming dataloggers. Short Cut, CRBasic Editor, and Edlog.

Short Cut (also referred to as SCWIN) is an application for generating programs for all of Campbell Scientific’s dataloggers and preconfigured weather stations except the CR7 and CR9000. Users do not have to know individual program instructions for each datalogger. Short Cut not only generates a program for the datalogger, but also a wiring diagram that can be left with the datalogger for field servicing.

The CRBasic Editor is the full-featured program editor for the CR1000X-series, CR6 series, CR300-series, GRANITE 6, GRANITE 9, GRANITE 10, CR1000, CR3000, CR800-series, CR200-series, CR5000, CR9000, and CR9000X dataloggers. It is a full-featured editor that requires the user to understand the program instructions for the datalogger, but it can be used to develop more complex programs than what can be created using SCWIN.

The CR7, CR10, 21X, CR500, CR510, CR10X, and CR23X dataloggers are programmed using the Edlog editor. Edlog supports all operating systems for these dataloggers, including the table-data or “TD” and PakBus or “PB” versions. Like the CRBasic Editor, it requires that the user have more knowledge of datalogger program instructions than SCWIN.

In addition to the above programming tools, the Transformer utility is offered in LoggerNet for those users of CR10X or CR23X dataloggers who need to develop programs for the CR800-series, CR1000 or CR3000 dataloggers.