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Laureate™ Instrument Setup Software
FREE software to set up Laureate Digital Panel Meters,
Counters, Timers,
Remote
Displays,
and Transmitters.
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1/8 DIN Digital Panel Meter
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DIN Rail Transmitter
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1/8 DIN Counter, Timer
or Remote Display
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Windows-based Instrument Setup (IS)
software is an easy
method to set up Laureate 1/8 DIN digital panel meters,
counters, timers and remote displays. It is the only
means to set up Laureate DIN rail transmitters. Laureate 1/8 DIN
instruments can also be set up from the front panel, as explained in their
respective Owners Manuals, but that
process is more difficult. Instrument Setup software is of benefit whether
or not the PC is connected to the instrument.
- When the PC is connected to the instrument,
Instrument Setup software can get the setup file from the instrument
or open a default setup file or previously saved setup file from
disk. View Setup then provides graphical user
interface (GUI) screens which pull-down menus applicable to input,
display, scaling, filtering, alarms, communications, analog output, and
front panel lockouts. Fields that are not applicable to the instrument
as configured are either left out or grayed out. Clicking on any item will bring up a detailed Help screen
for that item. Once edited, the setup file can be downloaded (or put)
into the instrument and be saved to disk. The same setup file can
then be downloaded into multiple instruments.
- When the PC is not
connected to the instrument, the above GUI screens can be used to
set up a virtual instrument. The setup file can then be saved to disk. Switching to View Menu then brings up a screen with the
required front panel programming steps. This view can be printed out for
use at the instrument site and to serve as a hard copy record.
Instrument Setup software can be
downloaded at no charge from this website in the form of a
self-extracting 6 MB file named
instrument_setup.exe.
The latest version is 2_4_0. The same software can be used with Laureate digital panel meters, counter, timers, weight / scale meters, remote displays,
and transmitters.
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RS-232 cable for 1/8 DIN instruments |
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For connection to a PC, each
1/8 DIN Laureate instrument must be equipped with a serial communications
board
and be connected to the computer via a
serial communications cable. The wiring of the RS-232 cable is illustrated
above with end views of the two connectors. This cable is available as P/N
CBL01. Plugging into the Laureate is
the RJ-11 connector of a common 4-wire telephone extension cable. Plugging
into the PC is custom-wired DB-9 to RJ-11 adapter, which accepts the other
end of the telephone extension cable. Following setup, the serial
communications board may be removed from the instrument if desired. All
Laureate transmitters come standard with a 3-wire serial interface, which
can be jumpered for RS232 or RS485.
To install, download
instrument_setup.exe
software from this website at no charge. Double-click on the downloaded
file to unzip into a special directory, such as c:\temp. Within
that directory, double-click on setup.exe, which will install the
software on your PC. You may wish to paste a shortcut (labeled IS2)
of the executable file Instrument Setup.exe onto the PC desktop.
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