Instruction/ maintenance manual of the product 2800 La Crosse Technology
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LaCrosseTechnolog y ® HeavyWeather Pro SoftwareUser’sGuide (for 2800 series weather stations with USB connectivity) Revision: 1.
Page | 2 CONTENTS Contents ............................................................................................................................... ......................................... 2 Overview ........
Page | 3 Help ............................................................................................................................... ...................................... 18 Options ............................
Page | 4 Gust ............................................................................................................................... ...................................... 28 Max ................................
Page | 5 The Wind, Outdoor Temp, De wpoint and Windchill are Blank ............................................................................... 39 Heavy weather pro does not reconn ect to the weather station .
Page | 6 OVERVIEW elcome to Heavy Weather Pr o, the display and management software application designed for use with your La Crosse ® Technology wireless personal w eather station.
Page | 7 GETTING STARTED Let’s go over the things needed to prepare for installing the Heavy Weather Pro software application.
Page | 8 SET UP YOUR WEATHER STATION HARDWARE Before installing the Heavy Weather Pro software on your computer, yo u should complete the setup of your La Crosse Technology ® wireless weather station.
Page | 9 If you have met these requirements, we’re r eady to install the software. There are two parts to installing the Heavy Weather Pro softwa re: Installing the Heavy Weather Pro software application.
Page | 10 When the ‘Ready to Install’ dialog appears, click the ‘Install’ button to begi n the software installation process.
Page | 11 Although the USB communication device can be installed on any USB port connected to your computer, using .
Page | 12 3. The Heavy Weather Pro software is installed. IF YOU HAVE NOT YET INSTALLED THE HEAVY WEATHER PRO SOFTWARE , please refer to the section on installing Heavy Weather before continuing.
Page | 13 When you click the Res ynchronize menu option, th e Synchronize dialog will appear.
Page | 14 DETAILED INSTRUCTIONS To tell the weather station to start communicating with the software, press and hold the button showing a down arrow until the weather station beeps (approxim ately 3 ‐ 4 seconds).
Page | 15 IF SYNCHRONIZATION IS NOT SUCCESSFUL If the synchronization process is not successful; you will see a message similar to the one to the right.
Page | 16 MENU There are several menu option s available from the Heavy Weather Pro main window. This section briefly describes the functions accessible through these menu options.
Page | 17 Save as Graph: Save the current data plot as a Graph file. Export as text: Export the history records as a comma ‐ delimited text file.
Page | 18 History Files: sho w or hide the History tab in the file management window. Template Files: Show or hide the Template tab in the file management window.
Page | 19 GENERAL SETTINGS Language: This option sets the language for all windows and dialogs within Heavy Weather Pro. If a new language is selected, the application must be restarted.
Page | 20 button is pressed, the Heavy Weather Pro application will transfer those settings to the weather station (if .
Page | 21 DIRECTORI ES History Files Direct ory: This is the path where the history data file will be written.
Page | 22 MIN MAX VALUES The weather station can also store data regarding the minimum and maximum values for several properties.
Page | 23 TEMPERATURE AND HUMIDITY The temperature and humidity section of the main dialog sh ows you: The current indoor and outdoor temperature. The current indoor and outdoor humidity levels.
Page | 24 We also feel uncomfortable when dealing with low dew points, but usually a lower dewpoint is considered more comfortable because of the accompanying lower temperatures.
Page | 25 RELATIVE (AIR) PRESSURE WHAT IS RELATIVE PRESSURE? Relative (also referred to as atmospheric) pressure is defin ed .
Page | 26 RAIN The entire lower portion of the main Heavy Weather Pro screen is devoted to rainfall. This section will talk ab out each of these valu es and what they represent.
Page | 27 LAST WEEK The Last Week rainfall total represents the amount of rain that has been collected from Monday 12:00 AM to Sunday 11:59 PM OF THE PREVIOUS WEEK .
Page | 28 WIND SPEED AND DIRECTION Wind speed and direction is displayed in the upper right section of the main window.
Page | 29 CHARTS, GRAPHS AND TRENDS Heavy Weather Pro provides the ability to analyze the weather data collected from the weather station and its sensors using graphical charts of the data.
Page | 30 WHAT IS A GRAPH? A graph is the resulting image created when we plot out and connect the data poin ts in a particular history file.
Page | 31 MAIN WINDOW There are two parts of the main window: On the left is the file management section , which allows you to select and show the history, template or graph files.
Page | 32 THE FILE MANAGEMENT WINDOW HISTORY TAB When the History tab is selected, it shows all history files located in the history folder ( ~My DocumentsHeavyWea therHistory by default).
Page | 33 WORKING WITH HISTORY DATA AND FILES By default, the history file is named history.dat and is located in the ~My DocumentsHeavyWeatherH istory directory.
Page | 34 WORKING WITH TEMPLATE FILES Template files define the properties needed to construct a graph from a selected history data file and it’s data records (see What is a Template? for details).
Page | 35 Min and Max: Use the Min and Max checkboxes if you want to limit the data set to records within a specific range.
Page | 36 Minutes: The ‘minutes’ field can only be modified if you choose a Data Interval of User Defined. In this case, yo u can specify how many minutes apart you wish to place the data points.
Page | 37 A new tab will appear next to the template tab displaying the graph created from the template. This is the permanent copy of th e template, now referred to as a graph.
Page | 38 When you release the mouse but ton, the chart will redraw the area you drew a box around at a zoom level that fills the chart window with your data.
Page | 39 TROUBLESHOO TING / FAQ HEAVY WEATHER PRO LOSES CONNECTION WITH MY WEA THER STATION OVERNIGHT.
Page | 40 manually reconnecting the w eather station to its sensors (initiate the re ‐ learn pro cess on the weather station (press and hold the up ^ arrow until the weather station beeps).
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