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Equipment

LogIT
Temperature Probe

Instructions

Plug a temperature probe into Sensor 1 at the top of the LogIT

Switch on the datalogger with the green start button.

Press the blue menu button twice until it says 'Press Green to start snapshot'.

Press Green to start snapshot

Press the Green button immediately You should see it say 'Logging started'.

and then the display returns to normal.


The 'L' tells you that you are logging.

Holding the temperature probe

 

Press the Green button each time you take a snapshot - when the person has held the temperature probe in their hand for long enough for the temperature display to stop moving up or down.

The display will display 'Storing readings' for a moment before returning to the normal display.

Storing Readings

Press the Red button when you have finished - it should then say 'Logging stopped'.

Logging Stopped

Connect the datalogger to the computer, using the white USB cable supplied.

Open the LogIT software.

Open the software

Press Fetch to see the bar graph.

The LogIT software then asks you which file you wish to fetch. It saves up to four different logs - always overwriting the oldest log. Make sure A is selected and click OK.

Fetch Screen

Your bar chart of all the snapshots will be displayed.

bar chart of all the snapshots



To look at the bar chart of just the light remove the ticks next to 'Sound Level' and Temperature' on the right hand side by clicking on them.

Bar Chart showing the different temperatures Bar Chart showing the different temperatures

You will now need to click on the 'Auto Zoom' to look at the graph in more detail.

Zoomed shot of graph

You can look at the table of results by clicking on 'Display Table' button.

The table of results will be displayed.

Table of Results
Close up of results
Table of Results
Close up of results
(Right click on the chart and select Heavy)
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