Start Time and Date

Instead of using the start delay to determine how long after starting before the logger starts recording samples, you can program Temprecord to start at a particular time and date.

In the Program/Parameters form, you must check the box 'Enable Start on Date Option' before you can enter a time and date to start logging from.

The logger will start recording samples from within a few seconds of the time and date specified. The time and date you specify must be in the future or an error will result

It is still possible to start the logger by any of the other means, i.e. with the button, or by using the Program/Start Logger function of Temprecord. It is possible to program the logger so that it cannot be started with the button (see the topic start and stop with button for more information).

If the logger is started by any of these means (by the button), the programmed start time and date is ignored.

Temprecord LCD loggers can be programmed to start at a specific time and date, but there are important differences:

•The start time and date is achieved by setting a start delay as appropriate and then starting the logger. For example if a start time and date is programmed for 3 weeks into the future, the start delay is programmed to be three weeks and the logger is actually started when the parameters are saved to the logger.

•Once the parameters are saved to a logger with a start time and date programmed, the logger starts counting down the start delay, and it is not possible to access the logger parameters from that point on.

Remember, once the parameters are saved to a LCD logger that has a start time and date programmed, the logger is started and begins counting down the start delay. There is no way of "recovering" a logger that has inadvertently had a very long start delay programmed. You will be warned of this fact when you save or apply the parameters to the LCD logger.

Whenever an LCD logger is reused after a trip that used the Start at Time and Date feature to start logging, the feature is disabled, and the start delay set to ten seconds. This applies whether the logger is reused with TRW actions, with Auto Mode operations, or with the button (if this is enabled).