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BetaPat And OmegaPat Download
Set
Baud Rate On Beta and Omega Pats
From the Main Menu of the BetaPat
or OmegaPat use the arrows keys to select RECALL/DELETE/SEND MEMORY
Press the Enter Key on the
PAT to select it.
From the SEARCH MEMORY screen you can select
which appliances you want to download. For example all those of
a particular site or location, or between one date and another.
Once you have selected the appliances you want to download, click
on the FIND button (F1)
The Beta or Omega Pat will search through all your records.
You are shown a list of the appliances found where you can SEND
either an individual test or all the tests found. You will usually
want to press the SENDall button (F4)
On the SEND RESULTS screen
you can see what the BAUD RATE and SEND FORMAT your Beta Pat or
Omega Pat is set to. You must make sure the send format is set
to METREL+ The Baud Rate must be set the same on your PAT tester
as it is in your SimplyPats Program.
To change the BAUD RATE press the BAUD button (F1)
On the SET BAUD RATE screen
use the arrow keys to chose the Baud Rate you want and press the
Enter key to select it. Remember that you will have to set the
same Baud Rate in the SimplyPats program.
Again you will return to the SEND RESULTS screen.
To change the Send Format press the FORMAT button (F5)
User the arrow keys to select METREL+ and then press the ENTER
key to select it. Again you you will return to the SEND RESULTS
screen. Where you can now continue to download the test results.
To set up SimplyPats ready for downloading, follow the steps
below.
From the Settings Menu select the System Setting option.
In the System Settings screen, select Metrel - Omega / Beta Pat
as the Pat Tester. Next, select the Baud Rate - this should be
the same that you selected on the Metrel Beta Pat or Omega Pat.
You may also want to decide on what you want to do with the 4
fields notes fields that are downloaded.
You can choose to use the Appliance Description, Retest Period,
Charge Codes and Fail Reason (Comments) Fields.
Remember - if you have trouble communicating between SimplyPats
and your PAT tester, make sure you Baud Rate and Send Format is
set on the PAT Tester, and that the Baud Rate is the same as set
on the SimplyPats program.
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Downloading To SimplyPats
From the Main Menu of the BetaPat
or OmegaPat use the arrows keys to select RECALL/DELETE/SEND MEMORY
Press the Enter Key on the PAT to select it.
From the SEARCH MEMORY screen you can select
which appliances you want to download. For example all those of
a particular site or location, or between one date and another.
Once you have selected the appliances you want to download, click
on the FIND button (F1)
The Beta or Omega Pat will search through all your records.
You are shown a list of the appliances found where you can SEND
either an individual test or all the tests found. You will usually
want to press the SENDall button (F4)
On the SEND RESULTS screen you can see what the
BAUD RATE and SEND FORMAT your Beta Pat or Omega Pat is set to.
You must make sure the send format is set to METREL+ The Baud
Rate must be set the same on your PAT tester as it is in your
SimplyPats Program.
Use the arrow keys to Select PC and then press the Enter key.
You will now see the Connection Screen.
To start the Beta / Omega Pat downloading you need to to click
on the download button on SimplyPats.
You will then see the download screen as it starts communicating
with the PAT
TIP: Its a good idea to start the download on
SimplyPats before you start the download sequence on the PAT Tester.
SimplyPats will wait until downloading starts, or until you click
on the Cancel button on the SimplyPats download screen. If you
start the download on the PAT and don't start the download from
the PAT Tester quick enough then you will see a connection error
as the PAT will only try and send data for a short period of time
before giving up.
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