AT3600 User Manual

4.3.1 Receiving Test Results

By default, the AT series tester does not automatically send test results back to the server. Results will only be sent back for test programs that have been set up with the ‘Send Results to Server’ option enabled (see chapter 2, section 2.3.1).

The server receives test results from the tester via the same serial connection used for transferring test programs to the tester. Results handling is a separate function of the server program, and is not part of program transfer. Where more than one tester is connected to your server PC, the one server program handles all the transformer tester results as well as acting as the central server.

All results sent by one tester's channel during one day, are collected together and formed into one large file. This file is known as the batch results file.

One batch results file will be generated per open channel, per day. Batch files are stored under the specified results directory; see chapter 2, section 2.2.6.

The DOS filename of the batch results file is generated as follows;
c<n><dd><mm><yy>.atr

where:
n channel number
dd day number
mm month number
yy year number

example:
c1250297.atr (Channel 1, 25-02-1997)

‘atr’ is the reserved file extension used by the server to indicate a stored test result file.

What follows is an example of the first part of a batch result file.

Note the DOS file name (c6200697.atr) and the part name (“Part #” “2”) are both listed within the file.

...and so forth for each result until a change of batch or part. If a result window is closed, the connection to the transformer tester will be lost. A warning is issued before connections are removed.