34 Portable Capacitance Meter CB-2000 — User´s Guide | ABB Power Capacitors
5. PC application
5.3 Measurement data opened with Microsoft Excel
CB-2000 measurement data is saved as tab-delimited text, which can be opened with Microsoft Excel
or any other spreadsheet program.
Example of downloaded file, when opened with Microsoft Excel.
The time stamp and temperature reading belong to the latest measurement.
Column Description Input
A. Serial no. Maximum 10 characters
B. Time stamp of latest measurement YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss
C. Reference measurement Digits and decimal separator
D. Latest measurement Digits and decimal separator
E-H. Previous measurements Digits and decimal separator
I. Temperature of latest measurement Digits only
The same file can be uploaded to a CB-2000 unit, with the serial no. column and reference column being
especially important. The reference column can contain values from the routine test or the latest measure-
ment. The file must be saved in tab-delimited text format to be read by the CB-2000 PC application.