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Manual value:Thisoptionsetsaconstantvalueforthemarker.Thissettingisuse-
fulduringinstallationtotestspecificdevicesoractivatesystemresponses.
Donotforgettodisabletheoptionfornormaloperation!
4.7.13 Average
Thissoftwarechannelcalculatestheaveragefromthesourcevalues.
Moving, arithmetic average:Thisarithmeticaverageiscalculatedfromacon-
figuredseriesofvaluesnumberingfrom2to1000values.
Movingmeansthateachnewvaluefromthesourceisstoredtothedataseriesand
triggerscalculationoftheaveragefromtheaccumulatedvaluesandoutputofthe
result.Ifthenumberofvaluesreachesthespecifiedmaximum,thedataseriesis
thenfullandanewvaluefromthesourcethenoverwritestheoldestvalue.
Adevicerebootoraconfigurationchangedeletesalltheaccumulatedvalues.
Block averaging:Thisoptionprovidestwomethodsofaveraging:
l Arithmetic average:Thearithmeticaverage,alsocalledthemean,isthesum
ofallvaluesofadataseriesdividedbythenumberofvalues.
l Vector average:Thevectoraverageistheaverageforaunitcircle.The
methodisused,forexample,formassflowratesinairconditioningengin-
eering.
Edge triggering(onlywithblockaveraging):Theconfiguredaveragetypeiscal-
culatedatthetimeofthetriggereventforallvaluesofthedataseriesthathave
accumulatedbetweentwotriggerevents.Theresultisoutputfollowingcal-
culation.
Level triggering(onlywithblockaveraging):Whenalevelmovesfromanactiveto
inactivestate,theaverageiscalculatedfromthevaluesaccumulatedduringthe
activelevelperiod.
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