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8. Managing Communications and Data Transfer
This section describes how the Magna-Mike 8600 can communicate with a computer
to export files. The Magna-Mike 8600 has two communication ports: USB and RS-232.
The Magna-Mike 8600 comes standard with either a USB cable for communicating
using the USB 2.0 protocol or an RS-232 cable (see Table 16 on page 140) to use RS-232
communication. The Magna-Mike 8600 can send data to any device capable of
receiving ASCII-formatted data using the RS-232C protocol. This includes personal
computers and dataloggers. The data cable must be compatible with the Magna-
Mike 8600 output connector and the serial input connector of the receiving device.
8.1 About WINXL
WINXL is the Olympus interface program designed to communicate with the Magna-
Mike 8600. WINXL allows the user to single send or send thickness data files from the
Magna-Mike 8600 directly to a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet. WINXL can also be used
to upgrade the internal operating software of the Magna-Mike 8600.
Microsoft Excel must be installed on the PC prior to installing WINXL.
WINXL is compatible with Windows XP, Vista, and Windows 7.
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