8Installation of the Transfer Software PVPM.disp 18
8 Installation of the Transfer Software PVPM.disp
PVPM.disp is delivered on a CD-ROM or a comparable storage medium and available by download at www.pv-
e.de. The medium contains a setup program for easy installation of the software on to your PC. The setup
program will copy all necessary files to your hard disk and initializes the program. The installation can be
performed by every person with basic experience of PC and MS Windows
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For the installation of the software perhaps administrator rights are required
For the installation the following steps are necessary:
1. Insert the CD-ROM with the setup application into the appropriate drive of your PC .
2. If the setup application starts automatically after inserting the CD-ROM, continue with 4.
3. Under “Start” select menu option “Execute”In the now appearing edit line under “Open” enter “x:setup” (were
x is the drive letter of the installation media. Press ENTER now or click the Ok-Button.
4. Now the setup program will be executed. Follow the messages on the screen.
5. Setup now copies all necessary files to your hard disk and will create a new program group for PVPM.disp..
6. After completing the installation please execute PVPM.disp. The program should now work as described in
the following text.
The operation of the program will be professed detailed in chapter 10 .
For the operation of the program these files are necessary:
{program} \ PVPMdisp Program file and additionally files required for the
operation of the application (eg language files)
{common} appdata \ PV Engineering \ PVPMdisp Configuration and the database files
{user docs} \ PVPMdisp Sample and measured data
The program will create files with the extension .SUI, which contains measured data from an I-V-measurement.
When these files were created automatically during a data transfer from PVPM to PC the file name will contain
the date and time of the measurement. A typical file name could be 24-05-01 14_17_04.SUI, this file
contains data from a measurement made May 24., 2001 at 2:17:04pm.
The measuring data are usually stored in files below “My Documents\PVPMdisp\”.
Operation manual for PVPM devices PV-Engineering GmbH