WorkHorse Sentinel User's Guide
P/N 957-6163-00 (January 2001) page 15
6.4 WorkHorse Software Philosophy
Self-contained data collection involves a series of independent steps. Using
WinSC’s Deployment Wizard will ensure that the ADCP is setup correctly.
• Test your WorkHorse (WinSC)
• Plan your deployment (Plan can be run separately or run in-
side WinSC)
• Transfer your “plan” into the WorkHorse and start data col-
lection (WinSC)
• Transfer the data from the WorkHorse’s PC Card recorder to
your computer (WinSC)
• Verify data integrity (WinSC)
• When you are satisfied that your recorded data is safely
backed up, erase the WorkHorse PC Card recorder (WinSC)
• Display and process your data (WinADCP and WinSC)
The WorkHorse software is designed to allow you to set up your Work-
Horse to get the best possible data without having to understand and use
WorkHorse commands. Plan creates command files. These files hold the
commands that will be sent to the WorkHorse to start the deployment.
6.5 File Naming Conventions
The WorkHorse software gives you a complete record of information that
might help you understand your data. To help you associate these files with
your data, they use the same deployment name. Be careful not to lose these
files!
NOTE. Choose and use Deployment Names carefully: they help you
identify and organize all the data and log files associated with each
deployment.
Raw Data files produced by WinSC have the following filename format:
DeployName000.nnn
Where:
DeployName is a user-entered name for the deployment (up to 128 char-
acters),
000 is the deployment number (changes with each stop/restart),
nnn is the recorder card number, which is incremented when
the recorder card is full (.000 = card one, .001 = card two)
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