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C H A P T E R 4
Data Handling
There are three basic ways to get data from the AeroTrak
®
Portable
Airborne Particle Counter:
1. Data download to a USB Flash Drive.
2. USB port connection to a computer using TrakPro™ Lite Secure
software.
3. Ethernet connection to a TSI FMS Server.
USB D a t a Download
The AeroTrak
®
Portable Airborne Particle Counter is equipped with a
USB A host drive that will allow for the downloading of stored data to a
USB flash drive (also commonly called a USB thumb drive). To download
data, attach a flash drive to the USB A host port and follow the
instructions in the operation section of this manual. The data is
downloaded in XML format that can be opened in Microsoft Excel
®
version 2003 or greater. The data files can also be opened in the latest
versions of OpenOffice
TM
.