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Appendix1 FileSizeofDisplayDataandEventData
This section explains how to calculate the file size of display data files and event data 
files. The calculation examples are given for the display data only and event data only 
cases. If you are recording both display and event data, calculate the data size of each 
and add them together.
Use the calculated file size as a rough guide.
These calculation examples only apply to DXs that do not have the /AS1 advanced 
security option.
FileSize
A file consists of the following data.
  Informationotherthanthesampleddata+thesampleddata
SizeofInformationOtherThantheSampledData
Item Size[Bytes]
File header 216
Channel information 88×N + 32
Group information 96×36 + 32 = 3,488
Message information 104*50 + 32 (an add message area is reserved by default)
Batch information 832
Sampled data header 80 + 32 + N×8 + 16 + 2
Alarm information 
header
24 + 8 (add the size of this item even if there is no alarm)
Message information Up to 104×1050 (varies depending on the number of messages)
Alarm information Up to 32×5000 (varies depending on the number of alarms)
Release number 3 
expansion information
1696 + 80×N
Expansion information is always stored.
N is the number of channels (measurement channels + external input channels + computation 
channels).
  Example1:  If display data of 12 measurement channels and 24 computation 
channels is recorded. There are no messages or alarms.
  216 + (88
×
280 + 32) + 3,488 + (104
×
50 + 32) + 832 + (80 + 32 + 280
×
8 + 16 + 2) + (24 
+ 8) + 24,096
  = 60,938 bytes
SampledDataSize
• DataSizeofDisplayDataandEventData
Channel DisplayData EventData
Measurement channel 4 bytes/channel 2 bytes/channel
External input channel 4 bytes/channel 2 bytes/channel
Computation channel 8 bytes/channel 4 bytes/channel
  Time data common to all channels is added for each sample.
Time data 8 bytes/sample
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