DATAPAQ TP3 Using Insight Software 37
Using the Logger with
Insight Software
See your dedicated Datapaq Tracker system manual for full details on:
• Choosing appropriate thermal barriers and thermocouple probes.
• Installing the logger into the barrier.
• Conducting a temperature-profile run of your process.
Before the logger is used for the first time, you must:
1. Install Insight software (see below).
2. Establish communication between the logger and the computer/software
(p. 39).
Before each profile run, you will:
3. Reset the logger to prepare it to receive fresh data (p. 41).
After the logger/barrier assembly is recovered from the oven/furnace/kiln, you
will then:
4. Download the data from the logger (p. 48).
These stages are described below.
Installing/Removing Insight
Datapaq Insight used with the TP3 logger requires the following minimum
computer specification.
• 1 GHz processor.
• 2 Gb RAM.
• Monitor resolution 1024 × 768, 256 colors.
• 100 Mb free hard disk space.
• DVD drive.
• 1 free USB port.
• Microsoft Windows™ Vista (32-bit only), 7, 8, 10 or above.
• Microsoft Internet Explorer 4 or above.
The TP3 logger operates only with Datapaq Insight v.8.0 and above.