Aware Electronics Corp. Windows program Aw- Radw. Aw- Radw is a full featured, easy to use, highly accurate program for collecting real- time radiation data from Aware's Radiation Monitors connected directly to the PC or by- way- of Aware's LCD- 9. Pro and USB- MSP. Aw- Radw collects radiation data from Aware's line of RMs including the. RM- 6. 0, RM- 7. 0, RM- 8. ![]() PMI- 3. 0 as well as any other Aware monitor. Aw- Radw monitors up to nine RMs. It generates scrolling radiation. The. real- time graphs include all the features found in our Aw- Graph program. Class 1 Bluetooth Adapter with built- in rechargable Lithium Ion battery, plugged into the LCD- 9.
![]() Pro's serial port, feeding real- time data wirelessly to Aw- Radw seen in the background. A radioactive rock was placed on top the RM- 8. Click this link for information about using Aware Electronics Software to Auto- Generate Graphs: Aware Electronics Auto Graphs. All data, both graphics and text, can be placed in Window's clipboard. An exclusive flux bar is included. The. program can generate real- time ASCII files which include the radiation. Excel - Lotus 1. 23 - Quattro Pro time codes or any other time code. Aware Binary file. The ASCII Custom Time Code option allows ASCII file generation with. Date- Time codes that match any known third party graphing, plotting. For example, this Windows console program. ASCII files driven by Aw- Radw for display within a browser). Each data point within the ASCII file can contain the. Many. additional ASCII file options are included. Aw- Radw 9. 1(a) adds a printer option which will automatically send Real- Time ASCII Data to any printer with a connection to the PC, including networked printers. It will print to Page Mode Printers (for example Laser Printers) as- well- as Line Mode Printers (for example Dot Matrix Printers). In Page Mode, one page after another is printed as each is filled. In Line Mode, each line is printed as it is created. Each line printed can be the user settable average, from 1 to 1. Optional headers can automatically be included at the top of each page and/or at the beginning of the print job. At the same time the program will save the data to an ASCII file and a binary file. Optionally Aw- Radw will direct the printer driver to print to a file. Many printing programs can lock- up and become unresponsive when a connection to the printer is lost. Introduction Please note: This tutorial enables you to prepare a USB drive so that you can boot directly to Windows 7 from the USB drive. So now you can try Windows 7 without needing to install it onto your internal hard disk. XP is NO LONGER SUPPORTED BY MICROSOFT. As such, like trying to register Windows 2000 or other older OSes they 'pulled the plug' and you can't use it that way anymore it seems. Current 'off the shelf PC' with FULLY SUPPORTED. For example, Window’s Notepad and Microsoft’s Word will lock- up and become unresponsive if one unplugs the printers’ USB cable before issuing the print command. Aw- Radw 9. 1(a) will not allow this to happen. If the printer connection is lost, instead of locking up, Aw- Radw will inform the user and continue with all other aspects of the program without interruption. A host of additional ASCII print options and formats are included. This Real- Time Printing of ASCII Data can be very useful. For example a PC running Aw- Radw collecting radiation data can print a hard copy of the data on a printer located across campus and connected to the network. With a click of a menu item Aw- Radw will launch your spreadsheet program. ASCII data loaded and/or your custom macro file. We. include on- disk an example Excel macro that automatically generates an. Excel graph with the hit of a hot- key. One can also 'paste' real- time. ASCII data, complete with spreadsheet delimiter character, directly into. Window's clipboard. Also see: Using Excel to Automatically Load and Graph Real- Time Radiation Data. With every data point Aw- Radw can automatically place the ASCII data into Windows clipboard, whether or not it is saving the data to an. ASCII or binary file. A clipboard On- Off switch is included as- well- as a maximum clipboard. K to 6. 4 million bytes). If when adding new ASCII data to. ASCII data within the clipboard up or. See 'Aw- Radw Help File' link. Aw- Radw includes a real time running average bar graph which is. It can. be toggled on or off and includes options for running average depth. If any bar value is above the current alarm level it is. The program uses Wav files for both Geiger 'click' as well as alarm. You. can use your own Wav sound files or use the included Wav files. A. separate volume control is included for both the Geiger 'click' and the. Aw- Radw makes use of Windows advanced Direct X - Direct Sound. This feature allows easy detection of changing. The program also includes an option to Synthesize Clicks from Counts above the user's selected CPS (count per second) threshold. When the radiation count rate equals or exceeds the entered CPS, the program will switch to synthesized clicks for Geiger click sound. When the program is synthesizing Geiger clicks, it calculates the corresponding CPS then generates random numbers with an exponential distribution, to determine the delay between each click sound. This feature is handy in that most Bluetooth and Wi. Fi adapters do not allow the passage of the Geiger 'Click' signal. In such a case, these synthesized clicks allow hearing a simulated click stream controlled by count rate date. Another menu item directs Aw- Radw to generate GIF files from the displayed real- time plots for. Internet or within E- Mail. Aw- Radw can be set such that with the passage of X number of points. Instructions that use this feature are included in the help file. They. demonstrate a method that allows automatic generation of a gif file. FTP the. gif file to any website using Windows built- in FTP feature. See Aw- Radw Questions for more info. Aw- Radw to generate real- time graphs on servers for browsers. Another example use of this feature allows the PC's sound system to speak the current radiation levels using Window's built- in Text to Speech feature. The low alarm option can be used to warn of equipment malfunction. With alarm condition Aw- Radw will play a user selectable alarm sound wav file, in a loop, through the PC's speakers, change the colors of its window and task bar icon to attention getting user selectable alarm colors and bring a pin high in the COM port or send a signal out the USB port which can be used to activate a fan, siren, light or any other device. With alarm condition Aw- Radw will also run any program or batch file desired and can include as an argument to the program, the path to an alarm generated summary text file which includes all current conditions and identifications. This can be used for example to dial beepers, send the summary text file by E- mails and text messages to cell phones or carry. Using Aware Electronics Aw- Radw to Send E- mails and Text Messages when Radiation Alarm is Triggered. A new feature of Aw- Radw includes auto correction of count rate due to Detector Dead Time. From Aw- Radw's Help File: Enter the Detector Dead Time in µsecs (microseconds). Allowed range is zero to 2. The detector dead time is the time after the detection of an event during which the detector can't detect another event. This might range from 2. One can determine a detector's dead time with the use of two strong sources. Compare the count rate with one source to that of the other to that of both and adjust the "Detector Dead Time" such that the count rate of both equals the sum of each alone. The addition to the count rate occurs before all other calculations such as conversion by the calibration factor to standard units, storing to files, auto alarms, etc. A method to determine the deadtime of a detector using a spreadsheet program is as follows. Set Aw- Radw’s menu item “Rad Options” – “RM Calibration Factor” to zero. Set menu item “Rad Options” – “Time Base Unit” to 6. Set menu item “Rad Options” – “Detector Dead Time” to zero. Use two sources (source 1 and source 2), each capable of generating more than 2. CPM (counts per minute). Count source 1 for at least a minute and record the average CPM. Add source 2 and count both sources for at least one minute and record the CPM. Remove source 1 and count source 2 for at least one minute and record the CPM. Now create a spreadsheet with the following in each cell as follows. A1 “Source 1 CPM” B1 “Source 2 CPM” C1 “Source 1+2 CPM”. A2 (enter source 1 CPM) B2(enter source 2 CPM) C2(enter source 1+2 CPM). A4”Deadtime in Microseconds”. A5 =+(((A2*B2)- SQRT((A2*B2)*(C2- A2)*(C2- B2)))/(A2*B2*C2))*6. Enter the source 1, source 2 and source 1+2 CPMs into cell A2, B2 and C2. The detector’s dead time will then be in cell A5. Take this value and enter it into Aw- Radw’s menu item “Rad Options” – “Detector Dead Time”. Now restore the menu items “Rad Options” – “RM Calibration Factor” and “Rad Options” – “Time Base Unit” to your desired values. Aw- Radw can be set such that with every PC re- boot and/or startup of. Windows, it will automatically start collection of radiation data. This is useful for example at remote locations where the PC. Aw- Radw allows easy setup of radiation monitoring networks. For example a complex can plug a RM. PC, start Aw- Radw at- which- point the. PC. A radiation. officer can maintain multi Aw- Radw graphs on his office PC plotting the. Aw- Radw can be instructed to store all. PC if. desired. Aw- Radw includes scaling scroll bars. One can resize, for example. Aw- Radw's Summary Window to a small box size then use the scroll bars. Now the user has a small box on. Desktop with the item of interest displayed. For example one can. Any average time period desired). Between sessions Aw- Radw remembers the location and size of the main window. This is handy. in that if you take the time to size and position the windows on your desktop, the. The program includes command- line arguments which allow. Aw- Radw auto- startup from a batch file, script file or short- cut link, including auto- generation. Aware Binary files, ASCII files and printer output. Aw- Radw includes an advanced 3. Windows COM port interface allowing high accuracy with high radiation. Levels as high as 1. Rads (1. 0 million times higher than. Aware's line of high flux monitors. Shielding allows even higher levels. For mathematicians Aw- Radw includes an advanced random number generator which uses the.
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