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QUANTUM ENGINEERING, INC.
Instruction Manual
QIM-16370
Desktop Playback Software
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Table of Contents
0. Revision History........................................................................................................ 12
1. Scope ......................................................................................................................... 13
1.1. Identification ..................................................................................................... 13
1.2. Purpose .............................................................................................................. 13
1.3. Introduction ....................................................................................................... 13
2. Installation................................................................................................................. 14
2.1. System Considerations ...................................................................................... 14
Workstation ............................................................................................................... 14
Printer ........................................................................................................................ 14
Optional Equipment from Quantum Engineering, Inc. ............................................. 15
Q8011 Magnetic Tape Reader............................................................................... 15
Q8007 Memory Card Reader ................................................................................ 15
2.2. Software Installation and Removal ................................................................... 16
Setup and Installation ................................................................................................ 16
Problems during Installation ..................................................................................... 27
Configuration ............................................................................................................ 28
Hardware ............................................................................................................... 28
Event Data Handling ............................................................................................. 30
Recorder Downloading ......................................................................................... 35
Selection of Displayed Data Items ........................................................................ 38
Video Chart Colors................................................................................................ 39
Uninstalling the Software.......................................................................................... 41
3. Using the Quantum Desktop Playback Software ...................................................... 43
3.1. Starting the Quantum Desktop Playback Software ........................................... 43
3.2. Program Menus ................................................................................................. 44
File............................................................................................................................. 46
Close current file ................................................................................................... 46
Open a Disk file..................................................................................................... 46
Read a Magnetic tape... ......................................................................................... 47
Read Memory Card Data....................................................................................... 47
Save As.................................................................................................................. 48
Properties............................................................................................................... 48
Memory Card Maintenance…............................................................................... 48
Recorder Download............................................................................................... 48
Exit ........................................................................................................................ 49
View .......................................................................................................................... 49
Data Window......................................................................................................... 49
Zoom ..................................................................................................................... 50
UnZoom ................................................................................................................ 52
MaxZoom .............................................................................................................. 52
Zoom to Tags ........................................................................................................ 52
As Text .................................................................................................................. 53
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As Graph ............................................................................................................... 54
Header Data........................................................................................................... 54
Display Choices..................................................................................................... 54
Print ........................................................................................................................... 55
Graph..................................................................................................................... 55
Text ....................................................................................................................... 56
Analyze...................................................................................................................... 56
Finder... ................................................................................................................. 56
Duty Cycle............................................................................................................. 56
Fuel Estimate......................................................................................................... 56
Macro Scan............................................................................................................ 56
AAR TOES Output... ............................................................................................ 56
FRA Test/Scan... ................................................................................................... 57
Custom Options..................................................................................................... 57
Setup.......................................................................................................................... 58
Change Wheel Size... ............................................................................................ 58
Video Graph Screen Setup... ................................................................................. 58
Text Screen Setup.................................................................................................. 58
Printed Graph Page Setup... .................................................................................. 59
Printed Text Page Setup... ..................................................................................... 59
Data Window Setup... ........................................................................................... 59
Printer Setup.......................................................................................................... 59
Colors... ................................................................................................................. 59
Program Options... ................................................................................................ 59
Tags ........................................................................................................................... 60
Place Tag 1 ............................................................................................................ 61
Place Tag 2 ............................................................................................................ 62
Clear Tag ............................................................................................................... 62
Tag Info... .............................................................................................................. 62
Set.............................................................................................................................. 63
Time... ................................................................................................................... 63
Milepost................................................................................................................. 65
Zoom factor... ........................................................................................................ 67
Absolute Mile........................................................................................................ 68
Window ..................................................................................................................... 69
Cascade.................................................................................................................. 69
Tile Vertical........................................................................................................... 70
Tile Horizontal ...................................................................................................... 71
Full Screen............................................................................................................. 72
1 <filename[> - <data format]>............................................................................. 73
2 <filename> ......................................................................................................... 74
Help ........................................................................................................................... 74
Help Topics ........................................................................................................... 74
About the QDP ...................................................................................................... 74
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4. Event Recorder Download ........................................................................................ 76
5. Reading a Data File ................................................................................................... 81
6. Working with a Magnetic Tape................................................................................. 84
6.1. Connecting to the Magnetic Tape Reader ......................................................... 84
6.2. Reading a Magnetic Tape.................................................................................. 87
Play a tape for the FIRST time.................................................................................. 87
Replay a tape ............................................................................................................. 87
Override End-of-Tape ............................................................................................... 88
6.3. Miscellaneous Tape Operations ........................................................................ 88
Override End-of-Tape ............................................................................................... 88
Run to End-of-Tape................................................................................................... 89
6.4. Selection of Magnetic Tape Event Recorder Type ........................................... 89
6.5. Manual Entry of Header Information................................................................ 89
6.6. Tape Transport .................................................................................................. 90
6.7. Erasing the Tape................................................................................................ 92
7. Working with a Memory Card .................................................................................. 93
7.1. Reading a Memory Card ................................................................................... 93
7.2. Memory Card Maintenance…........................................................................... 94
Test Card Memory .................................................................................................... 96
Test Card Battery ...................................................................................................... 97
Copy Card Image ...................................................................................................... 97
Erase Flash Card Memory......................................................................................... 98
Format SRAM Memory Card ................................................................................... 98
8. Writing a Data File.................................................................................................... 99
9. Viewing the Event Data .......................................................................................... 102
9.1. Graphical View ............................................................................................... 102
9.2. Text View........................................................................................................ 106
9.3. Window Interactions ....................................................................................... 107
9.4. Mouse Button 3 Actions.................................................................................. 108
Current Display Info…............................................................................................ 109
Data Window / .................................................................................................... 109
On ........................................................................................................................ 109
Off ....................................................................................................................... 109
Find…...................................................................................................................... 109
Find Again…........................................................................................................... 109
Macro Scan Report….............................................................................................. 110
Show Next Scan location ........................................................................................ 110
Zoom ....................................................................................................................... 110
UnZoom .................................................................................................................. 110
MaxZoom ................................................................................................................ 110
MaxUnZoom ........................................................................................................... 110
View Graph ............................................................................................................. 110
View Text................................................................................................................ 111
10. Data Analysis ...................................................................................................... 112
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10.1. Searching Event Data for Specific Conditions............................................ 112
Searching for a Single Condition ............................................................................ 112
Searching for Multiple Conditions.......................................................................... 117
Using the Macro Scan Function .............................................................................. 119
10.2. Calculating Stopping Distance .................................................................... 120
10.3. Calculating Duty Cycle ............................................................................... 121
10.4. Estimating Fuel Consumption..................................................................... 123
10.5. Exporting Data for Simulators .................................................................... 124
10.6. FRA Test Function ...................................................................................... 124
FRA Test ................................................................................................................. 124
Data Scan................................................................................................................. 125
11. Printed Reports.................................................................................................... 127
11.1. File Header Report ...................................................................................... 127
11.2. Graphical Report ......................................................................................... 128
11.3. Text Report.................................................................................................. 131
11.4. Duty Cycle Report....................................................................................... 132
11.5. Macro Scan Report...................................................................................... 133
11.6. Q-Tron System Log Report......................................................................... 133
Appendix A – Applicable Documents ............................................................................ 135
Appendix B – Abbreviations and Acronyms .................................................................. 136
Appendix C – Window Terminology.............................................................................. 138
C.1 Windows ......................................................................................................... 138
Window Types ........................................................................................................ 138
Window States ........................................................................................................ 141
Focus ....................................................................................................................... 143
C.2 Pointing Device ............................................................................................... 144
C.3 Cursors ............................................................................................................ 145
Mouse Cursor .......................................................................................................... 145
Text Cursor.............................................................................................................. 145
Graphical Cursor ..................................................................................................... 146
Appendix D – Installing a Magnetic Tape Reader.......................................................... 147
D.1 Hardware ......................................................................................................... 147
D.2 Software .......................................................................................................... 147
Appendix E – Installing a Memory Card Reader............................................................ 148
E.1 Hardware ......................................................................................................... 148
E.2 Software .......................................................................................................... 149
Appendix F – PCMCIA Card (PC Card) Support........................................................... 151
F.1 PCMCIA under Windows® 95/98 ................................................................... 151
F.2 PCMCIA under Windows® NT 4.x ................................................................. 151
Appendix G – Wheel Size............................................................................................... 152
Appendix H – Selected Error Messages.......................................................................... 154
H.1 Problems Working with Magnetic Tape ......................................................... 154
H.2 Problems Working with Memory Cards ......................................................... 155
H.3 Problems during Event Recorder Download................................................... 156
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H.4 Problems Working with Data Files ................................................................. 157
Appendix I - Printing a Continuous Chart ...................................................................... 158
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Figures
Figure 1 - Q8011 Magnetic Tape Reader.......................................................................... 15
Figure 2 - Q8007 Memory Card Readers: internal (left); external (right) ....................... 15
Figure 3 – “Welcome” screen for installation and setup................................................... 16
Figure 4 - Software License Agreement ........................................................................... 17
Figure 5 - Aborting the Installation................................................................................... 17
Figure 6 - User Information .............................................................................................. 18
Figure 7 - Local Hard Drive Selection .............................................................................. 19
Figure 8 - Magnetic Tape Reader Selection...................................................................... 20
Figure 9 – Memory Card Reader Selection....................................................................... 21
Figure 10 - PCMCIA Memory Card or Slot Selection...................................................... 22
Figure 11 - Program Folder Selection ............................................................................... 23
Figure 12 - Installation Progress ....................................................................................... 24
Figure 13 - Prompt for Next Volume of Distribution Media ............................................ 24
Figure 14 - Setup Complete .............................................................................................. 25
Figure 15 - Icon Selection ................................................................................................. 26
Figure 16 - Distribution Media not Inserted...................................................................... 27
Figure 17 - Wrong Volume of Distribution Media ........................................................... 27
Figure 18 - "Hardware" Tab of the "QDP Properties" Window ....................................... 28
Figure 19 – PC Card Socket Selection .............................................................................. 29
Figure 20 – Selection of a Temporary File Location ........................................................ 30
Figure 21 - "Tape Data" Tab of the "QDP Properties" Window....................................... 31
Figure 22 - "Solid State Data" Tab of the "QDP Properties" Window ............................. 32
Figure 23 - "Rockwell Data" Tab of the "QDP Properties" Window ............................... 33
Figure 24 - Load-Time Rockwell Data Processing Selection ........................................... 34
Figure 25 - Error Messages for Rockwell Data Processing Selections............................. 34
Figure 26 - Recorder Downloading Properties ................................................................. 36
Figure 27 – Selection of a Location for Downloaded Data............................................... 37
Figure 28 - Configuring Events to be Displayed or Reported........................................... 39
Figure 29 - Color Selection ............................................................................................... 40
Figure 30 - Uninstallation of Software.............................................................................. 41
Figure 31 - Removal Confirmation ................................................................................... 41
Figure 32 - Removal Progress........................................................................................... 42
Figure 33 - Quantum Desktop Playback Main Screen...................................................... 43
Figure 34 - Opportunity to Save Changes......................................................................... 46
Figure 35 – Prompt to save file ......................................................................................... 46
Figure 36 - Attempting to Open a Disk File without Closing the Current File................. 47
Figure 37 - Attempting to Read a Magnetic Tape without Closing the Current File........ 47
Figure 38 - Attempting to Read a Memory Card without Closing the Current File ......... 48
Figure 39 - Attempting Download from Recorder without Closing the Current File....... 49
Figure 40 - Data Window.................................................................................................. 50
Figure 41 - Data Displayed at 3-s Resolution ................................................................... 51
Figure 42 - The Data of Figure 41, "Zoomed in" to 1-s Resolution ................................. 51
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Figure 43 - Zooming to Tags............................................................................................. 53
Figure 44 - System Log Data ............................................................................................ 55
Figure 45 – Error: Custom Options Not Installed ............................................................ 57
Figure 46 - Wheel Size Override....................................................................................... 58
Figure 47 - Attempting to Modify Properties without Closing the Current File............... 60
Figure 48 - Tag points, Shown in Both Graphical and Text Modes ................................. 61
Figure 49 - Tag Point Information .................................................................................... 62
Figure 50 - Attempts to Display Tag Point Information with Undefined Tag Points....... 63
Figure 51 – Preparing to Override the Time in Displayed Event Data ............................. 63
Figure 52 – Setting the Time in Event Data...................................................................... 64
Figure 53 – Error Setting the Time in Event Data ............................................................ 64
Figure 54 – Preparing to Override the Vehicle Location in Displayed Event Data.......... 65
Figure 55 – Setting the Vehicle Location in Event Data................................................... 66
Figure 56 – Setting the Count Direction in Event Data .................................................... 66
Figure 57 – Setting the Zoom Factor ................................................................................ 67
Figure 58 – Errors Setting the Zoom Factor ..................................................................... 67
Figure 59 – Setting Direction of Counting........................................................................ 68
Figure 60 – Direction of Counting .................................................................................... 68
Figure 61 – Ignoring Direction of Travel.......................................................................... 69
Figure 62 - Cascaded Windows ........................................................................................ 70
Figure 63 - Vertically Tiled Windows .............................................................................. 71
Figure 64 - Horizontally Tiled Windows .......................................................................... 72
Figure 65 - Child Window in "Full-Screen" Mode (Maximized) ..................................... 73
Figure 66 - Help Topics .................................................................................................... 74
Figure 67 - Serial Number and Licensing Information ..................................................... 75
Figure 68 - Version Information ....................................................................................... 75
Figure 69 - Filename Creation .......................................................................................... 76
Figure 70 - Download Size Selection................................................................................ 77
Figure 71 – Additional Header Data Supplied by User at Download Time ..................... 78
Figure 72 – Warning: User-Supplied, Download-Time Data Field Empty ..................... 78
Figure 73 – Download Progress ........................................................................................ 79
Figure 74 – Successful Download of Event Data ............................................................. 79
Figure 75 – Failure of Download ...................................................................................... 80
Figure 76 - Opening a Disk File........................................................................................ 81
Figure 77 – Typical Header Data ...................................................................................... 82
Figure 78 - Last Chance to Specify Manually Entered Header Data ................................ 83
Figure 79 - Reading Stored Data from Disk ..................................................................... 83
Figure 80 - Q8011 Magnetic Tape Reader........................................................................ 85
Figure 81 – Magnetic Tape Reader Hardware Test Progress............................................ 85
Figure 82 – Magnetic Tape Reader Hardware Test Results.............................................. 86
Figure 83 – Magnetic Tape Reader Operations ................................................................ 86
Figure 84 – Miscellaneous Magnetic Tape Operations..................................................... 88
Figure 85 – Selection of Magnetic Tape Event Recorder Type........................................ 89
Figure 86 – Manual Entry of Magnetic Tape Event Recorder Header Data..................... 90
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Figure 87 – Ready to Transport Magnetic Tape ............................................................... 91
Figure 88 – Magnetic Tape Transport Run Time.............................................................. 91
Figure 89 – Magnetic Tape Data Collection Underway ................................................... 91
Figure 90 – Magnetic Tape Operation Complete.............................................................. 92
Figure 91 – Magnetic Tape Reading Operation Complete ............................................... 92
Figure 92 – Instructions to Insert Memory Card............................................................... 93
Figure 93 – Reading a Memory Card................................................................................ 94
Figure 94 – Memory Card Maintenance Functions: Q8007 (l) and PCMCIA Slot (r) .... 95
Figure 95 – Warning: All Data on the Memory Card Will Be Destroyed ....................... 96
Figure 96 – SRAM Card Memory Test Status.................................................................. 96
Figure 97 – SRAM Card Memory Test Result ................................................................. 97
Figure 98 – SRAM Card Battery Test Result ................................................................... 97
Figure 99 – Card Image Dump Complete ......................................................................... 98
Figure 100 – SRAM Card Formatting Complete .............................................................. 98
Figure 101 – Entry of File Header Information as File is written..................................... 99
Figure 102 – Saving a Data File...................................................................................... 100
Figure 103 – Replacing a Data File................................................................................. 101
Figure 104 – Replacing a Data File................................................................................. 101
Figure 105 – Data Compression Option.......................................................................... 101
Figure 106 – Maximized Graphical Window, w/o Data Window, in Main Window ..... 103
Figure 107 – Maximized Graphical Window, with Data Window, in Main Window.... 104
Figure 108 – Tool Tip in Bottom of Graphical Window, Showing Time and Location. 105
Figure 109 – Maximized Text Window in Main Window.............................................. 106
Figure 110 – Time Resolution of Displayed Data........................................................... 109
Figure 111 – Finder Choices: with (l) and without (r) stopping distance ...................... 112
Figure 112 – Choosing the Range for a Search............................................................... 113
Figure 113 – Searching for a Single Condition in Tape-Format Data ............................ 113
Figure 114 – Tape-Format Data Item Comparisons: Analog(l);Discrete(c);Binary(r) ... 114
Figure 115 – Searching for a Single Condition in Solid-State Data ............................... 115
Figure 116 – Solid-State Comparison and Value for an Analog Data Item.................... 115
Figure 117 – Solid-State Values for a Discrete Data Item.............................................. 116
Figure 118 – Solid-State Values for a Discrete Data Item.............................................. 116
Figure 119 – Search in Progress...................................................................................... 116
Figure 120 – Search Unsuccessful .................................................................................. 117
Figure 121 – Search Successful ...................................................................................... 117
Figure 122 – Searching for Multiple Conditions in Tape-Format Data.......................... 118
Figure 123 – Searching for Multiple Conditions in Solid-State Data ............................. 119
Figure 124 – Stopping Distance Calculation................................................................... 120
Figure 125 – Stopping Distance Report .......................................................................... 121
Figure 126 – Choosing the Range for Computation ....................................................... 122
Figure 127 – Duty Cycle Report (On-Screen) ................................................................ 122
Figure 128 – Alternate Duty Cycle Report (On-Screen)................................................. 123
Figure 129 – Warning: Fuel Consumption Estimate Inapplicable or Unavailable ........ 124
Figure 130 – Choosing an FRA Test Function ............................................................... 124
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Figure 131 – FRA Test Pattern not found ....................................................................... 125
Figure 132 – FRA Data Scan Results (On-Screen)......................................................... 125
Figure 133 – FRA Data Scan Results (Printed) .............................................................. 126
Figure 134 - File Header Report ..................................................................................... 127
Figure 135 – Choosing Range of Data for a Graphical or Text Report .......................... 128
Figure 136 – Attempting to Report Data between Undefined Tag Points ...................... 128
Figure 137 – Selection of Chart Type for a Graphical Report ........................................ 129
Figure 138 – Culling Reported Data to Allow Printed Output to Fit on a Page ............. 130
Figure 139 - Graphical Report ........................................................................................ 131
Figure 140 - Text Report................................................................................................. 132
Figure 141 – Duty Cycle Reports (Printed): Percent (l); Alternate (r)............................ 133
Figure 142 – Q-Tron System Log Report ....................................................................... 134
Figure 143 – Child Windows .......................................................................................... 138
Figure 144 - Dialog Boxes .............................................................................................. 139
Figure 145 – Radio Buttons ............................................................................................ 140
Figure 146 - Main Window Maximized, Child Windows Normalized or Minimized.... 142
Figure 147 - Main Window Normalized, Child Window Maximized ............................ 143
Figure 148 - Pointing Device Digital Input Nomenclature (Mouse Shown) .................. 144
Figure 149 - Mouse Cursor Activating a Pull-Down Menu............................................ 145
Figure 150 – Text Cursor in a Modifiable Numeric Field of a Dialog Box.................... 146
Figure 151 – Graphical Cursor........................................................................................ 146
Figure 152 - Wheel Diameter Measurements ................................................................. 152
Figure 153 – Wheel Size Out of Range........................................................................... 152
Figure 154 – Witness groove caution message ............................................................... 153
Figure 155 – Failure to Connect to Magnetic Tape Reader ............................................ 154
Figure 156 – Loss of Communication during Magnetic Tape Reader Hardware Test ... 154
Figure 157 – Tape Blank or Not Inserted........................................................................ 154
Figure 158 – Failure Formatting SRAM Card ................................................................ 155
Figure 159 – Attempt to Format Unsupported SRAM Card........................................... 155
Figure 160 – Failure to Insert Memory Card .................................................................. 155
Figure 161 – Flash Memory Card Inserted during SRAM Battery Test......................... 155
Figure 162 – Attempt to Format Write-Protected SRAM Card ...................................... 155
Figure 163 – Attempt to Memory-Test Write-Protected SRAM Card............................ 156
Figure 164 – Attempt to Read a File that is Not Event Data .......................................... 157
Figure 165 - Add Printer Wizard..................................................................................... 158
Figure 166 – Adding a Local Printer............................................................................... 159
Figure 167 – Choosing an Epson FX-100....................................................................... 159
Figure 168 – Attaching the Printer to Parallel Port LPT1............................................... 160
Figure 169 – Naming the Strip Chart Printer .................................................................. 161
Figure 170 – Electing to Print a Test Page...................................................................... 161
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Tables
Table 1 - Revision History ................................................................................................ 12
Table 2 – Computer Software Comprising the System..................................................... 13
Table 3 - Menu Items ........................................................................................................ 44
Table 4 - Magnetic Tape Operations................................................................................. 86
Table 5 - Memory Card Maintenance Functions .............................................................. 95
Table 6 - Mouse Button 3 Menu Items for Graphical and Text Windows ..................... 108
Table 7 - Event Densities for Graphical Reports of Magnetic-Tape-Format Data ........ 129
Table 8 – Abbreviations and Acronyms.......................................................................... 136
Table 9 - Window States ................................................................................................. 141
Table 10 - Pointing Device Digital Input Descriptions................................................... 144
Table 11 – Download Error Numbers ............................................................................. 156
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0. REVISION HISTORY
Table 1 - Revision History
Rev. Date Author Description
A 12/2/1999 WJW Baseline
B 08/23/2000 BEB DCO #444
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1. SCOPE
1.1. IDENTIFICATION
This instruction manual provides the procedures for installation, execution, and
removal of the software shown in Table 2 for the QDP95 Quantum Desktop
Playback System.
Table 2 – Computer Software Comprising the System

Part No. Abbreviation Description
16370 QDP95 Desktop Playback Software for
Event Recorder Data
1.2. PURPOSE
The purpose of the Quantum Desktop Playback System is to provide the following
functions:
1) Setup and installation
2) Simple event recorder data download
3) Extraction of event recorder data from memory cards and magnetic tape
4) Event recorder data display
5) Event recorder data reporting
This manual covers all functions of the Quantum Desktop Playback Software.
1.3. INTRODUCTION
This purpose of this manual is to instruct the user in the installation and operation of
the Quantum Desktop Playback Software. Each function of the software is covered
in its own section. A description and a step-by-step walk-through are provided for
each screen the user will encounter in operation of the software. A top-level,
functional hierarchy of the software is provided. The reader is guided through the
sequence of operations required to execute all functions of the software.
1.4. FIGURES USED
All figures used in this manual depicting recorder data are typical in nature and do
not represent any particular recorder type. Figures are used to display window
positions and/or program functions, in which the actual recorder data, or events
displayed, is of no importance.
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2. INSTALLATION
2.1. SYSTEM CONSIDERATIONS
Workstation
The following minimum system configuration is recommended for the use of the
Quantum Desktop Playback (QDP95) event recorder data analysis software. Users
with equipment exceeding the minimum requirements will experience improved
data file processing and display operations.
1) CPU: 100-MHz Intel Pentium® or equivalent
2) operating system: Microsoft Windows® 95/98 or Windows® NT 4.x with
at least Service Pack 3
3) memory: 32 MB RAM
4) online storage: 200 MB
5) monitor: SVGA (800 x 600 dpi)
6) video adapter: PCI SVGA with 2 MB video memory
7) PCMCIA support: Windows® 95/98: built-in; Windows® NT 4.x:
Cardware for Windows V 6.00.012 or later
8) communication port: serial port capable of at least 19,200 baud
Printer
The following printers are recommended:

1) dot matrix:
a) Brother M-4309
b) ALPS DMX 800
c) Output Technology Corp. 850XL
2) ink jet: Epson 1520
3) laser: at least 300 dpi with 4 MB RAM
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Optional Equipment from Quantum Engineering, Inc.
Q8011 Magnetic Tape Reader
The QPN Q8011 magnetic tape reader, shown in Figure 1, enables QDP95 to read
data from a magnetic tape. It is an external device, requiring a serial port.
Installation of a Q8011 is covered in Appendix D.
Figure 1 - Q8011 Magnetic Tape Reader
Q8007 Memory Card Reader
The QPN Q8007 memory card reader, shown in Figure 2, enables QDP95 to read
data from a credit-card-size SRAM or flash memory card. It is available as either
an internal or an external device. The Q8007 is not a PCMCIA port. Installation
of memory card support is covered in Appendix E.
Figure 2 - Q8007 Memory Card Readers: internal (left); external (right)
The (internal) Q8007/INT requires one ISA slot and a 5¼-in drive bay. The
(external) Q8007/PP requires one ISA slot. If your workstation has a PCMCIA
port, a Q8007 is not necessary for working with memory cards. PCMCIA card
support is covered in Appendix F.
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2.2. SOFTWARE INSTALLATION AND REMOVAL
Setup and Installation
During the installation, no other applications should be running.
Mount the first volume of the distribution medium and execute the “setup.exe”
application found in the top-level directory. Wait for the “Quantum Desktop
Playback Setup” window to appear, followed by a “Welcome” dialog box, as
shown in Figure 3.
Figure 3 – “Welcome” screen for installation and setup
Installation may be cancelled at any time by clicking the “Cancel” button.
Note the recommendation to close all other programs and the warning concerning
copyright law. Then, click “Next” to continue the installation process.
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The “Software License Agreement”, as shown in Figure 4, now appears. If the
terms of the agreement are disagreeable, click “No”, and the installation will not
occur (there will be a “last chance” to continue the installation, as shown in Figure
5). Click “Yes” if the terms of the agreement are acceptable.
NOTE: You or your company may have another agreement governing the
distribution and use of this software package, which supercedes this displayed
agreement.
Figure 4 - Software License Agreement
Figure 5 - Aborting the Installation
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Fill in the User Information, as shown in Figure 6. The serial number may be
found on the software registration card, the first volume of the distribution media,
or the envelope. Remember to reinsert the installation medium if it has been
removed to determine the serial number.
Figure 6 - User Information
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Select a local hard drive for the QDP95 files, as shown in Figure 7. Files will be
created in a top-level directory called “qei”. The directory name can not be chosen
by the user. The installation must be on a local hard drive.
Figure 7 - Local Hard Drive Selection
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Indicate whether there is (or will be) a Q8011 magnetic tape reader installed, as
shown in Figure 8, and, if so, the port to which it will be attached.
Figure 8 - Magnetic Tape Reader Selection
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Indicate whether there is (or will be) a Q8007 memory card reader installed, as
shown in Figure 9.
Figure 9 – Memory Card Reader Selection
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If there is to be no Q8007 memory card reader, indicate whether there is a
PCMCIA memory card slot or port planned for use with memory cards, as shown
in Figure 10. Slot 0 will be chosen by Setup. This can be changed after installation
(see the description of the “Hardware” tab in “Configuration”, page 28). Selection
of a PCMCIA slot or port will not be offered if the presence of a Q8007 has been
indicated.
Figure 10 - PCMCIA Memory Card or Slot Selection
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Select a program folder in which to install the program icons, as shown in Figure
11. This will govern where QDP95 appears in the Start menu.
Figure 11 - Program Folder Selection
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Installation progress will appear in the “Quantum Desktop Playback Setup”
window, as shown in Figure 12.
Figure 12 - Installation Progress
Additional volumes of the distribution media will be requested as necessary (Figure

13). When prompted to do so, insert each one and click “OK” (or “Cancel” to abort
the installation).
Figure 13 - Prompt for Next Volume of Distribution Media
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When setup is complete, the “Setup Complete” window will appear, as shown in
Figure 14. Be sure to read the instructions in the window, as they may indicate
additional installations that are necessary, such as the driver for the Q8007 memory
card reader.
Figure 14 - Setup Complete
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Following successful installation, a “Quantum Engineering” (unless a different
name was chosen during installation) program group will be added to the Program
folder of the Start menu, and a “Quantum Desktop Playback” icon will appear on
the desktop. The icon may be moved to the Quick Launch toolbar if desired. The
icon image may be selected by the user, using the “Change Icon” button in the
“Shortcut Properties”, as shown in Figure 15.
Figure 15 - Icon Selection
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Problems during Installation
If the first volume of the distribution media is removed to see the serial number,
and accidentally not reinserted, an error will be reported to the user, as shown in
Figure 16.
Figure 16 - Distribution Media not Inserted
If the wrong volume of the distribution media is inserted, a different error, shown
in Figure 17, will occur.
Figure 17 - Wrong Volume of Distribution Media
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Configuration
Configuration information informs QDP95 of the attached peripheral devices and

affects how it handles event data and downloads event data from recorders.
Configuration information is stored with the QDP95 software. If you will be using
QDP95 to download event recorders directly, it is important to configure the
“Recorder Downloading” properties (page 35).
Hardware
If you have changed your hardware configuration and need to tell QDP95, this is
where you do it. Start the QDP95 software (see section 3.1, page 43), and choose
“SetupÆProgram Options...” from the main menu. The “QDP Properties”
window, shown in Figure 18 will appear. Choose the “Hardware” tab.
Figure 18 - "Hardware" Tab of the "QDP Properties" Window
The items within the “Hardware” tab are:

1) Tape Reader
a) Q8011 Installed – This is a checkbox, indicating whether the workstation
has a Q8011 tape reader installed.
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b) COM Port used – Here, the user configures a serial port to which the
tape reader will be connected. The choice may be made even when no
tape reader is installed, but is then immaterial. The choices are:
i) COM1
ii) COM2
iii) COM3
iv) COM4
v) None – This selection is reserved for use by Quantum Engineering, Inc.
Do not select this serial port.
2) Memory Card Reader – These are “radio buttons” (i.e., only one may be
chosen – checking one will uncheck the previous choice).
a) No Memory Card Reader Installed
b) Q8007 Memory Card Reader used
c) PCMCIA port being used
i) Socket – Indicates which PCMCIA card socket is being used for the
memory card. This item does not appear unless you have indicated that
you will be using a PCMCIA port as a memory card reader. To change
the socket, press the “Change Socket” button. The dialog box of Figure
19 will appear. Choose the new socket and click “OK” (or choose
“Cancel” or the “close box” to cancel the change).
Figure 19 – PC Card Socket Selection

3) Temporary File Location – This is a directory used for temporary files
created by the Quantum Desktop Playback software. Not all files in this
location are necessarily used by QDP95. On graceful termination, QDP95
automatically removes most temporary files it has created here (the
remaining files will be reused the next time QDP95 is run). Files should
not be manually deleted from this location while QDP95 is running. You
must end with a backslash (‘\’) or the last directory level will be ignored.
The default location is the location indicated by environment variable
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“TEMP”, but can be changed by the user. This may be typed-in, or you
may use the “Browse” button ( ). The “Browse” button causes a dialog
box, shown in Figure 20, to appear, in which you can navigate the file
system to choose a directory.
Figure 20 – Selection of a Temporary File Location
Event Data Handling
These items tell QDP95 how to handle event data for each type of data file. Start
the QDP95 software (see section 3.1, page 43), and choose “SetupÆProgram
Options...” from the main menu. The “QDP Properties” window, shown in Figure
18 will appear. Choose the one of the following tabs.
1) Tape Data - This dialog, shown in Figure 21, will let you setup how
magnetic tape data will be handled when loaded by the QDP95 system.
These properties apply to any new tape data or tape data that has been
stored to disk. If you will not be working with magnetic tape data, you
may ignore these settings.
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Figure 21 - "Tape Data" Tab of the "QDP Properties" Window
a) Make Time zero – While a solid-state recorder is cognizant of absolute
time, a magnetic tape recorder is not. Only relative time data is
available. This property selects the reference for relative time. Only one
may be chosen.
i) At the start of the file – Time zero is at the beginning of the data. The
time associated with an event indicates how soon after the beginning of
the data the event occurred.
ii) At the end of the file – Time zero is at the end of the data. The time
associated with an event indicates how soon before the end of the data
the event occurred.
b) Make the Milepost zero – This property selects the reference for relative
location. Only one may be chosen.
i) At the start of the file - The location associated with an event indicates
how far after the beginning of the data the event occurred.
ii) At the end of the file – The location associated with an event indicates
how far before the end of the data the event occurred.
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c) Make Absolute Mileage the default – This is a checkbox. If unchecked,
the location associated with an event will be calculated ignoring the
direction of travel. If checked, changes in the direction of travel will be
taken into account when calculating distance. Forward travel is always
assumed to increase the distance from the point of reference. For the
added flexibility of being able to define the direction of counting, see
“SetÆAbsolute Mile...” (page 68).
2) Solid State Data - This dialog, shown in Figure 22, will let you setup how
Solid State Recorder Data will be handled when loaded by the QDP95
system. Solid-state recorders include all types built by
Quantum Engineering, Inc. along with other types of solid-state recorders.
These properties apply to any data with “solid state recorder” format.
Figure 22 - "Solid State Data" Tab of the "QDP Properties" Window

a) Make the Milepost zero – This property selects the reference for relative
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b) Make Absolute Mileage the default – This is a checkbox. If unchecked,
the location associated with an event will be calculated ignoring the
direction of travel. If checked, changes in the direction of travel will be
taken into account when calculating distance. Forward travel is always
assumed to increase the distance from the point of reference. For the
added flexibility of being able to define the direction of counting, see
“SetÆAbsolute Mile...” (page 68).
c) Make Text Mode Labels Vertical – This is a checkbox. If unchecked,
text mode event labels will be displayed in the normal horizontal
orientation. If checked, the event labels used in text mode will be
aligned vertically. This will allow for the display of more events.
3) Rockwell Data - This dialog, shown in Figure 23, will let you setup how
Rockwell recorder data will be handled when loaded by the QDP95
system. These properties apply to any data with “Rockwell data” format.
If you will not be working with Rockwell data, you may ignore these
settings.
Figure 23 - "Rockwell Data" Tab of the "QDP Properties" Window

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a) Data Processing– These are “radio buttons” (i.e., only one may be
chosen – checking one will uncheck the previous choice).
i) Always Prompt the user - When data is read, the user is to be presented
with a dialog box, as shown in Figure 24. The total size (in hrs) of the
data file is shown, and the user is to choose whether to process all of
the data in the file or only that corresponding to a selected amount of
time preceding the end of the data. The number of hours n, (which
defaults to the value in the stored properties) may be modified only
while "Process n hours of the data" is chosen. Out-of-range values will
result in an error message of Figure 25.
Figure 24 - Load-Time Rockwell Data Processing Selection
Figure 25 - Error Messages for Rockwell Data Processing Selections

ii) Process all the data – All of the data in the file is to be processed
iii) Process n hours of the data – The default value for n is 48. This fixes
the amount of data that QDP95 will process from the data file. It is
always possible to modify n, but its affects are felt only when this item
is chosen. The value for n is entered as 0..4-character text and is not
tested for validity when entered. A non-integer string has a value of 0.
Only integer values in the range 1..9999 are supported.
b) Make the Milepost zero – This property selects the reference for relative
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c) Make Absolute Mileage the default – This is a checkbox. If unchecked,
the location associated with an event will ignore the direction of travel.
If checked, changes in the direction of travel will be taken into account
when calculating location. Forward travel is always assumed to increase
the location from the point of reference. For the added flexibility of
being able to define the direction of counting, see “SetÆAbsolute
Mile...” (page 68).
d) Make Text Mode Labels Vertical – This is a checkbox. If unchecked,
text mode event labels will be displayed in the normal horizontal
orientation. If checked, the event labels used in text mode will be
aligned vertically. This will allow for the display of more events.
Recorder Downloading
The “Recorder Downloading” properties tell QDP95 to which serial port the event
recorder will be connected and where to store the downloaded data files. If you
will be using QDP95 to download event recorders directly, it is important to
configure the “Recorder Downloading” properties. Start the QDP95 software (see
section 3.1, page 43), and choose “SetupÆProgram Options...” from the main
menu. The “QDP Properties” window, shown in Figure 18 will appear. Choose
the “Recorder Downloading” tab (shown in Figure 26). The items within the
“Recorder Downloading” tab are:
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Figure 26 - Recorder Downloading Properties
1) COM Port
a) COM Port used – Here, the user configures a serial port to which the
event recorder will be connected.
i) COM1 – This is the default at installation
ii) COM2
2) Default Amount to Download - These are “radio buttons” (i.e., only one
may be chosen – checking one will uncheck the previous choice). They
specify the default amount of event data to be downloaded (in addition to
the header data). Note that these are only default values – They cause
preselection of the “Amount of Data Desired” that will appear at
download time. The user will have the opportunity to choose a different
amount at download time.
a) All – Specifies download of ½ MB of event data. This amount of data
will always fit on a 1.44-MB floppy diskette. This is the default amount
to download at QDP95 installation.
b) Smallest – Specifies download of the smallest amount of data for the
particular recorder. This is typically 32 KB of event data.
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c) Quarter – Specifies download of 125 KB (one quarter of the amount of
data known as “All”).
d) Half -– Specifies download of 250 KB (half the amount of data known as
“All”).
e) Extended – Specifies download of the entire memory of the event
recorder. Depending on the model of event recorder, this may be the
same amount as “All”. Note that, with some event recorders, this
amount of data is greater than that which can be simply stored on a 1.44-
MB floppy diskette.
3) Path for Downloaded data
a) Use Default Path – At installation, this checkbox is not checked.
Checking this item will over-write the contents of the user-specified path
and render it unmodifiable (until this checkbox is un-checked again).
The “Default Path” is the “data” subdirectory of the “qei” directory on
the drive on which QDP95 was installed.
b) User-specified path – At installation, this defaults to the “data”
subdirectory of the “qei” directory on the drive on which QDP95 was
installed. It may be modified only when “Use Default Path” is not
checked. You must end with a backslash (‘\’) or the last directory level
will be ignored. This may be typed-in, or you may use the “Browse”
button ( ). The “Browse” button causes a dialog box, shown in Figure
27, to appear, in which you can navigate the file system to choose a
directory. Note that the browsing begins in the default location (not
necessarily the current location).
Figure 27 – Selection of a Location for Downloaded Data
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4) Load File into Playback after download – This checkbox indicates whether
the data file should be loaded into QDP95 following its having been
downloaded. By default, this item is un-checked.
Selection of Displayed Data Items
You can choose which data items appear in each of three window types and two
report types:
1) on-screen views
a) graphical window (choose “SetupÆVideo Graph Screen Setup...”)
b) text window (choose “SetupÆText Screen Setup...”)
c) data window (choose “SetupÆData Window Setup...”)
2) printed reports
a) graphical report (choose “SetupÆPrinted Graph Page Setup...”)
b) text report (choose “SetupÆPrinted Text Page Setup...”)
The contents of any remaining windows (e.g., header data) or printed reports (e.g.,
system log) cannot be modified. There are different settings for each data format
(except tape-format, whose settings cannot be modified). The settings are stored
with the QDP95 software and will be used each time a data file of the
corresponding format is loaded. You must have a data file loaded in order to
modify the settings for that format.
Start the QDP95 software (see section 3.1, page 43), and load a data file (see
section 5, page 81) of the format whose settings you wish to modify. Ensure that
the data window is not the active window, and choose the corresponding submenu
item (shown above) from the “Setup” main menu item. (If the data window is the
active window, these menu selections will be unavailable). A dialog box will
appear, as shown in Figure 28, in which you can choose which data items are to
be displayed. On the left is a scrollable list of all of the types of event data
recorded in the file. On the right is a scrollable list of all of the types of event
data to be displayed. When QDP95 is first installed, all recorded data is set up to
be displayed. Once you have modified the selection, your choices are used each
time a data file of the same format is loaded. To remove a single data type from
the displayed data, highlight it in the list on the right and click “Remove”. To add
a single data type to the displayed data, highlight it in the list on the left and click
“Add”. There are also buttons to conveniently add or remove “All” data types.
Items cannot be “dragged” to add or remove them. Other than “All”, addition or
removal of multiple items at once is not possible. It is not possible to arrange the
layout (order) in which the recorded data is presented. If the same list of data
types is to apply to other displays or printed reports (of event data of the same
format), check the boxes at the bottom of the window.
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Figure 28 - Configuring Events to be Displayed or Reported
When the list of displayed data is properly adjusted, click “OK”. To abandon the
changes, click “Cancel” or the “Close” button or hit the ESC key. The changes
affect how QDP95 will display, not only the current data file, but also any other
data files for the same type of event recorder. These settings do not affect the
data in the file. The main QDP95 window will not accept the mouse focus until
the dialog box is closed.
It is not possible to configure the items for a type of data file without actually
opening a data file of that type. The data types displayed for a tape-format data
file are not configurable.
It is possible to configure some printed reports with more data than that which
will fit on a page. If the data does not all fit on a page, QDP95 will not warn the
user until an attempt is made to actually print the report. At that time, the user
will be given another opportunity to remove data from the report.
Video Chart Colors
Start the QDP95 software (see section 3.1, page 43), and choose
“SetupÆColors...” from the main menu. A dialog box, as shown in Figure 29
will appear. The currently chosen colors are shown on the left, and the palette of
available colors (“System Colors”) is shown on the right. To change a color, click
on the system color to be used and then on any of the QDP95 items to use that
color. Click “Cancel” to abandon the changes, “Restore Defaults” to restore the
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original Quantum settings, or “OK” (or the “Close” button) to accept the changes.
QDP95 does not check whether the combination selected by the user would make
data invisible (such as “white-on-white”), so choose carefully.
Figure 29 - Color Selection
The color selections affect the display of any data file subsequently loaded into
QDP95. The settings are stored with the QDP95 program and will be available
the next time the program is run. They do not affect the data files, themselves.
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Uninstalling the Software
To uninstall the software, choose SettingsÆControl_Panel from the Start menu.

Double-click “Add/Remove Programs”. Select “Quantum Desktop Playback” in
the “Install/Uninstall” tab, and click “Add/Remove”, as shown in Figure 30.
Figure 30 - Uninstallation of Software
There will be an opportunity to confirm removal of the Desktop Playback Software,

as shown in Figure 31.
Figure 31 - Removal Confirmation
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If “No” is chosen, the Desktop Playback software is not uninstalled. If “Yes” is
chosen, all of the Quantum Desktop Playback software is removed, along with Start
menu and Quick Launch items, as well as desktop icons. The “qei” directory is
removed unless there are files in its “data” subdirectory. Progress is indicated, as
shown in Figure 32.
Figure 32 - Removal Progress
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3. USING THE QUANTUM DESKTOP PLAYBACK
SOFTWARE
3.1. STARTING THE QUANTUM DESKTOP PLAYBACK SOFTWARE
The QDP95 program is started/executed by choosing “Quantum Desktop Playback”

from the “Quantum Engineering” section of the “Programs” portion of the Start
menu. Alternatively, one may double-click on the desktop shortcut or single-click
on a Quick Launch item. The Quantum Desktop Playback main screen will appear,
as shown in Figure 33. The window comes up maximized, but may be normalized
and then resized by the user. However, it is recommended that you run with the
window maximized. You cannot prevent the window from coming up maximized by
changing the properties of the Start Menu shortcut. Only one QDP95 process should
be run at a time. Operation of multiple QDP95 processes is not supported.
Figure 33 - Quantum Desktop Playback Main Screen
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3.2. PROGRAM MENUS
A tree containing the menu items of the program is shown in Table 3. Further
description of each menu item follows. Keyboard commands, which are available
when no menu is shown, are indicated. Not every submenu item is available at all
times. Those that are unavailable are grayed-out. Table 3 shows as grayed-out any
items that are absent or unavailable when the program is first started (and no event
recorder data is loaded).
Table 3 - Menu Items

Main Menu Item Submenu Item
Close current file
Open a Disk file... Ctrl+F
File Alt+F Read a Magnetic tape... Ctrl+R
Read Memory Card Data... Ctrl+M
Save As... Ctrl+S
Properties...
Memory Card Maintenance…
Recorder Download...
Exit
View Alt+V Data Window y F10
Zoom F3
UnZoom F4
MaxZoom F5
Zoom to Tags
As Text Ctrl+T
As Graph Ctrl+G
Header Data Ctrl+H
Display Choices
Print Alt+P Graph
Text
Analyze Alt+A Finder...
Duty Cycle...
Fuel Estimate...
Macro Scan...
AAR TOES Output...
FRA Test/Scan...
Custom Options...
Setup Alt+U Change Wheel Size...
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Main Menu Item Submenu Item
Video Graph Screen Setup...
Text Screen Setup...
Printed Graph Page Setup...
Printed Text Page Setup...
Data Window Setup...
Printer Setup...
Colors...
Program Options...
Tags Alt+T Place Tag 1 Alt+1
Place Tag 2 Alt+2
Clear Tag Alt+c
Tag Info...
Set Alt+S Time...
Milepost...
Zoom factor...
Absolute Mile...
Window Alt+W Cascade
Tile Vertical
Tile Horizontal
Full Screen
1 <filename[> - <data format]>
2 <filename>
Help Alt+H Help Topics
About the QDP
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File
Close current file
This menu item is available only when event recorder data has been loaded. If a
file is currently open, this menu item must be selected before another set of data
can be loaded. If the memo field in the header data has been modified, there will
be the opportunity, as shown in Figure 34, to save the changes. Click “Yes” to
rewrite the file, with the new memo data or “No” to leave the file unchanged.
Closing the current file can also be initiated by clicking on the “close box” of the
graphical view child window.
Figure 34 - Opportunity to Save Changes
If you have loaded “raw” data (e.g., from a memory card or a magnetic tape) and
provided the requested header information, you will receive a prompt, as shown in
Figure 35, to save the data to a file.
Figure 35 – Prompt to save file
When you close the file, all windows pertaining to views of the event data in the
file will be closed.
Open a Disk file...
This menu item is always available, but will only load data when no event
recorder data is loaded (attempts to load data without first closing the current file
will result in the warning of Figure 36). It allows the user to load either "saved"
tape data or data downloaded from a Quantum Solid State Memory Event
Recorder. Loading event recorder data from a file is covered in section 5 (page
81).
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Figure 36 - Attempting to Open a Disk File without Closing the Current File
Read a Magnetic tape...
If a magnetic tape reader is installed, this menu item is always available, but it
will only read a tape when no event recorder data is loaded (attempts to read a
tape without first closing the current file will result in the warning of Figure 37).
It allows the user to load data from a magnetic tape directly into the playback
software. This menu item is unavailable if no magnetic tape reader is installed.
Installation of a QPN Q8011 magnetic tape reader is covered in Appendix D.
Reading event recorder data from a magnetic tape is covered in section 6.2 (page
87).
Figure 37 - Attempting to Read a Magnetic Tape without Closing the Current File
Read Memory Card Data...
If memory card support is installed, this menu item is always available, but it will
only read a memory card when no event recorder data is loaded (attempts to read
a memory card without first closing the current file will result in the warning of
Figure 38). It allows the user to load data from a memory card directly into the
playback software. This menu item is unavailable if no memory card support is
installed. Installation of memory card support is covered in Appendix E.
Reading event recorder data from a memory card is covered in section 7.1 (page
93).
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Figure 38 - Attempting to Read a Memory Card without Closing the Current File
Save As...
This menu item allows the user to save the event recorder data in QDP95 memory
to a data file. It is available only when event recorder data has been loaded.
Saving data to a data file is covered in section 8 (page 99).
Properties...
This menu item is always available, but will only allow properties to be modified
when no data file is currently active. This menu item is identical to
SetupÆProgram Options...” (see page 59).
Memory Card Maintenance…
This menu item is always available but should never be used unless memory card
support is installed. It allows you to do various tasks having to do with memory
card maintenance. You can test the memory, get battery status, make an image
copy of the card, and perform other tasks. Installation of memory card support is
covered in Appendix E. Memory card maintenance is covered in section 7.2
(page 94).
Recorder Download...
This menu item is always available, but will only download data when no data file
is currently active (attempts to download data without first closing the current file
will result in the warning of Figure 39). It initiates download of event data from a
connected event recorder. Event recorder download is covered in section 4 (page
76). Before using this function, it is important to configure the “Recorder
Downloading” properties (page 35).
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Figure 39 - Attempting Download from Recorder without Closing the Current File
Exit
This menu item is always available. It terminates the QDP95 program. Data that
has not been saved to a file may be lost. This menu item is equivalent to clicking
the “close box” of the QDP95 window. The keyboard command for this action is
Alt+F4.
View
These menu items are available only when event recorder data is loaded and the
data window is not the active window. If event recorder data is loaded and these
menu items are all unavailable, click in either the text window or the graphical area
of the graphical window.
Data Window
This menu item is available when the graphical window is the active window. It
toggles the appearance of detailed information about the current data point. When
the data window is collapsed, this menu item splits the graphical window into two
panes, as shown in Figure 40. One pane is for the graphical display and one pane
is for display of the detailed information at the current data point. When the data
window is expanded, this menu item restores the graphical window to a single
pane containing the graphical display by moving the split all the way to the left.
The keyboard command for this action is F10. If the data does not all fit in the
window at once, horizontal and/or vertical scroll bars may be used to view the rest
of the data. The position of the split between the data and graphical panes may be
adjusted by dragging it with mouse button 1.
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Figure 40 - Data Window
When the data window is first opened, its width is just sufficient to require no
horizontal scroll bar (provided the QDP main window and graphical child are
maximized). The content of the data window may be adjusted via menu item
SetupÆData Window Setup...
Zoom
The amount of data in a data file is quite often more than that which is currently
displayed. This menu item increases, if possible, the amount of time resolution
with which the data is displayed. This will necessarily reduce the span of time
and distance displayed within a window. The current position within the data file
remains unchanged. The result of the action is apparent in any child window or
pane of the main QDP95 window. If the data is already being displayed at
maximum time resolution, the action is silently ignored. The positioning of the
current data point within the window after having zoomed is not predictable (i.e.,
it may be necessary to scroll in search for the cursor after having zoomed). The
keyboard command for this action is F3. An example of “zoomed” and
“unzoomed” is shown in Figure 41 and Figure 42.
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This action only affects the way the data is displayed. It does not modify the
contents of a data file. See “SetÆZoom factor...” (page 67) to adjust the zoom
factor.
Figure 41 - Data Displayed at 3-s Resolution
Figure 42 - The Data of Figure 41, "Zoomed in" to 1-s Resolution
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UnZoom
The amount of data in a data file is quite often more than that which is currently
displayed. This menu item compresses, if possible, the data to be displayed
within a window, hence increasing the span of time and distance it represents.
The current position within the data file remains unchanged. The result of the
action is apparent in any child window or pane of the main QDP95 window. If
the data is already being displayed at minimum time resolution, the action is
silently ignored. The keyboard command for this action is F4.
contents of a data file. See “SetÆZoom factor...” (page 67) to adjust the zoom
factor.
MaxZoom
This menu item increases, as much as possible, the amount of time resolution with
which the data is displayed. This will necessarily reduce the span of time and
distance displayed within a window. The current position within the data file
maximum time resolution, the amount of time resolution will remain the same,
however the current cursor point will be brought to center screen. The keyboard
command for this action is F5.
contents of a data file.
Zoom to Tags
This menu item is available when a data file is loaded and the graphical window
is the active one. It increases the amount of time resolution with which the data is
displayed. If the QDP95 main window is maximized and the graphical view
window is maximized within it, QDP95 will zoom (see Figure 43) such that the
viewable region corresponds as closely as possible to the region between the tag
points, with the earliest tag point occurring somewhere near the left edge of the
window. If windows have been resized, only a portion of the region will be
visible in the window.
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Figure 43 - Zooming to Tags
If the data is already zoomed to tags, this action is not performed. If this menu
item is chosen when one or more of the tag points are undefined, one of the
warnings of Figure 50 will appear. The user must close the dialog box (using
either the “OK” or “Close” button) to allow the main QDP95 window to accept
the mouse focus.
As Text
This menu item is available when there is no text child window or when there is a
text child window but the graphical child window is the active child window. It
will maximize the text child window (creating it if it was not there) and cause it to
become the active child window. The keyboard command for this action is
Ctrl+T. When there is no current data file, this menu item is grayed-out. When
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event recorder data is loaded and the text window is active, this menu item
completely disappears.
The text child window may be maximized, minimized, or normalized. It may also
be closed (so that only the graphical child window remains).
The text view is covered in section 9.2 (page 106).
As Graph
This menu item is available only when there is a text child window and the text
child window is the active child window. It will maximize the graphical child
window and cause it to become the active child window. The keyboard command
for this action is Ctrl+G. When there is no current data file, this menu item is
grayed-out. When event recorder data is loaded and the graphical window is
active, this menu item completely disappears.
The graphical child window may be maximized, minimized, or normalized.

Closing the graphical window closes the data file.
The graphical view is covered in section 9.1 (page 102).
Header Data
This menu item will display the file header information from the data file. The
keyboard command for this action is Ctrl+H. This header record is the same
information that is displayed after a data file is loaded from disk (see Figure 77).
The user has the option to print the information by clicking a new “Print Header”
button in the lower right hand corner of the window (below “OK”) or may access
the Memo Field by clicking the “Memo Field Access” button. Clicking “OK”
will return the program to the program menu.
When finished viewing the header data, it may be closed via the “Close” button or
the ESC key. It is not possible to work in the main QDP95 window while the
header information is being displayed.
Display Choices
This menu item, applicable only when Q-Tron data is loaded, cascades into the
following submenu items:
1) Extended Log – This menu item causes the data in the extended log to be
used for any displays or reports. This menu item is available only when
the graphical pane of the graphical window is the active window. If the
text window is open when this menu item takes action, the text window
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will be closed. A check mark appears in this menu item when it is the
current choice.
2) Collision Log – This menu item causes the data in the collision log to be
used for any displays or reports. This menu item is available only when
the graphical pane of the graphical window is the active window. If the
text window is open when this menu item takes action, the text window
will be closed. A check mark appears in this menu item when it is the
current choice.
3) System Log – This menu item causes another window, as shown in Figure
44, to appear, containing information from the system log. The user may
page through the system log data by clicking on the arrow buttons with the
mouse. Pages of the system log are displayed in formats corresponding to
their content. The “Print” button causes all pages of the system log to be
printed (see section 11.6, page 133).
Figure 44 - System Log Data
In the submenu, a checkmark will appear next to one of the first two items to
indicate the log whose data is currently being represented.
Print
Graph
This menu item will print a graphical report of the event data. It is available only
when a data file is loaded. See section 11.2 (page 128) for details about printed
graphical reports.
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Text
This menu item will print a text report of the event data. It is available only when
a data file is loaded. See section 11.3 (page 131) for details about printed text
reports.
Analyze
These menu items are available only when a data file is loaded and the active
window is either the text window or the graphical pane of the graphical window.
Finder...
This menu item allows you to search the event data for the occurrence of a
specific condition. It can also calculate stopping distance. It is available only
when a data file is loaded. For details, see section 10.1 (page 112) and section
10.2 (page 120).
Duty Cycle...
This menu item computes the throttle duty cycle the event data. It is available
only when a data file is loaded. For details, see section 10.2 (page 120).
Fuel Estimate...
This menu item provides an estimate of fuel consumption for a consist. It is

available only when a data file is loaded. Estimated fuel consumption may be
inapplicable or unavailable for some vehicle types. For details, see section 10.4
(page 123).
Macro Scan...
This menu item allows you to search the event data for the occurrence of specific
conditions. It is available only when a data file is loaded. The condition can be
stored in a file for subsequent reuse. For details, see “Using the Macro Scan
Function” in section 10.1 (page 119).
AAR TOES Output...
This menu item produces a file for the AAR Train Operations and Energy
Simulator. It is available only when a data file is loaded. For details, see section
10.5 (page 124).
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FRA Test/Scan...
This menu item is used to help verify that the event recorder inputs are working
properly. It is available only when a data file is loaded. For details, see section
10.6 (page 124).
Custom Options...
This menu item is used by Quantum Engineering, Inc. only in special QDP95
releases for customers requiring custom options. It is always available, but
normally produces only the error message shown in Figure 45.
Figure 45 – Error: Custom Options Not Installed
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Setup
Change Wheel Size...
This menu item is available whenever event recorder data is loaded and the data
window is not the active window. It affects the conversion factor for converting
raw speed sensor readings into speeds and distances. It applies to display and
reporting of the data in the current data file. It allows the wheel size stored in the
header of the data file to be temporarily overridden. The initial value is taken
from the header information stored in the data file. Changes are not reflected in
the data file itself — They are discarded when the data file is closed. Printed
reports will indicate the value used.
The user is presented with a dialog box, as shown in Figure 46. Circumference is
initially shown (even if some other dimension was previously entered). A new
wheel size can be specified (see Appendix G for details). Click “OK” to accept
the value entered. Click “Cancel” or the “Close” button to abandon the changes.
Figure 46 - Wheel Size Override
Video Graph Screen Setup...
This menu item is available when non-tape-format event recorder data is loaded
and the data window is not the active window. It enables you to choose which
recorded events are to be displayed in the graphical window. For details on using
this menu item, see “Selection of Displayed Data Items” (page 38).
Text Screen Setup...
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recorded events are to be displayed in the text window. For details on using this
menu item, see “Selection of Displayed Data Items” (page 38).
Printed Graph Page Setup...
recorded events are to appear in a printed graphical report. For details on using
this menu item, see “Selection of Displayed Data Items” (page 38).
Printed Text Page Setup...
recorded events are to appear in a printed text report. For details on using this
Data Window Setup...
recorded events are to be displayed in the data window. For details on using this
Printer Setup...
This menu item allows setup of the current default printer or choice of another
printer. It uses the same dialog boxes as those used by all Windows applications.
This menu item is always available. Changes made here affect only how QDP95
uses the printer, and they apply to the current session only. Printer setup is
outside the scope of this manual.
Colors...
This menu item allows customization of the colors used for display of data in the
QDP95 program. If the default colors are not a good choice for you and your
display device, you can change the colors here. This menu item is always
available. See “Video Chart Colors” (page 39) for details.
Program Options...
This menu item is always available, but will only allow QDP95 properties to be
modified when no data file is currently active (attempts to modify QDP95
properties without first closing the current file will result in the warning of Figure
47).
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Figure 47 - Attempting to Modify Properties without Closing the Current File
When this menu item is selected with no file open, the “QDP Properties” window,
shown in Figure 18 appears. These properties affect how QDP95 represents the
data. They are stored with the QDP95 software (not in the recorder data files).
For a detailed description of each of the tabs, see ”Configuration” (page 28).
Tags
Tag points can be used to mark or limit data to be analyzed. There are two tag
points. They can be used in either order and can be reapplied without clearing. In
the graphical window, tag points are indicated by vertical lines. If there is a text
window, the text for the tag points is shown in a different color. Note that a
window that is not the active one at the time the tag points are chosen (or cleared)
may have to be refreshed before changes to the tag points will be reflected. Tag
points are shown in Figure 48. A Tag point is “placed” at the current cursor
position when either the menu command or command key is used.
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Figure 48 - Tag points, Shown in Both Graphical and Text Modes
Tag point selection applies only to a data file that is currently loaded into QDP95.
Tag point selection is not saved with the data file or the QDP95 properties. When
a data file is closed, tag point selection is lost. When a data file is first opened, no
tag points are chosen.
These menu items are available whenever event recorder data is loaded and the
data window is not the active window.
Place Tag 1
This menu item assigns or reassigns tag point 1 to the current data point. The
command key for this menu item is Alt+1.
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Place Tag 2
This menu item assigns or reassigns tag point 2 to the current data point. The
command key for this menu item is Alt+2.
Clear Tag
This menu item clears both tag points. Following this action, both tag points
become undefined. The command key for this menu item is Alt+c. If tag points
are already cleared, it has no effect.
Tag Info...
This menu item causes a dialog box to appear, as shown in Figure 49, displaying
information about the locations of and relationship between the two tag points.
This menu item is available only when event recorder data is loaded, but
applicable only when two tag points have been chosen. If this menu item is
chosen when one or more of the tag points are undefined, one of the warnings of
Figure 50 will appear instead. The user must close any of these windows (using
either the “OK” or “Close” button) to allow the main QDP95 window to accept
the mouse focus.
Figure 49 - Tag Point Information
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Figure 50 - Attempts to Display Tag Point Information with Undefined Tag Points
Set
These menu items are available only when event recorder data has been loaded and
the data window is not the active window. They affect how the data in the current
file is displayed on the screen and, where applicable, in printed reports. The
settings are only in effect until the data file is closed. The data file is not modified
by these settings.
Time...
This menu item allows the user to override the time used in the display of the event
recorder data. The dialog box of Figure 51 will appear, allowing you to choose
from among two or three actions. The choices are “radio buttons” (i.e., only one
may be chosen – checking one will uncheck the previous choice). Select from
among the following choices and click “OK” to proceed (or click “Cancel” to leave
time unchanged).
Figure 51 – Preparing to Override the Time in Displayed Event Data

1) Set Time at Present Cursor Location – This selection allows the time
corresponding to the current position in the data file to be set, overriding
the previous value or the time from the data file for non-tape-format data
(or replacing the 48-hour relative time with a clock time for tape-format
data).
2) Set Removal (Download) Time – This selection allows the time
corresponding to the end of the data in the data file to be set, overriding
the previous value or the time from the data file for non-tape-format data
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(or replacing the 48-hour relative time with a clock time for tape-format
data).
3) Set Real Time mode OFF – This selection is available only if the time
used in the display of event recorder data was previously overridden
(otherwise, it is “grayed-out”). It removes the override, restoring the time
from the data file for non-tape-format data (or restoring the 48-hour
relative time for tape-format data).
If one of the first two choices is made, the dialog box of Figure 52 appears. The
initial values appearing in the dialog box are taken from the original, recorded
data except for “Time at Present Cursor Location” for tape-format data (where
1/1/1998 12:00 noon is used). Type in the desired values and click “OK (or click
“Cancel” to cancel). The keyboard up and down arrow keys or the arrow buttons
on the right sides of the time and date fields may be used to increment or
decrement the values. Use the text cursor position to indicate which portion you
wish to change – If you place the text cursor inside a subfield (e.g., minutes), the
contents of that subfield will be changed when you click on the arrow. The time
and/or date you type must be legal values in a recognizable format, or the error
message of Figure 53 will appear (Click “OK” to return to the original dialog
box).
Figure 52 – Setting the Time in Event Data
Figure 53 – Error Setting the Time in Event Data
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Milepost...
This menu item allows the user to override the vehicle location used in the display
of the event recorder data. The dialog box of Figure 54 will appear, allowing you
to choose from among two or three actions. The choices are “radio buttons” (i.e.,
only one may be chosen – checking one will uncheck the previous choice). Select
from among the following choices and click “OK” to proceed (or click “Cancel” to
leave position unchanged).
Figure 54 – Preparing to Override the Vehicle Location in Displayed Event Data

1) Set Milepost at Present Cursor Location – This selection allows the
vehicle location corresponding to the current position in the data file to be
set, overriding the previous value or the value from the data file for non-
tape-format data (or replacing the relative value for tape-format data).
2) Set Milepost at Removal Location – This selection allows the vehicle
location corresponding to the end of the data in the data file to be set,
overriding the previous value or the value from the data file for non-tape-
format data (or replacing the relative value for tape-format data).
3) Remove Set Mileposts – This selection is available only if the vehicle
location used in the display of event recorder data was previously
overridden (otherwise, it is “grayed-out”). It removes the override,
restoring the value from the data file for non-tape-format data (or restoring
the relative value for tape-format data).
NOTE: If “Absolute Mile...” is changed following setting of

“Time...”, the “Remove Set Mileposts” action
automatically occurs.
If one of the first two choices is made, the dialog box of Figure 55 appears. The
initial value appearing in the dialog box is taken from the original, recorded data
except for tape-format data (where position relative to the beginning of the data is
used). Type in the desired value and click “OK (or click “Cancel” to cancel).
The keyboard up and down arrow keys or the arrow buttons on the right side may
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be used to increment or decrement distance from the point of reference. Use the
text cursor position to indicate which digit you wish to change – If you place the
text cursor to the left of a digit (e.g., tenths), the contents of that digit will be
changed when you click on the arrow. The value you type must be a valid
number from 0 to 9999.99, in a recognizable format, or QDP95 may use a
different value from what was entered (no error message will appear). No more
than 7 characters may be entered.
Figure 55 – Setting the Vehicle Location in Event Data
When you have entered a new value, you will be asked the count direction at the
point of interest, as shown in the dialog box of Figure 56. Choose the correct
answer and click “OK (or click “Cancel” to cancel). Only one may be chosen.
The meanings of the two answers are:
Figure 56 – Setting the Count Direction in Event Data

1) Mileposts are Ascending – At the point of interest (either the current
position or the end of data, as indicated by your choice in the dialog box
of Figure 54), the vehicle was moving away from the point of reference.
2) Mileposts are Descending - At the point of interest (either the current
position or the end of data, as indicated by your choice in the dialog box
of Figure 54), the vehicle was moving toward the point of reference.
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Zoom factor...
This menu item allows you to adjust the amount by which display sampling
period is changed as you zoom and unzoom. When you open a data file, the zoom
factor is set to 30%. This means that, when you Zoom (page 50), the display
sampling period will be decreased, if possible, by 30% (i.e., more detail will be
shown, but a 30% shorter time period will fit on the screen at once). When you
UnZoom (page 52), the display sampling period will be increased, if possible, by
30% (i.e., less detail will be shown, but a 30% shorter time period will fit on the
screen at once). When this menu item is chosen, the dialog box of Figure 57 will
appear, allowing you to change the current zoom factor. Enter a percentage value
between 0 and 100. You may type the number, use the up and down arrow keys,
or click on the arrows (the arrows increment or decrement the value by one tenth).
Do not type the ‘%’. You may use numbers with a decimal point, if you wish. If
the value you enter is not valid, you will see an error message such as one of those
in Figure 58. Click “OK” for another chance.
Figure 57 – Setting the Zoom Factor
Figure 58 – Errors Setting the Zoom Factor
The number you enter may be adjusted, if necessary, depending upon the amount
of data in the file, but you will not be shown the adjusted value. If you elect to
change the value again without closing the data file, the value appearing in the
window will be the value you previously chose (not accounting for any
adjustment). If you close the data file and open another, the zoom factor will be
reset to 30%.
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Absolute Mile...
QDP95 can be configured (see “Event Data Handling”, page 30) to either use or
ignore the direction of travel when calculating vehicle location. When QDP95 is
configured to use the direction of travel, forward travel causes position to
increase and reverse travel causes it to decrease. “SetÆAbsolute Mile...” allows
direction of travel to be used without modifying the configuration, and with the
added flexibility of being able to define the direction of counting.
If direction of travel is not currently being taken into account when this menu
item is chosen, the dialog box of Figure 59 will appear. If forward motion would
cause the vehicle to move away from the point of reference (as it would for
vehicle A in Figure 60), choose “UP”. If forward motion would cause the vehicle
to move toward the point of reference (as it would for vehicle B in Figure 60),
choose “DOWN”. When you have made your choice, click “OK” (or click
“Cancel” to cancel.
Figure 59 – Setting Direction of Counting
Figure 60 – Direction of Counting
If direction of travel is currently being taken into account when this menu item is
chosen, the dialog box of Figure 61 will appear. Click “Yes” to ignore direction
of travel (or “No” or the “close box” to continue taking it into account).
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Figure 61 – Ignoring Direction of Travel
Window
These menu items, when present, are available only when event recorder data has
been loaded.
Cascade
This menu item will arrange, any minimized child windows from left to right and
then bottom to top within the QDP95 main window. It will then overlap any non-
minimized child windows in a diagonal row, from top left to bottom right, ending
with the active window (if not-minimized). The height of each non-minimized
child window will be about two-thirds the height of the main QDP95 window,
less the height occupied by closed windows. The width of each non-minimized
child window will be about three-quarters the width of the main QDP95 window.
The active child window will remain the active one. This menu item is most
useful when the text window is open and both child windows are not minimized,
in which case the result is as shown in Figure 62. Child windows may be moved
and resized following this operation.
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Figure 62 - Cascaded Windows
Tile Vertical
then bottom to top within the QDP95 main window. It will then cause any non-
minimized child windows to completely fill the remaining height of the QDP95
main window. The width of the QDP95 main window will be evenly divided
from left to right among the non-minimized windows, starting with the active
window (if not minimized). The active child window will remain the active one.
This menu item is most useful when the text window is open and both child
windows are not minimized, in which case the result is as shown in Figure 63.
Child windows may be moved and resized following this operation.
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Figure 63 - Vertically Tiled Windows
Tile Horizontal
then bottom to top within the QDP95 main window. It will then cause any non-
minimized child windows to completely fill the width of the QDP95 main
window. The remaining height of the QDP95 main window will be evenly
divided from top to bottom among the non-minimized windows, starting with the
active window (if not minimized). The active child window will remain the
active one. This menu item is most useful when the text window is open and both
child windows are not minimized, in which case the result is as shown in Figure
64. Child windows may be moved and resized following this operation.
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Figure 64 - Horizontally Tiled Windows
Full Screen
This menu item is available when event recorder data is loaded and the data
window is not the active window. It will cause the currently active child window
to completely fill the main QDP95 window, on top (so that it is the only one
visible). Effects on any other child windows are dependent on data file format.
For some, it will cause both child windows to completely fill the main QDP95
window, with the active window on top (so that it is the only one visible)
(equivalent to the clicking the “Maximize” buttons of both child windows). For
other file formats, the states of the child windows may be unaffected. When
maximized, a child window does not have its own caption, but its “Minimize”,
“Restore”, and “Close” buttons are still available. This menu item is applicable
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even if the active window is minimized. “Full-screen” is the mode in which the
graphical window appears when a file is first opened, as shown in Figure 65. A
child window that is in full-screen mode cannot be moved or resized.
Figure 65 - Child Window in "Full-Screen" Mode (Maximized)
1 <filename[> - <data format]>
This menu item is present only when event recorder data is loaded. It causes the
graphical window to become the active child window. If the graphical window is
minimized, it is restored. If no event recorder data is loaded, this menu item does
not appear. The data format sometimes appears as a part of this menu item.
When the graphical window is the active child, there is a checkmark displayed
next to this menu item.
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2 <filename>
This menu item is present only when event recorder data is loaded and a text
window exists. It causes the text window to become the active child window. If
the text window is minimized, it is restored. If no event recorder data is loaded or
a text window has not been created, this menu item does not appear. When the
text window is the active child, there is a checkmark displayed next to this menu
item.
Help
These menu items are always available.
Help Topics
On-line help is available for QDP95. This menu item causes the “Help Topics”
window to appear, displaying one three tabs (“Contents”, Index”, or “Find”)
shown in Figure 66. The “Help Topics” window always appears in front of any
other windows on the screen. Operation of the Windows Help utility is outside
the scope of this manual.
Figure 66 - Help Topics
Help is also available by pressing the ‘F1’ key while the QDP95 main window
has the focus. An introductory help screen will appear, and you can get to the
“Help Topics” screen from there.
About the QDP
This menu item causes a dialog box to appear, displaying the serial number and
licensing information, as shown in Figure 67. Version number information,
shown in Figure 68, is available for the components of the QDP95 software by
clicking on the “Version Info.” button. A scroll bar allows viewing of version
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information for more modules than fit in the window at one time. To close any of
these windows, click “OK” or the “Close” button. The main QDP95 window
cannot receive the mouse focus while these windows are being displayed.
Figure 67 - Serial Number and Licensing Information
Figure 68 - Version Information
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4. EVENT RECORDER DOWNLOAD
Event data can be downloaded directly from the event recorder to the workstation.
When data is downloaded to the workstation, it will be stored in a file. Before
downloading, it is important to configure the “Recorder Downloading” properties
(page 35). The device and directory must be set up beforehand. The filename will be
automatically constructed, as shown in Figure 69, using the vehicle number from the
event recorder and the date and time from the workstation. None of these can be
overridden at download time. If the file exists, the playback software will overwrite it
without warning. Before beginning to download, take a moment to ensure that:
1) The workstation is correctly connected to the event recorder.
2) The Recorder Downloading properties are correctly set:
a) The configured serial port matches the one to which the recorder is
actually connected.
b) The path for downloaded data points to the device and directory in which
you want to store the file.
3) The event recorder is ON.
4) The workstation clock is correctly set.
Filename
738 96:<;1;>=1=@?A3BDC
2-digit, with leading zeros, if necessary Workstation Date

Day of Month
24-hour format, 2 digits, with leading zeros, if necessary Workstation Time

Hour
last 4 characters Vehicle Number

/1032 465
Figure 69 - Filename Creation
To begin the download, choose "FileÆRecorder Download..." from the menu. When
the playback software has established communication with the event recorder, a dialog
box will appear as shown in Figure 70. A "Cancel" button is available for when this
menu item is chosen accidentally. Choose the amount of data you wish to download
(see the explanation in SetupÆProgram Options..., page 59), and click the
"Download" button.
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Figure 70 - Download Size Selection
You will be prompted to enter additional information about the download, as shown in
Figure 71. The information you enter will become a permanent part of the data file,
but is not stored in or used by the event recorder, itself. You may not have an
opportunity to change the information once it has become part of the download. Some
of the fields may be pre-filled-in with information from the event recorder. Others
will be empty. See Appendix G for details on wheel size measurement. Computed
wheel circumference is calculated from the wheel size. If you do not enter wheel size
or you enter an illegal value, the smallest possible value will be used (the event
recorder's wheel size setting, if applicable, is not used).
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Figure 71 – Additional Header Data Supplied by User at Download Time
Enter the requested data in all fields and click “OK”. Some fields, if left empty, may
cause the playback software to warn you that they are empty and to ask whether you
really wish to proceed (see Figure 72).
Figure 72 – Warning: User-Supplied, Download-Time Data Field Empty
As the download begins, success will be indicated by continual updates of download

progress, expressed in packets, as shown in Figure 73. Each packet is 1 KB. Event
data is written to the data file exactly as it is received from the event recorder. The
playback software does not interpret the recorded event data during the download.
Once a download had begun, you cannot cancel it.
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Figure 73 – Download Progress
When downloading has completed successfully, you will be informed of the name and
location of the data file, as shown in Figure 74. When you have noted the filename,
click “Done”.
Figure 74 – Successful Download of Event Data
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If the download process should fail, the program will report the error and an error
number will be displayed as shown in Figure 75. Error codes are described in
Appendix H (Page 156).
Figure 75 – Failure of Download
If the playback software has been configured (see “SetupÆProgram Options...”, page
59) to load the data file after download, the new data file will be loaded, as described
in section 5 (page 81). You do not need to (and cannot) save the data to a file yourself
– The download process does that automatically.
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5. READING A DATA FILE
To load a data file, choose “FileÆOpen a Disk file...” from the main menu. The
program will present a window such as the one shown in Figure 76. This menu will
contain a list of the files contained in the “data” subdirectory of the “qei” directory on
the drive on which QDP95 was installed. The icons associated with the data files may
vary according to the configuration of your operating system. You can adjust your
view of the data files with either the “ ” or “ ” buttons or by clicking mouse button
3 on the window background.
Figure 76 - Opening a Disk File
Using the mouse and/or keyboard, the user may navigate the file system to select the
desired file. If more files are in the current directory than can be displayed at once, a
scroll bar will appear.
Clicking the down-arrow in the “Look in” pane will allow the user to navigate the
directory tree and/or choose any of the current drives. After selecting a drive and/or
folder, the original menu will appear reflecting the files found there. Typical use of
this command will be to select the floppy drive (typically drive A). Pressing ESCAPE
or clicking “Cancel” at any time will return the user to the program menu without
loading a file.
A file may be chosen by double-clicking on its icon in the window of Figure 76 (or
clicking once and then clicking “Open” or hitting the “Enter” key). The file will be
loaded. Note that an event data file cannot be opened by double-clicking on its icon in
any other window (e.g., Explorer) or by dragging it to the QDP95 main window.
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For Quantum solid-state data files, the header data in the file will be displayed in a
window, as shown in Figure 77. At this point, the user may be given an opportunity to
enter memo information. Larger fields may have their own windows. Clicking the
“Close” button or hitting the “Escape” key will discard all entries and open the file.
When the data has been entered, continue by clicking “OK”. The event data will then
be read from disk. Progress is indicated as shown in Figure 79. When the loading is
complete, the program will advance to the graphical view mode.
Figure 77 – Typical Header Data
If the data is “raw”, the user will have the opportunity to enter some fields of the
header data that do not come from the recorder itself. Event recorder data is raw if no
one has ever been given the opportunity to fill in any of its manually entered header
information. This may be the user’s only opportunity (between loading and use of the
information) to enter data in these fields. Clicking the “Close” button or hitting the
“Escape” key will discard all entries and open the file with no warning at all.
Acceptance of the data without an entry in the some fields will result in a warning,
with one last chance, as shown in Figure 78.
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Figure 78 - Last Chance to Specify Manually Entered Header Data
Note that loading a data file does not alter its contents. Entry of the missing data
while loading the file only tells the playback software what values to use. The “only
chance” of Figure 78 refers to the time between loading the file and using the data. If
you subsequently generate a report, the place reserved for the missing information will
be empty. You cannot change the information before printing the report. If you close
the file, you can have a new “only chance” the next time you open it. If you need to
re-save the data file with the manually entered header data, see section 8 (page 99).
Figure 79 - Reading Stored Data from Disk
When all of the event data has been loaded, if the memo field in the header data has
been modified, there will sometimes be an opportunity, as shown in Figure 34, to save
the changes. Click “Yes” to rewrite the file, with the new memo data or “No” to leave
the file unchanged. Note that, if you rewrite the file in this way, only the memo field
changes will be preserved. To save the other manually entered header data, you must
re-save the data file as described in section 8 (page 99). QDP95 will then present the
information in the (maximized) graphical window.
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6. WORKING WITH A MAGNETIC TAPE
Using the QPN Q8011 magnetic tape reader, QDP95 can be used to read data from a
magnetic tape and store it to a data file. It can also perform other functions with the
magnetic tape.
A magnetic tape is an endless loop. Data is continually written to the tape by the
event recorder. When the tape is “full” (i.e., data has been recorded on the entire
length of the tape), new data is recorded on top of the old, replacing it. When the tape
is removed from the event recorder, a magnetic mark must be placed on the tape at its
current position to indicate the point where the most recent data ends and the oldest
data begins. The magnetic mark is called the “end-of-data mark”. Without the end-
of-data mark, there is no way to tell where the most recent data end and the oldest data
begin.
The tape reader reads the tape much more rapidly than the event recorder writes to it
(what took 2 min to write can be read back in about 1 sec). The tape reader can read
the entire length of the tape in about 20 min. If it continued to read much longer than
that, it would begin to read over the part of the tape it had already read.
Header information, identifies the vehicle, wheel size, event recorder, and the setting
in which the event data was captured. Due to the sequential nature of the magnetic
tape, this information is not magnetically captured on the tape, but must be manually
recorded (e.g., written down) by maintenance personnel. The playback software must
be informed of the vehicle’s wheel size in order to properly calculate speeds and
distances in the recorded data. When the event data is read from the tape, the user is
given the opportunity to provide the header information to the playback software. If
the user subsequently tells the playback software to save the event data to a file, the
header information will be stored with it.
6.1. CONNECTING TO THE MAGNETIC TAPE READER
Ensure that the QPN Q8011 magnetic tape reader, shown in Figure 80, is properly
installed, as described in Appendix D. To choose a serial port, choose menu item
“SetupÆProgram Options...” and then the “Hardware” tab of the “QDP Properties”
window (see page 28). Make sure that the tape reader is ON, as indicated by the green
POWER indicator on its front panel. The power switch is on the rear panel, where the
power cord attaches.
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Figure 80 - Q8011 Magnetic Tape Reader
Choose “FileÆRead a Magnetic tape...” from the main menu. The program will begin
performing a series of hardware tests on the tape reader. Progress of the testing will
appear in a dialog box, as shown in Figure 81. Upon conclusion of the hardware
testing, the results of the testing will be displayed in the dialog box, as shown in
Figure 82.
Figure 81 – Magnetic Tape Reader Hardware Test Progress
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Figure 82 – Magnetic Tape Reader Hardware Test Results
If the magnetic tape reader hardware test results are successful, the dialog box will
immediately be replaced by another, as shown in Figure 83, where you may choose
the magnetic tape operation you wish to perform.
Figure 83 – Magnetic Tape Reader Operations
The choices of Figure 83 are “radio buttons” (i.e., only one may be chosen – checking
one will uncheck the previous choice). The magnetic tape operations are described
briefly in Table 4 and in more detail in sections 6.2 (page 87) and 6.3 (page 88). Click
“OK” to proceed or “Cancel” if you decide not to perform a magnetic tape operation.
Table 4 - Magnetic Tape Operations

Operation Description
Play a tape for the FIRST time Used to play a tape that has just been
removed from a recorder. A magnetic
mark will be placed at the current
position on the tape to indicate the end-
of-data.
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Replay a tape To play a tape that has been played
before (in any type of reader). This
selection depends upon a magnetic mark
already being on the tape to indicate end-
of-data.
Miscellaneous Override End-of-Tape Forces the reader to collect data from the
Tape tape for 20 min, regardless of end-of-data
Operations marks.
Run to End-of-Tape Runs the tape until the end-of-data mark
is found or until 20 minutes have passed.
6.2. READING A MAGNETIC TAPE
Choose one of the tape-reading operations from the dialog box of Figure 83. It is
important that you choose the correct operation. The wrong operation can cause loss
of some of the data on the tape or complicate its recovery.
Play a tape for the FIRST time
Choose the “Play a tape for the FIRST time” operation the first time a tape is read
after being recorded. It will cause the tape reader to write an end-of-data mark to
the tape at its current position (before reading anything) and will ensure that the
point where most recent data ends and the oldest data begins can be found if the
tape ever needs to be read again before being reused.
If you accidentally choose “Play a tape for the FIRST time” with a tape that already
has an end-of-data mark, it will have multiple end-of-data marks. If they are close
together (i.e., the tape was previously positioned near the end-of-data mark), a
small amount of data will have been lost (replaced by the new end-of-data mark).
If they are far apart, you can either use the tape to produce two small sets of event
data or use the “Override End-of-Tape” operation (page 88) to recover the data as
one file.
Replay a tape
“Replay a tape” depends on the presence of an end-of-data mark and upon the tape
being positioned near the end-of-data mark (as it would have been left at the end of
a complete, successful read operation). If you suspect the tape is not properly
positioned, use the “Run to End-of-Tape” function (page 89) first. Nothing will be
written to the tape during this operation. The tape will be read from its current
position until the end-of-data mark is found.
If you accidentally choose “Replay a tape” the first time a tape is read after being
recorded, the data will still be read correctly. However, if the tape ever needs to be
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read again before being rewritten, the point where most recent data ends and the
oldest data begins will no longer be exactly the same point at which the tape is
stopped. If you discover your error within a few seconds, the best course of action
is to abort the operation and remove the tape immediately. Then start over.
Override End-of-Tape
“Override End-of-Tape” is a special tape-reading operation. It described in section

6.3, Miscellaneous Tape Operations.
6.3. MISCELLANEOUS TAPE OPERATIONS
If “Miscellaneous Tape Operations” is chosen, a dialog box will appear, as shown in

Figure 84, where you may choose from among additional tape operations.
Figure 84 – Miscellaneous Magnetic Tape Operations
Override End-of-Tape
Use the “Override End-of-Tape” operation only with caution. It is designed for
recovery of data from damaged tapes, for example:
1) A tape was partially recorded without being completely erased.
2) A tape was improperly recorded.
3) A tape has more than one end-of-data mark.
The reader will read the tape for about 20 min, starting at its current position and
ignoring the end-of-data mark(s), if present. Nothing will be written to the tape
during this operation. If you intend to read data beginning just after an end-of-data
mark (provided there is one), use the “Run to End-of-Tape” operation (below) to
position the tape first.
Note that, when event data has been read from the tape using the “Override End-of-
Tape” operation:
1) It may be impossible to determine where ignored end-of-data marks would
have been positioned in the event data.
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2) The event data may actually begin somewhere in the middle of the
captured information and then “wrap around” at the end.
3) The event data may contain discontinuities in time. Playback software
will be unaware of these.
Run to End-of-Tape
The “Run to End-of-Tape” operation is useful for a tape that has not, for some
reason (e.g., aborting during tape reading), been positioned at the end-of-data mark.
It will run the tape until either the end-of-data mark is located or about 20 min have
passed.
6.4. SELECTION OF MAGNETIC TAPE EVENT RECORDER TYPE
Following selection of a magnetic tape operation, a dialog box will appear, as shown
in Figure 85, where you must indicate the type of event recorder from which the tape
was removed. It is important (except in the case of the “Run to End-of-Tape”
operation) to choose the correct recorder type. This is how the playback software
will know what signals are represented by the event data. Your choice does not
affect the data on the tape, itself, but, if you save the event data to a file, your choice
will be permanently recorded in the data file.
Figure 85 – Selection of Magnetic Tape Event Recorder Type
After selecting the event recorder type click “OK” to proceed or “Cancel” if you
decide not to perform a magnetic tape operation.
6.5. MANUAL ENTRY OF HEADER INFORMATION
If any of the read operations from section 6.2 (page 87) is chosen, a dialog box will
appear, as shown in Figure 86 for you to provide important additional information
about the vehicle, wheel size, event recorder, and the setting in which the event data
was captured. The playback software cannot properly process the event data without
some of this information, especially wheel size. If the operation you have chosen
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does not involve use of the event data (e.g., “Run to End-of-Tape”), this dialog box
will not appear.
Figure 86 – Manual Entry of Magnetic Tape Event Recorder Header Data
Some of the fields (e.g., manufacturer) are based on your choice of recorder type (see
section 6.4, Selection of Magnetic Tape Event Recorder Type, page 89) or calculated
from other fields (e.g., computed wheel circumference) and cannot be modified by
you. Others (e.g., current time) are pre-filled-in with information from the
workstation and may be overridden by you. (Note that time and date are pre-filled-in
with information that was current when the dialog box appeared – They are not
updated while you fill in the other fields). Most of the fields need to be filled in by
you from information that was manually recorded at the time the tape was removed
from the event recorder. Enter the requested data in all fields and click “OK”.
Wheel size entry is required, as the playback software needs it to properly calculate
speeds and distances in the event data. If you decide, instead, to cancel the
operation, click the “close box”.
6.6. TAPE TRANSPORT
When it is time for the tape to begin moving, a dialog box will appear, as shown in
Figure 87, reminding you to insert the tape cartridge. Insert the tape cartridge (open
end first, with the pinch roller on the right), into the tape reader as far as it will go.
Click “OK” to start or “Cancel” (or the “close box”) to cancel.
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Figure 87 – Ready to Transport Magnetic Tape
When you tell the playback software that the tape cartridge is inserted, the red
ACTIVE indicator (see Figure 80) on the front panel of the magnetic tape reader
turns ON. A dialog box appears, as shown in Figure 88, indicating that the tape is
moving. The amount of time the tape has been moving is displayed and continually
updated. For any of the read operations from section 6.2 (page 87), an additional
message appears, as shown in Figure 89, indicating that data is being collected from
the tape. The magnetic tape operation can be cancelled at any time by clicking
“Abort”.
Figure 88 – Magnetic Tape Transport Run Time
Figure 89 – Magnetic Tape Data Collection Underway
When the tape operation is complete, the tape will stop, the red ACTIVE indicator
(see Figure 80) on the front panel of the magnetic tape reader will turn OFF, and a
dialog box will appear, as shown in Figure 90. For any of the read operations from
section 6.2 (page 87), QDP95 will present the information in the (maximized)
graphical window and an additional message will appear in the dialog box, as shown
in Figure 91, indicating how long the tape ran.
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Figure 90 – Magnetic Tape Operation Complete
Figure 91 – Magnetic Tape Reading Operation Complete
If you abort a tape-reading operation, you may need to remove the tape cartridge to
stop the tape transport. Once the red ACTIVE indicator (see Figure 80) on the front
panel of the magnetic tape reader turns OFF, you may reinsert the cartridge.
6.7. ERASING THE TAPE
After reading the data from a magnetic tape, it should be completely erased (e.g.,
with a bulk eraser) before reuse. Problems may occur, making it difficult or
impossible to read recorded data if a tape is reused without having been erased.
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7. WORKING WITH A MEMORY CARD
Using the QPN Q8007 memory card reader or the PCMCIA port of the workstation,
QDP95 can be used to read data from a memory card and store it to a data file. It can
also perform other functions with the memory card.
Installation of a Q8007 memory card reader is covered in Appendix E. PCMCIA card

support is covered in Appendix F.
7.1. READING A MEMORY CARD
Choose “FileÆRead Memory Card Data...” from the main menu. The dialog box of
Figure 92 will instruct you to insert the memory card into the card reader or
PCMCIA slot of the workstation. You may need to write-protect the memory card.
Figure 92 – Instructions to Insert Memory Card
NOTE: If all of the following apply to you, it is important that the write-protect
switch of the memory card be in the “write-protected” or “read-only”
position before proceeding:
• You are using a flash memory card (e.g., QPN Q8026 or Q8027).
• You are using Windows 95 or Windows 98 (not Windows NT).
• You are using the workstation PCMCIA card slot (not the Q8007).
Windows 95 and Windows 98 cannot read a flash memory card unless you
“write-protect” it.
Insert the memory card slowly. The PC card is keyed to fit only one way. If it does
not fully insert, turn it over and try again.
WARNING: DO NOT FORCE CARD INTO SLOT; THIS WILL CAUSE

SERIOUS DAMAGE TO THE CARD READER OR PCMCIA SLOT.
Click “OK” to read the memory card (or “Cancel” to cancel). The window of Figure
93 will appear as QDP95 reads the memory card header data.
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Figure 93 – Reading a Memory Card
The memory card will be read. For Quantum solid-state data and for any other
format whose header needs additional data, the header data will be displayed in a
window, as shown in Figure 77. At this point, the user may be given an opportunity
to enter some fields of the header data that do not come from the recorder itself.
Larger fields may have their own windows. This may be the user’s only opportunity
to enter data in these fields. Clicking the “Close” button or hitting the “Escape” key
will discard all entries and proceed with no warning at all. When the data has been
entered, continue by clicking “OK”. Acceptance of the data without an entry in the
some fields will result in a warning, with one last chance, as shown in Figure 78.
Progress is indicated as shown in Figure 79. The event data will then be read from
the card. When the loading is complete, the program will advance to the graphical
view mode.
You may remove the memory card at this point and, if necessary, place the write-
protect switch back to the “writable” position.
7.2. MEMORY CARD MAINTENANCE…
Choose “FileÆMemory Card Maintenance…” from the main menu. A dialog box
will appear, as shown in Figure 94, where you may choose from a list of memory
card functions. “Erase Flash Card Memory” appears only with a QPN Q8007
memory card reader. The function choices are “radio buttons” (i.e., only one may be
chosen – checking one will uncheck the previous choice). Choose the function you
wish to perform and click “OK” (or choose “Cancel” or the “close box” to cancel the
function). The functions are summarized in Table 5 and described below.
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Figure 94 – Memory Card Maintenance Functions: Q8007 (l) and PCMCIA Slot (r)
Table 5 - Memory Card Maintenance Functions

Function Applies Applies Available Available when Destroys
to SRAM to Flash with Q8007 using PCMCIA slot Data
/ / / /
Test Card Memory / / /
Test Card Battery / / / /
Copy Card Image / / /
Erase Flash Card Memory / / / /
Format SRAM Memory Card
When you have chosen the function, the dialog box of Figure 92 will instruct you to
insert the memory card into the card reader or PCMCIA slot of the workstation. The
position of the “write-protect” switch on the memory card is important. Except as
noted below, the card must not be write-protected for any operation that destroys
data (see Table 5).
NOTE: If all of the following apply to you, it is important that the write-protect
switch of the memory card be in the “write-protected” or “read-only”
position before proceeding:
• You are using a flash memory card (e.g., QPN Q8026 or Q8027).
• You are using Windows 95 or Windows 98 (not Windows NT).
• You are using the workstation PCMCIA card slot (not the Q8007).
Windows 95 and Windows 98 cannot read a flash memory card unless you
“write-protect” it.
Insert the memory card slowly. The PC card is keyed to fit only one way. If it does
not fully insert, turn it over and try again.
WARNING: DO NOT FORCE CARD INTO SLOT; THIS WILL CAUSE

SERIOUS DAMAGE TO THE CARD READER OR PCMCIA SLOT.
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Click “OK” to proceed with the function (or “Cancel” to cancel).
Test Card Memory
The “Test Card Memory” function performs memory testing. The process destroys
all data previously contained on the card. This function is applicable to SRAM
cards only, and is available when either the QPN Q8007 card reader or the
workstation PCMCIA slot provides the memory card support.
Before testing, a warning will appear, as shown in Figure 95, reminding you that all
data on the card will be destroyed by the test. Make sure that the memory card is
not write-protected. Choose “Yes” to proceed with the test (destroying the date) or
“No” to cancel the test.
Figure 95 – Warning: All Data on the Memory Card Will Be Destroyed
As the testing begins, a dialog box appears, as shown in Figure 96, in which the
status of the test is written at each stage of the test.
Figure 96 – SRAM Card Memory Test Status
Upon failure or successful completion of the testing, the result will be displayed, as
shown in Figure 97. Click “OK” when done viewing the result.
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Figure 97 – SRAM Card Memory Test Result
Test Card Battery
The “Test Card Battery” function performs battery testing. The process does not
affect the data contained on the card. It does not matter whether the card is write-
protected when this function is performed. This function is applicable to SRAM
cards only, and is available when either the QPN Q8007 card reader or the
Upon failure or successful completion of the testing, the result will be displayed, as
shown in Figure 98. Click “OK” when done viewing the result.
Figure 98 – SRAM Card Battery Test Result
Copy Card Image
The “Copy Card Image” function copies the entire contents of the memory card to a
file. The resulting file is NOT, for most event recorders, a data file that could be
loaded into QDP95. It is intended for troubleshooting or problem solving only.
You will never have use for this function unless Quantum Engineering, Inc.
specifically requests that you use it. This function does not affect the data
contained on the card, but, under certain circumstances (see NOTE, page 95), the
card must be write-protected. This function is applicable to both SRAM and flash
memory cards and is available when either the QPN Q8007 card reader or the
When this function is chosen, the window of Figure 93 will appear as QDP95 reads
the memory card data. The data is copied to a data file, “c:\cardmem.dat”. If the
file already existed, it will be overwritten without warning. You cannot change
what QDP95 will name the file or the location in which it will create the file.
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When the data is copied, the dialog box of Figure 99 will appear. Click “OK” to
proceed.
Figure 99 – Card Image Dump Complete
Erase Flash Card Memory
The “Erase Flash Card Memory” function erases all of the contents of a flash
memory card. The process destroys all data previously contained on the card, but,
under certain circumstances (see NOTE, page 95), the “write-protect” switch on
the memory card must be in the “write-protect” position. This function is
applicable to flash memory cards only, and is available only with the QPN Q8007
card reader.
Erasure of memory cards is not required for use of any event recorder from
Quantum Engineering, Inc. This function is intended for troubleshooting or
problem solving only.
Format SRAM Memory Card
The “Format SRAM Memory Card” function formats an SRAM card using a FAT
file system. Make sure that the memory card is not write-protected. The process
destroys all data previously contained on the card. This function is applicable to
SRAM cards only, and is available when either the QPN Q8007 card reader or the
workstation PCMCIA slot provides the memory card support. When the memory
card is formatted, the dialog box of Figure 99 will appear. Click “OK” to proceed.
Figure 100 – SRAM Card Formatting Complete
Formatting of memory cards is not required for use of any event recorder from
Quantum Engineering, Inc. This function is intended for troubleshooting or
problem solving only.
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8. WRITING A DATA FILE
Choose “FileÆSave As...” from the main menu. A dialog box will appear, as shown
in Figure 101 for you to provide important additional information about the vehicle,
wheel size, event recorder, and the setting in which the event data was captured.
Figure 101 – Entry of File Header Information as File is written
Check the modifiable data (background not grayed-out), entering values in all empty
fields and click “OK”. Clicking the “close box” will abandon your changes (as though
you had clicked “OK” without typing anything). The program will present a window
such as the one shown in Figure 102. This menu will contain a list of the files
contained in the “data” subdirectory of the “qei” directory on the drive on which
QDP95 was installed. The icons associated with the data files may vary according to
the configuration of your operating system. You can adjust your view of the data files
with either the “ ” or “ ” buttons or by clicking mouse button 3 on the window
background.
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Figure 102 – Saving a Data File
Using the mouse and/or keyboard, the user may navigate the file system to select the
desired location. If more files are in the current directory than can be displayed at
once, a scroll bar will appear. You can type in the name of a new file of click on an
existing file you wish to replace. QDP95 places no restrictions on the filename or
extension.
Clicking the down-arrow in the “Look in” pane will allow the user to navigate the
directory tree and/or choose any of the current drives. After selecting a drive and/or
folder, the original menu will appear reflecting the files found there. Typical use of
this command will be to select the floppy drive (typically drive A). Pressing ESC or
clicking “Cancel” at any time will return the user to the program menu without
loading a file.
To save the file, click “Save” after choosing the filename. Replacement of an existing
a file may be indicated by double-clicking on its icon in the window of Figure 102. If
the file already exists, you will be warned that it is about to be overwritten, as shown
in Figure 103. Click “No” if you do not want to overwrite the file. Click ”Yes” to
proceed. The file will be saved, and a dialog box, as shown in Figure 104 will confirm
the filename and location. Click “OK” to continue.
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Figure 103 – Replacing a Data File
Figure 104 – Replacing a Data File
If the data file you are saving is over 1.44 MB in size, the program will ask, see Figure
105 – Data Compression Option, if you wish to use data compression in saving the file.
When data compression is used, the file extension will be forced to “.ZIQ”. In addition,
using compression will combine all files associated with the data file (i.e. .HDR, .SIS,
and .STA) into the single compressed file.
Figure 105 – Data Compression Option
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9. VIEWING THE EVENT DATA
Event data can be viewed graphically and as text. Each of these two views appears in
its own child window. When you first load event data, the graphical view is
presented. You may then, if you wish, open a text view as well. You can close the
text window when you are done with it, keeping the current data file open, but if you
close the graphical window, the data file will be closed, usually without warning. You
may, however, minimize the graphical window or eclipse it with the text window
without closing the file. You can only view the event data from one data file at a time.
For tape-format data, the time (unless overridden, as explained in “SetÆTime...”, page
63) is relative, with 0:00:00 occurring at the beginning of the recorded data. For other
formats of data, the time and date are always absolute. When first displayed, not
every point in time is represented, but you can adjust the time resolution to show more
(or all) of the recorded data.
9.1. GRAPHICAL VIEW
In the graphical view, shown in Figure 106 and Figure 107, the event data are
displayed as a set of line graphs (as you would see on a chart recorder). Each
column of pixels represents a different point in time, and each line graph corresponds
to a data item. Each data item is labeled (digital data items at the beginning of the
recorded data, analog data items originally centered in the maximized window), and
the label is repeated, periodically throughout the time scale (which is shown at the
bottom of all the data items). The scale of the analog data items appears at the
beginning of the recorded data and is also repeated periodically. Digital data items
appear above their label when high (active) and below when low (inactive). If you
run with the QDP95 main window maximized, the graphical window maximized
within the QDP95 main window, and the data window closed, the data item labels
and scales will always appear in the window.
Tic marks appear at time intervals on the time scale (with hours and minutes shown
in different colors) and at distance intervals on the speed chart (at distance intervals
of 1 and 10).
The graphical view appears, at minimum time resolution, when the event data is first
loaded (for Q-Tron data, the “extended” log is first shown). To return to the
graphical window when it is minimized or eclipsed by the text window, choose
“ViewÆAs Graph” from the main menu or “View Graph” from the mouse button 3
menu. The graphical child window will appear, maximized, within the QDP95 main
window, as shown in Figure 106 and Figure 107.
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Figure 106 – Maximized Graphical Window, w/o Data Window, in Main Window
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Figure 107 – Maximized Graphical Window, with Data Window, in Main Window
Usually, a vertical scroll bar will appear on the right of the data, allowing you to
navigate through data items, and a horizontal scroll bar will appear on the right of the
data, allowing you to navigate through time.
There are two panes to the graphical window: The graphical pane (on the right) and
the data “window”, which may be made to appear on the left. The data window is
initially closed when the data is first loaded. Its presence may be toggled (only when
the graphical pane has the focus) using main menu item “ViewÆData Window”
from the main menu or “Data Window” from the mouse button 3 menu. The
position of the split between the two panes of the graphical window can be changed
by grabbing and dragging it. The time resolution of the data displayed in the
graphical pane does not change, rather data appears or disappears from the right side
of the graphical pane as the size of the graphical pane is increased or decreased,
respectively. If the size of the data window becomes insufficient to display all of the
information at one time, it, too, will have scroll bars.
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You can configure which data items appear in the two panes of this window (see
“SetupÆVideo Graph Screen Setup...”, page 58, and “SetupÆData Window
Setup...”, page 59) and the colors that are used in them (see “SetupÆColors...”, page
59). You cannot control the font that is used to display the data, but you may be able
to change the screen resolution your workstation uses. It is recommended that you
view the data with the QDP95 main window maximized in the desktop and the child
window maximized within the QDP95 main window.
The “active data position” corresponds to a point in time (e.g., the data for relative
time 01:45:36 in Figure 106 and Figure 107). The graphical pane will display a
vertical line at the event data corresponding to the active data position. You can
change the active data position by clicking at a new horizontal position
(corresponding to a different time). You can also change it, one (displayed) data
point at a time by using the cursor keys on the keyboard (“Ctrl+Left” changes it to an
earlier point in time; “Ctrl+Right” changes it to a later point in time). The “Left” and
“Right” keys by themselves (without “Ctrl”) also change the active data point (but by
a larger amount of time). The “Page Up” and “Page Down” keys scroll the data up
and down (to show other data items). “Home” and “End” set the active data position
to the first and last currently displayed points in time, respectively. “Ctrl+Home”
and “Ctrl+End” scroll to the beginning and end, respectively, of the data, without
affecting the active data position. Using the vertical scroll bar to navigate the time
does not change the active data position (and it can scroll out of view). Changing the
active data position does not scroll the view (and the active data position can occur
out of view).
If the graphical window is the active window and the graphical pane is the active
pane, place the mouse cursor just inside the bottom edge of the displayed data, and a
“tool tip”, showing the time and location at the horizontal position of the mouse
cursor will appear, as shown in Figure 108. The tool tip is not available for tape-
format data and may require the child window to be maximized within the QDP95
main window. The contents are not updated as you move the mouse cursor from left
to right. It disappears when you move the mouse out of the region.
Figure 108 – Tool Tip in Bottom of Graphical Window, Showing Time and Location
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The title bar of the graphical child window, when normalized, customarily contains
the name of the data file and indicates its format, as well, while the title bar of the
main QDP95 window displays the name of the application (Quantum Desktop
Playback) and the name of the data file (see Figure 62). If the graphical window is
maximized, the title bar of the main QDP95 window will change to include the entire
title of the child window (which no longer has its own title bar), as shown in Figure
106 and Figure 107.
9.2. TEXT VIEW
In the text view, shown in Figure 109, the event data are displayed in tabular form.
Each row represents a different point in time, and each column corresponds to a data
item.
To view the data as text, event data must already be loaded into QDP95. Choose
“ViewÆAs Text” from the main menu or “View Text” from the mouse button 3
menu. The text child window will appear, maximized, within the QDP95 main
window, as shown in Figure 109.
Figure 109 – Maximized Text Window in Main Window
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A vertical scroll bar will usually appear on the right of the data, allowing you to
navigate through time. In Figure 109, all of the data items fit across the window,
but, when they do not, a horizontal scroll bar will appear at the bottom of the
window, allowing you to navigate through the data items, as well.
You can configure which data items appear in the window (see “SetupÆText Screen
Setup...”, page 58) and the colors that are used in it (see “SetupÆColors...”, page
59). You cannot control the font that is used to display the data, but you may be able
to change the screen resolution your workstation uses. It is recommended that you
view the data with the QDP95 main window maximized in the desktop and the child
window maximized within the QDP95 main window.
The “active data position” corresponds to a point in time (e.g., the data for relative
time 01:45:36 in Figure 109). The text window will highlight the event data
corresponding to the active data position. You can change the active data position by
clicking on the row of data corresponding to a different time. You can also change
it, one (displayed) data point at a time by using the cursor keys on the keyboard
(“Up” and “Left” keys change it to an earlier point in time; “Down” and “Right”
change it to a later point in time). The “Page Up” and “Page Down” keys also scroll
the data (but by a larger amount). “Home” and “End” set the active data position to
the first and last currently displayed points in time, respectively. “Ctrl+Home” and
“Ctrl+End” scroll to the beginning and end, respectively, of the data, without
affecting the active data position. Using the scroll bars to navigate the data does not
change the active data position (and it can scroll out of view). Changing the active
data position by clicking on a different data row does not scroll the data, but if you
use the cursor keys to change it, the highlighted area of the window will stay where it
is, with the data scrolling as necessary (except at the beginning of the data, where
there is nowhere to which you can scroll).
The title bar of the text child window, when normalized, customarily contains only
the name of the data file, while the title bar of the main QDP95 window displays the
name of the application (Quantum Desktop Playback) and the name of the data file
(see Figure 62). If the graphical window is maximized, the title bar of the main
QDP95 window will change to include the entire title of the child window (which no
longer has its own title bar), as shown in Figure 109.
9.3. WINDOW INTERACTIONS
The time indicated by the active data position in the graphical view and highlighted
in the text view always match. If you change the active data position in the graphical
window, the data in the text window will scroll, with the highlighted area of the
window remaining in the same position. If you change the active data position in the
text window, the data window does not scroll (and the cursor position may be outside
the currently-viewed data region).
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You may zoom or unzoom in either the graphical or the text window (in the
graphical window, the graphical view must be the active pane). The result is
apparent in both windows. Note that, due to rounding, zooming a number of times
and then unzooming that same number of times may not take you to exactly the same
time resolution.
You may set tag points (see “Tags”, page 60) in either the graphical or the text
window (in the graphical window, the graphical view must be the active pane). The
tag points will be visible in both windows, as shown in Figure 48. In the graphical
window, they will be marked by vertical lines. In the text window, they will have a
different color text than that of the other data.
The data window reflects both the active data position and the time resolution with
which the data is being displayed. If either of these is changed in the graphical or in
the text window, the changes appear in the data window, as well. The locations of
the tag points are not displayed in the data window, but, if both tag points are
defined, their positions and separation can be displayed using main menu item
“TagsÆTag Info...” (page 62).
9.4. MOUSE BUTTON 3 ACTIONS
Mouse button 3 may be used in both the graphical window (graphical pane only) and
the text window (heading or data pane). The mouse button 3 actions are shown in
Table 6 and described below. Grayed-out items in Table 6 may be unavailable,
depending on the sequence of events that has occurred.
Table 6 - Mouse Button 3 Menu Items for Graphical and Text Windows
Mouse Button 3 Item Graphical Text
Current Display Info… ¥
Data Window y ¥
Find… ¥ ¥
Find Again… ¥ ¥
Macro Scan Report… ¥ ¥
Show Next Scan location ¥ ¥
Zoom F3 ¥ ¥
UnZoom F4 ¥ ¥
MaxZoom F5 ¥ ¥
MaxUnZoom ¥ ¥
View Graph ¥
View Text ¥
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Current Display Info…
This menu item, which is available only in the text window, causes a dialog box to
appear, as shown in Figure 110, indicating the current time resolution of the
displayed data. In the graphical view, similar information is available in the data
window. Click “OK” when done viewing the information.
Figure 110 – Time Resolution of Displayed Data
Data Window /
This data item, which is only available in the graphical window, cascades into two
submenu items, both of which are available all the time.
On
“On” will open the data window if it is currently closed. If the data window is
already open, it will change the size of the data window, if necessary, so that has
its original width (see “ViewÆData Window”, page 49).
Off
“Off” will close the data window if it is currently open. If the data window is
already closed, it will have no effect.
Find…
This menu item is the same as main menu item “AnalyzeÆFinder...” (page 56).
Further description appears in section 10.1 (page 112).
Find Again…
This menu item, which is available only when a search condition and starting point
have already been established, causes a search for the next occurrence of the search
condition. For details, see section 10.1 (page 112).
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Macro Scan Report…
This menu item, which is only available when a macro scan has been run on the
event data, redisplays the results of the scan. For details, see “Using the Macro Scan
Function” in section 10.1 (page 119).
Show Next Scan location
This menu item, which is only available when a macro scan has been run on the
event data, displays the event data, with maximum time resolution, at the location
of the next matching scan condition. For details, see section 10.1 (page 112).
Zoom
This menu item is the same as main menu item “ViewÆZoom” (page 50).
UnZoom
This menu item is the same as main menu item “ViewÆUnZoom” (page 52).
MaxZoom
This menu item is the same as main menu item “ViewÆMaxZoom” (page 52).
MaxUnZoom
This menu item decreases, as much as possible, the amount of time resolution
with which the data is displayed (restoring the resolution to what it was when the
data file was first opened). This will necessarily increase the span of time and
distance displayed within a window. The current position within the data file
minimum time resolution, the action is silently ignored. There is no keyboard
command for this action.
contents of a data file.
View Graph
This menu item, which is only available in the text window, is the same as main
menu item “ViewÆAs Graph” (page 54).
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View Text
This menu item, which is only available in the graphical pane of the graphical
window, is the same as main menu item “ViewÆAs Text” (page 53).
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10. DATA ANALYSIS
10.1. SEARCHING EVENT DATA FOR SPECIFIC CONDITIONS
You can use QDP95 to search through event data to find the occurrence(s) of one or
more conditions. You can select the portion of data you wish to search and then set
up the event for which you wish to search. If the search is one that you use often,
you may save a description of the search and then recall it whenever you need to use
it.
Searching for a Single Condition
The single-event search allows the user to search for a single value or event. This
would include searching for events such as, “speed greater than 30”. For some data
items, you can search for one of a list of values (for the one data item), such as
“throttle equal to Notch 4 or Notch 5 or Notch 7”.
To begin, choose “AnalyzeÆFinder...” from the main menu or “Find…” from the
mouse button 3 menu. One of the dialog boxes of Figure 111 will appear.
Figure 111 – Finder Choices: with (l) and without (r) stopping distance
Choose the search for a single event and click “OK” (or click “Cancel” or the
“close box” to cancel). You will be presented with a dialog box such as that of
Figure 112. Choose the range of data in which you wish QDP95 to search (you
must have both tag points set if you wish to search between tag points) and click
“OK” (or click “Cancel” or the “close box” to cancel).
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Figure 112 – Choosing the Range for a Search
The dialog box of Figure 113 or Figure 115 will appear. The recorded events will
vary, depending on the recorder type. For solid-state data, a vertical scroll bar will
appear if there are more data items than can be displayed in the list at one time.
You can choose one data item, one type of comparison, and one value. Selecting a
new choice will deselect the previous choice.
Figure 113 – Searching for a Single Condition in Tape-Format Data
For tape-format data:

1) Select the data item to be used in the search by clicking its name or the
checkbox in front of it.
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2) Select the type of comparison from the list of available comparisons for
the chosen data item. Click “ ” to see the list of choices, as shown in
Figure 114. Then click on your selection in the list.
a) For an analog data item, choose “Equal”, “Greater Than”, or “Less
Than”. The choice will appear in the box after it is selected.
b) For a discrete data item, you may choose more than one value (in which
case any one of them would constitute a match). Each chosen value will
be marked by an “x”. The choices will be visible only when the list is
opened. Add a comparison to the list by clicking on it. You cannot
delete a comparison from the list (to start over, choose “Clear List”).
c) For a binary data item, choose one of the two values (e.g., “Active (ON)”
or “Inactive (OFF)”). The choice will appear in the box after it is
selected.
Only the comparisons for the currently chosen data item matter (e.g., if
you choose “independent brake ON” and then change your mind and pick
“Speed” as the data item, the “ON” corresponding to “independent brake”
is ignored).
Figure 114 – Tape-Format Data Item Comparisons: Analog(l);Discrete(c);Binary(r)

3) Select (if applicable) a value for the comparison.
a) For an analog data item, use a valid numeric value.
b) For a discrete data item, the number of discrete values selected will be
indicated (e.g., “3 Selections made”). You do not have to enter a value.
c) For a binary item, the numeric value corresponding to your choice will
be indicated (e.g., “Active (ON)” will cause “1” to appear). You do not
have to enter a value.
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Figure 115 – Searching for a Single Condition in Solid-State Data
For solid-state data:

1) Select a data item by clicking on its name (you may have to scroll through
the list to find the data item you wish to use). The item will be highlighted
in the list and its name will appear in the “Selected Event” field. Selecting
a data item automatically deselects any previously selected data item. The
“When the Event is…” area of the dialog box will reflect the type of data
item selected, as shown in Figure 116, Figure 117, and Figure 118.
2) Select a comparison and value(s).
a) For an analog data item, choose “Greater Than” or “Less Than” by
clicking the checkbox or the words (selecting one automatically
deselects the other). Enter a valid numeric value in the field provided.
Figure 116 – Solid-State Comparison and Value for an Analog Data Item
b) For a discrete data item, you may choose more than one value (in which
case any one of them would constitute a match). Add or remove values
to or from the list by clicking on the checkbox or the words. Each
chosen value will be marked by a “¥´
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Figure 117 – Solid-State Values for a Discrete Data Item
c) For a binary data item, choose one of the two values (e.g., “Hi / Active /
On” or “Lo / Inactive / Off”) by clicking the checkbox or the words
(selecting one automatically deselects the other).
Figure 118 – Solid-State Values for a Discrete Data Item
When the search conditions have been established, click “SEARCH” or “FIND IT”
to begin the search (or “Cancel” or the “close box” to cancel). The dialog box of
Figure 119 will appear as QDP95 searches the event data for the condition.
Figure 119 – Search in Progress
If the condition is not found in the data, the dialog box of Figure 120 will appear,
but if it is found, the dialog box of Figure 121 will appear, indicating the time and
location of the match.
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Figure 120 – Search Unsuccessful
Figure 121 – Search Successful
Click:
1) “Cancel” (or the “close box”) to ignore the search results and discard the
search conditions (leaving the view as it was),
2) “Find Again” to repeat the search for the next occurrence of the conditions
(without affecting the view), or
3) “Show Me” to zoom in (at maximum resolution), with the active cursor
position indicating the occurrence. You can zoom back out, if you wish.
If you have clicked “Show Me” and subsequently decided you needed to find
another occurrence, the dialog box is gone. However, you may choose mouse
button 3 menu item “Find Again…” to continue the search for the established
conditions.
Searching for Multiple Conditions
The multiple-event search allows the user to search for a multiple event. This
would include searching for events such as, for example:
(speed > 30) AND (motor current > 1200) AND (reverse trainline ON).
The multiple-event search lets you set a search condition by concatenating some or
all of the recorded events. Multiple events are always ANDed together.
This function works much like the single-condition search. Only the differences
are described.
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For tape-format data, shown in Figure 123, event selection is no longer mutually
exclusive (i.e., selection of a data item does not automatically deselect a previously
chosen data item). A data item can be removed from the set of conditions by
clicking on its checkbox or its name.
Figure 122 – Searching for Multiple Conditions in Tape-Format Data
For solid-state data, shown in Figure 123:
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Figure 123 – Searching for Multiple Conditions in Solid-State Data
1) A “Next Event” button appears, allowing you to specify additional
conditions
2) A “Clear Entries” button appears, allowing you to restart the specification
of search conditions. You can edit a condition you have established, but
you cannot delete just one.
3) A list of conditions appears, allowing you to review the conditions that
have been set up as you go along. If the list gets long enough, a vertical
scroll bar appears. To edit a condition you have established, select it in
this list and then modify it in the same manner as you originally set it.
Using the Macro Scan Function
The macro scan allows you to establish up to 30 sets or “levels” of search

conditions. Each level, which is similar to a multiple-condition search, can be
instantaneous or timed. QDP95 will declare a match whenever the conditions for
any one of the levels have been met.
You name a macro when you create it. QDP95 stores it as a file. The file
extension or type is “.qmc”, “.qmr”, “.qmt”, or “.qmu” (depending on the format of
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the data file to which it applies). When you want to use the macro again, you look
for it by name.
You may edit and resave a saved macro.
There is on-line help available for the macro scan function.
10.2. CALCULATING STOPPING DISTANCE
This analysis tool, available for most types of event data, calculates the stopping
distance from the active data point to a defined stop. The stopping distance
calculation has a range of approximately 9 mi. An error message will appear if an
attempt is made to calculate a longer stopping distance.
From the dialog box of Figure 111, choose “Find Stopping Distance” and click
“OK”. If the stopping distance is successfully calculated, the dialog box of Figure
124 will appear, indicating the stopping distance and time, as well as the wheel size
used in the calculation.
Figure 124 – Stopping Distance Calculation
Click “OK” when you are done viewing the stopping distance or “Print it!” to
generate the printed report of Figure 125. You may wish to annotate the report (by
hand) with the location from which the stopping distance was calculated.
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Figure 125 – Stopping Distance Report
10.3. CALCULATING DUTY CYCLE
This function computes the throttle duty cycle for a given set of data. Choose
“AnalyzeÆDuty Cycle...” from the main menu. Choose the range for computation
from the dialog box of Figure 126 (you must have both tag points set if you wish to
use the data between tag points) and click “OK” (or click “Cancel” or the “close
box” to cancel).
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Figure 126 – Choosing the Range for Computation
Results are displayed in the dialog box of Figure 127. Time in each notch is
displayed in hours and hundredths. Percent duty cycle is also shown.
Figure 127 – Duty Cycle Report (On-Screen)
If you prefer a slightly different report, click “Show Time Report”, and the dialog
box of Figure 128 will appear. Total and average time in each notch are displayed in
hours, minutes, and seconds. Percent duty cycle is not shown. Once you have
displayed the alternate report of Figure 128, you cannot return to the original report
of Figure 127 (you must recompute the results).
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Figure 128 – Alternate Duty Cycle Report (On-Screen)
Click “OK” or the “close box” when you are done reviewing the data. Click “Print
Report” to generate a printed report (see section 11.4, page 132).
10.4. ESTIMATING FUEL CONSUMPTION
QDP95 can provide an estimate of the fuel consumption for a consist. The consist
can be created by the user by selecting the proper motive power from a user-defined
database. The database for a motive power unit indicates its hourly fuel
consumption in each notch. The data can consist of data supplied by the
manufacturer of the unit or from actual test data. Once defined, the data is saved for
future use. The file type/extension for a database is “.ldf”.
Once a database has been defined for a motive power unit, you can edit it later.
Choose motive power units (i.e., select “.ldf” files) to build a consist. Once the
consist is complete, you can tell QDP95 to proceed with the analysis.
Estimated fuel consumption is not available for some vehicle types. If unavailable, a
warning message similar to that of Figure 129 will appear.
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Figure 129 – Warning: Fuel Consumption Estimate Inapplicable or Unavailable
10.5. EXPORTING DATA FOR SIMULATORS
Support is available to export data for use by the AAR Train Operations and Energy
Simulator (TOES) and to train operation simulators such as those manufactured by
IITRI or NYAB, for example. The user should be familiar with the limitations of
simulating train operation with certain types of recorder data. Consult
Quantum Engineering, Inc. for additional information.
10.6. FRA TEST FUNCTION
The FRA test function, with the use of the QPN 1230 recorder tester, will produce a
short section of chart showing the recorder tester input. Choose “AnalyzeÆFRA
Test/Scan...” from the main menu. The dialog box of Figure 130 will appear.
Choose “Process FRA Test in data file” or “Scan data for event action” and click
“OK” (or click “Cancel” or the “close box” to cancel).
Figure 130 – Choosing an FRA Test Function
FRA Test
The dialog box of Figure 119 will appear as QDP95 searches for the test pattern
produced by the recorder tester. If the pattern is found, the short test pattern is
displayed for user verification. If the test pattern is not found, the dialog box of
Figure 131 will appear.
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Figure 131 – FRA Test Pattern not found
Click “OK” to proceed to the data scan.
Data Scan
The data scan will scan the recorded event data and report events not “seen” in the
data. If an FRA test pattern is present, this area of the data will be ignored. The
data scan will check the recorded data for each event and condition of that event.
The dialog box of Figure 132 will appear, listing the determined event status. Click
“Print Results” to print the report of Figure 133 or “OK” (or the “close box”) when
done viewing the results.
Figure 132 – FRA Data Scan Results (On-Screen)
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Figure 133 – FRA Data Scan Results (Printed)
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11. PRINTED REPORTS
11.1. FILE HEADER REPORT
The file header information may be printed by displaying it (see ViewÆHeader

Data, above) and clicking the “Print” button. Sometimes this opportunity arises as
the file is being opened.
Some, but not all, of the header information also appears on the first page of a
graphical or text report.
An example of a printed file header report is shown in Figure 134. The content of
the file header varies, depending on recorder type.
Figure 134 - File Header Report

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11.2. GRAPHICAL REPORT
The event data may be printed in graphical form by choosing “PrintÆGraph” from
the QDP95 main menu. The data items displayed in the printed graphical report are
configurable by choosing “SetupÆPrinted Graph Page Setup” from the QDP95 main
menu. See “Selection of Displayed Data Items” (page 38) for details.
A dialog box will appear, as shown in Figure 135, in which you must indicate the
portion of the data you wish to include in the report. The choices are:
Figure 135 – Choosing Range of Data for a Graphical or Text Report

1) Print ALL the data – This choice reports all of the data in the data file.
2) Print TO the cursor – This choice reports only data from the beginning of
the data file to the active data position.
3) Print FROM the cursor – This choice reports only data from the active
data position to the end of the data file.
4) Print between TAG points – This choice reports only data between the tag
points. You must establish both tag points (see “Tags”, page 60) to
choose this, or the error message of Figure 136 will appear, and the report
will be cancelled.
Figure 136 – Attempting to Report Data between Undefined Tag Points
Choose the range of data you wish to include in the report and click “OK” (or choose
“Cancel” to cancel).
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For a graphical report, you will be presented with another dialog box, shown in
Figure 137, where you must indicate the type of chart your report will contain.
Approximate event densities for graphical reports of magnetic-tape-format data are
shown in Table 7. Similar event densities will be obtained with solid-state-format
data. Choose the type of chart to include in the report and click “OK” (or choose
“Cancel” to cancel).
Figure 137 – Selection of Chart Type for a Graphical Report
Table 7 - Event Densities for Graphical Reports of Magnetic-Tape-Format Data

Chart Type Approximate Density (time/page)
Expanded 52 min
Normal 2 hr
Compressed 10 hr
The “Print” dialog box will then appear, where you may select the printer to which
your report will be sent and configure the printer properties (e.g., paper size and
orientation) to be used for the report. Some printers are capable of producing a
continuous strip chart (see Appendix I for details). Make your selections and click
“OK” (or click “Cancel” to cancel).
It is possible to configure a printed graphical report with more data than that which
will fit on a page. If the data does not all fit on a page, QDP95 will warn you when it
tries to print the report, as shown in Figure 138, and you will be given an opportunity
to remove data from the report. On the right are shown the following:
1) Space Available – the amount of space available on a page of your report
(given your current printer setup)
2) Used Space – the amount of space required to represent all of the data
items you have chosen to include in your report.
In the scrolling list on the left are shown the data items currently configured to
appear in your report. With each is shown the amount of space it requires. Note that
additional space (not shown) is required to separate data items in the report. From
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the scrolling list, select less-important data items, one at a time, and click “Remove”
until the “Used Space” no longer exceeds the “Space Available”. When you have
succeeded in making the included data items fit on the pages of your report, click
“OK”, and your report will begin to print (or click “Cancel” to cancel). The
adjustments you have made to the included data items will be recorded in the QDP95
configuration and will be used (unless you change them) for future reports of this
type for data in this format. An example of a printed graphical report is shown in
Figure 139.
Figure 138 – Culling Reported Data to Allow Printed Output to Fit on a Page
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Figure 139 - Graphical Report
11.3. TEXT REPORT
The event data may be printed in text form by choosing “PrintÆText” from the
QDP95 main menu. The data items displayed in the printed text report are
configurable by choosing “SetupÆPrinted Text Page Setup...” from the QDP95 main
menu. See “Selection of Displayed Data Items” (page 38) for details.
The process is similar to that for the graphical report (above), except that event
density is not chosen. An example of a printed text report is shown in Figure 140.
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Figure 140 - Text Report
11.4. DUTY CYCLE REPORT
Printed reports of the duty cycles calculated in section 10.3 (page 121) can be
generated. Calculate the duty cycle as described and then click “Print Report”. The
results are shown in Figure 141. The printed report will contain the same type of
duty cycle report as the dialog box (i.e., the report on the left corresponds to the
dialog box of Figure 127 and the one on the right to that of Figure 128).
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Figure 141 – Duty Cycle Reports (Printed): Percent (l); Alternate (r)
11.5. MACRO SCAN REPORT
The results of a macro scan (see Using the Macro Scan Function, page 119) can be
printed in either long form (showing the details of the event data matching the
conditions) or as a simple summary (indicating just the location of the matching
event data).
11.6. Q-TRON SYSTEM LOG REPORT
For Q-Tron data, the system log may be printed in graphical form by first displaying
the system log (choosing “ViewÆDisplay ChoicesÆSystem Log” from the QDP95
main menu) and then clicking “Print” on any page of the data displayed in the dialog
box. Regardless of which page is being displayed when “Print” is clicked, the entire
system log will be printed (not just the information from the page being displayed).
An example of a printed graphical report is shown in Figure 142.
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Quantum Desktop Playback
Q-Tron System Log
Quantum Desktop Playback Quantum Desktop Playback Distance Statistics
Q-Tron System Log Q-Tron System Log
Throttle Statistics Speed Statistics Report Date: 11-17-1999
Locomotive 631 Data Removed on 10-12-97
Report Date: 11-17-1999 Report Date: 11-17-1999
Locomotive 631 Data Removed on 10-12-97 Locomotive 631 Data Removed on 10-12-97 Short Term Distance 113494.4
Long Term Short Term Range (MPH) Time (Hours) Long Term Distance 197487.6
On Time Off Time On % On Time Off Time On %
= 0 2493.2 Forward Distance 140253.0
Idle 4651 5098 47.7 2693.1 2948.0 47.7 1= 9 437.5
Notch 1 399 9349 4.1 234.0 5407.1 4.1 10 = 19 418.1 Reverse Distance 56030.3
Notch 2 360 9388 3.7 215.2 5425.9 3.8 20 = 29 413.5
Notch 3 333 9415 3.4 193.4 5447.7 3.4 30 = 39 438.4 Neutral Distance 1204.3
Notch 4 261 9488 2.7 150.7 5490.4 2.7 40 = 49 528.8
Notch 5 272 9477 2.8 159.4 5481.7 2.8 50 = 59 438.0
Notch 6 256 9493 2.6 149.7 5491.4 2.7 60 = 69 455.5
Notch 7 210 9538 2.2 122.3 5518.8 2.2 70 = 79 18.1
Notch 8 1826 7923 18.7 1016.7 4624.4 18.0 80 = 89 0.0
Dyn. Brk. 1146 8603 11.8 679.2 4961.9 12.0 90 = 99 0.0
Isolated 0 9749 0.0 0.0 5641.1 0.0 100 = 109 0.0
110 = 119 0.0
120 = 129 0.0
130 = 139 0.0
Recorder run time is: 9749 140 > 0.0
All times are in hours.
Total 5641.1
Quantum Desktop Playback Quantum Desktop Playback

Q-Tron System Log Q-Tron System Log
Recorder Analog Thresholds Diagnostic Log
Report Date: 11-17-1999 Report Date: 11-17-1999
Locomotive 631 Data Removed on 10-12-97 Locomotive 631 Data Removed on 10-12-97
Diagnostic's since: 09:39:21 02/19/97
Speed 1.0 MPH
FAULTS DESCRIPTION
Brake Pipe 2 PSI 0 MODULE INITIALIZATION
0 MODULE RAM CHECK FAULT
Brake Cylinder 2 PSI 0 SCRATCH RAM CHECK FAUL
0 ROM CHECK FAULT
TMC 99 Amps 0 CALENDAR CLOCK
0 MODULE BATTERY
Analog Ch. 4 3 Percent 0 A/D REFERENCE
0 LOCO ID
0 SLOT #1: DIG/ANA PCB
0 SLOT #1: ANALOG REF
0 SLOT #2: PC CARD DRIVER
0 SLOT #2: CARD/LOBAT FLT
0 SLOT #3: VIGILANCE
0 SLOT #3: MVOS CIRCUIT
0 SLOT #4: SPARE
0 SLOT #4: RESERVED
0 BRAKE PIPE TRANSDUCER
0 BRAKE CYLIN TRANSDUCER
0 RESERVED
0 RESERVED
0 RESERVED
0 RESERVED
0 RESERVED
0 RESERVED
0 RESERVED
0 RESERVED
Figure 142 – Q-Tron System Log Report
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APPENDIX A – APPLICABLE DOCUMENTS
1) 49 CFR, Sections 229.135 and 299.5 g – Code of Federal Regulations:
Transportation, FRA Regulations Covering Event Recorders, Office of the
Federal Registrar.
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APPENDIX B – ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS
Table 8 – Abbreviations and Acronyms
Abbreviation Description
or Acronym
… For a menu item, this means additional dialog will occur
before an action can be taken.
Æ Indicates a menu selection that cascades into submenu items
AAR Association of American Railroads
absolute time a time such as you would see on a clock (e.g., 8 o’clock PM)
Alt a key which if held down while pressing another, modifies the
input provided by the other
application Computer program
CD Compact disk
CFR code of federal regulations
checkbox a little region that gets marked or unmarked to indicate a
choice or selection. In a dialog box, clicking a checkbox
toggles selection of the item.
COM1..4 serial communication ports
CPU central processing unit
Ctrl a key which if held down while pressing another, modifies the
.dat Data
.dll dynamic link library
dpi dots per inch
download to copy information (typically a file) from some other
computer to your computer
ESC Escape
EULA end-user license agreement
.exe executable image
F1..F12 function keys
FAT file allocation table
FRA United States Department of Transportation, Federal Railroad
Administration
grayed-out visual state of text or an image clearly indicating that the item
it represents is inapplicable or unavailable. Often, it looks
painted-over or incompletely erased. It need not be gray.
I/O input/output
icon graphical image representing a file, application, or concept
IIT Illinois Institute of Technology
IITRI Illinois Institute of Technology Research Institute
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Abbreviation Description
or Acronym
INT Internal
ISA Industry Standard Architecture
KB kilobyte(s)
LPTn parallel port
MB megabyte(s)
MHz Megahertz
min minute(s)
MP Milepost
NYAB New York Air Brake
PCI peripheral component interconnect/interface
PCMCIA Personal Computer Memory Card International Association
pixel picture element – If you make a picture out of rows and rows
of dots (as on a computer screen), a pixel is one such dot.
PP parallel port
QDP Quantum Desktop Playback
QEI Quantum Engineering, Inc.
QIM Quantum instruction manual
QPN Quantum part number
R/N road number
radio buttons set of control buttons where selection of only one at a time is
possible – Selecting one deselects the others
RAM random-access memory
raw unprocessed; lacking manually provided header data
relative time a time such as you would see on a stopwatch (e.g., 8 minutes)
RTTC Railway Technical Training Center
s second(s)
Shift a key which if held down while pressing another, modifies the
SRAM static, random-access memory
SUM software user’s manual
SVGA super video graphics array
TOES Train Operations and Energy Simulator
tool tip a little label that pops up when you cause the mouse cursor to
hover in some predefined region and then disappears when you
move out of the region (sometimes called a “hint”)
.txt Text
unzoom to decrease resolution, appearing to be farther away
zoom to increase resolution, appearing to be closer
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APPENDIX C – WINDOW TERMINOLOGY
This appendix describes some of the windowing system terminology that is used in the
instruction manual. The purpose is not to introduce the user to windowing technology,
but merely to ensure that terminology, as used in this manual, is understood.
C.1 WINDOWS
A window is an area within a display where an image appears. There can be many
different kinds of windows, with differing levels of decoration and user control.
Window Types
A program can operate more than one window at a time. QDP95 operates only one
“main window” and several layers of “dialog boxes”. Contained within the QDP95
main window are sometimes “child windows”. If the size of a child window
exceeds that which will fit into the main window, part of the child window will not
be visible, as shown in Figure 143. Figure 146 shows the QDP main window with
two child windows in it. Figure 144 shows two dialog boxes.
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Figure 144 - Dialog Boxes
A dialog box is intended to convey information either from the user to the
application or from the application to the user (or both). The information is often
of a nature such that the application should not proceed until the information has
been conveyed. The dialog box may contain buttons, checkboxes, writable or read-
only fields, and scrollable regions.
Usually, a dialog box can be moved, but not resized, and it prevents any other
windows controlled by the same application from receiving the focus. If it does
prevent them from receiving the focus, it should also stay on top of all of the other
windows controlled by the application. You must then close the dialog box before
you can take any action in the other windows of the application. There are often
multiple ways to close a dialog box, but often with differing results. Dialog boxes
are often looking for an answer to a question, and may contain specific buttons with
the answers on them (e.g., “Yes” and “No”). Both buttons can cause the box to
close, but the results are different. Sometimes there is a “Cancel” button,
equivalent to clicking the “close box” without finishing your response. The ‘Esc’
key often performs the “Cancel” operation. In other cases, how you close the
dialog box is less important. Usually, an “Alt+<some key>” combination (where
the key name is underlined on the button) corresponds to buttons of the dialog box
and ‘Tab’ and ‘Shift+Tab’ take you forward and backward through the fields.
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The dialog boxes of Figure 144 illustrate many of the features discussed above.
The “Manufacturer” field, for example, is currently “grayed-out”, indicating that it
is unmodifiable or read-only at this time. You could select the information in this
field and copy it to the clipboard, to be pasted elsewhere. The “Wheel Size” field is
writable. You can type in it or paste to it. “Odometer Mileage” is always readable,
but never modifiable and does not even get a box. The names of the fields cannot
be copied as text (as the field data can be). The “Memo Field Access” button has
been clicked, resulting in another dialog box appearing on top of the first. The
“Memo Field” dialog box must be closed before the first dialog box can receive the
focus.
Figure 145 illustrates a concept called “radio buttons”. Only one of the three items
in this dialog can be chosen. When any one is selected, the others are automatically
deselected. Note the underscored ‘E’, ‘N’, and ‘C’ characters. The underscores
indicate that “Alt+E” is equivalent to clicking “Expanded Chart”, “Alt+N” is
equivalent to clicking “Normal Chart”, and “Alt+C” is equivalent to clicking
“Compressed Chart”. Also, notice that the “OK” button has an extra rectangle
drawn around it. That indicates that pressing “Enter” key is, at this time, equivalent
to clicking “OK”. The ‘Esc’ key is equivalent to clicking “Cancel”. ‘Tab’ and
“Shift+Tab” move the extra rectangle from “OK” to “Cancel” to chart choices.
Keyboard arrow keys cycle through, not only each of the three choices, but the
“Cancel” and “OK” buttons, as well. Finally, the appearance of the “ ” button
indicates that on-line help is available for this dialog box. Click “ ” and then the
field of interest or press ‘F1’ for context-sensitive, on-line help.
Figure 145 – Radio Buttons
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Window States
Windows can have four states. The four window states and the Windows® controls
that can place windows in them are shown in Table 9.
Table 9 - Window States

Windows®
State Description Button
Normalized The window is open. Often, it may be resized and
moved. Windows sometimes calls this state
“restored”.
Maximized The window is as large as it can get, given the size
of the desktop. Usually, it occupies the entire
desktop and cannot be moved (as there is nowhere
left for it to move). It may not be resized. If it is
“on top of” other windows, they are often
completely covered by it.
Minimized The window is either as small as it can get or is
replaced by an icon. The application is still
running, but to do something in the window, you
have to open (normalize or maximize) it.
Closed The window is gone. If this is the application’s
main or only remaining window, it often terminates
when the window is closed.
Figure 146 shows the QDP95 main window maximized (it takes up the entire
desktop, except for the task bar). Within the QDP95 main window are two child
windows. The text window is minimized. The graphical window is normalized.
The data window, which is open, is actually just a pane of the graphical window.
The main window of another application (Microsoft Paint) is minimized (and
appears only in the task bar).
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Figure 146 - Main Window Maximized, Child Windows Normalized or Minimized
Figure 147 shows the QDP95 main window normalized. One of its child windows
(the graphical window) is maximized (takes up the entire main window). You
cannot tell, just by looking at it, whether there are any other child windows,
because the maximized window is “on top”. The main window of another
application (Microsoft Paint) is also normalized.
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Figure 147 - Main Window Normalized, Child Window Maximized
This manual refers to the window control that causes the window to become
“closed” ( ) the “close box”. For a main window, “Alt+F4” usually causes this
action, as well. For a dialog box, the ‘Esc’ key may cause a “Cancel” operation.
Focus
When a window has the “focus”, it is the active window. It is the window to which
the keyboard is logically “attached”. The active window is usually caused to
appear a little different from the others. In Figure 146, the QDP95 main window
has received the focus, and, within it, the graphical window is active. In these
examples, the title bar is blue with white letters, instead of gray-on-gray. In Figure
147, Microsoft Paint has the focus, even though the QDP95 window is on top.
Your choice of appearance for the active window and whether to raise a window to
the top when it receives the focus are up to you (and outside the scope of this
manual).
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C.2 POINTING DEVICE
Your pointing device may be a mouse, trackball, touch pad, joystick, or some other
device. You can even simulate a pointing device using the keyboard. The pointing
device indicates a position (controlling the position of a cursor on the display), and
provides a set of digital inputs, via a set of buttons, switches, or other devices. Your
pointing device probably has at least two such buttons. It can be configured for
either left- or right-handed operation. For purposes of this manual, these buttons or
switches are referred to as “mouse buttons”. They are illustrated in Figure 148 and
explained in Table 10.
mouse button 1
mouse button 2
mouse button 3
left-handed right-handed
Figure 148 - Pointing Device Digital Input Nomenclature (Mouse Shown)
Table 10 - Pointing Device Digital Input Descriptions

Input Name Mouse Location Description
mouse button 1 closest to you Used to select the active window or position.
Also used (when dragged) to select a range or
to move a previously-selected object.
mouse button 2 usually between May be represented by operating mouse
1 and 3 buttons 1 and 3 simultaneously
mouse button 3 farthest from you May provide a menu of operations
corresponding to the active position or selected
object or region.
The action of pressing a mouse button and immediately releasing it (or “tapping” it)
is referred to in this manual as “clicking”. If no additional description appears when
the term “clicking” is used, “mouse button 1” is intended. The software described in
this manual uses mouse buttons 1 and 3 only.
Mouse-button-clicking can occur singly or in a series of rapid-succession clicks.

These actions are referred to a “double-clicking” (for two clicks in a row), triple-
clicking” (for 3 clicks in a row), and so forth. The software described in this manual
requires up to “double-clicking” only.
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The action of pressing a mouse button and then holding it while you move the mouse
is referred to as “dragging”.
C.3 CURSORS
Cursors indicate some type of position.
Mouse Cursor
A mouse cursor (e.g., “ ”) moves as you move the pointing device and indicates
the position at which the action indicated by the digital inputs (e.g., mouse button 1
“clicked”) of the pointing device will have an effect. Sometimes the mouse cursor
changes (e.g., “ ”) to indicate the type of action that can occur. A mouse cursor is
shown activating a pull-down menu in Figure 149.
Figure 149 - Mouse Cursor Activating a Pull-Down Menu
Text Cursor
A text cursor (e.g., “|”) occurs in text. It indicates the active typing position and
moves as you type. You can “click” with mouse button 1 of the pointing device to
change the active typing position (and, hence, move the text cursor to a new
location). A text cursor is shown to the right of the value in the (modifiable) wheel
diameter field in a dialog box in Figure 150.
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Figure 150 – Text Cursor in a Modifiable Numeric Field of a Dialog Box
Graphical Cursor
A graphical cursor shows a position in a graphical image. A graphical cursor

appears as a vertical line in the QDP95 graphical window. It indicates the active
position in the event data. Figure 151 shows a graphical cursor that a user has
positioned at a point of interest where traction motor current suddenly decreases.
Figure 151 – Graphical Cursor
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APPENDIX D – INSTALLING A MAGNETIC TAPE
READER
D.1 HARDWARE
1) Connect the AC power cord and DB-9 Serial Cable to the Q8011 magnetic
tape reader.
2) Connect the DB-9 RS232 connector to an unused serial port of the
workstation.
3) Plug the Q8011 AC power cord into a wall outlet and turn the power
switch, located on the back of the Q8011, to ON.
4) Check to insure the green “POWER” light on the front panel of the Q8011
Magnetic Tape Reader is illuminated.
D.2 SOFTWARE
During the QDP95 software installation, the user is prompted for the COM port to
which the Q8011 magnetic tape reader is connected (COM1..COM4). If the COM
port number is unknown, the program “q8011hlp.exe”, has been developed to identify
this connection.
To run the “q8011hlp.exe” program, mount the first volume of the QDP95 distribution
medium, and execute the “q8011hlp.exe” application found in the top-level directory.
The program will search for and, if found, report the serial port that it detects for the
connection to the Q8011 magnetic tape reader.
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APPENDIX E – INSTALLING A MEMORY CARD READER
The QPN Q8007 memory card reader is available as either an internal or an external
device. The Q8007 is not a PCMCIA port. PCMCIA card support is covered in
Appendix F. Installation instructions for the Q8007 memory card reader follow.
E.1 HARDWARE
The Q8007/INT or Q8007/PP memory card reader interfaces to the computer

through an additional parallel port, installed in one of the ISA expansion slots of the
computer. The additional parallel port should be used only for the Q8007 memory
card reader.
Before the new port card is installed, it is necessary to know which parallel port
addresses are currently in use. This information allows the new card to be
configured to an unused port address. The three (3) standard port addresses used are
278, 378, and 3BC. Some computers display this information at boot-up. Examine
and note the LPT port number (LPT1, LPT2, etc.) and the “Input/Output Range” for
each existing LPT port. Use “StartÆSettingsÆControl_Panel” and choose
“System”. Choose the “Device Manager” tab and then “Ports (COM & LPT)”. For
each parallel port, LPTn, go to the “Resources” tab to see the “Input/Output Range”
for the port.
The computer interface card supplied with the Q8007 Memory Card Reader MUST
use the I/O Range located at 278 - 27A or 378 - 37A. If both of these I/O ranges are
already used by other devices installed in the computer, a card using one of these
address ranges must be remapped to an alternate I/O address range. Consult the
Windows on-line HELP function for further information regarding the remapping of
printer ports.
Ensure the workstation is unplugged/disconnected from all electrical power sources

before beginning.
1) Open the workstation and insert the computer interface card into any ISA-
compatible slot.
2) Re-apply the workstation cover, connect the Q8007 card reader to power
(120 VAC wall cord for the Q8007/PP; 12 VDC connection of the
workstation power supply for the Q8007/INT), connect the cable between
the interface card and the reader, reconnect electrical power to the
workstation, and then start the workstation.
3) Windows may or may not attempt to install new hardware. If Windows
does NOT attempt to add the new hardware, manual installation of the
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hardware is necessary – see step 4. If Windows does install the interface
card, go to Step 9 to check the configuration.
4) Use “StartÆSettingsÆControl_Panel” and choose “Add New Hardware”.
5) Do not automatically search for new hardware. Instead, choose the option
that allows selecting the hardware from a list.
6) On the hardware list, select “Ports (COM & LPT)”.
7) Select “(Standard port types)” and then “Printer Port”. Click
“Have Disk”.
8) Make sure the distribution medium is still present. Then click “OK”.
9) Windows will add the hardware and select a port address for it. This port
address will most likely not be correct. Complete the “Add New
Hardware” wizard. When you are asked whether to reboot the computer,
select “No”.
10) Use “StartÆSettingsÆControl_Panel” and choose “System”.
11) Choose the “Device Manager” tab and then open “Ports (COM & LPT)”.
12) Choose the LPT port that was just added by Windows (see beginning of
instructions) and then left click the “Resources” tab. The “Input/Output
Range” setting must be either “278 - 27A” or “378 - 37A”. If Windows
has not chosen either of these ranges, it must be changed (go to step 13).
Otherwise, click “OK”, and then click “OK” on the “System Properties”
dialog box. Restart the workstation.
13) Remove the “check” from the “Use Automatic Settings” checkbox. This
will allow the input/output range to be adjusted. Adjust the input/output
range to one of the settings specified in Step 12. Click “OK”. Click “OK”
on the “System Properties” dialog box. Restart the workstation.
E.2 SOFTWARE
1) Use “StartÆSettingsÆControl_Panel” and choose “Add New Hardware”.
2) Do not automatically search for new hardware. Instead, choose the option
that allows selecting the hardware from a list.
3) Choose “Floppy disk controllers”.
4) Insert CD3568 floppy disk containing the driver files.
5) Choose “Have Disk…”.
6) Select the Cardlink CD3568 driver (the only choice on a factory-supplied
diskette).
7) Click “OK” to install.
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8) When you are asked whether to reboot the computer, select “No”.
9) Use “StartÆSettingsÆControl_Panel” and choose “System”.
10) Choose the “Device Manager” tab and then open “Floppy disk
controllers”.
11) Select the CD 3568F driver and then select “Properties”.
12) Choose the “Resources” tab.
13) Normally, Windows will choose the incorrect input/output range for this
resource. The “Input/Output Range” setting must be either “278 – 27A”
or “378 - 37A”. If one of these ranges is not specified, change the I/O
range setting to “278 – 27A” or “378 - 37A” for the interface card that was
added during the “Add New Hardware” installation process. Otherwise,
click “OK”, and then click “OK” on the “System Properties” dialog box.
NOTE: Windows will indicate that this produces a conflict, but it will
resolve this situation automatically.
14) Answer “Yes” to make this change (you may be prompted twice for
confirmation).
15) Click “OK” on the “System Properties” dialog box. Restart the
workstation.
16) After rebooting, you should see an icon for the removable drive, which is
the card reader.
NOTE: The drive letter can be adjusted in the Control
Panel/System/Device Manager under “Disk drives”.
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APPENDIX F – PCMCIA CARD (PC CARD) SUPPORT
If your workstation has a PCMCIA port, a QPN Q8007 is not necessary for working
with memory cards. You cannot erase flash memory cards using the “Memory Card
Maintenance…” functions (page 94) of QDP95, but flash memory cards do not need
to be erased before use in a Quantum Engineering, Inc. event recorder.
F.1 PCMCIA UNDER WINDOWS® 95/98
For PCMCIA memory card support under Windows® 95/98, the proper drivers must
be loaded for SRAM or flash memory card support. The needed drivers are supplied
with Windows® 95/98.
For Microsoft drivers, Windows® has a PC card (PCMCIA) Wizard to help you
install the support. When the drivers are correctly installed, two lines such as these:
/1032547680:956<;>=:?@47A:/8B3?DC =EC FEC:G10:H8=E61CIH1JLK1K80NM@OC FEC
P1Q3R5S7T8Q:U5T<V>W:X@S7Y:P8Z3XD[ WE[ \E[:]1Q:^8WET:_@`P7PD`aRcbQ8dLQfeE[7g3Z1]:U5Y
(where “n” is replaced by the number of PC slots in your workstation) will have been
inserted (in that order) at the end of your “config.sys” file. Files ”csmapper.sys” and
“carddrv.exe” files will be in the System subdirectory of your Windows directory.
You must restart your workstation following driver installation.
F.2 PCMCIA UNDER WINDOWS® NT 4.X
Unicore Cardware for Windows® NT version 6.00.012 or greater must be used.

Windows® NT 4.X does not have native support for SRAM or flash memory cards.
For information about Cardware, visit Unicore at http://www.unicore.com/.
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APPENDIX G – WHEEL SIZE
QDP95 accepts three different types of wheel size measurements (shown in Figure
152) as input and displays wheel size as a circumference. Wheel size inputs are
automatically recognized as circumference, diameter, or witness groove because the
acceptable ranges of these measurements are mutually exclusive.
circumference diameter
witness groove measurement
Figure 152 - Wheel Diameter Measurements
Wheel size values may be typed. In some instances, you can use the “Up” and
“Down” arrow keys or dialog-box buttons to adjust the value. Such scrolling will
change the displayed value by 1 if the text cursor is to the left of the decimal point or
by one hundredth if the text cursor is to the right of the decimal point. You may enter
up to 6 characters that express a numeric value. Out-of-range or non-numeric values
can be entered by typing or scrolling. In some cases (e.g., manually-entered header
information while reading data from a tape), illegal values will be detected and
reported, as shown in Figure 153. At other times, they will be discarded without
warning and replaced by the value from the header (if it exists) or by a small value (if
header data was being entered), so it is best to go back and check that the value was
properly interpreted.
Figure 153 – Wheel Size Out of Range
If wheel diameter is entered as a circumference, QDP95 uses it exactly as entered.

/
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QDP95 interprets witness groove measurements based on a 36-inch diameter witness
groove. QDP95 doubles the value and adds 36 inches to get diameter and then
PXOWLSOLH / E0 D 1 DERYH 2 W 34365 WDL7 WK 8:9 LUFXPIHUHQFH ; :LWQH 1,1 JURRY 8 PHDVXUHPHQWV
may be entered as either decimal or fractional values. Fractional values must be

typed. Fractional values larger than 1 must be entered as improper fractions (e.g.,
33/16). When you enter a wheel size, which is interrupted as a witness groove
measurement, the dialog box shown in Figure 154 – Witness groove caution message
will be displayed as a caution to the user.
Figure 154 – Witness groove caution message
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APPENDIX H – SELECTED ERROR MESSAGES
H.1 PROBLEMS WORKING WITH MAGNETIC TAPE
Figure 155 – Failure to Connect to Magnetic Tape Reader
Figure 156 – Loss of Communication during Magnetic Tape Reader Hardware Test
Figure 157 – Tape Blank or Not Inserted
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H.2 PROBLEMS WORKING WITH MEMORY CARDS
Figure 158 – Failure Formatting SRAM Card
Figure 159 – Attempt to Format Unsupported SRAM Card
Figure 160 – Failure to Insert Memory Card
Figure 161 – Flash Memory Card Inserted during SRAM Battery Test
Figure 162 – Attempt to Format Write-Protected SRAM Card
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Figure 163 – Attempt to Memory-Test Write-Protected SRAM Card
H.3 PROBLEMS DURING EVENT RECORDER DOWNLOAD
If an error occurs during a recorder download, one of the following error codes, see
Table 11 – Download Error Numbers will be displayed.
Error Number Description
1 Invalid COM port selection
2 Could not open the COM port.
5 Write to disk failed.
6 Download of the header data failed.
7 Reading of the header data failed.
8 Non-supported Quantum recorder
9 Data download failed.
34 No response
35 Invalid response from Q-Tron recorder
40 - 49 User abort
51 No data packets received
52 Timeout for Pulse recorder type
53 Timeout for Pulse recorder type
58 Write to file failed.
59 Can’t open output file.
Table 11 – Download Error Numbers
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If an event recorder is not connected and you attempt to start a download, you will not
be able to cancel the download attempt and must wait for communication to time out
before continuing. Error #34 will be the most common error received when there is no
recorder connected.
H.4 PROBLEMS WORKING WITH DATA FILES
Figure 164 – Attempt to Read a File that is Not Event Data
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APPENDIX I - PRINTING A CONTINUOUS CHART
A continuous chart can be printed to those tractor feed printers that support the
EPSON FX emulation. These include the Alps DMX-800, Brother M-4309, OTC
850, and the Epson LQ-1520. Follow the steps below in order to setup the QDP
software for printing a continuous chart.
1) The following conditions must be met:
a) The printer must be connected to LPT1.
b) If printing solid-state event recorder data, wide carriage paper
(14ì´ × 11”) must be used. Normal 8½” × 11” tractor feed paper can be
used for magnetic tape data.
2) Open the “Printers” dialog box (StartÆSettingsÆPrinters) and double-
click the “ ” icon. The “Add Printer Wizard” dialog box, shown
in Figure 165, will appear.
Figure 165 - Add Printer Wizard

3) Click “Next”, select “Local Printer”, as shown in Figure 166,and click
“Next” again.
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Figure 166 – Adding a Local Printer
4) Select “Epson” as the printer manufacturer and “Epson FX-100” as the
printer, as shown in Figure 167, and then click “Next”.
Figure 167 – Choosing an Epson FX-100

5) Either load a new driver or keep the existing driver if offered.
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6) Select parallel port “LPT1” as the output port, as shown in Figure 168.
The printer must be connected to LPT1.
Figure 168 – Attaching the Printer to Parallel Port LPT1

7) Enter “QDP Chart Printer” as the printer name, as shown in Figure 169. It
can be your default printer or not. Click “Next”.
NOTE: The printer name MUST be entered exactly as shown. It is

this name that the QDP Software uses in determining when
to print a continuous chart.
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Figure 169 – Naming the Strip Chart Printer
8) Elect to print a test page to the printer to test the interface, as shown in
Figure 170, and then click “Finish”.
Figure 170 – Electing to Print a Test Page

9) If the test page is printed correctly, the setup is complete.
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NOTE: Under Windows NT, the printer output will be spooled by
default (output is NOT spooled under Windows 95/98).
This can cause problems if there is not a massive amount of
hard drive space available. If the local hard drive is filled
to near capacity, turn off the printer spooling under the
printer properties.
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Quantum Engineering, Inc.

Table 2 – Computer Software Comprising the System

1.4. FIGURES USED

The following printers are recommended:

Q8011 Magnetic Tape Reader

Figure 1 - Q8011 Magnetic Tape Reader

Q8007 Memory Card Reader

Figure 2 - Q8007 Memory Card Readers: internal (left); external (right)

Setup and Installation

During the installation, no other applications should be running.

Figure 3 – “Welcome” screen for installation and setup

Installation may be cancelled at any time by clicking the “Cancel” button.

Figure 4 - Software License Agreement

Figure 5 - Aborting the Installation

Figure 6 - User Information

Figure 7 - Local Hard Drive Selection

Figure 8 - Magnetic Tape Reader Selection

Figure 9 – Memory Card Reader Selection

Figure 10 - PCMCIA Memory Card or Slot Selection

Figure 11 - Program Folder Selection

Figure 12 - Installation Progress

Additional volumes of the distribution media will be requested as necessary (Figure

Figure 13 - Prompt for Next Volume of Distribution Media

Figure 14 - Setup Complete

Figure 15 - Icon Selection

Figure 16 - Distribution Media not Inserted

Figure 17 - Wrong Volume of Distribution Media

Configuration information informs QDP95 of the attached peripheral devices and

Figure 18 - "Hardware" Tab of the "QDP Properties" Window

The items within the “Hardware” tab are:

Figure 19 – PC Card Socket Selection

Figure 20 – Selection of a Temporary File Location

Event Data Handling

Figure 22 - "Solid State Data" Tab of the "QDP Properties" Window

Figure 23 - "Rockwell Data" Tab of the "QDP Properties" Window

Figure 24 - Load-Time Rockwell Data Processing Selection

Figure 25 - Error Messages for Rockwell Data Processing Selections

Figure 27 – Selection of a Location for Downloaded Data

Selection of Displayed Data Items

Video Chart Colors

Figure 29 - Color Selection

To uninstall the software, choose SettingsÆControl_Panel from the Start menu.

Figure 30 - Uninstallation of Software

There will be an opportunity to confirm removal of the Desktop Playback Software,

Figure 31 - Removal Confirmation

Figure 32 - Removal Progress

The QDP95 program is started/executed by choosing “Quantum Desktop Playback”

Figure 33 - Quantum Desktop Playback Main Screen

Table 3 - Menu Items

Close current file

Figure 34 - Opportunity to Save Changes

Figure 35 – Prompt to save file

Open a Disk file...

Read a Magnetic tape...

Read Memory Card Data...

Memory Card Maintenance…

Figure 41 - Data Displayed at 3-s Resolution

Figure 42 - The Data of Figure 41, "Zoomed in" to 1-s Resolution

The text view is covered in section 9.2 (page 106).

The graphical child window may be maximized, minimized, or normalized.

The graphical view is covered in section 9.1 (page 102).