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After selecting the correct serial number of the controller and the desired time, this automatically stored QDB can be opened.
If you have not yet connected to a controller, the backups of the configuration can be found with serial number 000000.

NOTE: Only the five most recent backups per controller are kept in the \QBUS\TEMP\BACKUP folder

• Restore QDB from SD

The QDB file contains all data that can be configured by the System Manager III. This data is NOT necessarily used by the controller. For the operation of the system, the controller uses the data sent with the upload arrow! When closing or saving the QDB, you are asked to save this file (as a backup) on the SD card in the CTD.

With the button 'Restore QDB from SD' the backup of the configuration file from the SD card can be transferred to the computer. After this action, you will be asked to unzip and open this QDB. After saving the current data, the restored configuration will open immediately.
 

• Events

In this frame you can already see which periods have already been read from this CTD on this computer.
When you click on the Events arrow and confirm with OK, the data from the last saved sector of the SD card will be read back in time and saved in the “TEMP” folder. And this up to and including the time of the previous download. If you also want to read all previous data, you can check the box “Read ALL data on SD”.
You can follow the timestamp that is read in the frame “Connection” at the bottom right of the screen. When you have read the desired period, you can “Cancel” the download.

You can then “Export” the desired events from all I/O’s or from 1 I/O of the selected period to a CSV file.

Without I/O selection each event always contains the data of the entire address (4 sub-addresses). The status of each individual sub-address (1 to 4) can be found in the column “Status1” to “Status4”

You can open this data file in a spreadsheet (e.g. MS Excel) for further processing or filtering.

Each SD sector contains 48 events. The CTD with firmware V3.10.1 or higher has a ring buffer of 32767 sectors. The old data will therefore be overwritten over time without warning.

If the firmware is still V3.10.0 or lower, the CTD will stop saving events when the last sector is reached. The “Clear ALL Events” button will then clear all events on the SD card, after confirmation. Previous saved data will be kept in the temporary folder on the computer!

More explanation about the content of the 4 statuses can be found in the following table:

• Module scanning

When you click on the 'Download Module scanning' arrow, you will see all saved logs.
The module scanning, which you can activate via analog logic, not only checks whether the module is still responding, but it also checks whether all configuration data of the module is still correct.