OSU Soil Water Potential
Instructions

Cedric Shock

Collect The Data Using The Palm Pilot

Connect the Palm Pilot to the datalogger.
Run the Soil Water program on the Palm Pilot
Enter the name of the datalogger, or select it from the list.
Press Collect Data
Press the button on the datalogger. If the data does not begin to collect, press the button again.
When the data collection is complete the number of characters collected will stop increasing. (These numbers increase very quickly.
Press Done

Connect the Palm Pilot to the computer and press the HotSync button on the Palm Pilot cradle.

On the computer, run the OSU Soil Water Potential program. If you have trouble finding it, it is called OSU.bat.
Select the file to open. This is the data you collected with the Palm Pilot. It will be found in your Palm Pilot user's backup directory. This is usually c:\Program Files\Palm\LastF\backup\, where LastF is your last name and first initial. The file name will start with the name you gave to the datalogger when you collected the data appended by -Day.pdb, where Day is the day of the year (1-366).
Select a place to save the output file. This file will contain the data collected from the field in a usable text format. This data file can be used with any graphing program such as Lotus 1-2-3. Excel, or Quatro Pro.