Allegro
· Make sure battery is charged
o Charge day before use
§ To charge, place circle end of charger in Allegro
§ The indicator light will tell you how charged the machine is, the 5th circle means full charge
· IMPORTANT: The Allegro uses a touch screen, only use the provided stylus, or your fingernail on the screen, otherwise you may scratch the screen
· To turn on and off the Allegro, Press the “On/Off” button on the bottom right hand of the keypad
o You do NOT have to hit “Start” and then “Shutdown” like with a normal computer
· To decrease the contrast of the screen
o Hit the “Gold-colored” button and then “F4”
· To increase the contrast of the screen
o Hit the “Gold-colored” button and the “F5”
· To turn on the backlight
o Hit the “Gold-colored” button and then “F3”
§ Be careful, because this can drain the battery very quickly
· To disable and re-activate the touch screen
o Hit the “Blue-colored” button and “BkSp”
· To adjust Auto-Turn Off function
o Go to Start | Control Panel | Power | Power Off
· To open an existing file
o Open Ptab by double clicking on the icon on the Desktop of Allegro, then hit File | Open | and double click on the file you need to open
· To enter Severity Data
o Keep the file simple so that the Allegro will run faster, if you get too large of a file, Allegro will be VERY slow
o Generally the Severity file will have a column for Inoculation Date, one column for Pot Number, and one column for Severity. Once this data is Downloaded to a Desktop computer, additional columns can be added
o Ptab, Allegro’s version of Excel, does not support fractions, so you must enter severity as 10/18 and convert later in Excel
o To enter severity, enter 10, hit the “blue-colored” button and the “. /” button to make a “/” and then 18
o To save a file either go to File | Save or hit the Disk button on the tool bar
o You don’t need to close the file before you turn off the Allegro. Allegro will automatically turn off after a set number of minutes, if this happens data will NOT be lost
· To download data from the Allegro to a computer
o Attach the 9-pin plug labeled “Allegro Connection” into the Allegro COM1
o Double click “PC Link” on the Allegro’s Desktop
§ This may take several times to make the connection
o Once connected, a pop-up box will ask if you want to sync data, hit NO
o Now, Right-Click on the Start Menu of the Computer, Click on “Explore”, “Mobile Devices”, and find the file you wish to download
o Copy the file and Paste it into the appropriate folder on the Computer
· To Upload data from a computer to the Allegro
o Attach the 9-pin plug labeled “Allegro Connection” into the Allegro COM1
o Double click “PC Link” on the Allegro’s Desktop
§ This may take several times to make the connection
o Once connected, a pop-up box will ask if you want to sync data, hit NO
o Now, Right-Click on the Start Menu of the Computer, Click on “Explore”, and find the file you wish to upload
o Copy the file and Paste it into the appropriate folder on the Allegro
· To get data into useable form:
o Highlight column with #infected/Total #
o Go to “Data” and Hit “Text to Columns”
· Click on “Delimited” and Hit “Next”
· Under Delimiters Click “Other” and enter “/” into box beside other. This tells the computer what numbers to break apart into two columns.
· Hit “Finish”
· Now you will have 2 columns. One with # Infected and one with total #.
· To get severity, in a third column
For more in-depth features, see manual
Carrie Knott Page 1 of 5 2/1/2007
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