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Advanced View: Configuring Pods and Alerts

Using Your Appliance 101

This window features the following fields and controls:

b. Type in the appropriate values for the analog sensor hardware.

c. When you have finished, click OK to add this sensor definition to the list of available Sensor

Types.

• Define the custom dry contact sensor

Field Description

Sensor Type Label The label represents the name of the custom sensor definition.

For example, if you are creating a custom sensor definition for

use with temperature sensor Model 42 from MyCo, Inc., you

might want to use “MyCo Model 42 Temperature Sensor” as the

Sensor Type Label. Once defined, the Sensor Type Label

appears only in the Sensor Type Installed drop box when

specifying Sensor Pod external port settings.

Default Sensor Label This is the text that is used, by default, as a label for any new

sensors added using this custom sensor definition. This label is

used to identify each individual sensor in the Sensor Readings

pane, as well as in all interfaces and alert notifications. Once a

sensor has been added to your appliance, you can use the Sensor

Pod Settings task (see “Settings” on page 97) to modify the

labels for easier sensor-specific identification.

Volts 1 / Sensor Value

and

Volts 2 / Sensor Value

Use the Volts 1 / Sensor Value and Volts 2 / Sensor Value fields

to specify 2 reference points (between 0 and 3.3 volts for 0-3.3V

analog sensor and between 0 and 5.0 volts for 0-5.0V analog

sensors) for the sensor readings. Using these two points, the

appliance will use linear interpolation to determine the full range

of sensor values that correspond to the voltage readings reported

by the sensor.

For example, if you specify Volts 1 /Sensor Value as “1.0” and

“10”, and Volts 2 / Sensor Value as “2.0” and “20,” then the

appliance can determine that a voltage reading of 3.1 from the

analog sensor represents a sensor value of 31.

Minimum Sensor Value The lowest value that will be reported by the sensor.

Maximum Sensor Value The highest value that will be reported by the sensor.

Sensor Increment The numeric increments in which the sensor reading rises or

falls.

Units The unit of measurement that is used for this sensor.

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