IMPACT - INI

The IMPACT TH170-series of hardness testers support the following data options
Option 1: If [Auto Save] is active (i.e. "Auto Save Off" is displayed in System Set menu) then the hardness tester will store all measurements to internal memory locations File 1 through File 9. Each memory file can hold up to 30 values. If you select Menu item [Memory Manager]->[Transfer], then all these values will be sent to the PC in one go. The data sent is formatted as shown below:


File 1:
No.01   477HL 
No.02   803HL 
File 2:
File 3:
File 4:
File 5:
File 6:
No.01  57.2HRC
No.02  58.1HRC
No.03  57.1HRC
No.04  57.2HRC
No.05   795HL 
No.06   783HL 
No.07   782HL 
No.08   781HL 
No.09   781HL 
No.10   779HL 
No.11   780HL 
No.12   778HL 
No.13   778HL 
No.14   782HL 
No.15   778HL 
No.16   779HL 
No.17   782HL 
No.18   783HL 
No.19   781HL 
No.20   778HL 
No.21   779HL 
No.22   781HL 
No.23   782HL 
No.24   779HL 
No.25   782HL 
No.26   778HL 
No.27   779HL 
No.28   780HL 
No.29   781HL 
No.30   840HL 
File 7:
No.01   830HL 
File 8:
File 9:

Option 2:

If [Auto Transfer] is activated in the System Set menu (i.e. "Auto Transfer Off" is displayed) then the hardness tester will send the current average value to the PC after each valid measurement. The data sent is formatted as below:


 830HL

impact.ini

MtWedge using the impact gauge option can process both formats. The way this is done can be modified using the settings of the impact.ini file. With the default settings, MtWedge will convert the the input (Option 1) to
1;477;HL;803;HL; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6;57.2;HRC;58.1;HRC;57.1;HRC;57.2;HRC;795;HL;783;HL;782;HL;781;HL;781;HL;779;HL;780;HL;778;HL;778;HL;782;HL;778;HL;779;HL;782;HL;783;HL;781;HL;778;HL;779;HL;781;HL;782;HL;779;HL;782;HL;778;HL;779;HL;780;HL;781;HL;840;HL; 7;830;HL; 8; 9; and (Option 2) 830;HLD; MtWedge using the impact gauge option will re-format the data. The way this is done can be modified using the settings of the impact.ini file installed with the gauge option.
With the default settings, MtWedge will convert the input to

`1;477;HL;803;HL; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6;57.2;HRC;58.1;HRC;57.1;HRC;57.2;HRC;795;HL;783;HL;782;HL;781;HL;781;HL;779;HL;780;HL;778;HL;778;HL;782;HL;778;HL;779;HL;782;HL;783;HL;781;HL;778;HL;779;HL;781;HL;782;HL;779;HL;782;HL;778;HL;779;HL;780;HL;781;HL;840;HL; 7;830;HL; 8; 9;`	`(Option 1)`
`830;HL;`	`(Option 2)`

Set key <scale> to "no" if you want to remove the hardness scale from the string

`1;477;803;`	`(Option 1)`
`830;`	`(Option 2)`

Set key <mode> to "printer", if you don't want MtWedge to filter the IMPACT output data. That way you can store the complete string as shown at the top of the page to file and print it on your default printer.

Note:
In mode "printer" you should not activate the "Keyboard" Flag in the MtWedge configuration!

Configuration of Gauge Option IMPACT

Option 2:

impact.ini