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Below are six lists containing the latest additions and changes to Wavewin. Click on the list header to display the drop down table for the latest additions and changes made to that section.

We are proud to announce the launch of the "Wavewin F" series.

Version Release Date Additions & Changes
Wavewin F.C 07 / 05 / 2011 (Default Path): Added support to define the default path the file manager will always open in. To define the file manager's default path, select the "Display" menu option under the "Options" menu. Enter or browse to select the desired path in the "Default Path" field. When the file manager is opened it will attempt to display the folders and files in the default path, if it cannot connect to the default path then the Wavewin path is displayed.
Wavewin E.V 08 / 23 / 2010 (Passed Parameter): Added a new passed parameter to automatically convert a file to the IEEE C37.111 Comtrade ASCII 1999 format. The new passed parameter is /Comtrade. To retain the original file name of the source file use the /Comtrade passed parameter. To have the file automatically named using the IEEE C37.232 file naming format use the /Comtrade=1 passed parameter. The /Comtrade command line parameter can also be used in batch files. The converted Comtrade files are saved in the same directory as the source file. The new passed parameter will convert the source file to Comtrade then display the converted Comtrade file in the data plotting window.

Below are some examples:

Examples:
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1.) Passed Parameter: "c:\faultlib\shipdir\SEL-421.CEV" /Comtrade=1
Comtrade Filename: 011207,145119291000,-5,Station A,Relay 1,SOFTSTUF,TRIP,,SOTF B_PHASE C_PHASE GROUND 50,60.00.DAT

2.) Passed Parameter: "c:\faultlib\shipdir\DATA1068.RCD" /Comtrade
Comtrade Filename: c:\faultlib\shipdir\DATA1068.DAT

Wavewin E.N 05 / 10 / 2010 (Auto Convert to Comtrade): Added a new feature that will automatically convert specific file types to the IEEE Comtrade format. To start the convert to Comtrade process open the "Auto Convert to Comtrade" dialog by selecting the "Auto Convert to Comtrade..." menu option under the "Options" menu in the File Manager. Enter the Source Path (path where the original files are located), Destination Path (path where the converted Comtrade files are saved), Archive Path (path where to archive the original files after they are converted to Comtrade), File Extension (the extension of the files to Convert to Comtrade separated by commas, *.SSi,*.EVE) and the scan period in minutes. Auto Convert to Comtrade will monitor the Source path for the defined file extensions every scan period. If the define file extension is SSI for the SEL Voltage Sag/Swell/Interruption files then enter the minimum number of cycles required before saving to Comtrade, the default is 2 cycles. Also, enter the maximum number of milliseconds between samples before the SSI date is separated into multiple Comtrade files. To start the process, click on the "Start Convert" button. Once the conversion starts the button caption will change to "End Convert". To end the conversion process, click on the "End Convert" button. All converted Comtrade files are saved using the IEEE long file naming convention. If a file already exists in the destination path then the file is overwritten. The status of each scan is displayed in the Status section of the dialog.

Wavewin E.L 04 / 26 / 2010 (Mark Files): Removed the new single click marking. This feature is now an option in the "Display" dialog. The default is the Window's marking convention. To set the marking/unmarking using a single mouse click open the "Display" dialog under the table's option menu and select "Single Mark Click" in the "File Marking" drop down list.

Wavewin E.J 04 / 21 / 2010 (Mark Files): Changed the way files are marked in the system tables. A single click on a row will mark the row. To unmark the row click on the row again. The single click now works as a toggle between marked and unmarked.

Wavewin E.F 01 / 14 / 2010 (System): Allow strings with 10 characters to be converted to an integer value. In previous version the conversion to integer allowed only 9 character strings.

Wavewin E.D 12 / 10 / 2009 (Print): Added support to print a file using a specific user defined view using the command line parameters. To print a view use the /PROFILE= "File path and name" along with the /PRINT command line parameter. Example: "c:\faultlib\comtrade\em files\DR1_0006.DAT" /Print /Profile= "c:\faultlib\comtrade\em files\Average Channels-D.VIWD"

Wavewin E.6 09 / 29 / 2009 (Installation Application): Eliminated the creation of subdirectories when installing the software. This feature was causing a problem when installing to a subdirectory under the source path.

Wavewin D.N 06 / 26 / 2008 (Show/Hide Channel Titles): Added a new dialog to give the ability to show/hide analog and digital channels via the channel title. To open the dialog select the "Show/Hide Channel Titles" option under the "Options" menu. All titles listed that have a check in the checkbox are automatically hidden when the file is displayed. To show the title uncheck the checkbox next to the title. To remove a title from the list use the "Remove" button. To add a new title type the new title in the edit box and click the "Add" button. The new title is automatically added to the end of the list and the checkbox is defaulted to checked.

Wavewin D.G 02 / 25 / 2008 (Network Drives): Corrected an error when navigating network drives. In previous versions if there are 2 sets of () in the network name Wavewin was extracting the drive letter from the first set of (). This is not the case, Windows puts the drive letter in the last set of (). In this version Wavewin extracts the drive letter from the last set of (). This corrects any access violation errors encountered when navigating to network drives.

(Network Drives): Greatly improved the speed when reading the directories under a network drive. Wavewin is now a 100% compatible with Windows explorer when navigating to network drives.

Wavewin D.D 01 / 23 / 2008 (Blink): Added a new command line parameter to blink the date and time displayed in the upper right hand corner of the menu. The new command line parameter is called "Poke". "Poke" checks the current size of the active directory with the size of the directory in Windows. If the sizes are different then the date and time will blink from red to gray. The directory sizes are checked every 8 seconds. To clear the blinking click on the refresh directory menu button.

Wavewin C.V 03 / 29 / 2007 Added the ability to merge files via the command line paramter. Batch mode is used to define the files to be merged. The files are automatically merged by time and if the files have different sampling frequencies then the highest sampling frequency is selected. A 1999 ASCII Comtrade file is saved in the same directory as the batch file with the name Merged File.cfg and Merge File.dat. If an error occurs then a Merge File.log is saved in the same directory as the batch file.
Wavewin C.R 02 / 22 / 2007 Recently we added support for the Window's 120 DPI monitor setting. When 120 DPI is set a number of dialog windows were being resized improperly. We added support to automatically resize the dialog windows.
Wavewin C.O 01 / 04 / 2007 We discovered that the Wavewin Version C.N downloaded to the web on 12/06/2006 had the wrong menus active. Wavewin C.N full version was compiled with the Comtrade versions menus. This problem has been corrected in Version C.O.
Wavewin C.I 07 / 10 / 2006 Fixed a problem when trying to access directories using networked computer names: \\other machine\fault files.
Wavewin C.D 03 / 10 / 2006 Moved the last active directory to the Wavewin.ini File. In previous versions the last active directory was saved to the Template database that has a limit of 80 characters. The Wavewin.ini eliminates the 80 character limit.
Wavewin C.A 11 / 28 / 2005 Added sorting to the table folder tree.

Always open Wavewin's folder tree to the last active directory.
Version Release Date Additions & Changes
Wavewin F.E 09 / 18 / 2011 (Fault Data Manager): Added support to read different file types that have the same substation name and device name in the IEEE long file name format.

Wavewin F.1 02 / 01 / 2011 (Fault Data Manager: List Devices): Added a new option to list all the devices being polled by the master station(s). The new option is available under the "Options" menu. The device manager now automatically exports a list of devices to the message folder. The device list is exported upon entry to the device manager table and when a change is made in the device configuration dialog. In the fault data manager open the "Options" menu and select the "List Devices" option. If multiple master stations are active a drop down list allows for selecting the master station. To poll the devices listed in the table marked the devices using the Ctrl-click then click on the "Poll Devices" button. Click on the "Close" button to close the window.

Wavewin E.Y 12 / 08 / 2010 (Fault Data Manager): Added a new interface to manage fault files named using the IEEE long file naming format (C37.232). The Fault Data Manager window has 4 sections: the Folder Tree, the Device Table, the Query Bar and the Device Summary Information section. The Tab key toggles between the 4 sections.

(Folder Tree): The Folder Tree is used to navigate through all folders on the local drives and networked drives. The active folder is displayed in the window's header. To change the active folder click on the desired folder node in the tree. If the subfolders are not displayed click on the "+" icon to open the folder.

(Device Table): The Device Table lists all devices that have event files located in the active folder. If a Wavewin master station is installed then poll upon demand commands can be sent directly to the master station from the device table. To set up the poll upon demand from the device table open the "Options" menu and select the "Fault Manager Properties" option. Enter the shared "Messages & Logs" folder into the "Messages & Logs Path" field.
The Device Table columns are populated from the fields in the IEEE Long event filenames (Company, Station, Device, Type, Line Length, Location, Dev-ID and Latest Event), and from the message files stored in the "Messages & Logs" folder (Status, Poll Requested At and Poll Completed AT).
When the Enter key (Cr) or the Left Mouse Double Click is detected, the table inspects the device at the cursor position, and executes the driver associated with that device and plots the latest event for that device.

(Table Query Bar): The Query section allows for searching for devices in the active device table. A query field is provided at the bottom of each table column.
A query field is composed of two items: a query value or criteria, and a query operator. The query criteria is directly entered from the keyboard and may include wild cards: "*", and "?". The query editor is activated by clicking the left mouse button over the desired query criteria box. The query operators can be changed from the Query/Change Operator menu option, or by using the (F9) key or the left mouse button positioned over the desired query operator box. The action of each available operator is explained below:
    (=) Search for files that match the set query.
    (<) Search for files that are less than the set query.
    (>) Search for files that are greater than the set query.
The query mechanism numerically compares the specified query with the available data columns. If numerical comparison is not possible then it will symbolically compare. When multiple query fields are specified, it will search for a match on the first field "AND" on the second field "AND" on the third ... After a query is executed, the rows that match the specified query are marked and grouped at the top of the table. Use the Ctrl-left/right arrows to move between query fields or left click on the desired query criteria field.

(Device Information): The Device Information section lists a history of the event files for the device selected in the device table. The number of event files listed can be changed by opening the "Fault Manager Properties" dialog under the "Options" menu. Change the "# of Event Files" field to the desired number to display.
The station name, device title and the total number of events files stored in the active folder for the selected device is displayed in the header section of the information window. If the devices are being polled by Wavewin then the last meter reading is displayed under the history list.
Each file listed in the history can be plotted, viewed/edited and summarized. To plot one of the files use the tab key to activate the device information section or click in the section. The up arrow, down arrow, page up and page down keys are used to move the cursor. The enter key will plot the highlighted file, F2 will display the contents of the file and the F3 will show a summary. Double clicking on the file will also plot the file. There are 3 buttons displayed in header section that will plot, summarize or view/edit the selected file.

Version Release Date Additions & Changes
Wavewin F.I 01 / 25 / 2012 (SEL 734P): Added support to read and display the proper units for the Voltage Channels (Volts or kVolts).

(SEL 734P SSI): Added support to read and display the proper data type values for the analog channels (Primary or Secondary). The Vsec indicates secondary values.

(SEL 734P): Added support to read and display the SEL-734P Event files. In previous versions the event files had a blank line between the channel headers and data. This version of the relay has no blank line. Wavewin was not setting the channel titles.

(SEL 734P SSI): Added support to display the latest version of the 734P SSI format. In previous versions the 734P relay had one VBASE setting for all the voltage channels. In the latest 734P relay version there are 3 VBASE settings, one for each voltage channel.

(SEL Compressed): Added support to read the "Prim Val" field from the SEL compressed files and set the data values type properly.

Wavewin F.F 10 / 10 / 2011 (Reference Angles Across Windows): Allow for referencing angles across open windows when not in Sync mode. In previous versions it was required to have sync mode on to see angles referenced across windows. To reference angles across windows open the Windows Properties dialog click on the "Display Settings" tab. The last field on this tab allows for activating referenced angles across windows.

(Hathaway Replay Plus Driver): Corrected a problem reading the number of bytes per scan when there are no digital channels defined in the file.

Wavewin F.E 09 / 19 / 2011 (Wavewin Sniffer Driver): Added support to read the event files generated from the new Wavewin Sniffer 24 DFR.

(SEL 735): Added support to the SEL driver to plot the SEL 735 meter event files.

Wavewin F.C 07 / 10 / 2011 (Emax Long Term - Save As CSV): Added support to save the Emax Long Term Angles under the Save As CSV options.

(Sequence Calculator): Added the display of the phasor chart to the sequence calculator. Also, added support to display the sequence calculator for a single end or if two files are open display the sequence calculator for both end to end files. Also, added the selection drop down lists to define the channels for VA, VB, VC, IA, IB and IC.

(Fault Calculator: Double Ended): Simplified the Double End Fault Calculator. The new Double Ended Calculator displays the input fields: Z1 (Mag and Angle) and the Line Length on the left side of the window and the Fault location Output fields (Zero Sequence, Positive Sequence, Negative Sequence) in the middle of the window. Click on the fault location radio buttons to select the type of fault location to display. To display more details such as the data values, the channels for VA, VB, VC, IA, IB and IC and the sequence components magnitude and angles click on the "Show Details" button.

Wavewin F.C 06 / 12 / 2011 (RFL Driver): Added support to read RFL files that have blank lines in the header information.

(Merge Open Files): Corrected a scale factor conversion when merging open files that have been converted from the original values to primary or secondary quantities.

(Save As): Corrected a typo in the Save As menu under the CSV menu.

(Emax Driver): Added support for the Emax 16 bit Director files.

(Emax Trigger Time): Added support to read the trigger time from the new Director files. The new Director files now include microseconds in the trigger time.

Wavewin F.B 04 / 20 / 2011 (PNRF Display Driver): Converted checking recorder compatibility using strings instead of double types. In previous versions the double types where not matching across recorders because of the significant bit checks.

Wavewin F.A 04 / 10 / 2011 (Digital Channel Original State): Added the default view to view all digital channels when there are no original state values defined in the Comtrade CFG file. Also, set the digital channel state at the cursor position to a red "D" in the digital channel table to define that the channels original states where defaulted to 0.
(Analog Channel Zero Axis Dotted Line): Corrected a problem when plotting the zero x-axis dotted line. The previous version was plotting the zero x-axis as a solid line when in a compressed view.

(PNRF Driver): Added error checking for the total number of samples and the sampling interval reported by the PNRF SDK driver.

(Under and Over Triggers in SACs): Modified the way the under and over trigger checking is performed in the SACs.
Wavewin F.9 04 / 06 / 2011 (PNRF Display Driver): Improved the PNRF display driver to read and display all channels in the file. If the channels span multiple recorders then the recorder name is added to the beginning of the channel title.

Wavewin F.8 03 / 31 / 2011 (SEL SSI files): Added support for the difference in Voltage units for the R100, R300 and R200 series files. The R100 and R300 series voltage values are saved as kV and the R200 series voltage values are saved as Volts.
(PNRF Display Driver): Added support to reprocess the PNRF samples in a file. PNRF files usually have over 1 million samples saved to a file. Wavewin attempts to bin all of the samples in a file before display. The PNRF files were causing the system to run very slow. To improve the display, Wavewin bins no more than a million samples when the file is first open. It will skip the appropriate number of samples to ensure only a million samples are in RAM. For example, if the file contains 3 million samples every 2 samples will be skipped. Also, added a reprocess dialog that allows for selecting a start time in the file, how many milliseconds to display and how many samples to skip. When a PNRF file is first displayed it shows the samples in a compressed format. From there the reprocess dialog allows for zooming in to specific areas in the file. To return to the original display, click on the "Restore Original Data" menu button.

Wavewin F.7 03 / 17 / 2011 (SEL SSI files): Added support to handle date and times listed in the SSI files with duplicated date and times in consecutive scans. In previous versions a divide by zero error was displayed if the first two scans of the file had the same date and time.
(SEL SSI Display Driver): Corrected a problem with SSI files that have real values defined for the Current and Voltage channels. The values where being multiplied by 100 two times to convert the real values to integer.

Wavewin F.1 02 / 01 / 2011 (SEL Digital Channels): The data plotting window shows an indication of a change of state in the digital channels. A small red line shows where the digital channel changed state. If a change of state happened on the last sample in the file the green end of file line was covering the change of state red line. The last sample change of state is now displayed after the end of file green line.
Wavewin E.Y 09 / 30 / 2010 (Tesla AutoComtrade Driver): Modified the calling of the Tesla AutoComtrade application to convert Tesla files to the Comtrade standard for display. In previous version a dialog box was being displayed when the autocomtrade.exe application was called and the dialog was removed when the autocomtrade.exe finished. In some file conversions the dialog box was not being removed because Windows was lossing the handle to the dialog box. In this version the dialog box is removed and is replaced with a message displayed in the statusbar's last field: "Converting Tesla File ... Please Wait". Also, the mouse cursor is changed to the hour glass cursor during the conversion.
Wavewin E.U 08 / 17 / 2010 (Save Sample Values): Added a new menu option to the "Save As CVS" option. The new option will Save the Vector values in RMS and Angle. The four Save As options are now:
  • Save As CSV - RMS Values: Save the RMS Values in a comma delimited format.
  • Save As CSV - Instantaneous Values: Save the Instantaneous Values in a comma delimited format.
  • Save As CSV - Vector Values (Mag & Ang): Save the DFT Magnitude and Angle in a comma delimited format.
  • Save As CSV - Vector Values (RMS & Ang): Save the RMS Value and Angle in a comma delimited format.

(Emax Driver): Added support to read Emax waveform and log files that have 128 analog channels and 128 digital channels.

(Harmonics): Increased the number of harmonics displayed from Samples/Cycle div 2 to the number of Samples/Cycle. Allows to see the mirror image of nyquist harmonics.

Wavewin E.T 08 / 05 / 2010 (Save Sample Values): Added a new menu option "Save As" to the "File" menu. There are two sub-menus under the "Save As" option: "Comtrade" and "CSV Format". The "Comtrade" option saves the displayed channels in either the ASCII or Binary format. The "CSV Format" will save the RMS, Instantaneous or Vector (Magnitude and Angle) values to comma delimited text file. The first line in the CSV file is the header information for each channel. All the analog channels that can be displayed in the active data plotting are saved. A dialog box is displayed to enter the destination path and the filename. The destination path is automatically defaulted to the active path in the file manager. The filename can be directly entered into the "File Name" field or the file can be automatically named using the IEEE long file naming format. To have the file automatically named click on the "ComNames" check box. If the "ComNames" check box is checked then the File Name field will be disabled. To enter a file name make sure the "ComNames" check box is unchecked.

Wavewin E.R 06 / 27 / 2010 (Fault Location:Double Ended): Added a new dialog to calculate a double ended Fault Location. The double ended calculator requires two open fault records (near and far ends). The near end is the top left window displayed. To reorganize the windows use the Tile buttons. The channels in each record must be organized as follows: The first 3 visible channels are the Voltage channels, VA, VB and VC. The next 3 visible channels are the Current channels, IA, IB and IC. To reposition the analog channels first mark the channels then use the plus key to move the channels up one position and the minus key to move the channels down one position. The values populated in the dialog are read at the data bar positions from both open records. The double ended dialog is a stay on top window. This allows for repositioning the data bars without closing the dialog. To refresh the Voltage and Current values in the dialog use the Refresh button. To increment the voltage and current angles for the near end and far end enter an increment value in the Angle Rotation fields and click on the Rotate button. Use the Calculate button to calculate the double ended fault location. To open the double ended dialog select the "Fault Calculators" sub menu option under the "Data" menu then select the "Double Ended" menu option.

(Sequence Calculator): Added a Sequence Components calculator. The sequence calculator works off the active (highlighted) data plotting record. The channels in the active record must be organized as follows: The first 3 visible channels are the Voltage channels, VA, VB and VC. The next 3 visible channels are the Current channels, IA, IB and IC. To reposition the analog channels first mark the channels then use the plus key to move the channels up one position and the minus key to move the channels down one position. The values populated in the dialog are read at the data bar position in the active record. The sequence calculator dialog is a stay on top window. This allows for repositioning the data bars without closing the dialog. To refresh the Voltage and Current values in the dialog use the Refresh button. Use the Calculate button to calculate the sequence components. To increment the voltage and current angles enter an increment value in the Angle Rotation fields and click on the Rotate button. To open the sequence calculator dialog select the "Sequence Calculator" menu option under the "Data" menu.

(Primary/Secondary Ratios): Added the ability to change the primary and secondary ratio values for the analog channels in the open record. To change the ratio values open the "Window's Properties" dialog by selecting the "Window's Properties" menu option under the "File" menu. Click on the "Driver Data Type" tab then click on the "Edit Ratio Values" button under the "Analog Values" section. In the Ratio Values dialog move the cursor to the specific Primary/Secondary values and change the displayed value. To apply the modified ratios click on the "OK" button. The modified ratio values are Not saved to the original file on disk. To save the ratios values to disk use the "Save As Comtrade" option listed under the "File" menu.

(Peak/RMS Type): All analog channels displayed are viewed as Peak type. To change the type of values displayed, open the "Window's Properties" dialog by selecting the "Window's Properties" menu option under the "File" menu. Click on the "Driver Data Type" tab then select the Data Multiplier type from the drop down list under the Analog Data Type section. To always have the driver specific files displayed as RMS type (Root 2 Multiplier) open the "Driver Configuration" dialog from the File Manager's "Option" menu. The Driver Configuration dialog lists all display drivers supported, click on the driver in the "Drivers" list then change the Driver's Data Type to RMS calibrated.

(Data Cursors): Corrected a problem with displaying the data bar in non-active data windows.

Wavewin E.K 04 / 22 / 2010 (SEL Voltage SSI Driver): Improved the SEL SSI display driver to read files that have 8 or 9 analog channels and added support to ignore incomplete samples due to polling errors.

Wavewin E.H 04 / 14 / 2010 (SEL Voltage SSI Driver): Added a new display driver to view SEL Voltage SSI (Sag/Swell/Interruption) files. All files with the extension SSI are automatically tagged as SSI files. To plot SSI files with a different extension move the file cursor to the file then select the Voltage Sag/Swell/Interruption driver under the SEL submenu.

(Print Profile): Added the ability to save a print profile file when saving a view file. The print profile fields where added to the "Save View" dialog. The "Save View" dialog is a menu option under the "View" menu. The "Save View" dialog now has the ability to manipulate the channels in the view and to specify the print orientation and the type of ASCII Summary information to print Short=General Information, Advanced=General Information plus Channel Information.

Wavewin E.F 01 / 14 / 2010 (PNRF Driver): Improved the Nicolet PNRF driver to bin the samples contained in a PNRF file directly into Wavewin. This eliminats the conversion to ASCII. The PNRF SDK currently does not allow for opening multiple files simultaneously therefor each file will be opened in a separate window.

Wavewin E.E 12 / 22 / 2009 (International Date Time): Added support to handle international date and time settings in the Window's Regional and Language settings. Previous versions where using the US date and time settings which was causing problems converting the date and time stored in the WFC Waveform files, Extended Waveform files and the Meter files.

Wavewin E.D 12 / 10 / 2009 (PNRF Driver): Added a new display driver to read the Nicolet PNRF files. All files that have a PNRF extension are tagged as PNRF files and are displayed using the Nicolet PNRF format. The files are first converted to ASCII then binned into memory for display in Wavewin.

(Phasors): Added support to display the phasors using a common convention for showing polarity.

Wavewin E.C 11 / 30 / 2009 (PNRF Driver): Added a new display driver to read the Nicolet PNRF files. All files that have a PNRF extension are tagged as PNRF files and are displayed using the Nicolet PNRF format. The files are first converted to ASCII then binned into memory for display in Wavewin.

(Phasors): Added support to display the phasors using a common convention for showing polarity.

(Comma Delimited Data): Added a new display driver to read comma delimited (Time,Channel) files. Files that have a TXT extension and contain SEGMENT in the first 3 lines of the file are displayed using the new comma delimited driver. To plot multiple files that have the same time in one window mark the files then select the Plot menu button. To plot a single file move the table cursor to the file then select the "Comma Delimited (Time,Channel)" menu option under the "Option" menu.

(Data Plotting Print): Added support to print a file using a specific user defined view via the command line parameters. To print a view use the /PROFILE= "File path and name" along with the /PRINT command line parameter.
Example: "c:\faultlib\comtrade\em files\DR1_0006.DAT" /Print /Profile= "c:\faultlib\comtrade\em files\Average Channels-D.VIWD"

Wavewin E.B 11 / 12 / 2009 (WFT Driver): Added support to combine WFT files that have the same date and time, without using the merge option. To plot multiple WFT files in one window first mark the files then click on the plot menu button or select the "Open all Marked Files..." submenu option under the "Wavewinform File(s)" menu option in the "Options" menu.

(SEL Driver): Added support to display SEL compressed files that have more digital channel data defined in the data section then the number of digital channel titles listed in the header section.

Wavewin E.A 10 / 29 / 2009 (Replay Plus Driver): Added support for Replay Plus files were the total number of digital channels is not a multiple of 8.

Wavewin E.9 10 / 26 / 2009 (WFT Format): Added a new display driver to read the Nicolet Power Pro WFT files. All files that have a WFT extension are tagged as WFT files and are displayed using the Nicolet Power Pro format.

Wavewin E.7 10 / 12 / 2009 (New SAC Operators): Added 2 new SAC operators: "s" (Sin) & "c" (Cos). The "s" operator is used to compute the sin "c" is cos. These two new operators allow for calculating Power factor, Actve and Reactive Power. Refer to the SAC help window for application examples.

(Digital Channels): Added a change of state indicator to the digital trace display. If the digital channel's state changes when in alarm mode a small orange line is drawn over the digital channel. Alarm states are stored for SEL digital channels and for Mehta TRIG channels.

(Harmonics): Added a white background behind the harmonic values in the histogram display. This make the numbers more readable.

Wavewin E.6 09 / 29 / 2009 (Change Frequency): Added support for changing the frequency of Comtrade files that have a zero defined as the Sampling Rate. The change frequency engine calculates the fractional difference between the old frequency and new frequency. In previous version the fractional difference was calcualted once, before performing the change frequency. In this version the fractional difference is calculated for each sample.

(Primary/Secondary): Added resizing to the analog table column's width when changing the type of data displayed, primary and secondary

(SEL 311B): Added support for reading SEL 311B files that have digital header information inserted in the data.

(SEL 487B): Added support to read the SEL 487B compressed formats. The 487B compressed format inserts the $ symbol in the data section. Wavewin replaces the $ with zero.

(SEL 387-5): Added support for the SEL 387-5 format.

(Save As Comtrade): Corrected a problem Saving a File As Comtrade from the data window when the File Manager table is closed. The Save As Comtrade engine was trying to access the File Manager's translate strings.

(Phase Angles): Added an option to toggle between showing the Cos Convention (0 Deg at Positive Peak) and the Sin Convention (0 Deg at Zero Crossing) for the phase angles. The new option is in the Window Properties dialog under the Display Settings tab.

Wavewin D.Z 05 / 31 / 2009 (Syncrophasor Support): Modified the phasor displays to follow the syncrophasor convention (+Peak=0 Degrees)

(SACS): Added 8 new SAC operators using the values calculated from the recursive engines. The new SACS operators are:
   "x": real component
   "y": imaginary component
   "m": magnitude
   "d": angle
   "r": true rms
   "f": cyclic frequency
   "q": instantaneous frequency
   "t": delta time frequency

(SACS): Added a number of examples in the SAC help window describing how to use the new and existing operators.

(Time Discontinuity): Added a new engine to detect discontinuities in time. If a time discontinuity is encountered then a green dotted line is displayed at the sample where the discontinuity occured. A mouse over the small gray triangle displayed at the bottom of the green line will show the duration. To turn off this feature set the "Show Event Separator Bars" field to "No" (in the properties dialog).

(Harmonics): Changed the displayed Total Harmonic Distortion value from RMS to Instantaneous (for compliance with IEEE notation).

(Summary): Revised the Summary Window to show: Max, Min & Max Min Difference for both Instantaneous and RMS values.

(Navigate Peaks): Revised navigate peaks to navigate the DFT peaks instead of the instantaneous peaks.

Wavewin D.X 02 / 22 / 2009 (Fault Calculator): Added a new method to the fault calculator. The new method is the Reactance Method. To switch between the 2 methods click on the tabs at the top of the window.

Wavewin D.T 02 / 07 / 2009 (Ruler): Corrected a problem with parsing the interger portion from a real value in French. The previous versions where always looking for a "." it now includes the ",".

(Views): Added resizing to the Select View dialog for different languages.

(Views): Allows for views that do not fully match the displayed file.

(Complex Calculator): Added a new dialog to perform complex mathematics calculations. The new dialog is accessed from the "Data" menu in the data plotting window. The dialog is also accessed from the file manager under the "Options" menu.

(Fault Calculator): Added a new dialog to compute the fault location using the Takagi algorithm. The new dialog is accessed from the "Data" menu.

(Time Line): Corrected a problem with reseting a flag when switching between the time line and the ruler.

(Views): Added more view information to the Select View dialog.

(Time Line): Improved the accuracy of the time line.

(Views): Changed the way the view channels are check against the displayed file when opening a view. In previous versions the channel titles in the view had to match the channel titles in the file, now if only checks if the channel numbers in the view exists in the selected displayed file.

Wavewin D.S 11 / 30 / 2008 (Analog Channels): Increased the number of analog channels read and displayed from 256 to 1024.

(SACs): Added a new command to perform SAC calculation only between the Reference Bar and Data Bar. The B command will perform the specified SAC command for the samples between the two bars. The B command is not case sensetive.
Examples:
a) Multiply Channel 8 by 2 between the bars: +8/*^2b/
b) Divide Channel 7 by Channel 2 between the bars: +7/:2B/
c) 2nd Harmonic of Channel 3 between the bars: +3h=2b/

Wavewin D.R 08 / 11 / 2008 (S&C Meter Driver): Corrected a problem reading and aligning the channels according to the quantity ID vectors.

(S&C Meter Driver): (S&C Meter Driver): Changed the auto append to read all files that have a ".PRO" extension instead of only reading files that have the name 'AVG##.PRO'.

(Thiran Filter): (Thiran Filter): Added the removal of the correct number of samples in the file when the Thiran filter is applied.

Wavewin D.Q 08 / 06 / 2008 (S&C Meter Driver): Added two new options for the meter driver. The first option allows for opening only one meter file at a time or automatically opening all meter files starting with meter file 00 and going to 30. The second option specifies to sort all of the samples by their time stamps. Both options are available in the first two lines of the SandC Meter Channels.ini file located in the Wavewin directory.
      Auto Append=ON
      Sort Samples by Time=OFF

(S&C Daily High Low Driver): Added a new driver to display the Daily High Low files. The driver displays the data in a tabular form listing the low values, low time stamp, high values, high time stamp and associated quantities. Files that have the .DHL extension are tagged as Daily High Low files.

(Thiran Filter): Added the removal of the last 4 samples in the file when the Thiran filter is applied.

(Thiran Message): Added an option in the Thiran message to Not Show This Message Again.
(Append Message): Added a new message to the append feature when the Thiran filter has been applied to any one of the files included in the append. The message notes that the data may not be continuous in time because of the removal of the last 4 samples when the Thiran filter was applied.

Wavewin D.N 06 / 26 / 2008 (WFC Driver): Modified reading the calibration delays from the file's header according to the new spec document.

(Print): Corrected a problem with printing the analog table. A problem was encountered after adding the resizing of the analog columns. The print columns where being resized according to the title column.

(SandC Drivers): Changed the SandC drivers to store the preprocessed samples in memory and not on disk in the Wavewin directory.

(SandC Event Files): Added support for events that have an ON code but no OFF code. When an event with only an ON code is encountered Wavewin marks only the sample where the ON code occured.

Wavewin D.M 06 / 12 / 2008 (Save As Comtrade-Mehta Files): Corrected a problem when saving Transcan files as Comtrade. If the Transcan file has more than 40 triggers defined than Save As Comtrade encounters a range check error writing the triggers to the Comtrade HDR file an abort saving. The triggers are stored in an array that hold up to 40 strings.

(Print Window): Added a new print option to print the contents of the window. The new option is called "Window" and is located under the "Print" submenu.

(Print All & Page): Corrected a problem printing the analog table. The columns where being resized improperly.

Wavewin D.L 06 / 04 / 2008 (SandC Meter Files): Added a new driver to read and display all 31 "*.PRO" files saved to the active directory. The samples are binned into memory then sorted by time before being displayed in the data plotting window. Files that have no analog channels defined in the quantity ID vector section are ignored. Also, if a channel is not defined it's titled is defaulted to "Unused" and not displayed.

Wavewin D.K 05 / 29 / 2008 (Summary): Compressed the Fault Summary information into 4 lines for the SEL compressed format. Previous versions were using 12 lines for each event saved in the file. There is a limitation of 40 lines for the fault information section. Up to 10 event's fault information is now displayed.

(Print): Included the Waveform Summary as part of the data plotting print.

(Analog Table): Added automatic column sizing according to the largest max & min values. Previous versions were using a fixed size which was causing values to overlap into neighboring columns.

(Thiran Filter): Corrected a problem with initializing the Thiran filter for the first 3 samples.

(WFC Time Stamps): Add support to use the Frame DNP time stamp when there are no primary or secondary triggers defined in the file.

(WFC Digital Channels): Added 14 new digital channels to the WFC file to show the trigger information defined in the Auxiliary data activity flag section. The cycle that defines the trigger is marked in alarm state.

(Automatically Add HTM Events): Added support to automatically add event information from the event html files that have a begin and end date and time included in the filename. The events will be automatically added if the html file is located in the same directory as the WFC and EWC files and the begin time defined in the html file name is greater than or equal to the file's start time and the file's start time is less than the end time. The events that have a common time are automatically added when the file is opened.

(EWC Scale Factor): Corrected a problem with the Extended Waveform Capture Scale Factors. Added support for the IQ24 data format.

Wavewin D.J 05 / 08 / 2008 (Thiran Filter): Corrected a problem with the Thiran filter. When calculating the relative number of samples Wavewin was using the negative value when it is greater then 1.

Wavewin D.I 04 / 17 / 2008 (Calculate Frequency): Added a new dialog to calculate the Frequency. The new dialog can be opened from the "Calculate Frequency" menu option under the "Data" menu. In the dialog select the number of cycles visible between the Reference bar (blue dotted line) and the Data bar (black solid line). Click the "Calculate" button to display the Frequency.

(SEL 651): Added support for the SEL 651 compressed format.

(SEL Driver): Added the Line Length and IA, IB, IC, IG and 3I2 header information to the "Summary" windows "Fault Information" section.

Wavewin D.H 04 / 01 / 2008 (Thiran Filter): Added a new dialog to align the displayed waveforms. The new dialog is called "Align Channel Data" and is located under the "Channel" menu. Enter the Phase Shift angles for each channel listed. To compute the coefficients for each channel click the "Calculate Coefficient" button. Each coefficient can be changed via each edit field. To run the Thiran filter on the displayed channels click the "Run Thiran Filter" button. To always have the "Thiran" filter applied when opening files for a specific driver click the "Always Apply" check box. To use the modifed coefficients check the "Use Entered Coefficient Values" box. To use the calculated coefficients check the "Calculate Coefficients at Run" box.

Wavewin D.G 02 / 25 / 2008 (SEL Driver): Made further improvements when reading the digital channel data listed in the SEL 421 ASCII file.

Wavewin D.F 02 / 19 / 2008 (SandC Events): Improved the SandC Event file parsing. The parsing is now complient with the html format.

(SEL Driver): Added support to read all of the digital channel data listed in the file.

Wavewin D.C 01 / 08 / 2008 (Sound): Added the ability to play the audio of a analog channel. A new menu option has been added under the "Data" menu called Play Channels Audio. A toolbar dialog will be display in the bottom right corner of the window. Press the play button to play the 1st marked analog channel. If no channels are marked then it defaults to the first analog channel. The volume can be adjusted using the "Volume" control. The audio of the signal can also be saved to a .WAV file. Select or enter the desired Wave file path and name under the "Save .WAV File" section. Also make sure the "Save Audio" checkbox is clicked. This dialog will always be displayed on top of all other windows. This allows for channing the active analog channel on the fly.

(.WAV Files): Added a new driver to read and display Microsoft's .WAV audio files. This driver currently only supports the 1 audio format. All files that have the ".WAV" extension are displayed using the new Wave driver. If the file has a different extension select the "Audio Wave File" menu option under the "Drivers" menu.

(Digital Channels): Increased the number of digital channel title characters displayed from 40 to 80.
Version Release Date Additions & Changes
Wavewin F.J 02 / 02 / 2012
(Reserved Device #): Reserved device number 255 for system internal purposes.

(Optimization): Optimized the peformance of the system so it can poll large files without loading up the polling buffers.

Wavewin F.I 01 / 17 / 2012
(SEL Events): Improved the extraction of the SEL event files from the SEL relays. In previous versions MID would start with the earliest file then decrement up. If new events come in during polling then an event may be missed. Added a check to make sure the event's date and time matches the date and time in the history.

(SEL Events): Added support to extract the SEL Compressed Raw 60 cycle files. There is a new option in the "Event Type" drop down list. The new option is "Compressed Raw L60".

Wavewin F.H 01 / 08 / 2012
(FTP Connections): Corrected a problem with exporting FTP connections when multiple extensions are defined. The pipe sign separator was breaking the extensions into different table columns.

(SEL Events): Changed the direction the events are extracted. In previous versions the events were extracted latest event first (top of the history down). It now extracts the oldest events first (bottom of the history going up).

(SEL Events): Increased the number of events listed in the His report from 12 to 48.

(SEL Events): Added clearing the SEL event number varaible after the the SEL events driver has completed.

Wavewin F.G 12 / 08 / 2011
(ABB670 Relay - FTP): Added support to read and extract Comtrade zip files from the ABB 670 relay using the FTP communications protocol.

Wavewin F.E 09 / 18 / 2011
(SEL Recorders): Added support to read the data saved in the SEL recorders. All data is saved in a comma delimited format and can be plotted using the SDC driver.

Wavewin F.C 07 / 05 / 2011
(Save and Archive Dialog): Changed the Nomenclature in the Save and Archive dialog to better define the Saving or Archiving of the system DTB files.

(Polling SEL Compressed Files): Corrected the settings of the milliseconds in the long file name when polling for SEL compressed files. In previous version the zero padding was not being applied for the milliseconds readings.

Wavewin F.B 04 / 20 / 2011
(Save Path): Added checks to not overwrite the defined Save Path and Messages & Logs Path if the paths are not accessible when the device manager is first opened.

Wavewin F.9 04 / 06 / 2011
(GPS Time in TIS Driver): Added support for reading IRIG-B from a GPS connected to one of the RJ45 ports on a TIS recorder. Improved the timing to be better than 1 millisecond.

Wavewin F.7 03 / 17 / 2011
(Virtual Comm Ports): Added a new option in the Device Configuration dialog to set a serial COMM port connection as a Virtual Port. Virtual Ports in Wavewin will not hold the COMM port. It will connect to the port before a poll and disconnect after the poll is complete. To set a device as a Virtual Comm Port open the device configuration dialog for the device and click the "Virtual Port" radio button under the "Connection Type" field. All device drivers that use the Virtual Port must include the "Connect" (#6) and "Disconnect" (#8) drivers.

(FTP Sessions Active/Passive): Added a new option in the Device Configuration dialog to set the FTP file transfer mode (Active or Passive). For an FTP device protocol the file transfer mode can be set using the "File Transfer Mode" drop down list. FTP's file transfer mode is default to "Passive".
Wavewin F.6 03 / 08 / 2011
(Serial Communications): Corrected an error checking routine that was causing the serial commands to be sent out the port multiple times.

Wavewin F.5 02 / 27 / 2011
(TCP/IP Client): Changed the way the data is written to a server from a TCP/IP Client devices. In previous versions the data was written in a premptive fashion. This means the TCP/IP client write operations would not return until all of the data was sent to the server. In an event based system the write operations return immediately with no wait time. Data is now written with error checking to ensure the data is properly transfered.

Wavewin F.4 02 / 22 / 2011
(Lock Device Manager): Added support to lock the device manager from a user editing and seeing the device configuration information. In lock mode the device table is disabled and minimized.

(Disable port switch): If the device manager is in lock mode a computer connected to the device manager can not port switch to any of the devices configured in the device table.

(TCP/IP Client): Changed the way the data is read from the TCP/IP Client devices. In previous versions the data was read in a premptive fashion. It is now read through event calls from the operating system.

(Modbus Drivers): Added support for the IEEE float to the Modbus ASCII, RTU and TCP drivers.

Wavewin F.3 02 / 09 / 2011
(Modbus TCP Driver): Corrected a problem sending the Modbus TCP header to a Modbus client. The data count byte in the TCP header was not being properly calculated.

Wavewin F.2 02 / 06 / 2011
(Modbus TCP and RTU Driver): Added the ability to send polling variables from any of the devices being polled to an RTU using the Modbus TCP commands and the Modbus RTU commands. The modbus communications can be configured in Wavewin in the following ways: Multiple RTU Masters can be connected to multiple ports/sockets on the same Wavewin machine provided that each RTU connects to a different port on Wavewin (1 to 1 relationship). Or multiple devices (various manufacturers & models) can be connected to one and/or multiple ports on the same Wavewin machine (1 to 1 and/or Many to 1 relationship) (star and/or multi-drop topology) provided that all of the connected devices are set to different addresses (each device must have a unique address).

The Modbus RX and TX device must be set to an Ethernet Server in the device configuration dialog. For RX and TX of Modbus TCP commands the device title for the Modbus device in the device configuration dialog must be set to MODBUS MASTER (TCP) and the data type field must be set to Binary. For RX and TX of Modbus RTU commands the device title for the Modbus device in the device configuration dialog must be set to MODBUS MASTER (RTU) and the data type field must be set to Binary.

The “RTU-MB4.INI” file located in the Wavewin folder holds the variables to send to the RTU. This INI file is used to assign MODBUS addresses to the user variables that are defined in the Wavewin “DRIVERS.INI” file. The “RTU-MB4.INI” file is formatted as comma-separated values that are listed in the following order:

Address, Variable, Type, Multiplier, Divider

Address = 4x Read Register Address in Hex
Variable = Name of user assigned Wavewin variable
Type = (-1) for Signed or (1) for Un-Signed
Multiplier = Multiply Variable By before transmit to RTU
Divider = Then Divide Variable By and transmit to RTU

The “RTU-MB4.INI” file is basically an electronic copy of a typical “MODBUS Register Definitions Sheet”. The significance of this work is that the “RTU-MB4.INI” file is created by the user, which means that the actual mapping/assignment of the MODBUS Slave registers is up to the user). The MODBUS Registers Map is the same for all of the connected devices which is another significant result in that it simplifies having to deal with various types of devices from various manufacturers.

Wavewin E.Z 01 / 31 / 2011
(# of Devices): Increased the number of devices that can be configured and polled from one device manager table. The total number of devices is now 2000. In previous versions the device limitation was 999.

(# of variables): Increased the number of system and device variables to 64000. In previous version the maximum number of variables was limited to 24000. The increase will accomodate the increase of total devices to 2000.

Wavewin E.Z 01 / 31 / 2011
(TCP/IP Server): Activated the TCP/IP Server for multiple TCP/IP Client socket connecting to the Wavewin TCP/IP Servers.

(Modbus ASCII HEX Driver): Added the ability to send polling variables from any of the devices being polled to an RTU using the Modbus ASCII HEX commands. The modbus communications can be configured in Wavewin in the following ways: Multiple RTU Masters can be connected to multiple ports/sockets on the same Wavewin machine provided that each RTU connects to a different port on Wavewin (1 to 1 relationship). Or multiple devices (various manufacturers & models) can be connected to one and/or multiple ports on the same Wavewin machine (1 to 1 and/or Many to 1 relationship) (star and/or multi-drop topology) provided that all of the connected devices are set to different addresses (each device must have a unique address). The “RTU-MB4.INI” file located in the Wavewin folder holds the variables to send to the RTU. This INI file is used to assign MODBUS addresses to the user variables that are defined in the Wavewin “DRIVERS.INI” file. The “RTU-MB4.INI” file is formatted as comma-separated values that are listed in the following order:
Address, Variable, Type, Multiplier, Divider

Address = 4x Read Register Address in Hex
Variable = Name of user assigned Wavewin variable
Type = (-1) for Signed or (1) for Un-Signed
Multiplier = Multiply Variable By before transmit to RTU
Divider = Then Divide Variable By and transmit to RTU

The “RTU-MB4.INI” file is basically an electronic copy of a typical “MODBUS Register Definitions Sheet”. The significance of this work is that the “RTU-MB4.INI” file is created by the user, which means that the actual mapping/assignment of the MODBUS Slave registers is up to the user). The MODBUS Registers Map is the same for all of the connected devices which is another significant result in that it simplifies having to deal with various types of devices from various manufacturers.

Wavewin E.Z 01 / 02 / 2011
(Import): Added two new options to the Import engine. The new import options are overwrite the existing devices or append new devices to the end of the table. The import engine imports device information into the device table from a comma delimited text file.

(Log Variables): Added the option to turn off/on logging of the system log files from the device configuration dialog. The "Log Header" field has been changed to "Log Variables". Logging of the system log files is defaulted to ON. To turn off logging select off from the "Log Variables" drop down list.

Wavewin E.Y 12 / 23 / 2010
(TCP/IP Server): Activated the TCP/IP Server for multiple TCP/IP Client sockets connecting to the Wavewin TCP/IP Servers.

Wavewin E.X 09 / 27 / 2010
(Dispatch Table): Added support to scan the events folder in the background. The event folder is scanned when the dispatch table is first displayed and if the automatic refresh is set it also scans the events folder on the interval set in the Dispatch Properties dialog. Scanning the event folder in the background allows for working in the dispatch table without interruption. A message is displayed in the status bar when the events folder is scanned.

Wavewin E.W 09 / 20 / 2010
(Dispatch Table): Added support to the Dispatch Table to handle communications to multiple master stations. A new button menu option was added to select the master station for requesting events records from.

Wavewin E.T 08 / 05 / 2010
(Log In/Log Out): Removed the password column from the "LOG IN-OUT Tracking.CSV" file.

Wavewin E.S 08 / 04 / 2010
(Log In/Log Out): For SIP security a new Log In/Log Out button has been added to the Device Manager's toolbar. To Log In to the Device Manager click on the Log In button. A Log In dialog will be displayed enter your Full Name in the "Users Name:" field and enter the password in the "Password:" field. The password is case sensitive. The dialog will allow for three tries to enter the correct password then it will be closed. Once Logged In the Log In button will change to Lou Out. The Device Manager will be automatically Log Out if there is no activity for 15 minutes. A comma delimited CSV file records all Log In and Log Out activity. The filename is "LOG IN-OUT Tracking.CSV" and is saved to the Wavewin directory.

Wavewin E.Q 05 / 24 / 2010
(Dispatch Table: Device Numbers): Changed the way the device numbers are assigned for polling. In previous versions the device numbers where assigned according to the group numbers defined in the device manager table. It has been changed to assign the device numbers according to the group name. This will allow nested communication processors to abort just that communication processor if errors occurred during polling.

Wavewin E.P 05 / 20 / 2010
(Save Path): Corrected a problem where the Save Path was blocked out due to testing.

(Address): Corrected a problem where the Address field was blocked out due to testing. Testing was done on increasing the field to 5 characters.

Wavewin E.N 05 / 13 / 2010
(REL/MDAR Driver): Corrected a problem with sorting the event history list in the *.3EH files.

Wavewin E.M 05 / 01 / 2010
(Save Path): Protected the Save Path and Messages & Logs Path in the Save and Archive Dialog.

(Save Path): Added the Device Configuration "Save Path" field to each internal driver.

Wavewin E.J 04 / 21 / 2010
(Port Back Out Field): The default Ctrl-D for the Port Back Out field in the Device Configuration dialog has been taken out.

Wavewin E.I 04 / 20 / 2010
(Save and Archive Dialog): In the Save and Archive dialog the "Save Path:" field has been changed to "Events Path:" and the "Message Path:" has been changed to "Messages & Logs Path:".

Wavewin E.H 04 / 14 / 2010
(Driver.ini Variables): Added 2 new Escape Code Commands to the Drivers.ini file. The first is TC, this command holds the value in the time code field displayed in the "Device Configuration" dialog. The second is CMP, this command holds the "Company Name" displayed in the "Save and Archive" dialog.

(SENDCR=X): Added a new command called SENDCR=X. This command will send a Carriage Return to the connected device every X seconds to ensure the device does not time out during a polling session. Some device have settings that will time out after a specified number of minutes if no characters are received. Example: SENDCR=20.

Wavewin E.G 04 / 11 / 2010
(Device Configuration Dialog): Improved the Device Configuration Dialog to be more user friendly. Below is a list of improvements:

A.) Broke up the Escape Sequence Command field into separate fields. The new fields are:
Phone Number: (CMND): displayed under Communication Information section for Serial Connections.
Password 1: (CMND1): displayed under the Device Information section.
Password 2: (CMND2): displayed under the Device Information section.
Port Back Out: (CMND3): displayed under Communication Information section for Serial & Ethernet Connections.
Log Headers: (CMND4): displayed under the Device Information section.
Event File Type: (CMND5): displayed under the Device Information section.
Save Path: (CMND6): displayed under the Device Information section.
B.) Added a new Save Path (CMND6) field to specify where the files extracted from the polling device are saved to disk.
C.) Added an Event File Type selection list to specify what type of event file to extract from the polling device.
D.) Added a selection between Serial and Ethernet connections. The Ethernet connection also has a Protocol list to select the type of Ethernet Protocol (TCP/IP Server, TCP/IP Client, FTP Client and Telnet Client).
E.) Added hints to all fields.

(BPRO/TRPO/DPRO/LPRO Polling Driver): Added a new polling driver to poll the ErlPhase relays. The new driver is called ERL-RELAYS. The ERL-RELAYS polling driver navigates the VT100 terminal mode to select the latest event files then uses the Z-Modem protocol to download the events.

Wavewin E.F 01 / 14 / 2010
(File Transfer): Corrected the checking of the file transfer time when receiving files. In previous versions it was accepting file transfers if the character size of the Microsoft file time was less than or equal to 9. On December 26th, 2009 the Microsoft file time incremented to 10 characters.

Wavewin E.C 10 / 30 / 2009
(Password Protection): Added password protection to the "Configuration Dialogs", "Save and Archive Dialog" and the "Export" option. Also, added a checkbox in the "Save and Archive" dialog to hide the critical information such as phone numbers and passwords.

Wavewin E.A 10 / 29 / 2009
(SEL CEV Compressed Driver): Added support to parse out the event date and time, relay ID name, event type, location and targets from the compressed format. These field are used for naming the event files and for creating summary files.

Wavewin E.9 10 / 26 / 2009
(File Transfer Driver): Modified the file transfer engine to transfer files with no path defined in the drivers.ini file. If no path is specified then the files are automatically transfered from the Save Path. If no Save Path is defined then the files are transfered from the Wavewin path.

Wavewin E.8 10 / 21 / 2009
(SEL Compressed Events): Added to the extraction of the SEL compressed event files. The C command now extracts 16 samples per cycle and 30 cycles of data by sending "CEV S16 L30" to the relay. To define the C command put a C in the 6th field of the EscSeq Command: example: 1 Otter 0 0 1 C

Wavewin E.7 10 / 12 / 2009
(SEL Compressed Events): Added an new option to extract the SEL compressed event files. To define compressed events put a C in the 6th field of the EscSeq Command.
example: 1 Otter 0 0 1 C

(SEL ASCII Raw Events): Added an new option to extract the SEL ASCII raw event files. To define ASCII raw events put a L in the 6th field of the EscSeq Command.
example: 1 Otter 0 0 1 L

Wavewin E.0 - E.5 07 / 07 / 2009
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08 / 18 / 2009
(Dispatch Table): Added a new table that allows a dispatcher to request a poll for any of the devices configured in the Master Station's device manager.

Wavewin D.P 07 / 10 / 2008 (Station ID): Changed the name of the Station ID column to Group ID for cross triggering.

(Cross Triggers): Added cross triggering for the Poll Sensors/Binary driver. If a trigger level is exceeded on a sensor then an event trigger file will be saved for that device along with an event file for each device with the same Group ID number.

Wavewin D.N 06 / 23 / 2008 (Escape Code Commands): Expanded the number of Escape code commands from 8 to 12, CMND plus CMND1 to CMND11.

Wavewin D.M 06 / 12 / 2008 (TIS Driver): Only allow the automatic offset calculation for channels that have AMPS as the unit.

Wavewin D.E 02 / 14 / 2008 (COM Port): Changed SETPORT to close and open the COMM port when executed. Previous versions would only change the baud rate, parity and stop bits when executed. Added this to help improve the communications when a massive amount of data is being sent through the port for long periods.

(TIS driver): Added a new TIS Binary driver to support more recorders per PC. The new TIS binary driver uses 0% resources.

(TIS Driver): Added a SOE file for every trigger waveform file created. The SOE files are saved to the save path and contain a list of the channels that triggered during the event.

(TIS Driver): When a trigger is detected in the TIS driver the date and time displayed in the upper right hand corner of the menu will blink from red to gray. To clear the blinking click on the refresh directory menu button.

Wavewin D.B 12 / 16 / 2007 (TIS driver): The TIS polling drivers will reset the recorder if it detects a gap in sampling. The last version had a gap of 50 millisecond for testing. The gap is set back to 1 millisecond.

(TIS driver): Added the millisecond difference to the TIS data file. All samples are tagged according to the new milliseconds difference in the data file.

(Telnet): Added support for the telnet protocol. To specify a telnet session for polling open the devices "Configuration" dialog (F2) then click on the "Ethernet Connection" dialog. Select "Telent Client" from the "Ethernet Connection" list. Enter the port number and IP address or host name. Click OK then click save in the "Configuration" dialog.

Wavewin D.A 11 / 30 / 2007 (TIS driver): The TIS polling drivers will reset the recorder if it detects a gap in sampling. The previous gap was set to 1 millisecond in this version the gap is now set to 50 milliseconds.

(TIS driver): Added a new button in the "Ethernet Connection" dialog to edit the TIS recorder settings. Click the "Configure" button to display the "TIS Config" settings application for the selected device.

(Telnet): Added support for the telnet protocol. To specify a telnet session for polling open the devices "Configuration" dialog (F2) then click on the "Ethernet Connection" dialog. Select "Telent Client" from the "Ethernet Connection" list. Enter the port number and IP address or host name. Click OK then click save in the "Configuration" dialog.

Wavewin D.6 09 / 24 / 2007 Replaced the sample number count reset in the TIS Driver with the new millisecond count reset. Added this to support the TIS's latest firmware version.
Wavewin D.4 08 / 24 / 2007 Modified the Export and Import features to use a tab delimited format. The comma delimited format used in the previous version was conflicting with commas used in the device "Driver" and "EscSeq Commamd" fields.

Improved the Rochester polling driver to rename any extracted files if an error occurs during communications. Previous versions would delete the files. Also, improved saving the last polled date and time. If an error occured during communications the latest date and time polled was not being saved to the SDC-HIS.INI file.
Wavewin D.3 08 / 24 / 2007 Added a new menu option under the Device menu to export the existing device table to a comma delimited ASCII file. Export files are automatically tagged with the .CSV extension. The ASCII file contains all or selected device entries. The first line in the export file specifies the column headers.

Added a new menu option under the Device menu to import previously exported device manager files. Import will read each entry in the import file and change any existing entries with the new information and it will also add new entries if they do not exist in the open device manager table.
Wavewin D.2 08 / 22 / 2007 Added 2 new commands in the Drivers.ini file for Ethernet connections. First command "Connect", will connect to the IP address and port number specified at the active device. The second command "Disconnect" will disconnect from the IP address at the active device.

Added 3 new menu buttons. The first button allows for pinging the IP address and port number for the open device. The second button will connect to the IP address and port number for the open device and the third button will disconnect from the active device. The 3 new buttons are only displayed if the device has an IP address and port number defined in its EscSeq Command field.

Took out all ping and connection calls for IP address when the devices in the table are initialized.
Wavewin D.1 08 / 07 / 2007 Added an automatic feature to rename Mehta records upon retrieval. The new names are in accordance with the IEEE C37.232 format and the old filename tag is placed in a user field.

Added new passed parameters via the "EscSeq Command" (positions 5, 6 & 7) to allow for retrieval of 16 samples raw or filtered data. For example: you can ask for raw data at 16 samples/cycle by sending "EVE 1 R S16" to the relay. The "EVE 1" part is the default Wavewin setting, to add the "R S16" parameters you need to edit the configuration dialog and add "R S16" at the end of the command field. So if the current command is: "OTTER 1 0 x" then the new command would be "OTTER 1 0 x R S16".

Changed the polling scheme for the Ethernet ports from an event based interface to a preemptive based interface in order to synchronize the reading intervals across all ports and to eliminate the possibility of collisions with data received from the RS232/485 ports.

Added new fields to allow for disabling of the automatic save in DTB files feature and to allow for renaming of the DTB files to the IEEE C37.232 format on a periodic basis.
Wavewin D.0 07 / 23 / 2007 Added automatic detection of the loss of a TIS recorder by monitoring the sample counts of each scan. When a sample count is loss the system will automatically reset the recorder and restart the TIS configuration and capture drivers.
Wavewin C.Z 06 / 07 / 2007 Added a circular buffer for the TIS driver.

Added automatic screen updates from the TIS internal polling driver.

Added an internal driver to read the TIS configuration information.

Added triggers to the TIS internal driver.
Wavewin C.Y 05 / 21 / 2007 Added a new comamnd called TXLAST to send data to a device before the MID window is closed.

Added a new driver to poll the TIS device for the configuration.
Wavewin C.W 04 / 28 / 2007 Expanded the memory manager for each driver to 16 megabytes.

Added clearing of the IO logs upon exiting the device manager table.

Improved the memory manager for Ethernet TCP/IP connections.
Wavewin C.S 03 / 22 / 2007 Improved the FTP and TCP/IP connections to bypass all problem connections when the device manager is first displayed. If a problem occured connecting to a device then an error will be displayed in the status bar's 5th field. If multiple conections had problems then the last problem device is displayed.
Wavewin C.R 02 / 22 / 2007 Improved the TCP/IP client polling. Previous versions were shutting down communications when communication trouble was detected with a device. The system now continues polling and will keep trying to communicate with the troubled device to see if the network recovers.
Wavewin C.Q 02 / 08 / 2007 Added a new command called RUNFILE to run an executable or Bat file along with command line parameters. The new command's calling sequence is RUNFILE=C:\TEMP\FTP_SCRIPT.EXE | "C:\SCRIPT_COMMADS F. If command line parameters are used then the application path and file is separated from the command line parameters with a pipe sign.
Wavewin C.O 01 / 04 / 2007 Device Manager: Added support for Master 0 in the Mehta poll driver.
Wavewin C.K 08 / 11 / 2006 Increased the number of maximum variables allowed in the system from 10,000 to 24,000.
Wavewin C.H 06 / 12 / 2006 Fixed a problem with the FTP Events driver when renaming to long file names using File Type 1.
Wavewin C.E 03 / 27 / 2006 Added a new driver to put files on an FTP Server. The new driver is called FTP-SEND.

Improved the ASCII parse engine to ignore all #0 inserted between text.
Wavewin C.B 12 / 12 / 2005 Added full protection to the FTP extraction events driver to protect against the FTP components and Windows message boxes being displayed in case of errors.
Version Release Date Additions & Changes
Wavewin B.X 12 / 23 / 2004 Added a new button to view the station and system Load Analysis results. The new button has a circular chart icon with a drop down menu. Each new menu item is explained below:

A. Station Summary: Process all the load files for the devices defined in the selected station tab. The load file are in the history directory defined in the Broadcst.ini file. The history directory is the first directory defined on the second line of the Broadcst.ini file located in the Wavewin directory. The station summary results are displayed in an ASCII edit window.
B. System Summary: Process all the load files located in the Broadcst.ini History directory. The history directory is the first directory defined on the second line of the Broadcst.ini file located in the Wavewin directory. The system summary results are displayed in an ASCII edit window.
Wavewin B.A 10 / 07 / 2003 Added better protection when opening the request update dialog. Made sure the selected station is within the list.
Wavewin C.Q 02 / 08 / 2003 Added a new command called RUNFILE to run an executable or Bat file along with command line parameters. The new command's calling sequence is RUNFILE=C:\TEMP\FTP_SCRIPT.EXE | "C:\SCRIPT_COMMADS F. If command line parameters are used then the application path and file is separated from the command line parameters with a pipe sign.
Wavewin B.A 10 / 10 / 2003 Added a new passed parameter called Broadcast that will automatically activate broadcast mode when the system is ran.
Wavewin B.7 08 / 03 / 2003 Provided dynamic memory allocation for the DXF data.
Wavewin B.7 07 / 28 / 2003 Enhanced the read engine upon entry to the window. Reads only the first tab's DXF and Dun files upon entry. Tabs that have not been read are marked with a station ID of -1. When the tab for a station is clicked it will read the tab's DXF and DUN files and update the tab with the appropriate Station ID.
Added automatic refresh when changing to a new station (tab). The DUN files are automatically read from the latest information on disk and displayed.
Automatically sets the display background to black if not specified prior, and resizes the DXF display to the appropriate coordinates.
Added 5 new menu buttons:
LOG - Displays the file table with all the log files for the active station highlighted in red and sorted according to time.
PKS - Displays the file table with all the station peak files for the active station highlighted in red and sorted according to time.
EVE - (Phasor Button) Displays the file table with all the station event files for the active station highlighted in red and sorted according to time.
HIS - (Multiple Page Button) -Displays the file table with all the station history files for the active station highlighted in red and sorted according to time.
SUM - (Page with Magnifing Glass Button) -Displays the file table with all the station summary files for the active station highlighted in red and sorted according to time.
Version Release Date Additions & Changes
TIS Config 2.0 06 / 16 / 2008 (Save/Open Configuration Files): Added 4 new buttons to Save and Open Configuration files on disk. All TIS Configuration files have the "*.TXT" extension. :

Save: Saves the active configuration file to disk. The path and filename of the active configuration file is displayed in the applications header. The default configuration filename is:
    Substation Name,Device Name,Company Name.TXT

Open: Open a configuration file on disk. The Window's Open File dialog is displayed. Navigate to the desired directory and select the TIS Configuration file. A message is displayed if the selected file is not a valid TIS configuration file.

New: Create a new TIS configuration file. The filename is default to "Untitled" and all fields are set to their default values.

Save As: Save the current configuration file under a new name. The Window's Save As dialog is displayed. Navigate to the desired directory, enter a new name and click "Save". The path and filename of the new file is displayed in the window's header.

 

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