Flow Rate/Screeching Halt

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Resister
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Flow Rate/Screeching Halt

Post by Resister » Sat Feb 11, 2012 8:56 am

Last night's data shows my flow rate completely stopped--meaning, there's no lines to indicate flow rate at all after about 1:30. Why would the machine do that? This is the second time where the FR has not shown up in the data, even when I know the card was in.
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Re: Flow Rate/Screeching Halt

Post by Pugsy » Sat Feb 11, 2012 10:40 am

Maybe a corrupted file on the SD card? Waveform or flow is in a file with the .005 extension and sometimes the file gets messed up and causes the software not to be able to show the results.

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Re: Flow Rate/Screeching Halt

Post by Resister » Sat Feb 11, 2012 10:56 am

That makes sense. Thanks!
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Re: Flow Rate/Screeching Halt

Post by archangle » Sat Feb 11, 2012 3:28 pm

Space aliens again.

I see stuff like this occasionally on my PRS1. Not enough to really matter.

About the only suggestion I have is to wait a minute or so between turning the machine off and taking the card out, but I'm not sure that really has anything to do with it.

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Re: Flow Rate/Screeching Halt

Post by Resister » Sun Feb 12, 2012 5:27 pm

The space alien theory would explain oh so much.

PS. Is your puppy in a burriot
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Re: Flow Rate/Screeching Halt

Post by archangle » Sun Feb 12, 2012 6:22 pm

Resister wrote:PS. Is your puppy in a burriot
Just a picture I found on a lolcat site. Looks like a burrito to me.

As Eric Idle would say, "mmmm... crunchy dog."

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