How to retrieve Binary data logged with PAC Display

[andre1]

We discovered that one of the data log files has been accidentally configured to save as a “Binary” file. We can change the PAC display to save in CSV as all other data files…however, now that there is quite a bit of data saved in binary, what is a recommended way to import this data and hopefully be able to convert it to CSV to be standard with other data? Thanks for any help,
Andre

[Beno]

Its been a while since I have done this, but I am pretty sure the converter will get it done…

PAC Display users guide, doc #1702 page 205.
I seem to recall it does either super trend files or history files.

Once you ‘un-binaryed’ the file, you can see about converting it to CSV etc.

[philip]

There is also this utility I created a while back to go direct to CSV:

File Parsing example - SuperTrend

C# console program to convert Supertrend to CSV. Usage: ConvertSuperTrendToCSV.exe < RD160328.T0002 > new.csv ConvertSuperTrendToCSV.zip (2.29 KB) using System; using System.IO; namespace ConvertSuperTrendToCSV { class Program { static void Main(string[] args) { using (Stream stdin = Console.OpenStandardInput()) { int Pen; DateTime TimeStamp; Single Value; Console.WriteLine("Pen,…

[andre1]

Thank you gentlemen!