A new version of the scanner has been released. We have verified that this one can process reflectance measurements taken at 55° angle of incidence, in addition to the ‘normal’ transmission and reflectance spectra recorded at 8° angle of incidence.
Make sure that your BREIN product contains 4 spectra, and that you enter Optoplex names correctly in the conversion tables ‘BE assignment’ and ‘Spectrum nicknames’: Sometimes the database column ‘Resultname’ is ‘OFR155° SB Reflection’, and sometimes it appears as ‘OFR155° SB Reflection Glass’.
The prediction feature of BREIN transfers the latest fit results and spectra to an internal CODE instance. This can be used to do various kinds of computations, based on the properties of the pane that was investigated last.
In a similar way the new ‘Inspection’ mechanism re-loads historic fit results (and the spectra that were used to obtain these numbers) to a separate CODE instance. This can be configured to let the operators verify the fit results and try what happens if some parameters were modified.
For details please see the updated documentation (page 55 at the moment).
The computation of the total solar heat gain coefficient (g-value) following the rules of standard ISO 52022-3 (2017) has been implemented. The procedure takes into account the temperature change of panes and gases due to absorption and re-emission of solar radiation. The absorbed solar power and the final temperature of each pane are side-results of the routine and are available in addition to the g-value.
We have developed a new scanner software that connects the Zeiss Optoplex SQL system to BREIN. The program scans database tables for inline and exsitu spectra and feeds new spectra into the corresponding BREIN input folders.
The definition of the trigger event that initiates the re-computation of the prediction page has been improved: You can now specify a range of x, y or z values, in addition to fixed values.
A setting of “1500 … 1600” for y means that the trigger event is fired whenever the condition 1500<=y<=1600 holds. This new feature is useful to handle traverse systems which do not measure at exactly the same positions when scanning a sample.
You can still set unique values like “1567” for the x, y or z coordinates.
This problem has been described in a previous post. The recommended installation of the Microsoft redistributable package does not seem to solve the problem in every case.
We have made the missing DLLs available on our website. You can download the files here and copy them to your SCOUT or CODE program folder directly, without executing any installation routine.
The relevant program folders are (very likely) c:\scout\ (in the case of SCOUT) or c:\code\ (for the CODE software).
On monitors with high dpi values (small pixel size) Windows 10 sometimes decides to scale text output on graphics pages. In this case main view graphics of SCOUT, CODE and BREIN may look ugly, like on low resolution screens.
If this happens on your computer you can right-click the program file (scout.exe, code.exe or brein.exe) and select ‘Properties’ (or ‘Options’) and then open the tab ‘compatibility’. Check the option ‘Disable display scaling on high DPI settings’ as shown below:
That should solve the problem.
Thanks to S. Eraslan for pointing out this solution!
We have fixed a (small) incorrect conversion of X, Y, Z color coordinates to sR, sG and sB computer screen values when the field of view has a cone angle of 10°. The routines for 2° cone angles have not been changed.
