Chapter 8.

Making Custom Corrosion Measurements

8.4 Saving the Data to a Microsoft Excel™ File

Once you have taken the corrosion measurements, you can export the top view data to a file format that the user can
load into Microsoft Excel or other tools.

8.4.1 Procedure
During custom measurement, users operate in Frame View mode (viewing the B-scan image), watching either the
image or the minimum thickness results. If users see an area of concern, they locate the area of concern on the part,
switch to encoded top view mode, scan the part, press Stop, and name and save the dataset to a POP file in the
FILENAME menu. Users can then either continue scanning, or export the thickness readings to a log file immediately.
After completing their measurements, if users did not already export the data, they may recall the dataset and export the
data to a log file.

8.4.2 Setup
The DATA LOG menu in the FILES menu will allow the user to set some of the file attributes.

FILENAME HEADER MEMO REPORT DATA LOG

Filename Header Number Edit Image in Report Log Range
Source/Dest Edit Param in Report Reading
Action Hdr in Report
Enter Memo in Report

8.4.3 Storing A Log File

To save the selected Top View data, users enter the Data Log menu to define the range and reading of the data, and then
select “STORE DATA LOG” in the ACTION function of the FILENAME menu. The instrument will attempt to save
the log file to the filename in the FILENAME field with the extension “.CSV”. If the file already exists, the Phasor will
prompt the user to overwrite the file, or to press the HOME key to cancel saving.

Note: Users can only select SD CARD as the SOURCE/DEST; otherwise, the Phasor XS will display an error
message.

Note: Once ACTION is set to “STORE DATA LOG” and SOURCE/DEST is set to “SD CARD”, a press and hold of
the Freeze key will stop the top view scan (if not already stopped) and generate a log file with the same name
as the dataset. Each subsequent press and hold of the Freeze key will automatically generate a numbered log
file.

Within the Data Log menu, the LOG RANGE option defines how much data to export to the log file. Users can choose:

• CURSOR RANGE—exports the selected reading for only the scan positions between (and including) the CUR 1
POS and CUR 2 POS.
• ALL DATA—exports the selected reading for all scan positions within the Top View scan.

170 Phasor XS User’s Manual