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ASCII & Binary Format in COMTRADE

09/13/2011 3:08 AM

What is the difference between ASCII & BINARY Format of COMTRADE File?

And what is the seperate application for the same.
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09/13/2011 10:01 PM

This may help. link.

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09/14/2011 2:28 AM

Thanks , But it is more @ ABB Comtrade Viewer. My question is somewhat different.
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Re: ASCII & Binary Format in COMTRADE

09/14/2011 12:45 PM

Look here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_file

and here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII

After reading these, you should know the difference between the two.

Which file format is used depends on how you are going to use the file and what program you are going to use to "read" it.

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09/15/2011 12:39 AM

ok niks ele, from what I read on the comtrade format and for my computer knowledge.

The ascii is to display the text like location, equipment, time, date, recorded parameters etc. It can also be saved in binary format which makes it a more difficult to read outside of the software its used in.

The binary is the actual data that the unit is recording. The format may be of various bits lengths depending on the resolution, data rate, equipment/software requirements, etc. (think of how MP3 files are recorded, for resolution/bit rate where the same song recorded in low quality, the file will be small. It will sound bad. In high quality the file will be large. It will sound good.)

If you use a program like matlab(sp) to read the binary with the correct format you should be able to to generate the recorded waveform.

Hope this helps, and not to be too basic. If its the later, more info on what your wanting to do would help.

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09/15/2011 1:01 AM

niks ele,

Get your ass back here and respond to the replies. Anything less is just being rude.

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