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George Hingle

George’s CBAS Tips, March 2021

How to use Group Reports in CBAS 20 It’s not a Trend Report, but a Group Report About two years ago I spent three months of articles explaining the many Reports that are available in CBAS. Recently I was asked what kind of Report was available in CBAS to meet

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George Hingle

George’s CBAS Tips, February 2021

Scale Database Report and Show Controllers in All Points The memory on X and LX controllers is pre-allocated from the factory. In some circumstances, you may find a need to adjust those settings depending on your specific application. Some of the things affecting the database scale are:

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George Hingle

George’s CBAS Tips, January 2021

How the new Live Service feature runs in CBAS 20 When you install CBAS20, a new Windows service called Computrols Live Service is installed and any previous Computrols services are uninstalled as they are no longer needed.

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George Hingle

George’s CBAS Tips December 2020

How to set up the dual monitor feature in CBAS 20 In the last 2 months, I have covered new features in the latest CBAS versions that enhance the way you view your CBAS database. I talked about the new Dark Theme and how to select or deselect it, which

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George Hingle

George’s CBAS Tips November 2020

How to customize the Text View – All Points in CBAS 20 As I said last month, the latest CBAS versions have new features that enhance the way you view your CBAS database. I talked about the new Dark Theme and how to select or deselect it. That feature was

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George Hingle

George’s CBAS Tips October 2020

How to switch between Dark and Classic themes in CBAS 20 CBAS 20, features several user interface refinements and customization options, one of which is a completely redesigned Dark Theme option.   The CBAS 20 installer program selects Dark Theme by default, but you can easily toggle between Dark Theme and

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George Hingle

George’s CBAS Tips, August 2020

How to use the Notepad Feature Did you know that you can add notes to any Point, Channel or Controller in the database and have those notes displayed first whenever you click one of those items? This is true in Text View, Hardware View or Graphics View (if the point

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Drew Mire

What’s the Value of Universal Inputs and Outputs (I/O)?

When Computrols began manufacturing in the early 90s, we made a conscious decision from day one, to always include true universal inputs and outputs on our flagship parent-level control boards. The way our founders saw it, if we chose to restrict the total number of points to a combination of

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George Hingle

George’s CBAS Tips, July 2020

Formulas and Calculations Help Feature Formulas and Calculations is a Help feature that can be found on the System Menu > Help.  In older versions of CBAS, this was found directly on the System Menu. Currently, there are 4 entries.. The first one is a duct area calculator for use

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