The Cycle Plot window provides all channels and all digital triggers from the recorded file. The mean is calculated from all recorded and selected data pieces, not only from a circular buffer. The Cycle Plot Window can plot circular forces, e.g. pedal forces from cycling. An additional curve shows the summation of both force signals, either as RMS value or as added signals. A circle with an adjustable radius operates as scale. E.g. a force signal is plotted around a circle with the scale 100[N], the signal has reached 100N if it touches the center of the circle. Amplitudes outside the circle are positive, amplitudes within the circle are negative. The circle scale must therefore be adjusted to the force signal. The Cycle Plot needs a continuous recording and expects a short positive trigger signal from the winder if the uppermost position is reached. If no other digital triggers are used, switch to the menu -> Extras -> Options -> Data recording and input Digital Trigger resolution = 1. You can simply input a TTL signal to the digital trigger channel and start recording. With 1 bit D/A converter no offset shift is needed. To be able to do a complete data processing within the Cycle Plot Window, the trigger channel is used to detect the length of the rotation. This means, the window size chosen in the Setup window must be longer than the slowest rotation. Typically a rotation lasts between 1 second and 0.6 seconds. Set the window size to more than 1 second. Signal pieces are cut according to the positive edge of the trigger signal. Afterwards, a time normalisation is done with 360 samples, each sample representing 1° rotation. The units used in this window are all physical units. Use therefore the calibration values in the instruments to define the equivalent to 1V to a physical unit, e.g. 1V = 100N. To be able to analyze the right and the left side, the plot can be rotated around 180°. If the trigger signal is attached to the right winder, the start of the left winder will be shown on the bottom of the plot. Switch to 180° to let the left view start like the right view. In theory, the 0° position is exactly at the uppermost postion. If triggering at the 0° position is not possible, the starting angle can be changed to allow a rotation of the screen to match the position of the trigger. The signals can be filtered before rectification. Rectified signals are filtered with a bandpass filter, not rectified signals are filtered with a lowpass filter. Both filters are first order and are used in foreward and backward direction to minimize the resulting filter delay. To add specific calculations based on the pedal force input, a DLL can be used to change the meaning of the selected channel data. The DLL gets the mean curve of the selected channel and the output of the DLL is expected to be also a signal piece with the same number of samples. The output of the DLL is used as the new channel signal and is also output to the text file. All selections can be stored in a file. Press Save Setup to store the file and Load Setup to re-load it. The filename of the stored file can be combined with the setting which is stored in IMAGO Record. After the selection and saving the setup in the online processing window, go back to IMAGO Record and save the complete setting with the reference to the online processing file. Press New Selection to return to the selection of digital triggers and signal pieces. This is useful if you want to process one trigger condition after each other with slightly different cursor positions. This can be done without leaving the online processing. After pressing Save+Repeat or Save+Exit a file selection box appears and you can choose a name to write text files with all relevant information for further examinations with Excel. The file extension will be defined automatically and represents the digital trigger number. Choosing Save+Repeat will not exit the processing window so that you have the possibility to do some changes and once more save the result without leaving the window. While recording, the results can be shown on a bigger screen when pressing the Big Screen button. While recording, reference plots can be stored quickly by pressing one of the Save buttons below the cycle plots. Both plots are stored as they are displayed. The filename is automatically generated and consists of: <FileName>_<ChannelName>_<Hour>_<Minute>_<Second>. The extension is always refplt. Stored reference plots can be loaded by pressing the Load button.