Fireground(TM) Pump Trainer Release Notes Version 1.0, Revision 4.x Full version or Upgrade. rev Mar 2010 CONTENTS I. Requirements II. Install/Uninstall III. Help File IV. Misc. Information I. Requirements ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7, Windows Vista, XP, ME, NT 4.0, 2000, Windows 98 2. 48 MByte RAM, 15 MB available on hard disc. 3. Microsoft DirectX 4. Windows 7 and Vista users require a Direct X file, "d3drm.dll" (included in this upgrade installation) in the Windows system directory: for 32-bit: C:/windows/system32 for 64-bit: C:/windows/sysWOW64 5. Upgrades: A full retail version of Fireground Pump Trainer must already be installed before an upgrade is installed. II. Install/Uninstall ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Pump Trainer program will not run from the CD. This program completely installs to and runs from your hard disk. This program uses an installation program to install Pump Trainer. To uninstall Pump Trainer, use the "Add/Remove Programs" folder in Windows' Control Panel or find the "Uninstall" icon in the Pump Trainer folder under the Start Menu. If administrative privileges are required to install software onto your workstation, the application must be allowed to write to its own directory and subdirectories. Depending upon how your privileges system is set up, you may have to explicitely grant this permission. If you are installing the DOWNLOADable upgrade file, PumpTrainerUpgrade1.04.00.NN.exe (NN is build number): This is a self-extracting zip executable. Download the Upgrade: 1. Click on the download link, below. 2. When the download window appears, click "save." Select a directory on your computer to which to save the file. 3. When the download is complete, select the "Open" or "Run" button (depends on your operating system and browser) to execute the file and start the installation. (The installation program will run from the saved location on your computer.) Continue with Install the Upgrade instructions, below. Install the Upgrade: 1. Having selected "Run" after downloading the file (or after clicking on the file name, if it was previously downloaded) the "Pump Trainer Upgrade Installation " window appears. It shows a default installation directory: c:\Program Files\Fireground Pump Trainer or, for 64-bit users of Windows 7 and Vista: c:\Program Files (x86)\Fireground Pump Trainer This text path must be your installation directory, the one which already includes "Firegr04.exe." If the given default directory is not correct, change it to the correct installation directory by finding it with "browse" button or typing the correct path. 2. Click "Next" button to display a new window, to select the program folder (for the Start Menu) which defaults to "Fireground Pump Trainer". Within this Start Menu group will be new Pump Trainer "Upgrade" and "Upgrade Uninstall" icons. 3. Click "Next" button to see the "Installation Summary" page, then click "Install". 4. Click "Finish This install program installs two files: "Firegr04_r21.exe" into the Pump Trainer directory, and "d3drm.dll" into the system directory for 64-bit users of Windows 7 and Vista. III. Help File ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Help info with regard to 'Sound' options window is no longer current. Refer to your original 'readme' file for additional release notes since the Help File was created. New information will be posted at the website. The DOWNLOADable upgrade file, PumpTrainerUpgrade1.04.00.NN.exe, contains no help file. IV. Misc. Information ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Pump & Engine Setup section: If you find that the Pump Trainer discharge pressure for a given engine RPM is consistently too high or too low compared to your apparatus, change the software Pump:Engine Ratio (even if it does not match that on your truck). 2. Operations section: After a simulation is begun, the burnhouse window, if displayed, will show two bar graphs--percent structure burned and internal structure temperature. Temperature is steady-state post-flashover temperature, and percent burned is the portion of 100% of combustibles being 100% oxidized. The green triangle at the top of the window allows you to check your pre-simulation burnhouse setup. 3. Panel Setup section: a. Rename valve handles through their corresponding gauges (pop-up menu) during panel design. If you just renamed a gauge/valve from ...1-3/4 to 2-1/2, that line does not suddenly change to 2-1/2. You must then set up that line on the Discharges Setup page. Similarly, if you load a new panel (only), even if the panel's gauge and valve label's are different, there is no change in the actual hose setup--you must make them match. b: Some components do not have labels, and there is no way to identify them once they have been placed, like CAFS air valves, intake & discharge panel connections, rotory valves. Keep track of these as you place components. You can reselect an item from a menu, and that item will be placed in the panel's upper left corner--identifying that component in a roundabout way. c: There is [currently] no way to remove a single foam component once it has been placed on the panel. You will have to remove all foam components, simply by clicking a different foam system button (Foam Setup page) , reselecting the original system, then replacing foam components. d: Discharge/intake panel connections become "capped" when disconnected in the Discharge Setup page. 4. General: a: If you make changes to an evolution, panel or radio call file, you are not prompted to save your changes to disk--you must that remember yourself. Save frequently! 5. Check our website, www.simresearch.com for update releases, revision notes and bug lists.