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  1. Acquisition
  2. ===========
  3. .. _acquire_settings_window:
  4. Acquisition settings window
  5. ---------------------------
  6. To configure acquisitions open the acquisition settings subwindow. You can do so by clicking on the second toolbar
  7. button or in the menu under Windows -> Acquire Settings. The keyboard shortcut is Ctrl+A.
  8. Another way to open this window is to click on text on the bottom right part of the window just above the Acquire Button.
  9. Toolbar Symbol for acquisition settings:
  10. .. image:: _static/wrench.png
  11. The acquisition settings subwindow looks as follows.
  12. .. figure:: _static/AcquireSettings.png
  13. :alt: Acquisition settings subwindow
  14. Here you can adjust how many orbits you want to observe, how many orbits you want to skip between each observed
  15. orbit, how many of those acquisitions you want to take and how long to wait between each acquisition.
  16. You can also enable or disable the pilot bunch generator.
  17. # TODO: pilot bunch generator and spectrograms
  18. Acquisition
  19. -----------
  20. After setting the desired values in the :ref:`acquire_settings_window` you can start the acquisition by clicking on the
  21. button in the bottom right corner of the window. You can also start it by using the menu: Acquire -> Start Acquisition.
  22. The acquired data will be saved in the location specified in the config.py file. See :ref:`config` for more details.
  23. If you want to change that location during runtime of the Gui, you can do so in the :ref:`settings`.