We had a rather difficult time getting our vectors to process. The planning said "spikey" through most of the working day. But we tried to survey between the spikes.Any other experiences?

We did just fine. See post on main board

When your day is full of spikes try working through the spikes.

Start a session, if a spike comes along before you have enough data keep going right through the spike. If you know what your session time ought to be just do not count the spike time in your session. Get at least 15 minutes of data after you come out of the spike (more if the lines are long).