Front-Panel Overview

This chapter introduces you to the front-panel keys and menu operation. This chapter does not give a detailed description of every front-panel key or menu operation. It does, however, give you a good overview of the front-panel menu and many front-panel operations. See chapter 4 “Features and Functions,” starting on page 71, for a complete discussion of the instrument’s capabilities and operation.

This chapter is divided into the following sections:

∙Front-Panel Menu Reference, on page 35

∙To Monitor a Single Channel, on page 37

∙To Set a Scan Interval, on page 38

∙To Apply Mx+B Scaling to Measurements, on page 39

∙To Configure Alarm Limits, on page 40

∙To Read a Digital Input Port, on page 42

∙To Write to a Digital Output Port, on page 43

∙To Read the Totalizer Count, on page 44

∙To Output a DC Voltage, on page 45

∙To Configure the Remote Interface, on page 46

∙To Store the Instrument State, on page 48

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