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Alarm Status Displays The instrument provides the following five alarm status displays which correspond to the categories of alarms provided in the Configure menu: general, serial, audio (Option DG only), auxiliary data, and physical (WFM700M only).

 

An “X” appears in the Enabled column for each of the enabled alarms. The

 

Status column indicates the status of each alarm, whether or not that alarm

 

condition has been enabled. Table 3-5 lists the status indicators that may appear.

Table 3- 5: Alarm status indicators

 

 

Indicator

Description

 

 

OK

No alarm condition is detected.

 

 

Yes / No

Indicates whether or not a condition was detected.

 

 

Error

An alarm is detected and information about the error is displayed.

 

 

N/A

The alarm condition does not apply to the current configuration. For example, the RP165 EDH status alarm is set to

 

N/A when an HD signal is present because RP165 is only valid in SD signals.

 

 

Missing

An optional feature is not present in the input signal. For example, the RP165 EDH status alarm is set to Missing

 

when the input is SD but there are no RP165 packets present in the signal (EDH is an optional signal feature).

 

 

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In the Audio Alarm Status display, this indicator may appear to show which audio channels have errors. For example,

 

----34----78 would be displayed to indicate that channels 3, 4, 7, and 8 have errors.

 

This indicator is logical, after remapping, and not physical.

 

 

 

RGB and Composite Gamut Error Indicators. When RGB and/or Composite

 

Gamut errors are detected, the associated lines in the Alarm Status display have

 

characters that indicate which gamut threshold(s) are exceeded for each

 

component. Table 3-6 lists the error codes that may be displayed.

Table 3- 6: Alarm Status display error indicators

 

 

Indicator

Description

 

 

R

Signal exceeds the high gamut limit for the red component (RGB gamut)

 

 

r

Signal exceeds the low gamut limit for the red component (RGB gamut)

 

 

G

Signal exceeds the high gamut limit for the green component (RGB gamut)

 

 

g

Signal exceeds the low gamut limit for the green component (RGB gamut)

 

 

B

Signal exceeds the high gamut limit for the blue component (RGB gamut)

 

 

b

Signal exceeds the low gamut limit for the blue component (RGB gamut)

 

 

C

Signal exceeds the high gamut limit for the chroma component (composite gamut)

 

 

c

Signal exceeds the low gamut limit for the chroma component (composite gamut)

 

 

Y

Signal exceeds the high gamut limit for the luma component (composite gamut)

 

 

y

Signal exceeds the low gamut limit for the luma component (composite gamut)

 

 

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