User`s guide

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 an overview of the front-

panel menus and many front-panel operations. See chapter 4 “Features

and Functions,” starting on page 87, 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 41

• To Monitor a Single Channel, on page 44

• To Set a Scan Interval, on page 45

• To Apply Mx+B Scaling to Measurements, on page 46

• To Configure Alarm Limits, on page 47

• To Read a Digital Input Port, on page 49

• To Write to a Digital Output Port, on page 50

• To Read the Totalizer Count, on page 51

• To Output a DC Voltage, on page 52

• To Configure the Remote Interface - 34970A, on page 53

• To Configure the Remote Interface - 34972A, on page 55

• To Store the Instrument State, on page 57

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