User`s guide
Table Of Contents
- Agilent U1231A, U1232A, and U1233A Handheld Digital Multimeter
- Table of Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Introduction
- Making Measurements
- Multimeter Features
- Multimeter Setup Options
- Using the Setup Menu
- Setup Menu Summary
- Setup Menu Items
- Changing the variation count
- Enabling and changing the Smooth refresh rate
- Enabling and changing the voltage alert level
- Changing the beep frequency
- Changing the auto power-off (APO) timeout
- Changing the LCD backlight timeout
- Adjusting the LCD backlight intensity
- Enabling the LED flashlight timeout
- Adjusting the LED flashlight intensity
- Changing the minimum measurable frequency
- Changing the continuity test alerts
- Changing the power-on greeting tone
- Resetting the Setup items
- Changing the scale conversion value
- Enable the AC/DC mV measurement
- Enable open continuity test by default
- Changing the temperature unit
- Characteristics and Specifications

1 Introduction
Preparing Your Multimeter
14 U1231A/U1232A/U1233A User’s Guide
Enables Scale until the multimeter is turned off.
To learn more about Scale, see “Making Scale Transfers
(Scale)” on page 76.
Activates the LED flashlight without multimeter operation.
• Press or to adjust the LED flashlight’s intensity
level (either Lo, 02, 03, ME, 05, 06, or Hi). Press to
save your changes, or press to discard your
changes.
• Press or to cycle between the flashlight’s
HELP mode, dEMo mode, or flashlight mode. To learn
more about these modes, see “HELP and dEMo
modes” on page 8.
• Press and hold for more than 1 second to toggle the
flashlight on or off (for any of the modes — HELP, dEMo,
or flashlight mode).
• Press and hold for more than 1 second to exit this
mode.
Table 1 - 2 Power-on options (continued)
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