Manual Chapter 5

9-22 System Maintenance and Troubleshooting
To conserve battery life, the 8215/8225 has a sleep mode and a shutdown
mode. The sleep mode is activated after 5 minutes of no communication
with the analyzer. In the sleep mode, the laser beam and RF communica-
tion are shutdown until communication is reestablished. All data in
memory is saved. In the auto-shutdown mode, the sensor heads are com-
pletely shutdown. The Power button will start the sensor heads again. All
data in memory is lost, therefore another sweep should be taken.
The sleep and auto-shutdown modes can be disabled. When turning the
sensor heads on, press and hold down the Power button (the LEDs will turn
on when the Power buttons are first pressed). The LEDs will turn off when
the sleep mode is disabled (approximately 3 seconds). When both LEDs
light again, the shutdown mode will be disabled (approximately 5 seconds).
Refer to “Laser Head Status Screen” on page 3-8 for more information.
Note
Please note that this disables the battery conservation (for the
sensor heads) therefore, if the heads are left on, the batteries
will run down.