User guide

4 Getting Started in the Field
54 Trimble M3 Total Station User Guide
–To record current settings, press [F4] Yes. If
you select Yes, the Recording to screen
appears.
Note – To initialize the horizontal angle every time you
power on, set the HA initialize setting to ON. Select
MENU/Settings Instrument/Angle.
4. After this, the instrument will automatically
return to the screen that was showing before the
instrument powered off.
40.1 Turning off the instrument
To turn the instrument off, press [PWR] and then press
[ENT].
Then do one of the following:
40.2 Sleep mode
If you press [F4] Sleep in the Press ENT OFF
screen, or enable the Power Save setting (select
MENU/[5] Settings Instrument/ [5] Turn-off ),
the instrument goes into sleep mode.
When the instrument is in sleep mode, it wakes up if
any of the following occurs:
• You press any key.
• The instrument receives any remote control
command via the serial interface.
• You rotate the alidade.
• You tilt the telescope.
Press to...
[ENT] again turn off the instrument
[F2] Reset reboot the program and restart the instrument
Note – If you press the Reset softkey, the software is rebooted and the
Basic Measurement Screen (BMS) appears.
[F4] Sleep put the program into power-saving mode, see Sleep mode, page 54
[ESC]
cancel the power-off process and return to the previous screen