Specifications
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You can change it right here on the graph, which we will cover later. But even better would be to PRE-set the
display scale of this channel, so that when you put it into a graph or meter which has a scale, it will automati-
cally be set to the desired span. How to preset this default display scale? It is back on the channel’s setup
screen, in section 2:
Setting the Default Display Range
If you refer back to PART 2: channel name, units, color..., you will nd two elds that we skipped over before.
They are labeled “Min value” and “Max value”. By default they say “Auto” in them, which means that the
display range of this channel will be set to the same min and max values of the reference bar graph. But you
can override that by entering numbers into either or both of these elds!
So in our example, we want the temperature channel’s default range to be -100°F to ±400°F, therefore we
would enter that like this:
Note that making this change will not CHANGE the range of any existing graph, but you can coax them to
defer to these settings by right-clicking on the channel name within the graph: