User's Guide

Program Operation 3
Affinity Control User’s Guide
Software v2.50
2 Program Operation
2.1 Main Control Screen Operation
The Main Control screen is the primary interface to the upconverter module. It displays the
current operating power levels and status. It also includes controls for adjusting system output
power, upconverter ON or OFF (Transmit or Standby), upconverter reset, and access to the
fault history log file.
Each time the program is run, the Status window must be clicked to connect to the upconverter.
It may take a couple of minutes for the connection to be made after the Status window is
clicked. Figure 5 shows the Main Control screen after the program has successfully connected
to the upconverter. During the connection process, the program extracts most of the important
current upconverter parameter data. This is some of the data that is saved by clicking on the
Save Upconverter Settings button in the Maintenance Options screen.
Figure 4 Main Control Screen – NOT CONNECTED
Figure 5 Main Control Screen–After Connection