Manual - 8500A Series Peak Power Meter - Giga-tronics

Series 8500A Peak Power Meters
☛ NOTE: This selection will erase the Current selection. It is advisable to store the setup in
a numbered memory before executing the command.
Display Setups
When one of the Display Setup features of the PPM is activated, the panel settings of the selected setup
are shown on the display. This is useful if it is desired to determine the exact parameters that were used
for a particular setup, and allows checking whether or not the various settings are correct before making
any measurements.
1. To Display the contents of the Current setup, press [MEM] (2) [F1]. The PPM will then display
the current instrument status readout in a screen by screen display mode. To scroll to the next
screen display, press the F1 key for More. To exit and return to the Data Display Mode, press F3.
2. To Display the contents of the Power-On setup, press [MEM] (2) [F2]. The PPM will then
display the Power-On instrument status readout screen by screen. To scroll to the next screen,
press [F1] for More. To exit and return to data display, press [F3].
3. To Display a numbered memory setup, press [MEM] (2) [F3] [nn] [UNITS], where nn is the
number of the memory (between 1 and 10) that is to be displayed. If no number is entered, the
operation is aborted when any Units key is pressed and the PPM returns to data display.
The PPM will display the instrument status readout of the Memory screen by screen. To scroll to the next
screen display, press [F1] for More. To exit and return to data display, press [F3].
Initializing Setups
This feature of the PPM allows the initializing of the current setup, a numbered memory setup, or all but
the current setup (see Section 1.3). Initializing resets the selected setup’s parameters to the factory default
settings. Certain parameters are not initialized. The Initializing function can be useful if, for some reason,
you get lost or have difficulty interpreting readings due to the complexity of a particular setup.
Initializing also allows parameter settings to be made from a known status.
1. To Initialize the Current setup, press [MEM] (3) [F1].
☛ NOTE: This selection will erase the Current setup. It is advisable to store the setup in a
numbered memory before executing the command.
2. To Initialize all memory setups except for the Current setup, press [MEM] (3) [F2]. It is a good
idea to Display the contents of the numbered memory setups before executing this command to
see if it is desired to retain any of the setups in question.
3. To initialize a numbered Memory setup, press [MEM] (3) [F3] [nn] [UNITS], where nn is the
number of the memory (between 1 and 10) to be initialized. If no number is entered, the
operation is aborted when any Units key is pressed and the routine will return to data display.
2-46 Manual No. 20790, Rev C, November 1998
Superceded by Revision D, March 2009