STX Signal Transmitter Installation and Operation ... - Kistler-Morse

Chapter 4. MVS-STX Menu Tree, Keyboard Functions, and Quick Start
• Shift LED illuminated — Tare Key is
enabled. Press the Tare Key for 1 second
to ‘tare’ the channel on the display, setting
the net weight to zero. The tare function is
useful when you want to monitor how much
material is added to or removed from the
vessel from a given point.
• Shift LED not illuminated — Net/Gross Key
is enabled. Press this key to toggle the
display between net weight (weight added
or removed from the vessel since the last
tare) and gross weight (total weight of
material in vessel).
Note
The STX can also be tared through the
STX’s remote tare function or through the
MVS’s remote tare function. See
Chapter 3, Stand-Alone STX Analog
Calibration and Setup, and Chapter 6,
MVS-STX Inputs and Outputs Menu.
Menu Key
Note
The MVS must be channel monitoring in
Manual Mode (Auto LED off) to access
the menus.
Press the Menu Key to access the Main Menu.
If there are multiple pages to a menu, press the
Menu Key again to scroll the display to the
next page.
For example, the Main Menu has two pages.
The first page shows:
MAIN MENU
Disp I/O Cal
F1 F2 F3
The signifies there are additional page(s) to
the menu. Press the Menu Key again to display
the second page:
MAIN MENU
Service
F1 F2 F3
Notice the second page also has a , indicating
there are additional page(s) (in this case,
you already viewed the other page). Press the
Menu Key again to return to the first page.
F1, F2, and F3 Keys
The Function Keys — F1, F2, and F3 — are
used to select items on the menus. The
faceplate has F1, F2, and F3 labeled underneath
the LCD. When a menu is displayed,
the menu items are located above these
labels. Press the Function Key corresponding
to the desired menu to access the menu.
For example, when the Main Menu is
displayed, the selections are:
MAIN MENU
Disp I/O Cal
F1 F2 F3
Disp is above the F1 label, I/O is above
the F2 label, and Cal is above the F3 label.
Press the F3 Key to access the submenus
under Cal.
Esc (escape) Key
The Esc Key has several functions:
• The Esc Key backs through submenus
one menu level at a time. Press this key
while in the Main Menu to return to
channel monitoring in Manual Mode.
• The MVS arrives from K-M with a factoryset
ID assigned to each channel. If you
replaced the ID with a customer-defined
ID in the Disp Menu, press the Esc Key
while channel monitoring in Manual Mode
(Auto LED off) to briefly display the
factory-set ID.
(backspace arrow) Key
Press the Key to back up the cursor on the
display when using the Alphanumeric Keys.
“.” (period) Key
When the MVS is channel monitoring in
Manual Mode, press the “.” Key to briefly
display the current MVS software revision
letter and the date of the release.
The “.” Key also functions as a decimal point
when entering numbers in the math channel.
The Menu Key has the same scrolling function
when accessing a submenu. Press the Menu
Key to scroll through the submenu pages.
Press the Esc Key to back through the submenus
one level at a time and return to the
channel monitoring display.
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