Agilent Technologies 34405A - Changing Configurable Settings; Reading Error Messages

42 34405A User’s and Service Guide
2Features and Functions
Changing Configurable Settings
The first seven items in the Utility Menu are configurable
(Error and CodE are not configurable).
1 To access the Utility Menu, press .
2 The first Utility Menu selection (tESt) is shown in the
primary display. When stepping through the configurable
items, the present setting for each item is displayed in the
secondary display.
3 To change the setting, use the and keys to
select the setting you want.
4 When the correct setting is displayed in the secondary
display, press to save the setting and advance to
the next item.
5 Repeat steps 4 and 5 for all items in the Utility Menu.
6 When you reach the end of the Utility Menu, the primary
display shows utitY and the secondary display briefly
shows donE, after which the multimeter returns to
normal operation.
Reading Error Messages
The following procedure shows you to read error messages
from the front panel. For remote operation, refer to the
SYSTem:ERRor? command in the Agilent 34405A Online
Programmer’s Reference online help.
Shift
Uti lity
Store
Recall
Store
Recall
Store
Recall
Store
Recall
Edit
NOTE
If you set tESt to On, pressing Store/Recall immediately exits the Utility
Menu and executes self-test. If you set tESt to OFF, go on to the next step
(step 5).
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