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9. Review the message that displays on the screen to determine
whether you are ready to take real recordings, or whether you need
to execute more trial impacts:
• Press Start Recording if you are satisfied with the trial
impact you have executed and wish to start taking actual
recordings in Run mode.
• Press to take another trial impact.
• Press to discard the impact you have just taken.
NOTE: You can press to toggle between displaying impact and
response waveforms; and impact and response spectra. All these
graphs display in real time while you are acquiring data.
TIP: Press to access more detail about the warning message
while it displays.
TIP: You do NOT need to press a button to retain an impact. You
can simply execute a new impact to achieve this.
TIP: You might need to change the end of your impact hammer to
improve the frequency content of the impact — Your instrument
will suggest this if necessary.
Executing a trial impact
Pressing ? while a warning message displays to access more detail about it
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