Series 8500A Peak Power Meters
1-8 Manual 20790, Rev. C, November 1998
1.3 Default Settings
Factory-programmed settings of various user definable functions have the following defaults whenever
there have been no changes made in the settings by the operator during any testing routines.
The following settings are not affected by power-on, initialization, and setup store or recall:
Function Default Setting
Averaging CW: 4 samples; Peak: 4 samples
Internal Trigger Level (A & B) -10 dBm
Frequency 1.00 GHz
Offset 0 dB
Cursor Delay (A & B) 1.0000 microseconds
Start Delay 0.0000 nanoseconds
Delay Window (A & B) 10.0000 microseconds
Reference Power Level (A & B) 0 dBm
Reference Delay (A & B) 0.0000 microseconds
Cal Factor 0 dB
Mode Channel A, CW power, dBm
Trigger Mode Channel A, Internal
Pulse Width Start 50%
Pulse Width End 50%
Rise Time Start 10%
Rise Time End 90%
Fall Time Start 90%
Fall Time End 10%
Marker 1 2.5% (A and B)
Marker 2 17.8% (A and B)
Marker 3 46.9% (A and B)
Marker 4 90% (A and B)
Maximum Power +20.5 dBm
Minimum Power -45.0 dBm
Autoscale Average Number 4
Autoscale Initial Delay 75 µs
Plotter Address 6
PPM Address 4
Source ofFrequency Correction a) User supplied (as input, default = 1GHz)
b) VpropF - parameters not subject to store/
recall or initialization
c) Cal Factor - not subject to store/recall or
initialization
Frequency Display Displayed
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