5.2 Alarm Output
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Chapter 5 Specifying Criteria for Measurements
You can enable beep tones and an alarm output signal (for external use) for
each input channel by sett
ing its alarm criteria.
External alarm output requires connection t
o the external control terminals.
See "9.3 Alarm Signal Output (Ala
rm Output)" (p. 163) for details.
Alarm output status is displayed on the [Wave+Value], [Value+Cmnt], and [Value]
Waveform/Numerical screens.
5.2 Alarm Output
Checking Alarm Criteria
Channel alarm status
•Yellow
: alarm criteria are satisfied
• Green: alarm criteria are not satisfied
: When [Alarm Hold] is enabled (set to [On]),
the indicator remains yellow because the criteria
remain satisfied (until measurement is
finished).
Alarm output status (ALM)
• Red: alarm signal output active
• Green: alarm signal output inactive
Select the [Wave+Value], [Val-
ue+Cmnt], or [Value] Waveform/
Numerical screen.
Select [PLS & ALM] with the UNIT
key.
Put the cursor here and press ENTER to
directly select which input unit to dis-
play.
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ALM1 status indicator
ALM3 status indicator
ALM2 status indicator
ALM4 status indicator