EFA-200/-300 6 Operating modes
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6.3.6 Starting and stopping a measurement
Starting a measurement
✓ The device should be in the “Stop” state. The “Stop” state is indicated
with the icon in the measurement screen.
⇒ Press the RUN key.
The device should now be in the “RUN” state.
The “Run” state is indicated with the icon in the measurement screen.
Recording of measured values begins anew, and the validity indicator
appears until the end of the computation.
Stopping a measurement
✓ The device should be in the “RUN” state. The “Run” state is indicated
with the
icon in the measurement screen.
✓ The validity indicator is no longer displayed.
⇒ Press the RUN key.
The device should be in the “Stop” state.
The “Stop” state is indicated with the icon the measurement screen.
The F2 and F3 keys are deactivated.
Note: The measurement should not be halted to evaluate results until the
validity indicator no longer appears in the display.
The validity indicator indicates that internal measured value
computation is still underway. In this case, the averaging of the
measurement results has not yet taken place over the defined
number of single values (NAVG) at the start of the measurement.
Until this state occurs, the displayed measured value has not yet
obtained its final value.
6.3.7 Evaluating measurement results
Evaluating the measurement screen
Note: To be able to simultaneously display the extensive measurement
range on the measurement screen, the measured value axis is
scaled in dB.
Scaled measured value axis (dB scale): see page A-5