USER’S MANUAL. PRODIG-5
English
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1 GENERAL..................................................................................................................1
1.1 Description ..........................................................................................................1
1.2 Specifications ...................................................................................................... 4
2
SAFETY RULES........................................................................................................9
2.1 General safety rules ............................................................................................9
2.2 Descriptive Examples of Over-Voltage Categories ........................................... 11
3
INSTALLATION ....................................................................................................... 13
3.1 Power Supply ....................................................................................................13
3.1.1 Operation using the External DC Charger ..................................................13
3.1.2 Operation using the Battery ........................................................................ 13
3.1.2.1 Battery Charging ...............................................................................14
3.2 Installation and Start-up ....................................................................................14
4
QUICK USER GUIDE..............................................................................................15
5
OPERATING INSTRUCTIONS................................................................................19
5.1 Description of the Controls and Elements.........................................................19
5.2 Adjustment of Volume and Monitor Parameters................................................ 28
5.3 Selecting the Operation Mode: TV / Spectrum Analyser / Measurements........29
5.4 Channel Tuning / Frequency Tuning ................................................................. 29
5.5 Automatic Transmission Search........................................................................ 30
5.6 Selecting the measurement configuration: Analogue/ Digital signal ................. 30
5.7 External Units Power Supply.............................................................................30
5.8 Automatic signal identification function (AUTO ID) ...........................................31
5.9 Channel plans ...................................................................................................32
5.10 Acquisition function (DATALOGGER) ................................................................ 34
5.10.1
Datalogger for Attenuation and IF SAT test ................................................ 40
5.11 Verification of distribution networks....................................................................37
5.12 Spectrum exploration function (EXPLORER).................................................... 39
5.13 Measurements configuration............................................................................. 39
5.13.1 DVB-C (QAM) Digital Channel Configuration .............................................40
5.13.2 DVB-T (COFDM) Digital Channel Configuration......................................... 41
5.13.3 DVB-S (QPSK) Digital Channel Configuration............................................42
5.14 Selecting the Measurements............................................................................. 44
5.14.1 Analogue TV: Measuring the Video Carrier Level.......................................45
5.14.2 Analogue TV: Measuring the Video / Audio ratio (V/A)...............................47
5.14.3 Analogue/Digital TV: Measuring the Carrier / Noise ratio (C/N)..................48
5.14.4 Digital TV: Measuring the Power of Digital Channels .................................50
5.14.5 Digital TV: Measuring BER .........................................................................51
5.14.5.1 DVB-C signals...................................................................................52
5.14.5.2 DVB-T signals ................................................................................... 53