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4 OPERATION
▸ Select one or more of the following variables by entering the abbreviation after the
command FORM:
Following formatting commands are available:
Examples:
Configuration of an output format comprising the oxygen measuring result (displayed with
3 decimal places) and the gas temperature in degrees Centigrade (also displayed with
3 decimal places). Text strings are inserted after the measured values for the output units.
Tab stop \t separates the various formatting commands and character \r for Enter starts a
new line after each measured result output. Command SAVE (see “Save parameters (com-
mand SAVE)”, page 58) saves the setting.
Command FORM without parameters outputs the current formatting string:
>form
Example:
Abbreviation Data
O2 Filtered O
2
results
TGASC Gas temperature (Centigrade)
TGASF Gas temperature (Fahrenheit)
TIME Time elapsed since last reset
DATE Date (set by user, comes after the time elapsed since last reset)
ERR Error category (0 = no error, 1 = non-fatal, 2 = fatal)
ADDR Measuring device address (0 ... 99)
Table 7: Abbreviations and variables in the formatting string
Formatting command Description
x.y Change value for length (whole numbers and decimal places). The
changed length parameters are used for all following variables.
\t Tab stop
\r Enter key
\n Line feed
\xxx Any character code (decimal value with three digits)
"" String constant
U5 Field and length of the unit; units are output in standard width when
U is entered without length specification.
Table 8: Commands in formatting string
# can be used for \.
>form 2.3 O2 \t “%O2" \t 2.3 TGASC \t “C" \r \n
>save
EEPROM (basic) saved successfully
EEPROM (op) saved successfully
EEPROM (op_log1) saved successfully
EEPROM (op_log2) saved successfully
>send
2.504 %O2 28.065 C
2.3 O2 \t “%O2" \t 2.3 TGASC \t “C" \r \n
The standard output format is used with command FORM /:
>form /
F0
>send
Oxygen = 21.0