CONTENTS
INDEX ............................................................................................................................................................... 8
1 INTRODUCTION ...................................................................................................................................... 11
1.1 SVAN 971 AS SOUND LEVEL METER & ANALYSER ....................................................................................... 11
1.2 GENERAL FEATURES OF SVAN 971 .......................................................................................................... 12
1.3 ACCESSORIES INCLUDED ......................................................................................................................... 12
1.4 ACCESSORIES AVAILABLE ........................................................................................................................ 12
1.5 INSTRUMENT SOFTWARE OPTIONS AVAILABLE (FIRMWARE) ............................................................................. 13
2 MANUAL CONTROL OF THE INSTRUMENT .............................................................................................. 14
2.1 CONTROL KEYS ON THE FRONT PANEL......................................................................................................... 14
2.2 INPUT AND OUTPUT SOCKETS OF THE INSTRUMENT ........................................................................................ 15
3 GENERAL INFORMATION ........................................................................................................................ 17
3.1 BASIS OF THE INSTRUMENT’S CONTROL ...................................................................................................... 17
3.2 POWERING OF THE INSTRUMENT .............................................................................................................. 19
3.3 GETTING STARTED ................................................................................................................................ 20
3.4 DESCRIPTION OF ICONS .......................................................................................................................... 21
3.5 DATA SAVING ...................................................................................................................................... 22
3.6 FILES DOWNLOADING AND UPLOADING ...................................................................................................... 24
3.7 ACTIVATION OF OPTIONAL FUNCTIONS ....................................................................................................... 24
4 MEASUREMENT FUNCTIONS AND CALIBRATION – FUNCTION ................................................................ 25
4.1 MEASUREMENT FUNCTIONS OF THE INSTRUMENT – MEASUREMENT FUNCTION ................................................... 25
4.2 INSTRUMENT’S CALIBRATION – CALIBRATION ............................................................................................... 25
4.2.1 Calibration - By Measurement .................................................................................................. 26
4.2.2 History of calibrations - Last Calibration ................................................................................... 27
4.2.3 Post measurement calibration – Post Calibration ...................................................................... 27
4.2.4 Automatic calibration – Auto Calibration .................................................................................. 28
5 CONFIGURING MEASUREMENT PARAMETERS – MEASUREMENT ........................................................... 29
5.1 SETTING UP GENERAL MEASUREMENT PARAMETERS - GENERAL SETTINGS ........................................................... 29
5.2 SETTING UP THE MEASUREMENT TRIGGER – MEASUREMENT TRIGGER ............................................................... 31
5.3 SETTING PARAMETERS FOR PROFILES – PROFILES .......................................................................................... 33
5.4 SETTING THE ALARM THRESHOLDS FOR DOSE METER FUNCTIONS – ALARM .......................................................... 33
5.5 SETTING UP THE DATA LOGGING – LOGGING ................................................................................................ 33
5.5.1 Setting up the logger general parameters – Logger Setup ......................................................... 34
5.5.2 Selection of results for logging – Logger Results ........................................................................ 36
5.5.3 Logger trigger settings – Logger Trigger ................................................................................... 36
5.5.4 Event recording settings – Event Recording ............................................................................... 38
5.6 MEASUREMENT RANGE SELECTION – RANGE ............................................................................................... 41
5.7 SWITCHING ON THE MICROPHONE COMPENSATION – COMPENSATION FILTER ...................................................... 41