Trimble M3 Total Station User Guide 53
Getting Started in the Field 4
4.2 Turning the instrument on and off
42.1 Turning on the instrument
1. To turn on the instrument, press [PWR]. The
start-up screen appears. This screen shows the
version of the program.
2. When you tilt the telescope, current settings of
temperature, pressure, prism constant, and scale
appear for about two seconds.
3. The
Rec Current Settings screen
appears. Do one of the following:
– To skip recording the current instrument
settings, press
[F1] No.
– To record current settings, press
[F4] Yes. If
you select Yes, the Recording to screen
appears.
Note – To initialize the horizontal angle every time you
power on, set the HA initialize setting to ON. Select
MENU/Settings Instrument/Angle.
4. After this, the instrument will automatically1
return to the screen that was showing before the
instrument powered off.
40.1 Turning off the instrument
To turn the instrument off, press [PWR] and then press
[ENT].
Then do one of the following:
Press to...
[ENT] again turn off the instrument
[F2] Reset reboot the program and restart the instrument
Note – If you press the Reset softkey, the software is rebooted and the
Basic Measurement Screen (BMS) appears.
[F4] Sleep put the program into power-saving mode, see Sleep mode, page 54
[ESC]
cancel the power-off process and return to the previous screen