1-20 Getting Started Model 2500 and 2502 User’s Manual
Menus
The following paragraphs discuss the main menu, configuration menus, and rules to navi-
gate menus.
Main menu
Use the MENU key to access the Main Menu to select, configure, and/or perform various
instrument operations. These include default setup conditions, communications (GPIB or
RS-232), calibration, front panel tests, digital output states, auto zero, timestamp, and
numeric display format.
The Main Menu structure is summarized in Table 1-4. Use the “Rules to navigate menus”
to check and/or change menu options. Figure 1-4 shows the main menu tree.
Table 1-4
Main menu
Menu item
1
Description Parameters
SAVESETUP
SAVE
RESTORE
POWERON
BENCH
GPIB
USER-SETUP-NUMBER
RESET
COMMUNICATION
2
GPIB
RS-232
BAUD
BITS
PARITY
TERMINATOR
FLOW CTRL
Configure setup conditions.
Save present Model 2500 setup to memory location.
Return the Model 2500 to setup saved in memory.
Select the power-on default setup.
Powers-on to BENCH defaults.
Powers-on to GPIB defaults.
Powers-on to user setup.
Returns unit to BENCH or GPIB defaults.
Select and configure remote interface.
Select GPIB (IEEE-488 Bus), set primary address,
GPIB protocol (Appendix G).
Select the RS-232 interface, set parameters.
Select baud rate.
Select number of data bits.
Select parity.
Select terminator.
Select flow control.
0 to 4
0 to 4
See Table 1-3.
See Table 1-3.
0 to 4
See Table 1-3.
0 to 30
(Default: 25)
57600, 38400,
19200, 9600,
4800, 2400,
1200, 600, 300
7 or 8
NONE, ODD,
EVEN
CR, CR+LF,
LF, or LF+CR
NONE or
XON/XOFF
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