Rockwell Automation 2706-DXX Dataliner Message Display DL5 Series - Manual (Page 21)

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Getting Started 2-7
Responding to a Numeric
Prompt The other type of prompt you will encounter is the numeric prompt. You
must respond to a numeric prompt with a number. A numeric prompt will
appear as a word or words followed by a colon (:). For example, assume the
following prompt is displayed:
If you were to press the key [2] the display would appear like this:
Pressing the key [7] will cause the display to change as follows:
Notice that the numbers that are entered scroll in from the right side. If you
really wanted to enter the number “5”, you could type the new number in
over the previous response by first typing in four zeroes (0000) followed by
the desired number “5”.
Pressing the [Retrn] key will now enter your response into the memory of
the DL5 and the next prompt will be displayed.
Numeric prompts may also have default values. For example, when the
following is displayed:
To record the number “5” as your response, press the [Retrn] key. If you
want to enter another value, type over the default.
Press the [2] key, the display will show:
If you press the [Retrn] key, the number “2” would be entered as your
response for the wait time.
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