Monarch Instrument DC 2000 - Manual (Page 45)

Chapter 3 Getting Started
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3.8.3 Output Scale
The output scale is the value that will be reflected on the display or recorded to the units and will once again be
scaled by using the chart scale programmed at a later time. Select Output Scale by pressing ENTER. What
we will do is program this to be 0 - 100. This first option presented is to select the number of decimal places
that will be presented. This varies from 0, which is a whole number, through to 5, which is E notation. Use the
UP and DOWN Arrow Keys to select three decimal places and press ENTER. Once selected, you will be
presented with the value for the low end of the output scale. This will default to 0, select this value. You will now
be presented with the high value which defaults to 1. Use the RIGHT Arrow Key to move the cursor under the
decimal point then press 0 twice and the period or point once so that you have 100.0 on the display, then press
ENTER. You have now effectively programmed the output scale to represent 100 times the input scale.
3.8.4 Engineering Units
At the program menu, use the UP or DOWN Arrow Keys to select Engineering Units and press ENTER.
You may enter up to five characters representing the Engineering Units using the alpha numeric keypad in
the page mode as done for the point tag. We will use percent as the Engineering Units. Press the Page
button three times until you see the ‘%’ (percent) sign. Press the ‘%’ (percent) button and press ENTER.
We have now programmed the Engineering Units to percent.
3.8.5 Chart Scale
To finalize the display scaling, we need to set the chart scale. Select this option from the Program menu -
Chart/Scales - Scales, and you will be offered a choice, Chart Scale = A by default. You can select one of
eight scales numbered A - H by using the UP or DOWN Arrow Keys. For the sake of this example, select
B as the chart scale to use and press ENTER. You will be returned to the Programming menu. The actual
chart scale is programmed elsewhere and is covered in Section 3.9.1.
3.8.6 Alarms
There are five alarms associated with each point and these can be programmed using the Alarm menu.
Select Alarms and press ENTER. At this point in time, we are not going to spend any time on programming
the alarms. You may browse through it to see the capability of the instrument. Programming alarms is dealt
with in Section 5.6.5.10. Note that in order for Alarms to be active, the user has to enable Alarm checking in the
FUNCtion Menu. Press Exit to return to the Programming menu then press Exit one more time to exit the
Programming menu. You will be asked whether or not you wish to keep Setup. Answer yes at this point in
time to load the values into the system.
3.9 Programming Point Scales
See also Section 5.5.2. From the Programming Menu use the UP or DOWN Arrow Keys to select the Chart Pens
programming option.
3.9.1 Programming Scales
Select the Scales option. Here you can program to Chart scales. Two sets of eight scales are available - Set
‘1’ labeled A - H and set ‘2’ labeled A - H. The exact details are covered in Section 5.5.2. Right now we wish
to program the scale that we assigned to the previous Point 1 we have just programmed. Use the arrows to
select the scale 1B then press ENTER. You are now presented with a menu which enables you to program the
scales. The scale type can be programmed logarithmic or linear and defaults to linear which we will accept.