3 switching instrument on/off, 4 field accuracy check (acoustic calibration) – Casella CEL CEL-368 User Manual

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For example, the C6593/1 Cable (1 m) plugs into a cigar lighter socket
and can be used to power the instrument from an ordinary car battery.

5.3

Switching Instrument ON/OFF

1.

Switch the instrument ON and OFF by pressing

.

Immediately the noise meter is switched ON, it performs an auto-
matic sequence of self-verification tests while displaying the soft-
ware version number. After this sequence, the current status of
the data stores is indicated briefly

Then the user is offered the choice of recalibrating (i.e performing
a field accuracy check - see Section 5.4) or continuing to use
the existing calibration settings.

5.4

Field Accuracy Check
(Acoustic Calibration)

1.

Either: Press

to use the existing

calibration level and proceed directly to the SETUP menu.

Or: Press

to perform a field

accuracy check (acoustic calibration) and follow the instructions
given on the display.

Acoustic calibration is normally
performed with a CEL-284/2
Acoustic Calibrator (IEC 942 Class 1L) or a CEL-282 Acoustic
Calibrator IEC 942 Class 2L).

2.

With the CEL-268 and CEL-
284/2, carefully fit the calibrator over the end of the micro-
phone (Figure 7), making sure it is correctly seated against the
shoulder in the calibrator cavity then proceed to step 5.

ON

OFF

EXIT

STOP

CAL

Period Data

Number of Stored Periods

Event Data

Number of Stored Events

Cumulative Store Identity

Amount of Memory Used

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