Keys And Navigation Wheel - Keithley 708B Reference Manual

Section 2: General operation
To open and close channels:
You can use the crosspoint display to view the open or closed status of a specific channel crosspoint.
After selecting the channel crosspoint so that the channel is displayed on the bottom display, you can
press OPEN or CLOSE to open or close the channel.

Keys and navigation wheel

The keys and navigation wheel
instrument from the front panel.
The POWER key. Press this key to turn the instrument on (|). Press it again to turn the instrument off
(0).
Navigation wheel
Turn the navigation wheel
Push the navigation wheel
pressing the navigation wheel
On the Model 707B, you can use the navigation wheel
crosspoint display.
To change a value with multiple characters:
1. Turn the navigation wheel
when selected).
2. Press the navigation wheel
3. Turn the navigation wheel
4. Press the navigation wheel
5. Repeat these steps as needed to change the value.
6. Press the ENTER key or the navigation wheel
Front-panel keys
The DISPLAY key cycles between three screens: The channel display or pattern display, the closed
channel list, and the user screen text, which is set with
When the closed channel listing is displayed, if the list of channels is longer than one screen, you can
use the navigation wheel
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on the front panel allow you to turn on, set up, and operate the
to scroll to a menu option or to change the selected value.
to open menus or to select a menu option or a value. In most cases,
performs the same action as pressing the ENTER key.
to go to the character you want to change (the character blinks
to edit that character.
to change the value.
to keep the change.
to scroll though the list of closed channels.
to control which slot is displayed on the
when finished changing all the characters.
display.settext() (on page 7-82).
707B-901-01 Rev. A / August 2010