Display Settings Submenu - Fluke 8588A Operator's Manual

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Display Settings Submenu

 (Instrument Settings) provides access to several other global instrument
settings as shown in Table 21.
Menu Parameter
Language
Date
Date Format
Time
Time Format
Display
Brightness
Backlight
Dimmer
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Table 21. Display Settings Submenu
To change the display language, push  (Language). The display changes
and presents languages choices. Use the navigation keys to highlight the language
and push . When done, push . The new language is stored. Push
 to return to the Display Settings screen.
The display language choices are:
• English
• Chinese
•
French
•
German
•
Japanese
•
Korean
•
Russian
• Spanish
The current date is shown. To change the date, use the navigation keys to move
the cursor to highlight this field and use the numerical keypad to make changes.
When done, push . The new date is stored.
To change the format of the date, use the navigation keys to move the cursor to this
field. The softkeys change to  (MM/DD/YYYY),  (DD/MM/YYYY), and
 (YYYY-MM-DD). Push the softkey to select the date format. When pushed,
the Date field changes to the new format.
The current time is shown. To change the time, use the navigation keys to move the
cursor to highlight this field and then use the numerical keypad to make changes. If
Time Format is 12 hr, push  (AM) or  (PM). When done, push .
The new time is stored.
To change the time format, use the navigation keys to move the cursor to highlight
this field and then push  (12 hr) or  (24 hr).
Adjust the display brightness for different lighting conditions. To change the display
brightness, use the navigation keys to move the cursor to highlight this field and
then use the numerical keypad to make changes. When done, push  to store
the brightness level. Note that the brightness setting influences the lifespan of the
display backlight. Fluke Calibration recommends that 50% setting or less.
The Product backlight can be set to dim for user-specified time intervals. Use the
navigation keys to move the cursor to highlight this field and then use the numerical
keypad to make changes. The backlight dimmer time is entered in the form hhmm.
For example, to set the dimmer time to 1 hour 25 minutes, enter 0125. When done,
push  to store the change.
Change the Parameter