Menus; Displ (Display) Menu; Point - Omega RD8800 User Manual

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Chapter 4 Operation

4.2 Menus

Additional menus are available for changing the Display, Programming the unit and setting Functions. When the
MENU Button (located at the right of the Main button bar at the bottom of the display) is pressed, the Command
Menu Button Bar appears as shown in Figure 4-1. The Command Menu Button Bar has entry points to the
DISPLay, PROGram, and FUNCtion menus. Both the PROGram menu and the FUNCtion menu can be password
protected, each with its own password (Refer to Section 5.11.2). The PROGram menu is covered fully in Chapter
5, "Programming".

4.2.1 DISPL (Display) Menu

The DISPLay Menu allows the user to program what information is displayed transiently in the STATUS line
along the top of the display screen (See Fig 1-1 for location of the Status Line). This display can be used to
show point data, alarm information, junction temperature, the firmware version and media status. Note that the
default display is the Unit tag, which is programmed in the PROGram, Displays, Powerup disp, Unit tag menu
option (see Section 5.4.3).
When the DISPLay Button is pressed, the Display menu is displayed as shown in
Figure 4-2.

4.2.1.1 Point

To display a Point value on the Status Line:
From the Display menu use the UP (↑ ↑ ↑ ↑ ↑ ) or DOWN (↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ ) button to highlight Point and
then press the ENTER button. You will be prompted with "point? X". Use the
numeric keypad to select the point number you wish to display and press the
ENTER button. Listed below are parameters or responses that may be displayed:
Point No.
Value
1
0.496
Point No.
Status / Message
1
BYPASS
1
TCBO
1
INVALID
1
OVRRNG
1
OVRFLW
NOTE: To have the point information come up automatically at power up and be the default display, use
the PROGram, Displays, Powerup disp option to set Point as the Powerup display default. You
can also set the Powerup display default to Autojog which will cycle through all points. Refer to
Section 5.4.3.
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Figure 4-1 The Command Menu Button Bar
Eng Units
VOLTS
Point number requested has been set to be bypassed.
Thermocouple Burnout
ADC is overrange for direct inputs
Point measurement exceeds the limit of the table.
Data of calculated points exceeds the limit of the floating point
math function.
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Point
Alarms
Junction Temp
Version
Media Status
Figure 4-2
Display Menu

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