Section 2: General operation
Other system settings for the battery simulator function
Setting
Key Click
Backlight Timer
Backlight Brightness
Time and Date
Error Beeper
System Password
Reset
System Event Log menu for the battery simulator function
The System Event Log menu allows you to view, save, and clear the event log. The event log entries
are error messages, which may indicate that a command was sent incorrectly.
Settings
Export to USB
Clear Event Log
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Description
Turn the instrument key-click sound on or off from this menu.
You can set the front-panel display to dim after a period of time, or
you can set it so that it will never dim.
You can adjust the brightness of the front-panel display. Selecting
this setting opens a sliding adjustment scale that adjusts the
brightness as a percent of total brightness.
Set the instrument month, day, year, and time from this menu.
Turn the error beeper on or off.
Change the remote connection or calibration passwords. You need
the remote connection password to open the LXI virtual front panel
and send SCPI commands. You need the calibration password
before you can calibrate the 2281S.
Selecting this option resets many of the instrument commands to
System Reset
their default values. For more information about what commands get
reset, see
Selecting this option reverts the passwords to their default values.
Password Reset
Description
Saves the event log to a .csv file on the USB flash drive. The file name is
eventlog.csv.
Clears all entries from the event log.
Reset default values
(on page 2-110).
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