Using The Utility Menu; Overview Of The Utility Menu - HP 53131A Operating Manual

Chapter 2 Operating Your Universal Counter

Using the Utility Menu

Using the Utility Menu

Overview of the Utility Menu

POWER
The Utility menu is accessed by holding the Recall key and cycling
Utility
POWER key.
Utility Menu: Recall
Hold at power up
The Utility menu allows you to:
• view the firmware revision of your Counter (REV: n).
• select and/or display the current HP-IB address (HP-IB: 1, ... 30, or
TALK).
• choose timebase source (TIMEBAS: AUTO, INT, or EXT).
• execute several self tests (refer to the paragraph in this section titled
"To Run the Self-Test Routines" for details).
• configure the following parameters for the RS-232 port:
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Early revisions of the Counter allowed calibration from the Utility menu
with CAL: menu item. Calibration and the CAL: menu item now reside on
the Calibration menu; the CAL HELP? menu item resides on the Utility
menu as a pointer to the Calibration menu.
Operating Guide
set the print baud rate (BAUD: 9600, 19200, 300, 1200, or 2400).
set print parity (PARITY: OFF, EVEN, or ODD).
set the software pace (SW PACE: XON or NONE).
set the hardware pace to send data to a serial printer, or to send
the Limit-detect output to a computer or controller, via the
RS-232 port (DTR: HIGH, HW PACE, or LIMIT).
change the numerical convention of the Counter's displayed
measurement values. The numeric convention used in the USA
separates the integral and fractional portions of a number with a
period (a decimal point), and separates groups of three digits in
the integer portion with a comma. You can reverse this setting to
conform to the numerical convention used in many other countries
(SHOW 9 AS: 9.0 or 9,0).
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