Symbols You See Before, During Or After Testing And What They Mean - Accu-Chek Compact Plus User Manual

Notes
Make sure the lancet has dropped out. Inadvertently leaving the
lancet in the lancing device may result in personal injury.
Carefully dispose of used lancets so that the needles cannot
cause injury.
You must remove the cap to eject the lancet. If you leave the cap
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in place, pressing the plunger will prime the lancing device.
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Testing blood glucose
4.6 Symbols you see before, during or after testing and what
they mean
You may see the following symbols displayed before, during or after a
test. For further information please see Chapter 12.1.
The beep tone ( ) or Acoustic Mode (
You have turned on at least one alarm.
While the result is displayed:
You have turned the hypo indicator on. The result is below the
indicator level you set. If the beep tone (
you hear 5 short double beeps (after the beep you hear when
the result is displayed).
The batteries are running low.
The use-by period for the test strip drum has expired.
You inserted a partly used test strip drum.
The temperature is outside the permitted range of +10 °C to
+40 °C.
The meter is prompting you to perform a performance check.
The test strip has drawn up control solution and the meter
has flagged the result as a performance check.
Testing blood glucose
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) is set to on.
) is turned on,
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