Portable Test Equipment
User’s Guide
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3.
How to Use the Appliance
Warnings
The Product can supply lethal voltages. Do not make connections to the
output terminals when any voltage is present. Placing the instrument in
standby may not be enough to avoid shock hazard. Disconnect the RS232 and
USB cables from the Product to prevent remote commands setting
unexpected
outputs.
To prevent electric shock, make sure the Product is grounded as described in
Chapter 2.
Caution
Product must not be left unattended when in operation. Authorized personnel
must be present all the time the product is being used on site or in laboratory.
1. Prepare any electricity meter, you want to verify.
2. Connect the power cord to the device and plug into the wall socket.
3. Connect current and voltage cables to the meter (DUT), for various connection situations see
chapter 7 APPENDIX.
4. In case that measurement will be realized with external measuring accessory (e.g. voltage and
current transducer), connect this accessory before PTE being turned on. After switching on the
device this accessory will be properly detected.
5. Turn on the PTE. The device after start automatically shows the initialization screens and
moves into the generator section of SW, namely the Basic screen of generator. Detailed
description is in chapters 3.1 and 3.2.
6. If Basic screen of generator (see Fig. on page 18) contains required parameters, you can
begin to generate a signal with
button on the bottom left. If parameters change is needed,
so do it. Proceed as described in chapters 3.2 to 4.3.
7. While generating your chosen signal switch to the measuring section by
key in bottom
right. There is a description of all measured values in chapter 5.1.
8. Before generation of signal, or even during, you can save given meter to the database referred
to all its parameters. To enable this function switch to Measuring Mode - (
F5
) Settings - (
F4
)
Database. Description of databases is in chapter 5.8.
9. To perform verification of energy dosing follow chapter 5.2. If you need to perform basic meter
error test follow the description in chapter 5.3.
10. For further measurements, such as transformer check proceed with chapter 5.4.
Detailed description of generator section is located in the following chapters.
* Screen identification codes (for example
* P42
) can be found in captions of all described software screens
DUT = Device Under Test
