3. GENERAL OPERATION
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Pressing
[P-C]
again or
[+/-]
causes the screen to step through the other available piston-
cylinder modules in the sequence that they were added.
1.
Nominal pressure to mass conversion coefficient of the piston-
cylinder module. This value is calculated from the effective area
of the piston-cylinder and is always in kPa (if < MPa) or MPa.
2.
Serial number of the piston-cylinder module.
3.
Current pressure unit of measure.
4.
Nominal maximum pressure using the piston-cylinder module.
Pressure, in current pressure units, resulting from loading all
the mass of the active mass set.
5.
Nominal minimum pressure using the piston-cylinder module.
Pressure, in current pressure units, resulting from loading the
piston and mass bell only.
Select 200kPa/kg 382
14 to 1000 psi
Pressing
[ENTER]
while in the P-C function causes PG7000 to select the currently displayed
piston-cylinder module as the active piston-cylinder module.
Pressing
[ESCAPE]
while in the P-C function returns to the main run screen without
changing piston-cylinder modules.
The pressure unit of measure in which the range offered by the piston-cylinder module using
the active mass set is displayed can be changed by pressing [UNIT] (see Section 3.9.3).
When the current pressure unit of measure is an altitude unit, piston-cylinder module range
is expressed in kPa if the altitude unit is meters (m) or psi if the altitude unit is feet (ft).
3.9.3
[UNIT]
PURPOSE
To specify the unit of measure in which defined pressures are expressed.
PRINCIPLE
PG7000 supports a wide variety of pressure units of measure. Internally, PG7000 always
operates in Pascal [Pa] (the SI unit of pressure). Values of pressure are represented in other
units by the application of conversion factors to convert from Pascal. See Section 7.1.1 for
Unit of Measure Conversions.
The pressure unit of measure selection (e.g., psi, kPa, etc.) is separate from the pressure
measurement mode selection (gauge, absolute or differential). See Section 3.9.4 for
information on changing the measurement mode.
OPERATION
To change the pressure unit of measure, press the
[UNIT]
function key from any run screen. The
display is (default units depend on model):
1kPa 2Mpa 3Pa
4bar 5psi 6kcm2
The cursor is on the number corresponding to the active unit. To change the pressure unit, select
the desired unit. The display returns to the previous run screen with the selected unit active.