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Notations
Notations
Safety symbols
In this document, the risk seriousness and the hazard levels are classified as follows.
WARNING
Indicates a potentially hazardous situation that may result in death or serious
injury to the operator.
CAUTION
Indicates a potentially hazardous situation that may result in minor injury to the
operator or damage to the instrument or malfunction.
IMPORTANT
Indicates information related to the operation of the instrument or maintenance
tasks with which the operators must be fully familiar.
Indicates prohibited actions.
Indicates an action that must be performed.
Symbols affixed to the instrument
Indicates cautions and hazards. Refer to the “Usage Notes” (p. 5) and warning
messages presented at the beginning of each instruction for use of the Instruction
Manual, and included “Operating Precautions”.
Indicates that dangerous voltage may be present at this terminal.
Other Descriptions
(p. ) Indicates the location of reference information.
START
(Boldface)
Indicates the names and keys on the windows in boldface.
[ ]
Names of menus, dialog boxes, buttons in a dialog box, and other UI elements on the
screen are enclosed in brackets [ ] .
S/s
The instrument describes the number per second of digitized analog input signals in
units of samples per second (S/s).
Example: “20 MS/s” (20 megasamples per second) means digitization of 20 × 10
6
times per second.
Accuracy descriptions
We define measurement tolerances in terms of setting values with the following meanings.
Setting Indicates the value set as the output voltage, current, or other quantity.