Nikon NPL-632, Instruction Manual

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3 Getting Started
28 Field Station NPL-632 Instruction Manual
Turning the Instrument On and Off
Turning on the instrument
1. To turn on the instrument, press
[PWR]
. The start-
up screen appears. It shows the current
temperature, pressure, date, and time.
2. To change the temperature or pressure value,
use
[^]
or
[v]
to move the cursor to the field that
you want to change. Then press
[ENT]
.
3. If you want to initialize the horizontal angle,
rotate the alidade.
4. Tilt the telescope until it passes the horizontal
position on Face-1.
Turning off the instrument
To turn the instrument off, press
[PWR]
and
[ENT]
.
Then do one of the following:
If you have entered your name or your company’s name in the Owner’s detail
field, the text from this field appears on the start-up screen. To set the
Owner’s detail field, go to
MENU > Settings > Other . For more
information, see page 120 .
Once you start to use an initialized HA, you must rotate the alidade to initialize the HA every time you turn on
the instrument. If you do this, you can maintain a fixed HA orientation even if the instrument has moved while it
is turned off.
If you tilt the telescope before you rotate the alidade, the horizontal angle is not initialized, and the instrument
uses the previous HA reading.
Press ... To ...
[ENT]
again turn off the instrument
the
Reset
softkey reboot the program and re-start the instrument