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The display shows that:
the measurement will be terminated automatical-
ly by releasing the pressure on the transducer at
the end of the test (Auto Measurement), i.e.
when the animal loses grip and releases the bar.
the measurement force-scale is 500gf
the warning sound above a particular force
threshold is switched OFF
Press
Back
to return to the
Measure Peak Force
display.
Pressing
Select this
at the
Measure Peak Force
screen, gives a display similar to the following,
which shows the current date and time and indi-
cates that the next test would be the fourth test to
be stored since GSM’s memory was last erased.
If
Test
is pressed, the instrument first completes the
autozero
and
checking offset
pro-
cedures, during which it is important not apply force.
Then the following display appears:
The user should now perform the measurement!
As soon as the initial force threshold is reached (this setting can be changed by the con-
figuration menu, see section 4.5), the display shows:
The
Force
shows the current applied force in gf
while
Time remaining
counts down in 0.05s steps
from the maximum measurement time which may
be adjusted up to 30s (default 15s).
Normally, the test is terminated either by releasing the force on the transducer (default)
or by pressing the external foot switch. In either case, the display shows typically:
where the
test number
, the
peak force
appear,
and the
time
appear.
Speaking about time, the first figure, 7.70s in our
example, indicates the
peak time
(i.e. the latency
time of the animal response), while the second fig-
ure, 8.69s, indicates the
total length
of the meas-
urement.
