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Powering Your Sonus Meter
Your Sonus meter can be powered from either one 9V (PP3) battery and
Models ‘L’ and ‘E’ instruments can also be powered using an external 12V DC
Power Supply which can be purchased separately if required (PSU3:SONUS).
The battery compartment is located on the bottom left hand side of your
instrument. Open the battery door by sliding the cover downwards towards the
bottom of the instrument. The cover will now swing open exposing the battery
compartment. Insert the battery observing the correct polarity as marked on
the case wall inside the battery compartment.
To achieve a greater battery life from your instrument, it is strongly
recommended you use alkaline type batteries.
To power the instrument via the Castle DC Power Supply (purchased
separately), plug your Power Adapter Cable into the 9 pin Lemo connector
located at the right side of the instrument. Ensure the red dots are aligned
before insertion. Insert the DC power supply into the DC socket on the adapter
cable. Ensure the DC power supply is plugged into a mains socket and switch on
power to the socket.
Your Sonus meter is equipped with a four stage battery level indicator; this is
displayed during the
power up sequence and can also be viewed using the
information key.
A series of four bars indicates that the battery is fully charged whilst only one
bar indicates the battery is almost flat.
It is strongly recommended that if the instrument is displaying only one bar that
the battery is replaced as soon as possible.
When the battery charge is too low for the instrument to operate the
instrument will flash the following message: -
All meters will shut down and Models ‘L’ and ‘E’ instruments will automatically
save any data if the instrument is in
Record Mode
.
BAT:
BAT:
BAT:
BAT:
BAT. LOW