Controlling the controller via the buttons on the front panel - general information

Of the 6 buttons which can be accessed on the front panel of the controller or which are visible in the "Front panel" window in ClsM2, the "OK", "ESC", "+" and "-" buttons can be used to control the controller by following the instructions on the front panel display.

There are 6 possible control operations:

Important notes:

General information about dialogue with the controller using the buttons on the front panel

In order for the user to communicate with it, the controller displays either selection menus (selection via display line) or data to be modified (the data flashes against a black background).

When the screen shown above appears, the main menu can be accessed by pressing OK or ESC.

On a controller or in monitoring mode, dialogue takes place in the language corresponding to the binary loaded in the controller

Example menu:

Example of modifiable data:

Use the + and - buttons to scroll up and down a menu selection list.

The selected menu will flash against a black background. The OK button is used to confirm the menu selection and the ESC button is used to return to the previous menu.

One or more items of data can be modified in the same screen. Use the + and - buttons to select the data to be modified. The selected field will flash against a black background. The OK button is used to change to "modify data value" mode and the ESC button is used to return to the previous menu.

The display will flash against a neutral background to indicate the change to value modification mode. The + and – buttons are used to increment or decrement the value. Pressing OK again saves the value and pressing ESC cancels the modification.

If the data itself contains data which has been included and can be modified separately (for example weeks and days in the daily, weekly and yearly time programmer function) – each separate item of data can be accessed by pressing the OK button. Pressing OK in the last data item will save all the values which have been modified. Pressing the ESC button whilst editing any of the data items cancels all modifications.

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