User's Manual

THE PORTABLE INTERROGATOR User Guide
Revised July 2000
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THE DETAILS – READING METERS WITH THE
PORTABLE INTERROGATOR 400
After loading a route, the next step in the reading cycle is to read the meters in the route.
To begin reading, press the Read / Program Meters button on the Main Menu. You will
see the first account in the route. (If you have pressed the Read / Program Meters button
and have read some meters in the route already, when you press the button The Portable
Interrogator 400 will display the account that was next to be read in the route when you
left the Read / Program Meters function.) The Read screen looks like this.
The reading screen display shows customer information in the top section of the screen,
and three buttons along the bottom of the screen. The first two of the bottom buttons
allow you to browse through the meters in the route. When you press the Previous
Account button, The Portable Interrogator 400 will display the meter just before the
current one in the route.
If the current meter is the first one in the route and you press the Previous Account
button, The Portable Interrogator 400 will ask you if you want to stay at the beginning of
the route or if you wish to go to the end of the route.