User's Manual

THE PORTABLE INTERROGATOR User Guide
Revised July 2000
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The functions are:
• Searching for specific accounts
• Entering comment codes and messages
• Perform a manual read for this meter
• View the High and Low audit limits for this meter (if you have the permission to
do so – more on this later)
• Program this meter
• Define a new account
• View Progress, settings, or RF diagnostics via The Portable Interrogator 400
Utilities
• Return to the main menu
• Return to the Read screen
More on these functions later in this section is included below.
Reading Meters
The Read Screen shows specific information about the meter to be read including:
• An account name
• The service address
• The serial number of the TRACE transponder or AMR Reading module
• The serial number of the meter
• The type of meter reading technology in use for this meter (TRACE, DIALOG, or
MANUAL)
• The service that this meter is measuring (Water, Gas, Electric, Reclaim, etc.)
• The meter reading (after the reading has been gathered)
Here is an example.