Operator`s manual

Model VR240 Audio Logging Recorder
January 2000
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CHAPTER 3
SOFTWARE CONFIGURATION
Section I. SETUP
3-1. DESCRIPTION.
Setup is a configuration procedure performed from the front panel of the VR240. At this point,
we assume that the unit is connected to power and audio, and is powered up. If so, you will be
looking at a display with a legend indicating either
Ready
or
Not Ready
depending upon
whether the drive is loaded. A “soft key” is the button immediately below the legend in bold.
Saying “press the System soft key” means that there is a legend “System” on the display and
you must press the key immediately below it.
3-2. MENU OPERATION AND TIMEOUT.
To facilitate operation of the VR240, we have made some assumptions that cause the soft key
menus to change depending upon circumstances. For example, the menu options while playing
will be different than when the unit is in the record mode.
Another important aspect of menu operations is “time-out.” You are given a period of time to
perform operations under the menus you select. Menus have levels. Refer to Appendix I. In
computer terminology, the Home screen display is the “root.”
GoTo
is one selection on the next
level, or one of the “branches.” Menus can have multiple levels, but you will eventually reach
the last level (“leaf”) and will either perform or not perform the action on that level. In order to
prevent the unit from continuously displaying an action, perhaps one you don’t want to perform,
each menu times out to the next level, until eventually the root is reached. That way, the unit
will eventually return to a known state, and if another user comes upon it, they won’t have to
backtrack your operations to get it to do what they want.
The balance of this section describes in detail the steps performed under the
Config
menus.
As shipped from the factory, each of the configuration items is set to a logical “default.” If the
default is unsatisfactory, change it as needed.
NOTE
The unit cannot be configured when in record. Be sure you are
not recording to the internal hard disk or either archive drive.
3-3. SETTING THE CLOCK.
It is very important that the system clock be set to any legal date between 1 January 1989 and
31 December 2088. The clock can be set to local time or UTC, previously known as Greenwich
Mean Time.