PM3 disappearing decimal point
Posted By John Francis on 12/12/2006 at 4:31 PM

My PM3, lost it's decimal point today in the rod height setting.

Yesterday, after having previously setting a rod height of over 10 feet(a few days before), the unit would not allow me to enter 009.750.

The 0 immediately to the left of the decimal point, would be bypassed beginning from the left, as I proceeded placing numbers, as such that I could enter 990.999, but not 999.999.

BUT, the decimal point, would itself, become a active place, which I could change to any number 0-9. Once the number was entered, I could not again make it a decimal point and now had a eries of 7 numbers, the fourth one from the left, still being bypassed, as if it were the decimal point.

I had hoped that the new firmware had resolved this problem and the last time I had this same problem was last winter.

I tried the 3-finger salute . . . no good.

After my meetings tonight I will again put the laatest firmware in the unit.

Has anyone else seen this condition?


Re: Amazing John?
Posted By Lawrence Paul Lopresti on 12/12/2006 at 5:49 PM

How exactly do you manage to do this?

What really bothers me though is why someone even set it up that a 999.999 rod height was even possible.

I shudder as I envision John's next problem, he cannot set a negative rod height.

BTW, did GNSS find your lost PM2 file?

Paul in PA


LPL
Posted By John Francis on 12/12/2006 at 9:46 PM

I didn't manage to do this, someone else actually set up the unit and called me on the phone about setting it to 000.000.

When I looked at the unit, I noticed the third "0", from the left actually acted like the decimal point, while the decimal point acted like a number(could be changed).

I ALSO did not set the rod to 999.999 for session usage, but only to see if the first 2 9's, could be followed by a third. I thought I made that rather clear. I thought that I also stated that I was trying to set it to 9.75.

ANYWAY, from what could've been 990.999 or 220.222, or 330.333, I wound up with 9909999, 2202222 or 3303333, since the middle digit has now replaced the decimal point.


Re: PM3 disappearing decimal point
Posted By John Francis on 12/12/2006 at 10:04 PM

2 hard resets(3 if I include this afternoon), and a memory clear and I have the familiar 0.000 screen . . . and the decimal point works again.


Re: PM3 disappearing decimal point
Posted By David Karoly on 12/12/2006 at 10:05 PM

my first struggle with the PM3 involved the weird way you enter heights. Look on the bright side, you can always fix it in GNSS later.

It seems to me it looks like 02.000 when you click into the rod height. The important thing is YOU NEVER MESS WITH THE DECIMAL PLACE POINT. I use the arrow key to arrow over to the 2 and change it if necessary, then arrow over to the zero that needs change (sometimes I have 02.090 [base unit on bar] or 02.099 [rover unit on quick-release]).


Re: PM3 disappearing decimal point
Posted By Mark Silver on 12/13/2006 at 12:40 AM

I have have seen the exact same issue. I think there was a messsage sometime ago about it also.

The memory clear all does the trick.

Mark