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Originally Posted by IndySam

If they said it once they said it a thousand times....

The manuals do not flow in a linear pattern. You must be very careful how you follow them or you will be chasing your tail.

Chapter one will point you to a specific section in chapter 5 and only that section. Then that section may point you somewhere else. You have to be real careful to go where you are pointed and then back.

I would suggest that before you receive your control system that you download the manual and read if very carefully and familiarize yourself with it. It will make the whole process easier.

Originally Posted by Travis Hoffman

OK....I'll bite. WHY do the manuals flow in this manner? Is it not possible to make them more "linear" for the betterment of all? If the info is complete but jumbled, can this not be corrected fairly easily?

There's only one reason why the manuals could have possibly been written this way:

Assembly programmers.

Used to JMP'ing around all day, CMP'ing and MOV'ing data while dancing the PUSH and POP shuffle, they managed to write the manual to the new control system. Unfortunately for those not accustomed to the ways of lean and mean coding, reading the manual is like being stuck in the limbo of oh_no JMP oh_no.