Instruction manual

Chapter 4 Command Reference
:SYSTem Subsystem
4-40 Programming Guide
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COMMAND :SYSTem:COMMunicate:SERial:BAUD . . . <numeric_value>
Sets or queries the baud rate.
<NUMERIC_VALUE>
RANGE
The possible BAUD rate values that can be entered for the
<numeric_value> parameter are: 1200, 2400, 4800, 9600, 14400, and
19200.
QUERY RESPONSE Numeric data transferred as ASCII bytes in <NR1> format.
COMMENTS • This value is unaffected by *RST.
• To change the Baud rate used at power-on, save the instrument
settings using the *SAV 0 command after changing the Baud rate.
RELATED
FRONT-PANEL
KEYS
Shift + Menu (BAUD > 19200 | 14400 | 9600 | 4800 | 2400 | 1200)
COMMAND :SYSTem:ERRor?
Queries the oldest error in the Error Queue and removes that error from
the queue (first in, first out).
See Chapter 5, “Errors,” for detailed error information
QUERY RESPONSE • The response is in the following form:
<error_number>,“<error_description>”
• The <error_number> is an integer in the range [-32768, 32767].
The negative error numbers are defined by the SCPI standard;
positive error numbers are particular to this Counter. An error number
value of zero indicates that the Error Queue is empty.
• The maximum length of the <error_description> is 255 characters.