User guide

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Table of Contents
3.2
Sensor contamination
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17
3.3
Menu Reference
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18
3.3.1
Accessing Menus
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18
3.3.1.1
Entering Numerical Values
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18
3.3.1.2
Menu Option Selection
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19
3.3.1.3
Exiting Menus
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19
3.3.2
HI Menu
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19
3.3.3
LO Menu
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19
3.3.4
A Menu
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20
3.3.5
B Menu
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20
3.3.6
RATE Menu
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20
3.3.7
LEN (Length) Menu
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21
3.3.7.1
Zero Offset
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21
3.3.7.2
Measured Span
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21
3.3.8
FILL Menu
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21
3.3.8.1
Fill Mode
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22
3.3.8.2
Fill Timeout
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22
3.3.9
MUTE Menu
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22
3.3.10
COMM Menu
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22
3.3.10.1
Display Contrast
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23
3.3.10.2
IEEE-488 Address
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23
3.3.10.3
Serial Baud Rate
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23
3.3.10.4
Serial Data Bits/Parity
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23
3.3.10.5
Serial Stop Bits
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24
3.3.10.6
Serial Handshaking
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24
3.3.11
CAL Menu
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24
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4.1
SCPI Command Summary
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27
4.2
Programming Overview
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30
4.2.1
SCPI Language Introduction
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30
4.2.2
SCPI Status System
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30
4.2.2.1
Status Byte Registers
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32
4.2.2.2
Serial Polling and the Service Request (SRQ)
33
4.2.2.3
Reading the Status Byte using *STB?
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34
4.2.2.4
Using the Message Available Bit(s)
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34
4.2.3
Standard Event Registers
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34
4.2.4
Alarm Registers
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35
4.2.5
Command Handshaking
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36
4.2.5.1
Using the
*OPC
Command
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37
4.2.5.2
Using the
*OPC?
Query
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37
4.2.6
Remote Units
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37
4.3
RS-232/422 Configuration
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38
4.3.1
Serial Port Connector
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38
4.3.2
Termination Characters
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38