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Series 3700 System Switch/Multimeter Reference Manual Section 13: Instrument Control Library (ICL)
3700S-901-01 Rev. C / July 2008 13-111
dmm.aperture
Also see
dmm.func (on page 13-137)
dmm.nplc (on page 13-152)
Example
To set the aperture to 16.67 milliseconds for DC volts:
dmm.func = "dcvolts"
dmm.aperture = 16.67e-3
dmm.appendbuffer()
Function
Appends data from reading buffer to USB flash drive.
Usage
dmm.appendbuffer('<reading buffer name>', '<filename>',
time_format)
reading buffer name: The name of a previously created DMM reading buffer.
filename: The destination filename located on the USB flash drive.
time_format: This optional parameter indicates how the date and time information
should be appended to the file to the thumb drive. Use the following values for
time_format:
dmm.buffer.SAVE_RELATIVE_TIME, which saves relative time stamps only
dmm.buffer.SAVE_FORMAT_TIME, which is the default if no time format
specified and saves dates, times and fractional seconds
dmm.buffer.SAVE_RAW_TIME, which saves seconds and fractionalseconds
only
dmm.buffer.SAVE_TIMESTAMP_TIME, which only saves time stamps