Instructions

Model
DMM6500 6½ Digit Multimeter User's Manual Section 7:
Scanning temperature at a set time interval
DMM6500-900-01 Rev. B / August 2019 7-5
11. On the Settings tab, select the following:
 Transducer: TC
 Thermocouple: K
 Unit: Celsius
 NPLC: 1
12. Select the Scan tab.
13. Set the Scan Count to 1440 (24 hours * 60 minutes).
14. Set the Scan to Scan Interval to 60 s.
15. Set Export to USB to After Each Scan.
16. Set the Filename to scan24hr and select OK.
17. Select OK on the File Content dialog box.
18. Set Power Loss Restart to On.
19. Select Start on the SCAN screen.
20. To view the results, select View Scan Status, which opens the SCAN swipe screen on the home
screen.
Using SCPI commands
This sequence of SCPI commands executes a thermocouple-based temperature scan every minute
for 24 hours.
You may need to make changes so that this code runs in your programming environment. In the
following table, the SCPI commands have a light gray background.
Make sure the TERMINALS switch is set to REAR.
Send the following commands for this example application:
The scan count is 24 * 60; the channel count (chanCount) is 10. The total number of readings
(totalRdgs) is scanCount * chanCount.