Operating Manual
Operation
3 — Operation
Neither the 5401 nor the 5402 have any external manual controls. Signal output amplitude is controlled by internal potentiometers, which are located as described in Chapter 2. All operational control of the DRO is accomplished by means of an
RS-232 Input/Output
The DRO has been equipped with an
The connector pin assignments and designations for both connectors are given in Chapter 4.
All communication to the DRO comprises two or three categories of characters. The first category is a single character which is always an ASCII $ (Hex 24). This is the
If a mistake is made while inputting new characters (prior to the last character), issuing the "$" character will cause a reset, and the new (correct) characters can be input.
All command message inputs and response outputs end with Carriage Return (CR), Line Feed (LF).
When burst status is on, the unit will not send a response. However, configuration parameters can still be changed.
Table 1 on page 8 shows the functions available. The ASCII character is shown followed by its HEX equivalent. Comments pertaining to that specific function are also included for clarity.
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