Measurement Functions – The SENSe Subsystem Measurement Operations & Settings
Agilent 8163A/B, 8164A/B & 8166A/B Mainframes, Fifth Edition 85
Measurement Functions – The SENSe Subsystem
The SENSe subsystem lets you control measureme nt parameters for a
Power Sensor, an Optical Head Interface module, or a ret urn loss module.

Agilent 81635A and Agilent 81619A - Master

and Slave Channels

For the Agilent 81635A Dual Power Sensor and Agilent 81619A Dual
Optical Head Interface module, chan nel 1 is the master channel and
channel 2 is the slave channel. The master and slave channels share the
same software and hardware triggering system. For some commands,
setting parameters for the master channe l sets the parameters for the
slave channel. In these cases, you may on ly set parameters for the slave
channel by setti ng master cha nnel parameters .
The commands listed in Table 5 can only be configure d using the master
channel.
Table5 Commands that can only be configured using the master channel
Command Page
:INITiate[n]:[CHANnel[m]][:IMMediate] page 88
:INITiate[n]:[CHANnel[m]]:CONTinuous/? page89
:READ[n][:CHANnel[m]][:SCALar]:POWer[:DC]? page90
:SENSe[n]:[CHANnel[m]]:CORRection:COLLect:ZERO page92
:SENSe[n][:CHANnel[m]]:FUNCtion:PARameter:LOGGing/? page94
:SENSe[n][:CHANnel[m]]:FUNCtion:PARameter:MINMax/? page95
:SENSe[n][:CHANnel[m]]:FUNCtion:PARameter:STABility/? page96
:SENSe[n][:CHANnel[m]]:FUNCtion:STATe/? page10 0
:SENSe[n]:[CHANnel[m]]:POWer:ATIME/? page10 1
:SENSe[n]:[CHANnel[m]]:POWer:RANGe:AUTO/? page 104
:TRIGger[n][:CHANnel[m]]:INPut/? page 173
:TRIGger[n][:CHANnel[m]]:INPut:REARm/? page174
:TRIGger[n][:CHANnel[m]]:OUTPut/? page17 6
:TRIGger[n][:CHANnel[m]]:OUTPut:REARm/? page177