Agilent Technologies Serials 3004A-05092 to 05096 3024A-05272 and above Agilent 6035A Command

Command

TEST?

ID?

Table 3-7 GP-IB Commands (continued)
*Range or **Response		Page
To Query	Description
**TEST xx	Causes power supply to run selftests and report	63
	any failures. Type of tests run depends on whether
	power supply output is on or off.
**Agilent 603xA or	Causes power supply to report its model number	65
	and any options that affect the unit’s output
**Agilent 603xA, OPT 100	capability.

[Bracketed commands are equivalent. x = any digit (within range)

MV = millivolt MA = milliamp MS = millisecond

**Query causes power supply to clear output buffer, gather requested data, and store it in output buffer. Data will be put on GP-IB when power supply is addressed to talk and ATN goes false. Only most recently requested data is stored, and it is not saved after being put on GP-IB.

Terminators For Data Sent To Power Supply. Terminators mark the end of a command string, and they instruct the power supply that the command it has just received should be executed. The terminator characters are the line feed and semicolon.

Line feed is sent by all Agilent controllers automatically after OUTPUT statements unless deliberately suppressed, so the user need not include a terminator when only one command is sent per line. If the user wishes to send more than one command per line the commands must be separated by semicolon.

Any number of consecutive terminators is treated as one. A terminator may be preceded or followed by any number of spaces, for example:

VOUT 15V;IOUT 5A

VOUT 15V ; IOUT 5A

are both correct

The carriage return character by itself is not sufficient to terminate a command, but it will be accepted without error in all cases where a terminator is expected.

Commands may also be terminated by asserting EOI on the GP-IB concurrently with the last character of the command. For example:

VSET 1.23

E

O

I

requires no semicolon or linefeed. Asserting EOI in conjunction with a terminator will have no adverse effect.

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