Determining the Battery Charge

The <state > settings are:

ON - enables the battery; memory is non-volatile.

OFF - disables the battery; memory is lost when power is cycled (factory setting).

If memory is to be battery-backed, the battery must be enabled before readings are taken.

Cycling power or resetting the digitizer does not affect the battery state set by MEMory:BATTery:STATe. Battery life is normally four years if it remains enabled. Battery life can be extended to approximately seven years if it is disabled when non-volatile memory is not required.

To ensure that the battery has sufficient charge to maintain memory, the command:

MEMory:BATTery:CHARge?

Digitizer Data Formats

can be sent. This command returns a ’1’ if the battery has sufficient charge to maintain memory. If the battery does not have sufficient charge, a ’0’ is returned. Leaving the digitizer in the VXI mainframe with the power on will not recharge the battery. A battery with insufficient charge must be replaced.

There are three digitizer data formats available when readings are taken using MEASure or READ?, or when the readings are FETCh(ed)? from memory. These formats are set using the FORMat subsystem which consists of the command:

FORMat[:DATA] <type > [,<length >]

The formats available are:

<type > <length >

ASCii 9

PACKed 16

REAL 64

ASCii,9 format returns/retrieves data as comma (,) separated ASCII numbers (Figure 3-11). This is the default format.

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