Operation
Power Supply Operation
Read Error The error queue holds up to 50 error messages. Once each message has been read, it Messages is cleared from the system.
To read from the error queue:
SYST:ERR?
This command returns an error code and message from the error queue. For example:
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•0, “No error”
See Appendix C. “Error Messages” for descriptions of the messages.
Clear Status | Issue a Clear Status command to clear all error messages and status registers. | |
| *CLS | |
| or |
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| STATus<channel>:CLEar | |
Configure | The Auxiliary (Aux) lines are 2 open collector outputs that can be used to monitor | |
Auxiliary | the status of the power supply. The auxiliary lines are referred to as AUX A and AUX | |
Status Lines | B. The auxiliary status lines can be set up to report the following status conditions: | |
| • | NONE |
| • | ON: Output On |
| • | OFF: Output Off |
| • OVOLtage: | |
| • UVOLtage: | |
| • OCURrent: | |
| • UCURrent: | |
| • FOLD: Fold Protection Tripped | |
| • CC: Constant Current Mode | |
| • CV: Constant Voltage Mode | |
| • | UNRegulated: Output Unregulated |
• OTEMperature: Over Temperature Protection Tripper
• ACOFf: AC Protection Tripped
• SPRotection: Sense Protection Tripper
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