Fluke Portable Multimedia Player 8842a User Manual

REMOTE CALIBRATION

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Configure the 8842A with the front panel controls.

The 8842A reads the TALK ONLY bit switch on power-up and when it receives the
interface command IFC. You can therefore set the TALK ONLY switch to 1 after power-
up as long as you then send the 8842A the IFC command.

The 8842A can be calibrated over the IEEE-488 bus using remote commands. Refer to
the Maintenance section for details.

 To help you take the best advantage of the speed of the 8842A, external trigger timing
for the IEEE-488 Interface is described in the specifications in Section 1.

Many controllers have some amount of "immediate mode" capability. That is, commands
may be given interactively to the 8842A via the run-time-system without the need for
actually running a program. The controller accepts and executes these commands one at a
time. Some commonly used commands are listed in Table 3-3 for several controllers.
These are provided for the convenience of instrument demonstrations, set-up and check-
out, and for those with limited experience with IEEE-488 bus operations.

As a general note: The entire 8842A command set should work well provided the "port
clear" and "device clear" commands are given first. You should then be able to send any
other commands in the 8842A command set without repeating the clearing commands.