Agilent Technologies 8164A Manual De Usuario
Instrument Setup and Status
Interface/Instrument Behaviour Settings – The SYSTem Subsystem
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Agilent 8163A/B, 8164A/B & 8166A/B Mainframes, Fifth Edition
Interface/Instrument Behaviour
Settings – The SYSTem
Subsystem
Settings – The SYSTem
Subsystem
The SYSTem subsystem lets you control the instrument’s serial interface.
You can also control some internal data (like date, time, and so on).
You can also control some internal data (like date, time, and so on).
command:
:SYSTem:DATE
syntax:
:SYSTem:DATE<wsp><year>,<month>,<day>
description:
Sets the instrument’s internal date.
parameters:
• the first value is the year (four digits),
• the second value is the month, and
• the third value is the day.
response:
none
example:
syst:date 1999, 1, 12
command:
:SYSTem:DATE?
syntax:
:SYSTem:DATE?
description:
Returns the instrument’s internal date.
parameters:
none
response:
The date in the format year, month, day (16-bit signed integer values)
example:
syst:date?
→ +1999,+1,+12<END>
command:
:SYSTem:ERRor?
syntax:
:SYSTem:ERRor?
description:
Returns the next error from the error queue (see “The Error Queue” on page 22).
Each error has the error code and a short description of the error, separated by a comma, for
example 0, "No error".
example 0, "No error".
Error codes are numbers in the range -32768 and +32767.
Negative error numbers are defined by the SCPI standard. Positive error numbers are device
dependent.
dependent.
parameters:
none
response:
The number of the latest error, and its meaning.
example:
syst:err?
→ -113,"Undefined header"<END>