Keithley 3700 series Reference Manual page 186

Section 9: Instrument Control Library (ICL)
channel.reset
Remarks
Also see
Example
channel.setbackplane
Function
Usage
9-42
This command resets only the channel aspects for the items specified to factory default
settings. For the items specified in the parameter list (ch_list) the following action will
occur:
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For closed channels or analog backplane relays, they will open.
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For channels, the poles reset to 2 and paired channels are changed to match.
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Additional user delay is set to 0.
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Labels go back to default of "SCCC" or "SRCC".
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Analog backplane relays specified by channel.setbackplane function are cleared.
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If channel is forbidden to close, it is cleared from being forbidden to close.
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Channels in a channel pattern list are deleted. This means that specifying a channel
pattern to reset will reset the items within the pattern and delete that pattern.
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Channels have their DMM configurations set to ―nofunction‖
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The parameter string may contain ―allslots‖, ―slotX‖ where X = 1 to 6, channel
pattern(s), and channel(s) include a range of channels.
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The rest of the settings are unaffected. To reset the entire system to factory default
settings, use the reset command.
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An error message will be generated if the parameter string is empty or just spaces.
Using this function to reset a channel or backplane relay involved in scanning invalidates
the existing scan list. The list will have to be recreated before scanning again.
dmm.reset (on page 9-112)
reset (on page 9-156)
scan.reset (on page 9-166)
channel functions and attributes
To perform a reset on all channels in the system:
channel.reset("allslots")
To reset on channels on Slot 1:
channel.reset("slot1")
To reset only channels 1 to 5 on Slot 3:
channel.reset("3001:3005")
To reset only Channel 5 and analog backplane relay 5 in bank 1 on Slot 5;
channel.reset("5005, 5915")
Specify list of analog backplane relays (abuslist) to use with channels specified in
ch_list when they are used in a switching aspect.
channel.setbackplane(ch_list, abuslist)
ch_list: A string listing the channels to change.
abuslist: A string listing analog backplane relays to set for channels in ch_list.
Series 3700 System Switch/Multimeter Reference Manual
(on page 9-16)
Document Number: 3700S-901-01 Rev. A / August 2007