Keithley 3700 series Reference Manual page 311

Series 3700 System Switch/Multimeter Reference Manual
scan.reset
Remarks
Also see
Example
scan.scancount
Attribute
Usage
Remarks
Example
scan.state
Function
Usage
Details
Also see
Document Number: 3700S-901-01 Rev. A / August 2007
This command will only reset the scan aspects of the system to factory default settings.
Settings affects are:

Trigger model gets reset to factory default settings.

List of channels and/or channel patterns to scan get cleared along with their
associated DMM configurations if overriding configurations set by dmm.setconfig or
using multiple configurations.

creates an empty scan
The rest of the settings are unaffected. To reset, the entire system to factory default
settings use the reset command.
channel.reset (on page 9-41)
dmm.reset (on page 9-112)
reset (on page 9-156)
To perform a reset on the scan aspects of the system:
scan.reset()
Set or query the scan count value.
To read the count:
count = scan.scancount
count: Present scan count value being used
To write the count:
scan.scancount = count
count: Value to set the scan count. Valid range: 1 to 32000.
This attribute sets the scan count in the trigger model. During a scan, the Series 3700
will iterate through the arm layer of the trigger model this many times. After performing
this count iterations, the Series 3700 will return to idle.
The reset value for this attribute is 1.
To set the arm count to 5:
scan.scancount = 5
Command to use when running in background to see present state.
ScanState = scan.state()
Command to use when running in background to see present state. See
(on page 9-162) for details on output. This output matches the return values of execute.
scan.execute (on page 9-162)
Section 9: Instrument Control Library (ICL)
scan.execute
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