Sweep Appears To Be Stalled; Cannot Turn Off Sweep Mode - Agilent Technologies E8241A User Manual

Solving Problems
If You Encounter a Problem

Sweep Appears to be Stalled

The current status of the sweep is indicated as a shaded rectangle in the progress bar. You can
use the progress bar to determine if the sweep is proceeding or is waiting. If the sweep
appears to have stalled, check the following:
Have you turned on the sweep by pressing either
Freq & Ampl
Is the sweep in continuous mode? If the sweep is in single mode, be sure that you have
pressed the
Single Sweep
setting the mode to continuous to determine if the missing single sweep is blocking the
sweep.
Is the signal generator receiving the appropriate sweep trigger? Try setting the
key to Free Run to determine if a missing sweep trigger is blocking the sweep.
Trigger
Is the signal generator receiving the appropriate point trigger? Try setting the
key to Free Run to determine if a missing point trigger is blocking the sweep.
Is the dwell time reasonable? Try setting the dwell time to one second to determine if you
had set the dwell time to a value which was too slow or too fast for you to see.
Do you have at least two points in your step sweep or list sweep?

Cannot Turn Off Sweep Mode

Press >
Sweep/List Sweep
In the sweep mode menu you can choose to set the sweep to various sweep types or to turn
sweep off.
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softkey at least once since completion of the prior sweep. Try
> .
Off
> ,
Sweep Freq Sweep
> , or >
Ampl Sweep
Sweep
Point Trigger
Chapter 4