How Do I Know If An Error Has Occurred On My Instrument - Keithley 708B Reference Manual

Section 9: Frequently asked questions
3. If the forbidden box is selected, the channel is forbidden to close. To allow the channel to close,
clear the box.
4. Click OK to save the change.
To check the forbidden state of a channel from a remote interface:
You can also clear, check, and set the forbidden state of channels using the following commands:
•
channel.clearforbidden()
•
channel.getforbidden()
•
channel.setforbidden()

How do I know if an error has occurred on my instrument?

If you are using TSB Embedded, error messages are displayed in the Instrument Output box when
they occur.
If you are using another remote interface, you might need to use commands to retrieve the error
messages. You can use the commands
page 7-86) to retrieve the number of messages and the text of the messages.
To set the instrument to automatically send generated errors, set
133) to 1 (enabled).
To set the instrument to automatically send prompts after each command message, set
localnode.prompts
9-2
Figure 95: Channel configuration dialog box
(on page 7-18)
(on page 7-30)
(on page 7-45)
errorqueue.count
(on page 7-129) to 1 (enabled).
Models 707B and 708B Switching Matrix Reference Manual
(on page 7-86) and
localnode.showerrors
707B-901-01 Rev. A / August 2010
errorqueue.next() (on
(on page 7-