Checking For Limit Failures - Agilent Technologies EPM-P Series Programming Manual

Power Meter Remote Operation
Setting Measurement Limits
under limit condition or both. Refer to Chapter 8 "OUTput Subsystem" for
TTL output programming commands and to the EPM-P Series Power
Meters User's Guide for connector and pin-out information.

Checking for Limit Failures

There are two ways to check for limit failures:
1. Use the SENSe:LIMit:FAIL? and SENSe:LIMit:FCOunt?
2. Use the STATus command subsystem.
Using SENSe and CALCulate
Using SENSe to check the channel limit failures in Figure 1-6 would
return the following results:
SENSe:LIMit:FAIL?
SENSe:LIMit:FCOunt?
Use the equivalent CALCulate commands for checking window limit
failures.
Note If TRIGger:DELay:AUTO is set to ON, then the number of failures
returned by SENSe:LIMit:FCOunt? or
CALCulate[1|2]:LIMit:FCOunt?will be affected by the current
filter settings.
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commands for channel limits or the
CALCulate[1|2]:LIMit:FAIL? and the
CALCulate[1|2]:LIMit:FCOunt? for window limits.
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Returns 1 if there has been 1 or
more limit failures or 0 if there
have been no limit failures. In
this case 1 is returned.
Returns the total number of
limit failures, in this case 2.