Status Reporting - Teledyne 100E Instruction Manual

Model 100E Instruction Manual
after the decimal point.) Scientific notation is not permitted. For example, +1.0,
1234.5678, -0.1, 1 are all valid floating-point numbers.
• Boolean expressions are used to specify the value of variables or I/O signals that
may assume only two values. They are denoted by the keywords ON and OFF.
• Text strings are used to represent data that cannot be easily represented by other
data types, such as data channel names, which may contain letters and numbers.
They consist of a quotation mark, followed by one or more printable characters,
including spaces, letters, numbers, and symbols, and a final quotation mark. For
example, "a", "1", "123abc", and "()[]<>" are all valid text strings. It is not
possible to include a quotation mark character within a text string.
• Some commands allow you to access variables, messages, and other items, such
as iDAS data channels, by name. When using these commands, you must type the
entire name of the item; you cannot abbreviate any names.

6.11.2. Status Reporting

Reporting of status messages as an audit trail is one of the three principal uses for the
RS-232 interface (the other two being the command line interface for controlling the
instrument and the download of data in electronic format). You can effectively disable the
reporting feature by setting the interface to quiet mode (Section 6.9.6., Table 6-17).
Status reports include iDAS data (when reporting is enabled), warning messages,
calibration and diagnostic status messages. Refer to Appendix A-3 for a list of the
possible messages, and this section for information on controlling the instrument through
the RS-232 interface.
General Message Format
All messages from the instrument (including those in response to a command line
request) are in the format:
Where
X
DDD:HH:MM is the time stamp, the date and time when the message was issued.
[ID]
MESSAGE
<CRLF>
045150102 Rev XB1
X DDD:HH:MM [Id] MESSAGE<CRLF>
is a command type designator, a single character indicating the
message type, as shown in the Table 6-23.
It consists of the Day-of-year (DDD) as a number from 1 to 366, the
hour of the day (HH) as a number from 00 to 23, and the minute
(MM) as a number from 00 to 59.
is the analyzer ID, a number with 1 to 4 digits.
is the message content that may contain warning messages, test
measurements, iDAS reports, variable values, etc.
is a carriage return / line feed pair, which terminates the message.
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