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Using The Status Monitoring Subsystem
Standard Event Status Register
plus 8. So the decimal value 136 is returned.
In addition to the standard event status register, the standard event status group also
contains a standard event status enable register. This register lets you choose which bits in
the standard event status register will set the summary bit (bit 5 of the status byte
register) to 1. Send the *ESE <integer> command where <integer> is the sum of the
decimal values of the bits you want to enable. For example, to enable bit 7 and bit 6 so that
whenever either of those bits is set to 1, the standard event status summary bit of the
status byte register will be set to 1, send the command *ESE 192 (128 + 64). The command
*ESE? returns the decimal value of the sum of the bits previously enabled with the *ESE
<integer> command.
The standard event status enable register presets to zeros (0).
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