HP 8920A Programmer's Manual page 290

Chapter 5, Advanced Operations
Status Reporting
Table 24 Hardware Status Register Group #1, Condition Register Bit Assignments (Continued)
(Continued)
Bit Binary
Number Weighting
5 32
4 16
3 8
2 4
1 2
0 1
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Condition
Measurement Limit(s)
Exceeded
Power-up Self Test(s) Failed
Overpower Protection Tripped
Unused in Test Set
External Mike Keyed
External Battery Voltage Low
Accessing the Hardware Status Register #1 Group's Registers
The following sections show the syntax and give programming examples (using
the HP BASIC programming language) for the STATus commands used to access
the Hardware Status Register #1 Group's registers.
Reading the Condition Register
Syntax
STATus:HARDware1:CONDition?
Example
OUTPUT 714;"STAT:HARD1:COND?"
ENTER 714;Register_value
Comment
This bit is set high if the Measurement High
Limit or Low Limit is exceeded.