Differences - In General - Agilent Technologies N8700 User Manual

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Differences – In General
Item
Queries
Status functions
Settings
Measurement
Calibration
Storage states
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The following table documents the general differences between the
way Compatibility commands work on the Agilent N8700 power
supplies and the way they worked on the Agilent 603xA power
supplies.
Differences
The Agilent N8700 will respond to multiple queries.
It will not allow a space separator between numbers.
It will not allow a user to query information, read back only a portion of the information,
send another command, and finish reading back the information from the original query.
Sending a second query without reading the response to the first will generate an error.
Model number queries will only return the N8700 model numbers.
Serial Poll will be controlled by the SCPI status model and will not act like a 603xA
power supply.
SRQ will be controlled by the SCPI status model.
Parallel poll will not work.
The full-scale limits will match the Agilent N8700 limits.
Floating point numbers returned by the instrument may not have exactly the same
syntax or number of digits.
Calibration must be done in SCPI.
The Agilent N8700 units have 16 volatile states.
Series N8700 User's Guide