Testing Communications With Your Instrument; Figure 2-28. Editing Chassis Number And Slot Location - Racal Instruments 3155 User Manual

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Figure 2-28. Editing Chassis Number and Slot location

Testing Commu-
nications With
your Instrument
In the Slot Number field select the actual location of your instrument
and in the Chassis Number select the actual chassis where your i n -
strument resides. To complete the chassis and slot assignment, click
on OK. The dialog box will be removed from the screen and the Slot
configuration parameters will be updated with the information. Notice
the 10-digit number above the slot number. This is the serial number
of the instrument(s) detected by the ArbDetector.
Final operation with ArbDetector allows testing communications with
your instrument. If you click on the Communication... tab, it will ap-
pear as shown in Figure 2-29 will show. The Command Editor field
lets you write SCPI commands that control instrument functions and
parameters. SCPI programming is covered in Chapter 4 of this man-
ual. Connect your instrument to an oscilloscope and try these simple
commands just to see you're your instrument responds correctly:
OUTPUT ON
FREQUENCY 2e6
VOLT 5
If you are not sure about the commands and want the Command
Editor to alert on errors, check the Add "SYST:ERR?" Query option.
If you make any syntax errors, the errors are displayed in the R e-
sponse field. The example in Figure 2-28 shows 0, "No error". Differ-
ent digits and error description will be the response if you make e r-
rors.
// will turn on your output and sinewave will be
// will change output frequency to 2 MHz
// will change output amplitude to 5 Vp-p
Installation 2-25