Kipp & Zonen BREWER MK IV, Instruction Manual

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MKIV OPERATOR'S MANUAL 116
Slitmask position meaning
0 Hg calibration: 302.1 nm
1 Dark Count
2
λ
1 306.2 nm
3
λ 2 310.0 nm
4
λ 3 313.5 nm
5
λ 4 316.8 nm
6
λ
5 320.0 nm
7
λ
2 &
λ
4 for Deadtime test
Example
R; O
0
If the above had been called before any other R command then a single zero is returned
indicating that there were no scans taken.
R,2,4,4;O[sent to Brewer]
5638, 4996, 54886[returned by Brewer]
Sample and accumulate the light intensities for slitmask positions 2, 3,4,4,3 and 2.
Repeat this sequence 4 times. In this example the O command is used to display
example results. The returned counts correspond to slitmask positions 2, 3 and 4
respectively.
R; O[sent to Brewer]
5549, 4989, 54880[returned by Brewer]
In the above, the R parameters had already been specified as 2, 4, 4.
The new values returned correspond to a new run of the R command as specified.
12. S
Report the status of the most recent run command. This command requires
configuration variables.
Syntax
S
Response
<p1>,<p2>,<count>,<p3>,0,<interrupted>,
Each number returned in the above string is in the form of a decimal value using ASCII
characters. Each number occupies exactly four characters and the value is right-justified
and padded with spaces. The last value in the list always has a comma. The number of
parameters returned is limited only by the string length.
Parameters
The <pi> are the corresponding parameter from the most recent R command. The
remaining parameters are given in the following table.
Response field format Meaning
<count> 0..<p3> Number of cycles completed
<interrupted> Boolean on if the Run command was interrupted (by a break)