Lake Shore 460, User Manual

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Lake Shore Model 460 Gaussmeter User’s Manual
Remote Operation
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4.2.7.3 Program Operation
Once either program is running, try the following commands and observe the response of the
instrument. Input from the user is shown in
bold and terminators are added by the program. The
word [term] indicates the required terminators included with the response.
ENTER COMMAND? *IDN?
Identification query. Instrument will return a string
identifying itself.
RESPONSE: LSCI,MODEL460,0,070199[term]
ENTER COMMAND? FIELD?
Field reading query. Instrument will return a string with
the present field reading.
RESPONSE: +12.345[term]
ENTER COMMAND? FIELDM?
Field multiplier query. Instrument will return a string with
the field units multiplier. Blank indicated gauss,
k indicates kilo gauss, etc.
RESPONSE: k[term]
ENTER COMMAND? RANGE 0
Range command. Instrument will change the field range
to the highest setting. No response will be sent.
ENTER COMMAND? RANGE?
Range query. Instrument will return a string with the
present range setting.
RESPONSE: 0[term]
ENTER COMMAND? RANGE 0;RANGE?
Range command followed by range query. Instrument
will change range to highest setting then return a string
with the present range setting.
RESPONSE: 0[term]
The following are additional notes on using either Serial Interface program.
• If you enter a correctly spelled query without a “ ? ,” nothing will be returned. Incorrectly spelled
commands and queries are ignored. Commands and queries and should have a space
separating the command and associated parameters.
• Leading zeros and zeros following a decimal point are not needed in a command string, but
they will be sent in response to a query. A leading “
+ ” is not required but a leading “ – ” is
required.