General Information
vii
Notation
The following notation will be used throughout this manual:
A warning means that injury or death is possible if the instructions
WARNING
are not obeyed.
A caution means that damage to the instrument or other equipment
CAUTION
is possible.
Typesetting conventions used in this manual are:
•
Front-panel buttons are set as [GAIN ];
[GAIN
] is shorthand for “[GAIN ] & [GAIN ]”.
•
Front-panel indicators are set as
OVLD
.
•
Signal names are set as
¬
STATUS.
•
Signal levels are set as HIGH.
•
Remote command names are set as
*IDN?
.
•
Literal text other than command names is set as
OFF
.
•
Special ASCII characters are set as
h
CR
i
.
Remote command examples will all be set in monospaced font. In
these examples, data sent by the host computer to the SIM918 are set
as
straight teletype font
, while responses received by the host
computer from the SIM918 are set as
slanted teletype font
.
SIM918
Precision Current Preamplifier
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