REMOTE/AUTOMATED CONTROL 6-15
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If the unit is not in ‘Standby’ when this command is issued, if
not the unit responds with:
“Unit must be in STANDBY”.
COM? – Query of remote control state.
.
If the unit is in ‘Verbose’, the response is “Enabled” or
“Disabled”.
If the unit is in ‘Terse’, the response is “1”, or “0”.
Example: COM:0<cr><lf> – Disable RS-232 remote control.
Example: COM:1<cr><lf> – Enable RS232 remote control.
Example: COM? <cr><lf> – Get present output state.
If COM is not ‘Enabled’, then the response to commands will be “Comm
Inactive” in both ‘Terse’ and ‘Verbose’ modes. The unit will respond to
query’s regardless of the COM state.
6.4.4.3 *IDN? - Unit Identi
fi
cation Query
The *IDN? command will return a unit identi
fi
cation string. The form of this
command follows the SCPI standard query form.
Command: *IDN?
Response:
The KRI Auto-Controller will return information in the following form:
<Manufacturer>,<Model>,<Front panel
fi
rmware version>, <Main
board
fi
rmware version>,<FPGA
fi
rmware version>. The form of the
fi
rmware version number is month/day/year (MMDDYY).
Example: *IDN?<cr><lf>
Example response: “KRI,AC1,102862,052690,111506”
