Identifying the instruments – Agilent Technologies L4400 User Manual
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Select (highlight) instrument
Select Interactive IO
Figure 2-11. Selecting an Instrument and Starting Interactive IO.
Identifying the Instruments
L4400 series instruments are comprised of the carrier, the instrument
sub- assembly, and on selected instruments, a wiring terminal block. The
carrier and instrument sub- assembly have separate serial numbers and
separate firmware revisions. The commands used to query these
parameters are:
•
*IDN?
(returns the carrier serial number and firmware revision)
•
SYSTem:CTYPe? 1
(returns the instrument sub- assembly serial
number and firmware revision)
•
SYSTem:CDEScription? 1
(returns the instrument description.)
These commands can be executed from the Interactive IO window.
Examples of the information returned by each command are as follows: