KEPCO BIT 4886 Operator Manual - Manual (Page 14)

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1.3.1 BIT 4882 COMPATIBILITY
The BIT 4886 card complies with the SCPI 1997 standard as a member of the power supply
instrument class. The Bit 4882 product complies with the 1990 version of the SCPI standard.
During the years of 1990 to 1997, the SCPI consortium refined the standard, providing direction
for the *RST command and indicating the differences between *RST and the single byte GPIB
command of DCL and SDC. The BIT 4886 card when shipped by KEPCO, is not compatible
with user software developed for the BIT 4882. The user can make it more compatible by using
the SYST:SET command to reconfigure the operation of DCL, *RST and the sending of data to
the host computer. Appendix B, Figure B-8, illustrates the use of the SYST:SET command to
change the BIT 4886 to operate like the BIT 4882, except for some minor differences that will
remain for some 4882 command sequences (see Table 1-5).
TABLE 1-5. COMMAND DIFFERENCES FOR BIT 4886 CARD CONFIGURED AS BIT 4882
Command
BIT Card Behavior
BIT 4882 BIT 4886 configured as BIT 4882
VOLT?MAX Returns 100 No action - error 113
VOLT? MIN Returns 0 Returns -Eomax (e.g.for BOP 100-1 returns -100)
VOLT10 Set output = 10V No action - error 113
OUTP OFF;VOLT 10;OUTP ON Set output = 0 Set output = 10 volts