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AMETEK 2003RP User Manual

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12.4 Examples

The following section contains examples of commonly used operations involving the status
registers.

You can determine the reason for an MSS bit set by the following actions:

Step 1 : Determine which summary bits are active. Use:

*STB?

Step 2 : Read the corresponding Event register for each summary bit to determine which

events caused the summary bit to be set. Use:

*ESR?

Note:

When an Event register is read, it is cleared. This also clears the
corresponding summary bit.

Step 3 : Remove the specific condition that caused the event. If this is not possible, the

event may be disabled by programming the corresponding bit of the status group
Enable.