Series 3700 System Switch/Multimeter Reference Manual
Section 9
:
Instrument Control Library (ICL)
Document Number: 3700S-901-01 Rev. A / August 2007
9-167
scan.reset
Remarks
This command will only reset the scan aspects of the system to factory default settings.
Settings affects are:
Trigger model gets reset to factory default settings.
List of channels and/or channel patterns to scan get cleared along with their
associated DMM configurations if overriding configurations set by dmm.setconfig or
using multiple configurations.
creates an empty scan
The rest of the settings are unaffected. To reset, the entire system to factory default
settings use the reset command.
Also see
channel.reset
(on page 9-41)
dmm.reset
(on page 9-112)
reset
(on page 9-156)
Example
To perform a reset on the scan aspects of the system:
scan.reset()
scan.scancount
Attribute
Set or query the scan count value.
Usage
To read the count:
count = scan.scancount
count
: Present scan count value being used
To write the count:
scan.scancount = count
count
: Value to set the scan count. Valid range: 1 to 32000.
Remarks
This attribute sets the scan count in the trigger model. During a scan, the Series 3700
will iterate through the arm layer of the trigger model this many times. After performing
this count iterations, the Series 3700 will return to idle.
The reset value for this attribute is 1.
Example
To set the arm count to 5:
scan.scancount = 5
scan.state
Function
Command to use when running in background to see present state.
Usage
ScanState = scan.state()
Details
Command to use when running in background to see present state. See
scan.execute
(on page 9-162) for details on output. This output matches the return values of execute.
Also see
scan.execute
(on page 9-162)
