Appendix
KIKUSUI Electronics Corp.
PWR-01 Interface Manual
Appendix
A List of Errors
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Command errors
An error in the range [ -199, -100 ] indicates that an IEEE 488.2 syntax error has
been detected by the instrument’s parser. The occurrence of any error in this class
shall cause the Command Error (bit 5) in the event status register to be set.
Error code
Error message description
-100 Command error
This is the generic syntax error.
-101 Invalid character
A syntactic element contains a character that is invalid for
that type.
-102 Syntax error
An unrecognized command or data type was encountered.
-103 Invalid separator
The parser was expecting a separator and encountered an
illegal character.
-104 Data type error
The parser recognized a data element different than one
allowed.
-105 GET not allowed
A Group Execute Trigger was received within a program
message.
-108 Parameter not allowed
More parameters were received than expected for the
header.
-109 Missing parameter
Fewer parameters were recieved than required for the
header.
-110 Command header error
An error was detected in the header.
-112 Program mnemonic too
long
The header contains more that twelve characters.
-113 Undefined header
The header is undefined for this device.
-114 Header suffix out of range The value of a numeric suffix attached to a program mne-
monic.
-115 Unexpected number of
parameters
The number of parameters received does not correspond
to the number of parameters expected.
-120 Numeric data error
This error is generated when parsing a data element that
appears to be numeric, including the nondecimal numeric
types.
-128 Numeric data not allowed A legal numeric data element was received, but the device
does not accept one in this position for the header.
-130 Suffix error
This error is generated when parsing a suffix.
-131 Invalid suffix
The suffix does not follow the syntax or the suffix is inap-
propriate for this device.
-134 Suffix too long
The suffix contained more than 12 characters.
-138 Suffix not allowed
A suffix was encountered after a numeric element which
does not allow suffixes.
Error code
Error message description
-140 Character data error
This error is generated when parsing a character data
element.
-141 Invalid character data
Either the character data element contains an invalid char-
acter or the particular element received is not valid for the
header.
-144 Character data too Long The character data element contains more than twelve
characters.
-148 Character data not al-
lowed
A legal character data element was encountered where
prohibited by the device.
-150 String data error
This error is generated when parsing a string data element.
-151 Invalid string data
A string data element was expected, but was invalid for
some reason.
-158 String data not allowed
A string data element was encountered but was not allowed
by the device at this point in parsing.
-160 Block data error
This error is generated when parsing a block data element.
-170 Expression error
This error is generated when parsing an expression data
element.
-180 Macro error
This error is generated when defining a macro or executing
a macro.
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Execution errors
An error in the range [-299, -200] indicates that an error has been detected by the
instrument’s execution control block. The occurrence of any error in this class shall
cause the Execution Error (bit 4) in the event status register to be set.
Error code
Error message description
-200 Execution error (generic) This is the generic syntax error for devices that cannot
detect more specific errors.
-203 Command protected
Indicates that a legal password-protected program com-
mand or query could not be executed because the com-
mand was disabled.
-210 Trigger error
Trigger error.
-211 Trigger ignored
Indicates that a GET, *TRG, or triggering signal was
received and recognized by the device but was ignored
because of device timing considerations.
-213 Init ignored
Indicates that a request for a measurement initiation was
ignored as another measurement was already in progress.
-214 Trigger deadlock
Indicates that the trigger source for the initiation of a mea-
surement is set to GET and a subsequent measurement
query was received.
-220 Parameter error
Indicates that a program data element related error oc-
curred.
