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About E5091 Testset Control
About External Testset Control

ControlLines Property

Description

Sets the control lines of the specified test set. Control lines, provided through the front panel connector of a test set, are used to control external equipment such as a part handler. See your test set documentation to learn more about control lines.

 VB Syntax

tset.ControlLines (chNum) = value

Variable

(Type) - Description

tset

A TestsetControl object.

OR

An E5091Testset object.

chNum

(Integer)  Channel number of the measurement.

value

(Double) Data value used to set control lines. Values are obtained by adding weights from the following table that correspond to individual lines.

Line

Weight

1

1

2

2

3

4

4

8

5

16

6

32

7

64

8

128

  • The E5091A interprets SENS:MULT1:OUTP 0 as all lines LOW.

  • All "Z"and "H" series test sets interpret SENS:MULT1:OUTP 0 as all lines HIGH.

Refer to your test set documentation for setting control line values.

Return Type

Variant

Default

0

Examples

'For a Z5623A K64 test set, the following sets line 3 and 4 OFF; all other lines ON.

testset1.ControlLines(2) = 12

See E5091A Example Program

See External Testset Program

C++ Syntax

HRESULT get_ControlLines(long channelNum, VARIANT *stateByte);
HRESULT put_ControlLines(long channelNum, VARIANT stateByte);

Interface

ITestsetControl

IE5091Testset