Anritsu ML2400A Series - Performance Verification; Printer Connection; Gpib Remote Operation

5-6 PERFORMANCE
VERIFICATION
The per for mance of the Power Me ter’s in di vid ual sig nal chan nel in puts can be
ver i fied us ing an Anritsu ML2419A Range Cal i bra tor. Re fer to the ML2419A
Range Cal i bra tor Op er a tion and Main te nance Man ual (10585-00007) for spe -
cific in struc tions.
5-7 PRINTER
CONNECTION
See Chap ter 3, Con nec tors, for the lo ca tion of the par al lel port con nec tor on
the rear panel. Con nect a par al lel printer ca ble from the ML2400A Se ries rear
panel 25-pin D-sub con nec tor to the printer.
Se lect Sys tem|Print to be gin print ing. See Chap ter 4, Front Panel Op er a tion,
for spe cific printer con nec tor con fig u ra tion op tions.
Print ing can also be ini ti ated in ML24XXA (na tive) mode us ing the GPIB
PRINT com mand (page 6-68 ).
5-8 GPIB REMOTE
OPERATION
The ML2400A Se ries Power Me ter can be op er ated re motely through a Gen -
eral Pur pose In ter face Bus (GPIB) con nec tion to a host com puter/con trol ler.
See Chap ter 3, Con nec tors, for the lo ca tion of the GPIB con nec tor. The GPIB
con nec tor is con fig ured through the
Sys tem|Rear Panel|GPIB submenu. See
Chap ter 4, Front Panel Op er a tion, for spe cific GPIB con nec tor con fig u ra tion
op tions that can be set from the front panel. Re fer to Chap ter 6, GPIB Op er a -
tion, for a list ing of the avail able GPIB com mands.
If the ML2400A Se ries is ad dressed, and the Re mote En able and Lo cal Lock out
(REM and LLO ) lines are not set, the front panel menus are still avail able,
even if the unit is com mu ni cat ing. As long as the ML2400A Se ries is GPIB ad -
dressed, the GPIB sta tus box will be dis played on the front panel whether the
re mote line is set or not.
If the GPIB box is on the screen and the sys tem is not in a menu screen, and
the sys tem is in lo cal mode (menus avail able), and no GPIB op er a tions are
pend ing, then press ing the CLR key clears the GPIB box off the screen.
5-4 ML2400A OM
PERFORMANCE VERIFICATION PROCEDURES
NOTE
GPIB re mote op era tion
is not avail able when
the ML2400A Se ries
Power Me ter is op er at -
ing from the in ter nal
bat tery.