Appendix B B-23
TEMPERATURE POLLING
The Get Temperature (‘]‘) command is defined as follows:
Host Response
The Reader response protocol (hex format):
temperature low byte 0x00-0xFF
temperature high byte 0x00-0xFF
The Get Temperature command then returns the standard status response string.
Temperature is returned scaled up by 10, i.e. 370 indicates a temperature of 37.0
degrees Celsius. If the instrument does not have incubation, or an incubation error
has been detected, 0x00, 0x00 (hex, not ASCII) will be returned as temperature data.
An error will then be flagged and returned with the standard status response string.
Otherwise, the current temperature (averaged over four thermal zones) is returned as
defined above.
The reader should be able to accept and process the Get Temperature command at
any time, including during a read cycle. The temperature response will NOT
interrupt a plate data response stream, however. If a Get Temperature command is
received during a data transmission, it will not be processed until the transmission
has completed, i.e. after the <^Z> checksum combination has been sent.
KINETIC INTERVALS
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