ES601Plus OPERATING MANUAL
6.2.5.9 The A Instruction
The A Instruction is utilized o nly in Te s t Pro c e d u re s and allows ES601Plus
to invoke a Safety AutoSequence, a ECG AutoSequence, or Tester
AutoSequences from within the procedure. General Inspections and User-
Defined Tester AutoSequences c ann o t include an A Instruction.
Any one of the Test Procedure steps can optionally be a Safety
AutoSequence, and any one of the steps can optionally be a ECG
AutoSequence. A Test Procedure cannot have more than one A Instruction
that invokes a Safety AutoSequence, or more than one A Instruction that
invokes a ECG AutoSequence.
A Test Procedure can optionally have o n e o r m o re A Instructions that
invoke General Inspections and/or Tester AutoSequences. The total number
of procedural steps generated by including such General Inspections and/or
Tester AutoSequences in a Test Procedure, via corresponding A Instructions,
cannot exceed a maximum of 96 s te p s .
Practically speaking, since General Inspections and other types of automated tests may have up to
24 steps each, a Test Procedure will be able to optionally incorporate, at most, 3 to 4 General
Inspections and/or Tester AutoSequences within it.
The c o m m an d portion of the A Instruction encodes the AutoSequence that will be run from within
the Test Procedure. The p re fix of the command comprises three alphabetic characters that define
the type of AutoSequence, followed by two numeric digits "NN" that specify the number of the
AutoSequence, according to Fig u re 79:
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