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l Cyclic
Hereyoucansethowoftenitissent.Thenextvalueissentafterthetime
givenherehaselapsed.
l Adaptive
Thisoptionmeansthatanewvalueissentonlywhenthevaluetobesenthas
changed.
l Never
Thisoptionisintendedforsendingofaninitialisationinconjunctionwiththe
nextoption.ThestringenteredintheFormatfieldisthensentonlyoncefor
initialisationandnevercyclicallyoradaptively.
l Initialisation
Thisoptionenablesyoutosetinitialisationstrings,forexample,"Meas-
ure:Volt:DC"toswitchamultimetertoDCmeasurement.Ifyouhavetosend
morethanonesequence,enteranumberviaSequencetodeterminewhether
thestringenteredintheFormatfieldistobesentfirst(Sequence = 1)or
second(Sequence=2)andsoon.UsetheTime settingstabtosetapause
aftersendinganinitialisationsequenceinordertogivethedevicetimetopro-
cesstheinstruction.
Response expected
Enablethisoptionsothatthenextoutputtakesplaceonlywhentheuserhas
respondedtotheprevioustransmissionwithastring.Theresponsestringitselfis
notevaluated.Onlyreceptionisawaited.Iftheresponsecontainsrelevantinform-
ation,youmustdefineaninputchannelandthenhavetheresponseevaluated.
User-defined output channel, Time settings tab
UsetheTime settingstabifyouneedtouseextrapausesforamessage,e.g.to
sendinitialisationtoadevicethatthenneedstimetoperformtheinitialisation.
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ProfiMessage Manual