Section 2: General operation Model 2651A High Power System SourceMeter® Instrument Reference Manual
2-10 2651A-901-01 Rev. A / March 2011
Beeper
With the beeper enabled, a beep will be issued to acknowledge the following actions:
• A short beep, emulating a key click, is issued when a front-panel key is pressed.
• A short beep is also issued when the navigation wheel is turned or pressed.
• A longer beep is issued when the source output changes state (turned on or off).
To turn the beeper on or off from the front panel:
1. Press the MENU key, and then select BEEPER.
2. Select one of the following:
• ENABLE
• DISABLE
To turn the beeper on or off from a remote interface:
Set the beeper.enable attribute. The following programming example illustrates how to enable the
beeper:
beeper.enable = 1
Display mode
Use the DISPLAY key to scroll through the various display modes shown in the figure below. Refer to
Display operations
(on page 3-70) for information about display messaging.
Figure 3: Display modes
User state
–.– – – – V
SrcA:+000.000mV LimA:100.000mA
Press DISPLAY key
Press DISPLAY key
ser
a
–.– – – –
rcA:+000.000mV LimA:
Source-measure and compliance limit display for SMU A:
- Top line displays the measure function (V, A, Ω, or W).
- Bottom line displays the source function (V or A) and
level, and the compliance limit (V, A, or W).
Display for user-defined messages and prompts.
– – – – – Indicates that a measured reading has not been
triggered.