9.17 LA102 Heading and Date
The LA102 has a printout heading and a date setting, as explained in sections 3.21 and
3.22 which can both be set or read remotely.
Define Heading: 2DH,xxx...
DH define heading
This command defines the heading xxx to be used at the top of the printout. It may be up
to 40 characters long (longer headings will be truncated). The comma is important as
future software may allow 2DH2,xxx to define the second line of the heading. Use DH on
its own to clear the heading. See section 9.15 for details of the equivalent LA101
command (DI).
Read Heading: 2RH?
Read the printout heading (a single line terminated with CR).
Set Date and Time: SDd,m,y,h,n,s
SD set date
Sets the date and time to date d (1-31), month m (1-12), year y (1987-2155), hour h (0-
23), minute n (0-59), second s (0-59). All values are optional and omitted values will be
left unchanged. Current hardware and software do not use the time, but store the date in
non-volatile memory for use on the printout. The date can be made to advance at switch
on by setting configuration option X2. For example, to set the date to 14 June 1998:
SD14,6,1998
Read Date and Time: 2RD?
Read the date and time d,m,y,h,n,s as described above. The 6 numbers are separated by
commas, but the current LA102 hardware will always return 0 for h, n and s (ie
midnight).
9.18 Tolerance Testing
Tolerances can be transferred to and from the LA102, and this facility is used by the
Lindos Support Software to allow remote editing of tolerances on a computer. It is also
possible to run a sequence and test the results against a tolerance without actually reading
or processing the results themselves. See chapter 5 for further details of tolerance testing.
Check Tolerance: CTn
CT check tolerance Selecting a tolerance
The sequence results (in memory 0) are checked against tolerance n and three lines are
returned: the tolerance number, the tolerance name and a list of failed segments. If n is
omitted (or is out of range) then the current tolerance number is used and this will usually
be determined by configuration T unless a ± segment or a previous CT command has
changed it. For example, after running the Selftest sequence (sequence 16), a CT16
command might return:
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