8845A/8846A - Fluke Corporation

1 8845A/8846A Digital Multimeter Programmers Manual September 2006, Rev. 2, 6/08 2006, 2007, 2008 Fluke Corporation , All rights reserved. All product names are trademarks of their respective companies. LIMITED WARRANTY AND LIMITATION OF LIABILITY Each Fluke product is warranted to be free from defects in material and workmanship under normal use and service. The warranty period is one year and begins on the date of shipment. Parts, product repairs, and services are warranted for 90 days. This warranty extends only to the original buyer or end-user customer of a Fluke authorized reseller, and does not apply to fuses, disposable batteries, or to any product which, in Fluke 's opinion, has been misused, altered, neglected, contaminated, or damaged by accident or abnormal conditions of operation or handling.

2 Fluke warrants that software will operate substantially in accordance with its functional specifications for 90 days and that it has been properly recorded on non-defective media. Fluke does not warrant that software will be error free or operate without interruption. Fluke authorized resellers shall extend this warranty on new and unused products to end-user customers only but have no authority to extend a greater or different warranty on behalf of Fluke . Warranty support is available only if product is purchased through a Fluke authorized sales outlet or Buyer has paid the applicable international price. Fluke reserves the right to invoice Buyer for importation costs of repair/replacement parts when product purchased in one country is submitted for repair in another country.

3 Fluke 's warranty obligation is limited, at Fluke 's option, to refund of the purchase price, free of charge repair, or replacement of a defective product which is returned to a Fluke authorized service center within the warranty period. To obtain warranty service, contact your nearest Fluke authorized service center to obtain return authorization information, then send the product to that service center, with a description of the difficulty, postage and insurance prepaid (FOB Destination). Fluke assumes no risk for damage in transit. Following warranty repair, the product will be returned to Buyer, transportation prepaid (FOB Destination). If Fluke determines that failure was caused by neglect, misuse, contamination, alteration, accident, or abnormal condition of operation or handling, including overvoltage failures caused by use outside the product s specified rating, or normal wear and tear of mechanical components, Fluke will provide an estimate of repair costs and obtain authorization before commencing the work.

4 Following repair, the product will be returned to the Buyer transportation prepaid and the Buyer will be billed for the repair and return transportation charges (FOB Shipping Point). THIS WARRANTY IS BUYER'S SOLE AND EXCLUSIVE REMEDY AND IS IN LIEU OF ALL OTHER WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ANY IMPLIED WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. Fluke SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR LOSSES, INCLUDING LOSS OF DATA, ARISING FROM ANY CAUSE OR THEORY. Since some countries or states do not allow limitation of the term of an implied warranty, or exclusion or limitation of incidental or consequential damages, the limitations and exclusions of this warranty may not apply to every buyer.

5 If any provision of this Warranty is held invalid or unenforceable by a court or other decision-maker of competent jurisdiction, such holding will not affect the validity or enforceability of any other provision. Fluke Corporation Box 9090 Everett, WA 98206-9090 Fluke Europe Box 1186 5602 BD Eindhoven The Netherlands 11/99 To register your product online, visit i Table of Contents Title Page 1 Safety Information .. 1 Symbols .. 2 Local and Remote Operation.

6 2 Computer Interfaces .. 3 Optimizing System Speed for I/O 3 Selecting the Remote Interface Port .. 4 Configuring the IEEE-488 Port .. 4 IEEE-488 Operating 4 Setting the IEEE-488 (GPIB) Port Address .. 4 Capability Commands .. 5 Interconnections .. 5 Configuring the RS-232 Port .. 6 Setting RS-232 Baud 6 Setting RS-232 Parity and Data Bits .. 7 Setting RS-232 Stop 7 Setting RS-232 Flow Control .. 7 Setting RS-232 End-Of-Line Character .. 7 Enabling and Disabling Fluke 45 Emulation 7 RS-232 Modes of 8 Operating with FlukeView Forms .. 10 Interconnections .. 10 Configuring the Ethernet (LAN) Port .. 12 Setting the IP Address .. 13 Setting the LAN Subnet 14 Reading the Domain Name.

7 14 Configuring the Host 14 Reading the MAC 15 Configuring the LAN Default Gateway .. 15 Configuring the General Network Socket 15 Establishing an Ethernet Connection .. 16 Terminating an Ethernet Connection .. 17 Selecting the Programming Language .. 17 Getting Started With an Installation 17 Installation Test for RS-232 Connections .. 17 8845A/8846A Programmers Manual ii Installation Test for IEEE-488 18 If The Test 18 How the Meter Processes Input .. 19 Input Strings .. 19 Input Terminators .. 19 Typical IEEE-488 Input Strings .. 20 Sending Numeric Values to the Meter .. 20 Sending Command Strings to the 20 How the Meter Processes 22 Triggering Input.

8 22 Internal 22 External Triggering .. 23 Service Requests (IEEE-488 Only) and Status Registers .. 23 Standard Event Status and Standard Event Status Enable Registers .. 24 Questionable Data Event Register and Questionable Data Enable Register . 25 Status Byte Register .. 26 Reading the Status Byte Register .. 26 Service Request Enable Register .. 27 Supported SCPI Commands .. 28 SCPI Command Summary .. 28 SCPI Command 37 Using the MEASure? Command .. 38 Using the CONF igure Command .. 39 Using the READ? Command .. 42 Using the INIT iate Command .. 42 Using the FETCh? Command .. 42 Using the SENSe Subsystem to Configure the Meter .. 43 Programming for Math 51 Programming the Trigger 55 Using System-Related Commands.

9 58 Using Status Reporting 61 Calibration Commands .. 63 Using RS-232/Ethernet Interface Commands .. 65 Command Terminators .. 66 Alternate Programming Language Compatibility .. 67 Fluke 45 Command Emulation Summary .. 68 Computer Interface Command Set .. 68 IEEE-488 Capabilities and Common Commands .. 68 Triggering Output .. 75 Using FlukeView Forms .. 76 Fluke 8842A Emulation 77 Example 77 Device-Dependent Command Set .. 79 Input 87 Output Data .. 89 Service 91 94 103 Incompatible Fluke 45 Commands .. 103 Dual 103 Reading Rates .. 104 Ranges .. 104 105 Your Meter and Your Network Administrator .. 105 Network 106 Contents (continued) iii Physical Layer Wiring Schemes Supported by the Meter.

10 106 Network Interconnection Devices .. 107 Basic Network Packet and Frame Contents .. 107 IP Addresses and Segmented Networks .. 108 TCP/IP Protocol 110 113 Device Dependent Command Set .. 113 Calibration Commands .. 113 Dn (Display Commands) .. 114 Gn (Get Commands) .. 114 Tn (Trigger Mode Commands) .. 114 Wn (Terminator Commands) .. 114 Numeric Entry Command .. 114 Talk-Only Mode .. 114 Ranging in 8842A Emulation Mode .. 114 Operational Differences .. 115 Appendices A Error Codes .. 95 B Fluke 45 Emulation 103 C Network 105 D Fluke 8842A Emulation Limitations .. 113 8845A/8846A Programmers Manual iv v List of Tables Table Title Page 1.