4 Operation via RS232 Interface
4.1 General rules
756/831 KF Coulometer, Instructions of Use
The KF Coulometer has an extensive remote control facility that allows full control of
the KF Coulometer via the RS 232 interface, i.e. the KF Coulometer can receive data
from an external controller or send data to an external controller. C R and L F are used
as terminators for the data transfer. The KF Coulometer sends 2xC R and L F as ter-
mination of a data block, to differentiate between a data line which has C R and L F as
terminators. The controller terminates its commands with C R and L F . If more than
one command per line is sent by the controller, ";" is used as a separator between
the individual commands.
The data are grouped logically and easy to understand. Thus e.g., for the selection of
the dialog language, the following must be sent
whereby it is sufficient to only transmit the boldface characters, thus:
The quantities of the commands above are:
Config
configuration data
Aux
auxiliaries, various data
Language
setting the dialog language
The data are hierarchically structured (tree form). The quantities that occur in this
tree are called objects in the following. The dialog language is an object which can
be called up with the
command.
If one is in the desired location in the tree, the value of the object can be queried.
&Config.Aux.Language $Q Q means Query
The query command $Q initiates the issuing of the value on the instrument and the
value emission is triggered. Entries which start with $, trigger something. They are
thus called triggers.
Values of objects can not only be queried, they can also be modified. Values are al-
ways entered in quotes, for example:
&Config.Aux.Language "english"
&Config.Aux.Language "english"
&C.A.L "english"
&Config.Aux.Language
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