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VISA COM: 3458A Measuring DC/AC Voltages Read Me

The following example measures one or more dc or ac voltages on the 3458A DMM and return the values to the computer. The 3458A DMM uses its own non-SCPI commands and does not understand IEEE-488.2 commands or return IEEE-488.2 compliant data. Therefore, when the instrument is not internally storing and returning values using ASCII (15 bytes/reading), the 3494A control "Enter" command is not used. The IO commmand, "readBytes" is used instead to receive instrument data. The following data types are read in using the readBytes command:
 SINT - 2-bytes/reading
 DINT - 4-bytes/reading
 SREAL - 4-bytes/reading
 DREAL - 8-bytes/reading


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