A Regions Scan

Region-scans are very much like EXAFS scans, except that they don't deal with energies but motors. Let's look at the prepare menu, table 15.10. It has been set to 3 regions, one with a higher resolution.

Table 15.17: Example: Prepare Regions Scan Menu

 

                              Prepare a REGIONS Scan

 Region Limit  Delta       Sample_time                         Total Time NP
  [Units]       [Units]     [s]                                 [s]

 |0         |   1           0.2                                 2         10
  10            0.1         0.2                                 20        100
  20            1           0.2                                 2.2       11
  30            0           0                                   0         0
  0             0           0                                   0         0
  0             0           0                                   0         0
  0             0           0                                   0         0
  0             0           0                                   0         0
  0             0           0                                   0         0
  0             0           0                                   0         0
                                                          total 24.20002  121





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     KP8 - Move up | KP2 - Move down | KP4 - Move left | KP6 - Move right
                 <return> - Update Screen, PF2 - HELP,  PF4 - EXIT

The scan macros before_fast_scan, during~ and after~ are identical to simple fast scans, see section 15.4.