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-rw-r--r--qolab/hardware/multimeter/bk_5491.py3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/qolab/hardware/multimeter/bk_5491.py b/qolab/hardware/multimeter/bk_5491.py
index a4ebcf3..34d3725 100644
--- a/qolab/hardware/multimeter/bk_5491.py
+++ b/qolab/hardware/multimeter/bk_5491.py
@@ -66,7 +66,8 @@ class BK_5491(Multimeter):
"""
Send command to instrument or query it readings (which is also a command)
- BK_5491 is not a SCPI instrument, so we get some replies (prompts ``*>``, ``=>``, etc)
+ BK_5491 is not a SCPI instrument,
+ so we get some replies (prompts ``*>``, ``=>``, etc)
even if we just send a command not a query. So we have to work around this.
"""
self.resource.read_bytes(self.resource.bytes_in_buffer) # clear read buffer