Thermal3 Command
(requires ENG access)
bbs zero

Description Zero the beam-balance sensor by acquiring 128 beam-balance sensor samples with the focus laser and the write laser off. The average sample is subtracted from the beam-balance sensor samples to compensate for sensor and amplifier offsets when calculating the head power. The focus laser and the write laser must be off to ensure that leakage from the focus laser or the write laser does not affect the calculation.

Note that the beam-balance sensor is automatically zeroed during initialization.

Notes Thermal 1.0 / 1.7x equivalents:
  • The monitor command bbs zero does not have an equivalent.

Thermal 2 equivalents:
  • The monitor command bbs zero does not have an equivalent.

Related Documents COMMAND: bbs sample
COMMAND: bbs info

Applies to: THERMAL3
Access: ENG
Modified: Wed Jul 16 04:28:29 2008
Updated: Wed Jul 16 04:52:21 2008
Module: BBS