HP5328A + NI GPIB-ENET/1000
Does anyone have experience using older HP equipment with the NI
GPIB-ENET/1000 GPIB to ethernet box? Is this even possible with such an old
piece of equipment? I'm very familiar with using SCPI commands over telnet
but not so familiar with HPIB.
So far I've installed the NI 488.2 software which has successfully found
both the GPIB-ENET/1000 box and the HP5328A connected to it. I've opened
the NI-488.2 communicator which should allow me to send commands to the
counter and read back results. However, anything I type in the "send
string" returns a timeout.
The manual for the 5328A shows example commands such as:
CMD"?U*","T"
But it's not clear to me what portion (all?) is the string that I should be
sending to the 5328a.
The 5328a is set to "Talk Only" mode via dip switch. I would expect that I
should be able to just 'read' the results, but 'read' also times out...
Thanks for any pointers,
James
'Talk Only' mode responds to serial poll mode which is querying all instruments on the bus. And it's primary use is in automated test systems
You want to disable talk-only mode for normal interactive control of an instrument using GPIB
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On Feb 23, 2017, at 1:37 AM, James Peroulas james@peroulas.com wrote:
Does anyone have experience using older HP equipment with the NI
GPIB-ENET/1000 GPIB to ethernet box? Is this even possible with such an old
piece of equipment? I'm very familiar with using SCPI commands over telnet
but not so familiar with HPIB.
So far I've installed the NI 488.2 software which has successfully found
both the GPIB-ENET/1000 box and the HP5328A connected to it. I've opened
the NI-488.2 communicator which should allow me to send commands to the
counter and read back results. However, anything I type in the "send
string" returns a timeout.
The manual for the 5328A shows example commands such as:
CMD"?U*","T"
But it's not clear to me what portion (all?) is the string that I should be
sending to the 5328a.
The 5328a is set to "Talk Only" mode via dip switch. I would expect that I
should be able to just 'read' the results, but 'read' also times out...
Thanks for any pointers,
James
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If your counter is showing up in the NI device tree, you should be pretty
close to getting it working.
I haven't used a 5328A, but I suspect the command you have shown above is
sample code for a basic program, the actual HPIB command may just be a 'T'.
On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 1:37 AM, James Peroulas james@peroulas.com wrote:
Does anyone have experience using older HP equipment with the NI
GPIB-ENET/1000 GPIB to ethernet box? Is this even possible with such an old
piece of equipment? I'm very familiar with using SCPI commands over telnet
but not so familiar with HPIB.
So far I've installed the NI 488.2 software which has successfully found
both the GPIB-ENET/1000 box and the HP5328A connected to it. I've opened
the NI-488.2 communicator which should allow me to send commands to the
counter and read back results. However, anything I type in the "send
string" returns a timeout.
The manual for the 5328A shows example commands such as:
CMD"?U*","T"
But it's not clear to me what portion (all?) is the string that I should be
sending to the 5328a.
The 5328a is set to "Talk Only" mode via dip switch. I would expect that I
should be able to just 'read' the results, but 'read' also times out...
Thanks for any pointers,
James
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