Re: Limit to the sampling rate for an HP4192 Impedance Analyzer?

2004-04-24 Thread Brian Beal
I have never used the 4192, but am familiar with the 4194a. I can easily get 20 cap readings/second in a loop. Cap readings typically happen quickly. What parameters do you have set up in the 4192 for the cap readings? Are you doing a sweep of many frequencies? Using averaging, etc.? What are

Re: Limit to the sampling rate for an HP4192 Impedance Analyzer?

2004-04-24 Thread Swordfish78
I'm only doing measurement at a constant frequency, 100 Hz. And I am using the Averaging function on the keypad of the 4192. As for going on to the next measurement, I'm not using any control, that I know of. I (naively) assumed the instrument would make a new measurement with each increment of

Re: Limit to the sampling rate for an HP4192 Impedance Analyzer?

2004-04-24 Thread Brian Beal
Are you using 6.0 or 6.1? I can convert it to 6.1, and may have a version of it somewhere in 6.0.2.

Re: Limit to the sampling rate for an HP4192 Impedance Analyzer?

2004-04-24 Thread Swordfish78
Unfortunately it says 'Version 6.0', or '6i', which I'm assuming are one in the same.

Re: Limit to the sampling rate for an HP4192 Impedance Analyzer?

2004-04-24 Thread Swordfish78
Sorry, there's something I don't get. Where is your sub vi for the instrument? From the looks of things, the capacitance value is examined to see if it is within the range 500 to 800, which stops the execution. This value seems to be coming from the 'Fract/Exp String to Number' structure. If

Re: Limit to the sampling rate for an HP4192 Impedance Analyzer?

2004-04-24 Thread Brian Beal
I just checked the 4192 manual, and at a frequency of 100HZ, and a mode setting of Average, the measurement time is 1052 ms. This means that no matter what you do with the GPIB, you won't be able to increase the measurement time. You could try to switch the mode to either High Speed or Normal,

Limit to the sampling rate for an HP4192 Impedance Analyzer?

2004-04-18 Thread Swordfish78
I'm running my HP 4192 Impedance Analyzer in a FOR loop to take a new measurement (of Capacitance) at set intervals. I can't get the intervals any smaller than 1 second, regardless of using the Labview Wait ms sub vi. Also this doesn't seem to be a Labview issue, because when I remove the