Matt Ettus said the following on 01/30/2008 08:25 PM: > I have an HP5342A with GPIB, and am having trouble getting a reading > out of the GPIB interface. It seems to work ok, and when I send it > commands with talk.exe from the KE5FX GPIB tools, it responds to the > command. But any time I query it, it just sits there and times out, > although the front panel indicates something is happening. In the > manual, it talks about sending an HP BASIC command to trigger a > measurement, but I don't know how to do that with the command line > tools.
Hi Matt -- I don't know the 5342A, but most of the HP counters use a fairly straightforward sequence of send command for reading, delay a few hundred microseconds, then issue a read command. Some have various triggering options, but the most straightforward is usually to just have it reply to a request. If you want, I can send you a couple of examples (not necessarily good ones!) of perl scripts using the LinuxGPIB driver and library. John _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
