Hi There are indeed a number of devices that behave that way and work with that fix. They can be a big pain if you then decide to go looking for binary data. Polling the status is the only solution I have found in that case.
Bob -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ulrich Bangert Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 2010 12:49 PM To: 'Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement' Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Wavecrest DTS 2070 GPIB access John, I do not have any experience with the Wavecrest but my experience with devices that do not seem to answer on bus requests is that they often DO ANSWER the request but after the answer they do not serve the bus's EOI line correct. Checking the EOI line is the standard way that the controller checks the presence of an answer with. For me this was the case at least with a HP3457 multimeter as well as a R&S URV 5 rf power meter. If you use a NI compatible plugin card with the accompanying DLL you should make yourself a debugging aid that enables you to display the contents of the input buffer (the one you give the pointer to the dll for a read call) in case of timeout. For me usually the correct answer was to be found in the input buffer despite the timeout. That was the reason why I switched my EZGPIB communication completely from EOI to EOS. Even the instruments that do not serve the EOI line correct seem to send a correct string termination as <CR> or <LF>. 73s de Ulrich, DF6JB > -----Ursprungliche Nachricht----- > Von: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] Im Auftrag von John Miles > Gesendet: Dienstag, 23. November 2010 11:27 > An: [email protected] > Betreff: [time-nuts] Wavecrest DTS 2070 GPIB access > > > I'm looking at writing some code to drive the DTS 2070, but > have been running into timeout errors performing any GPIB > query (even *IDN?) while the instrument is taking > measurements, even in sizes/sets of 1/1 at a 1-pps rate. Has > anyone else run into this before? > > This happens equally with either a Prologix GPIB-USB adapter, > or an NI PCI-GPIB board, both of which are otherwise reliable. > > -- john, KE5FX > > > _______________________________________________ > 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. _______________________________________________ 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. _______________________________________________ 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.
