I recently bought a HP5335A counter and have some questions about operating the instrument with GPIB.
I expect that a lot of time nuts are using this instrument and may be able to help. Please excuse me if this is a stupid question. This is my first GPIB instrument. After each GPIB command that I send I've found that I then need to send an RE (reset) command. If I Don't send RE the instrument takes no readings and has a blank display. For example I send FN9 to select period and get no readings until RE is sent. Is this normal? I'm currently talking to it with a USB to GPIB adapter and a terminal program. Since I had no idea if the GPIB interface was functional I didn't want to buy an expensive GPIB adapter. I build the cheapest GPIB adapter that I could find on the internet. It's possible that this is causing problems. It emulates a Prologix adapter. Here is a link if you're interested. HTTP://http://www.dalton.ax/gpib/ I've found that this adapter does not properly report the serial control line status. Because of this, Timelab won't detect the GPIB adapter. You can get Timelab to work if you choose the "Acquire from counter in talk only mode" option. -- Luke Mester http://mesterhome.com/ _______________________________________________ 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.
