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Communication problems with the Philips PM2525 multimeter

Hello,

I have a problem to communicate with the Philips PM2525 multimeter. I'm rewriting a program that communicates with 4 instruments. In the old version, which was written in DOS, everything works, but under windows the philips multimeter is not being recognized.

My GPIB-PCII/PCIIA board is installed in the PCII mode, IRQ=7 ,and the DMA channel=none. First of all I have upgraded my driver. The ni 488216 was installed. I installed the driver correctly so I went further initialising my GPIB0 card with the following settings :

Primary GPIB adress = 0
Secondary GPIB adress = NONE
Timeout setting = 10s
Terminate read on EOS = NO
Set EOI with EOS on writes = NO
Type of compare on EOS
= 7bit
EOS Byte = 00H
System controller = YES
Assert REN when SC = NO
Enable auto serial polling = YES
Enable CIC protocol = NO
Bus timing = 500ns
Parallel poll duration = DEFAULT

Then I scanned for instruments. First I checked instrument by instrument. Only the multimeter was not recognized. Then I've connected the 3 working instruments after each other and they where all detected. When I connect the multimeter the scan procedure can't find any instruments. If I run the DOS program the multimeter works and communicates correctly.

Can anybody help me with this question.

Thanks,

Jörgen.
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The first thing you look at is the following knowledge base found on our website:
www.ni.com>>technical support>>(Option 3)advanced search>>(type in something like "+find +instrument +gpib" )You should see the following knowledge base:

http://ae.natinst.com/operations/ae/public.nsf/fca7838c4500dc10862567a100753500/72fad7156202ddf9862568900048f006?OpenDocument

Buddy Curtis
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Joji
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