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HP6032A Power supply GPIB problems

I saw a reply some time ago to someone who was having trouble with an HP6032A
power supply.
I'm having trouble communicating reliably (reading from it, I think), and
my system (Mac) hangs constantly. If I limit the reads, I can go for several
days, but I normally read from it several times per minute and it hangs within
hours.
Is anyone familiar with this problem?
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David Sullivan wrote:

> I saw a reply some time ago to someone who was having trouble with an HP6032A
> power supply.
> I'm having trouble communicating reliably (reading from it, I think), and
> my system (Mac) hangs constantly. If I limit the reads, I can go for several
> days, but I normally read from it several times per minute and it hangs within
> hours.
> Is anyone familiar with this problem?

David,
Don't know if this will help or not. I have had trouble with some
of the HP Power Supplies (I think the 6032 among them).
I found that if I did not use the error checking it worked much better.
These are kinda cranky you might check all the settings and make sure
you are using the correct protocol and looking for the right number of
bytes.

Hope this helps
K
evin Kent
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