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Increase acquiring rate of Agilent 34401A multimeter

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Hello.

 

My name is José Restolho and I'm a researcher in Portugal. I've an Agilente 34401A multimeter and I'm controlling it by serial. The problem is that it only acquires a point each 1.5 s which is to much. I need that it acquires with a rate of 100 ms at least.

 

Can someone help me?

 

Thank you.

 

Best regards José Restolho

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You need to first move the initialization, configure, and close to outside the loop. You'll probably also need to place the file write in a different loop and pass it data via a queue such as in the producer/consumer architecture (see examples and File>New...). The instrument also can do a multiple point acquisition. Lastly, you might need to use something a bit faster than a serial connection such as USB, Ethernet, or GPIB (whatever the instrument has besides serial).
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Dear Dennis Knutson.

 

Thank so much for your answer. It saved my day.

 

Best regards,

 

José Restolho

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