Need Driver for Agilent 6060B, any help?

[GeneYaya]

I am doing Power Supply Analysis and am considering LabView. I will need an inteface to my Agilent 6060B Dynamic Load.  Anyone have any leads?

Gene

[Dennis_Knutson]

If I remember correctly, the 6060 programming was very similar to the 6050 and you can get the driver for that here.

[masdi]

I have installed the instrument driver for 6060B as provided above link but it not works. There was a error message "Error -1300 occured at HP 6050/51A Initialize: Wrong Instrument"

I'm using the latest LabVIEW version 8.5, is it this instrument driver compatible with the latest LabVIEW version?

[Dennis_Knutson]

Wrong instrument means the driver is not detecting the 6050. As noted above and on the download page, the driver is for the 6050 so at the very least, you will have to modify the initialize function. The initalize function does an *IDN? query and sees if the response contains either 6050A or 6051A. You can modify the function to also check for 6060 or skip the id query and see if the rest works. You should treat the 605x driver as a starting point since I don't know all of the other differences between the different instruments. I suspect some of the other functions will work but you will certainly have to modify others.

[O_Proulx]

Hello,

As Denis mentioned, the driver is a great point to start and will really accelerate your development time as most of the commands and configuration functions are already implemented.  You may need to compare the manual for the 6050 and 6060 to see if there are any major differences in commands, but as Denis mentioned, they are probably very similar.  In any case, it is much easier to modify an existing program than to start one from scratch.   Also, since LabVIEW is a graphical programming environment, it is also easy to learn.  I apologize if this is information you already know.

[jjp377]

We will be working on the development of the driver for the 6060B and 6063B.

[masdi]

Hi all,

Thanks for the support and guide line. I have modified the vi for initialization by changed the string from “6051A” to “6060B” and rename the VI as “HP 6060B/0A Initialize.vi” and original vi still remain same name and directory. After modify the string now it able to communicate with the instrument.

I hope this new vi will not conflict with other sub vi. 🙂

Yes, is good to have a specific instrument driver for this instrument(6060B) because it might help new user when face this probelm.

Thanks.

Best regards

Masdi

[Albert.Geven]

Hi

good work,
These vi's don't hurt each other as long as they have a different name.
An alternative approach is to modify the string recognition in the original vi so that both strings are accepted
the simplest implementation is to use both compares (the old the new one) and or the binary result.

[Orange Ryan]

Thank you for your guys discussion I earn too much in it, but I have to say that the 6050 labview 7.0 driver is cannot download. I don't know why the download process stay at 75% and cannot continue, hope some one who can help me to solve it.  If somebody can supply 6060B labview 7.1 driver are better.

Thank you for your in advance and I look forward to hearing from your.

Ryan

[NathanT]

Hello Ryan,

          In the future, please just start a new discussion forum thread instead of replying to one that is almost 2 years old.

I can download the LabVIEW Plug and Play Instrument Driver for the Agilent 606X Series without any problems.  I recommend that you try another browser, restarting your computer, trying to download a different driver... and let us know how it goes.

By the way, the driver was developed for LabVIEW 8.0 and later.

-NathanT