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Power Measurement Taking Too Long With Agilent 8163B

Hi All,

 

I am using Agilent 8163B with 2 slots:  81619A (2 heads) and 81618A (1 head) for power measurements.  I setup my measurement with Agilent's time sutup driver vi at 5 seconds average time.  However it took over 20 seconds total to complete the measurement of 3 channels using the Agilent's 816x Read PMW Value.vi (this VI calls a DLL hp816x_32).

 

My question is that can I get this measurement done close to 5s with a parallel read of 3 channels at the same time?  i.e., Is the DLL hp816x_32 reentrant?

 

I tried to have a parallel wiring of 816x Read PMW Value.vi to test this, but still get a measuement time of 21 second.  Does anyone has a suggestion to improve this?

 

Thanks,

Bryan

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Regards,
Glenn
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