GPIB Control of Spectrum analyser

[JÞB]

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@billko wrote:

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@Mark.Boden wrote:

WOW the responses are fast :). I am talking to the device however the *IDN? is returning an error. I will go to the manual of the device and look at the programmers guide but to get off plots would be helpful and I can then expand upon this once I learn more.

Thank you all for the help but keep it coming 🙂

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That you tried to send that command is half the battle.  There are probably just a few tweaks you need to do to get this thing going!

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That you tried that command before reading the manual is the trouble.  http://cp.literature.agilent.com/litweb/pdf/5963-2929.pdf that spec anny is Not a IEEE 488.2 compliant device!

 Try "ID?" instead

(Not surprizing- its older than the IEEE standard by a decade or two)

[billko]

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@Mark.Boden wrote:

Then tweak away Bill, you have my permission :). Just kidding, I read somewhere that it doesn't recognise the *IDN? command and there is an alternative based upon the age of the product?? is there an alternative in getting the PC to recognise the Analyser?

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The programmer's guide should help you with any commands you might need to send.  There should be a command to identify the equipment if it doesn't respond directly to the standard *IDN? command.

[Mark.Boden]

I know this sounds bad but can tell me where to find this programmers guide???

A link would be helpful. Apologies that you have to spoon feed me. 

[Mark.Boden]

I can make the analyser dance a little but i.e. when I tell it to read the data it attempts too and then i get an error message to tell me that the instrument didn't respond

[billko]

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@JÞB wrote:

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@billko wrote:

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@Mark.Boden wrote:

WOW the responses are fast :). I am talking to the device however the *IDN? is returning an error. I will go to the manual of the device and look at the programmers guide but to get off plots would be helpful and I can then expand upon this once I learn more.

Thank you all for the help but keep it coming 🙂

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That you tried to send that command is half the battle.  There are probably just a few tweaks you need to do to get this thing going!

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That you tried that command before reading the manual is the trouble.  http://cp.literature.agilent.com/litweb/pdf/5963-2929.pdf that spec anny is Not a IEEE 488.2 compliant device!

 Try "ID?" instead

(Not surprizing- its older than the IEEE standard by a decade or two)

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Wow, I have to confess that I didn't think it was that old, since it looks a lot like the older Agilent analyzers, which were just re-labeled newer HP analyzers.