HP 3455A DVM Driver for Labview?

[Dan]

I need a HP 3455A dvm driver for Labview.
Where might one be published?
Thanks in advance,
Dan Brown

[wha@atmel]

Hi Dan,

if you do not find a LabVIEW driver for your instrument on NI's or HP / Agilent webpages, try to use
the driver from HP34401A - this the "default driver" in
instr.lib. I expect, that the instruction set of your DMM will be close to HP's standard DMM; maybe you have to adapt some functions...

Hope this helps

regards
wha

[LesHammer]

> if you do not find a LabVIEW driver for your
> instrument (3455) ..., try to use the driver
> from HP34401A - .. I expect, that the instruction
> set of your DMM will be close to HP's standard DMM;

Well, not this time. The HP 3455A is a real old DMM.
It predates SCPI (which the 34401 used). As an old
"R2D2" language instrument, you are out of luck on
adapting another driver. ("R2" could mean one range
on one instrument, and a completely different range
on the next - that's why SCPI was invented.) Adapting
another driver (the 3456 might be closer) would
require checking each function very closely for subtle
differences.

Personally, I'd scratch the driver search and just
send the command string with the LV GPIB Write, then
receive
with the GPIB Read vi's. (I hope you have
the 3455 manual.)

Les.Hammer@CompleteTest.com

[uwo]

Hi all,

I new to Labview and have encountered difficult in logging data to a file. I have a VI to continously acquire data from a solartron analyze. I want to be able to write the file. 

I tried connecting a numberic data control to the write fxn but it wouldn't connect. How do I go around this. Please help.

Innocent.

[Dennis_Knutson]

Please do not hijack a completely unrelated thread-and a very old one at that.

You also did not attach your VI or even an image of what you are attempting to do. There are numerous write functions and each has numerous inputs. No idea what you are trying to connect from/to.

[Triodethom]

I have tried the 3456a driver and found it to be close the range count is different but was able to get data in labview to match the display on the front  of the 3455a. Some experimentation is in order . I must agree .