Labview and 7280 Lock in Amplifier

[YacobD]

Good Afternoon!

I am having a bit of trouble connecting to a Signal Recovery 7280 Lock-in Amplifier from Labview. I am really not sure of what the error could be. The amplifier is viewable in NI MAX, the *IDN? command does not work, however, I can send other commands (such as VER to retrieve the version of the amplifier software) through MAX and receive a response no problem. When running the program, however, I run into a "-1223 Error."

Any help or guidance is greatly appreciatted!

[flim21]

Hi, 

1. By "*IDN? command does not work" do you mean there is no respond at all after entering the command, not even an error display? . If it is that case,  the reason might be that your instrument is not SCPI compliant. More detailed explanation can be found here. 

2. I believe 7280 Lock-in Amplifier is a third party devie and not manufactured by NI. The error -1223 means that your driver is not intended for this instrument, you need to download a suitable driver for your instrument or develop one yourself. Please refer to the below links for more information. I hope this helps

 Developing LabVIEW Plug and Play Instrument Drivers

Instrument Driver Network

Fiona, NI

[GerdW]

Hi Yacob,

did you read page 3 of the datasheet?

Which device driver do you use? Which port of the device do you use?