VISA - unable to queue operation & device reported an input protocol error.

[billko]

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@matt.baker wrote:
What reasons would you have against using a loop approach/multiple reads ignoring timeout errors? Is there any info/guidelines on not doing that? Just trying to fully understand the pitfalls 🙂

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You turn it into a polling session.  Instead of saying "call me when you have something," you are constantly on the phone asking for the information.  Unneeded overhead.  The equipment will tell you when it has something.  If too much time has gone by, then you check to see what has happened.

[matt.baker]

This idea would get rid of my need for a polling loop:

http://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW-Idea-Exchange/Add-an-quot-Abort-quot-event-to-VISA-reads-and-writes/...

[billko]

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@matt.baker wrote:

This idea would get rid of my need for a polling loop:

http://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW-Idea-Exchange/Add-an-quot-Abort-quot-event-to-VISA-reads-and-writes/...

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It's interesting, but I've found that temporarily changing the timeout value accomplished what I needed.  I think this snippet does the same thing as your code?

[Voila1]

Not sure if you fixed this

(replying to this as its the first google result so may help anyone else)

I have a similar issue with a different bit of kit (7510 DMM) and i spotted this in the firmware release notes, might help