fluke 6060B Frequency, Amplitude GPIB commands HELP!

[napview]

fluke 6060B Frequency, Amplitude GPIB commands HELP! The very old and useless scanned copy of the manual showed the GPIB commands: FR230MZ but it NEVER worked, same for amplitude, anyone can send the WORKING vi that can set any number with any significant digits for frequency and amplitude, GREATLY appreciated!

[napview]

PLEASE HELP ME! I HAVE TRIED EVERYTHING FROM THE MANUAL BUT IT WORKED IN DIFFERENT COMMAND FORMAT FOR ANY FREQUENCY.

For example: "FR30MZ" worked but "FR30.00006MZ" and "FR87.01204not;

"FR77MZ" worked but "FR87MZ" went back to 77MHZ setting;

[Dennis_Knutson]

Please don't shout.  It doesn't help at all to do that.

When you use the driver, what VI are you using? Do you get any kind of error code back from the VI? What is it if you do? When you send your frequency command, is this with the driver of in MAX? When the frequency command does not execute, have you done an errory query of the instrument? There is a funciton in the driver for that. It would be extremely helpful to know if the instrument replies back with some error message or code. I don't know if it's related to the problem you are seeing but the driver I downloaded needs to be modified to work with newer versions of VISA. The initialize function has an 'Old' VISA Open. This should be replaced with the normal VISA Open on the palette. I modified this and the Getting Started function to be correct and attached them.

[pengpeng]

Hello Dennis,

I downloaded the fl6060x for labview 2009, but when I run the FL6060B Getting Started, there is an error says "FL6060X Initialize", so I go to FL6060X Initialize.vi, and the error is "Old VISA Open in FL6060X Initialize.vi", so I replace the Old VISA Open with new VISA Open, I find a broken line which connects to "instrument descripter" which in the help is "resource name "" for Old VISA Open", but there is no such connection for the new VISA Open, so I delete the "instrument decripter" and the broken line, then the error is "VISA Open", which I don't know what's wrong, could you help me out? The fl6060x for labview 2009 is attached.

Thank you very much,

Peng

[Dennis_Knutson]

Deleting the descriptor is what should be done. You should have the VISA Session control on the front panel and you need to select your instrument with it. When you right click on the little arrow on the right side, do you see your instrument listed?

Edit - it does not help to say a function returned an error. You need to specify what the actual error code is.

Message Edited by Dennis Knutson on 03-24-2010 02:44 PM

[pengpeng]

Thanks a lot Dennis, it worked.

-Peng