Found driver for Agilent E3633A but it is for V6.0 LabWindows. Is it ok for V8.5.1?

[DPearce]

I have a Agilent E3633A power supply that I am trying to communicate with on GPIB. I have a Agilent 82357B USB/GPIB that connects my PC to the power supply. I am having trouble talking to the power supply. I saw some posts on the subject and saw there is a driver for the E3633A. I downloaded it. The download page said this was for LabWindows V6.0. Will it be ok to install it for LabWindows V8.5?

I am also looking for some code examples that use the Agilent 82357B USB/GPIB to communicate with instruments. Have not used GPIB on LabWindows before so I am struggling a bit. Any suggestions are appreciated.

thanks in advance,

Don Pearce

[MJF]

The power supply driver is probably fine, especially if you have the source code with it.

If it is a VISA driver, you will need the version of VISA that is compatible with your interface. In this case, with your Agilent interface. I personally have no experience with that equipment as I have always used NI GPIB interfaces and NI-VISA to keep things simple.

You may need to contact Agilent technical support for the interface issues.

[jjp377]

Did you download the driver from IDNet or Agilent?  Some customers have seen issues when they have both NI VISA and Agilent VISA.

[DPearce]

The drivers I dopwnloaded from National Instruments fixed my problem. When You install Agilent Library Suite 15.0 the setup documentation tells you how to make Agilent VISA compatible with NI VISA>