VB code for multimeter

[Ronan07]

I am doing a project using a hewlett packard 34401A multimeter, I want to use the GPIB port or RS232 ports, IF anyone could give me information or actually code, it would be generously apperciated.

I am college student so i am only starting to learn Visual basic.

thanks.

[hannahW]

Hi,

What is the GPIB Interface that you have in your PC?

If you have National Instruments Measurement Studio installed with your version of Visual Basic, then you can make use of an instrument driver that is available for this instrument.

Take a look at the following KB which explains how to do this:
http://digital.ni.com/public.nsf/websearch/CEECFCBF5015AB6F862568A100640EB0?OpenDocument 

If you do have Measurement Studio, then you can download the following driver from our website:
http://sine.ni.com/apps/utf8/niid_web_display.download_page?p_id_guid=E3B19B3E9433659CE034080020E748... 

If you don't have Measurement Studio, then the above links wont be much use to you unfortunately.

Check out the help for NI-VISA or NI-488.2 to find out how to program with these drivers in Visual Basic. You should also have some examples installed if you have these drivers installed on your machine.

Hope this helps
Regards
Hannah
NIUK & Ireland