srs 810 in labview

[pal1977]

I am trying to read the data of SRS 810  lock in amplifier  from only one channel so that i can make a chart recorder kind of graph via  labview.  I want to see the signal over a period of time and i am not able to do it. I have the gpib installed in PC and  it even sees and identifies the amplifier , but it does not talk.

Does anybody have a  quick program to do this? I even tried installing any possible hardware drivers for SRS 810 and it  still does not help.

[Dennis_Knutson]

When you say you "tried installing any possible hardware drivers for SRS 810", does that mean you installed the instrument driver? I have no experience with this instrument but if you are using the driver, do you get any errors and if so, what is the error code?

[pal1977]

thanks for the help. Now the srs 810  seems to be talking to  my gpib. I am nwe to labview, is there a way to have a simple labview program which only reads  the display from the  lock in oscillator  and writes in a txt file which i can later  plot as  function of time.

[pal1977]

hi 

one question related to this one , can i use  a virtual lock in amplifier? i mean take the signal from the computer which i get from my lecroy oscilloscope via a labview program

and then feed it back to another program 2 do all the work of a lock in amplifier?

thank you