Re: [time-nuts] HP5328A + NI GPIB-ENET/1000

2017-02-24 Thread Scott McGrath
The issue with talk-only is you don't have remote control of instrument settings hence talk only Content by Scott Typos by Siri > On Feb 24, 2017, at 11:47 AM, James Peroulas wrote: > > Thanks for the suggestions Scott(s)! > > It ended up being something simple. With no

Re: [time-nuts] HP5328A + NI GPIB-ENET/1000

2017-02-24 Thread James Peroulas
Thanks for the suggestions Scott(s)! It ended up being something simple. With no signal coming into the 5328A, it did not produce any output over GPIB. I would have expected a continuous readout of 0Hz. Once I applied a signal, a simple GPIB "read" request returned the measurements I needed. No

Re: [time-nuts] HP5328A + NI GPIB-ENET/1000

2017-02-23 Thread Scott Stobbe
If your counter is showing up in the NI device tree, you should be pretty close to getting it working. I haven't used a 5328A, but I suspect the command you have shown above is sample code for a basic program, the actual HPIB command may just be a 'T'. On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 1:37 AM, James

Re: [time-nuts] HP5328A + NI GPIB-ENET/1000

2017-02-23 Thread Scott McGrath
'Talk Only' mode responds to serial poll mode which is querying all instruments on the bus. And it's primary use is in automated test systems You want to disable talk-only mode for normal interactive control of an instrument using GPIB Content by Scott Typos by Siri > On Feb 23, 2017, at

[time-nuts] HP5328A + NI GPIB-ENET/1000

2017-02-23 Thread James Peroulas
Does anyone have experience using older HP equipment with the NI GPIB-ENET/1000 GPIB to ethernet box? Is this even possible with such an old piece of equipment? I'm very familiar with using SCPI commands over telnet but not so familiar with HPIB. So far I've installed the NI 488.2 software which