Re: [time-nuts] Off the wall: anyone with experience programming HP3456A?

2005-09-10 Thread Tom Van Baak
> > Does it work, in a loop, to send 3456A commands > > to read voltage, get the response, and then 5370A > > commands to read frequency, and get a response? > > > > /tvb > > Yes, but I've been getting occasional squirrely values from the 3456A in > that mode, possibly because of a timeout and wi

Re: [time-nuts] Off the wall: anyone with experience programming HP3456A?

2005-09-10 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, John Ackermann N8UR writes: >SRQ is definitely a pain, but is hard to do without if you're doing >anything with multiple instruments on the bus; my current problem is >trying to read frequency from a 5370A and voltage from the 3456A to plot >VCO performance. Without

Re: [time-nuts] Off the wall: anyone with experience programming HP3456A?

2005-09-10 Thread John Ackermann N8UR
; SRQ = TRUE; > } > > if (SRQ) > { > break; > } > > Sleep(10); > > if (kbhit()) > { > getch(); > > printf("GPIB wait for SRQ interrupted!\n"); > exit(1); &

RE: [time-nuts] Off the wall: anyone with experience programming HP3456A?

2005-09-09 Thread John Miles
t: Friday, September 09, 2005 6:53 PM > To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement > Subject: [time-nuts] Off the wall: anyone with experience programming > HP3456A? > > > By any chance, has anyone here done any GPIB programming of the HP 3456A > DMM? I am having gre