'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 1:37 AM, James Peroulas <ja...@peroulas.com> wrote: > > 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 has successfully found > both the GPIB-ENET/1000 box and the HP5328A connected to it. I've opened > the NI-488.2 communicator which should allow me to send commands to the > counter and read back results. However, anything I type in the "send > string" returns a timeout. > > The manual for the 5328A shows example commands such as: > CMD"?U*","T" > But it's not clear to me what portion (all?) is the string that I should be > sending to the 5328a. > > The 5328a is set to "Talk Only" mode via dip switch. I would expect that I > should be able to just 'read' the results, but 'read' also times out... > > Thanks for any pointers, > James > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com > To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
