[time-nuts] Regarding time lab acquistion GPIB Need Help

John Miles jmiles at pop.net
Fri Aug 19 23:30:53 UTC 2011


> The NI communicator  tells me that the IDN command was sent but no
> response.
> BUT If I press the read command I a return from the counter that
> corresponds
> to the reading on the counters LED display .

Most likely, that just means that your counter is set to Talk Only mode.  It
won't respond to commands like *IDN? in that mode... but on the other hand,
you *have* to use talk-only mode with TimeLab if you don't have a counter
model that it knows how to address like the 5370B.  

> TI  responds the same way, frequency works as well  what ever mode I put
> the
> 776 in I get that back in the GPIB window along with the correct numerical
> response.

Sounds good...

> Now I open TimeLab,  Open the acquire screen, select GPIB listen only mode
> 
> Press the monitor key and there is a continual stream of values PHAS+
> 177.75e +0  CHANGING AS THE DISPLAY CHANGES  incrementing the correct
> direction.
> 
> Press measurement and the screen changes to "preparing acquisition"  and
> then stays there.
> 
> No acquisition takes place It just stay like that..
> 
> I am so close I can taste the data

That should be OK.  It's possible that it's failing to parse the exact data
format coming back from the counter.  Can you cut and paste some of the
traffic out of the "Monitor" menu so I can take a look at what it's sending
you?

-- john, KE5FX




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