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Drivers Needed

Hi all.
 
I need the following drivers for my project, whoever have the driver in hand, please send me a copy.
 
Manufacturer: Agilent Technology
Instrument Type: Power Suppy
Model: E3631A, E3615A
Developement Environment: Labview 5.0
Technology: IVI
Interface: GPIB
 
Thanks in advance.
 
Best Regards
Cheyne
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Hallo,

I have been working with the E3631 from Agilent without any drivers, cause
I didn't find any good.
I`ve made the experience many times, that drivers which I have found
somewhere on the web (even third party contributions on www.ni.com) looked
tinkered and blowzy to such an extend that I preferred controlling the
instruments by assembling my string sequences on my own and send them along
via the GPIB.
It is often less work than you expect, you have to go through the
programming manual. Often the documentation is very poor, so this way can
also be a pain in the ass. But for the E3631 I`ve made good experiences
with the documentation.

So why not?

Regards

Oliver Friedrich


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Liebe Grüße

Oliver

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Hi Cheyne

use the following link
http://sine.ni.com/apps/we/niid_web_display.drv_results?p_app_area=&p_man=&p_keywords=power+supply&p_inst_type=powerSupply&p_env=845&p_drv_type=&p_int=IEEE488

then check under agilent
You should find the appropiate 3631A driver.


 Ideal as a starting point  to develop you own !!
xseadog

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If it's IVI you want and not native LabVIEW drivers, then you can download the CVI driver and do the conversion yourself. I don't remember exactly where it was with LabVIEW 5.0, but there should be a menu option to import CVI Instrument Driver. That is how all the LabVIEW IVI drivers are created since CVI is what is used to create an IVI driver. Agilent also has an IVI-COM driver that you can download. According to Agilent, the E3615A does not have either GPIB or RS-232 connectivity, so if that's really the model you have, you're out of luck.
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Oops. Didn't see your duplicate post and the answer about the inability to use IVI with 5.0. Your best bet then is to use the native LabVIEW driver. Please post a separate a question (just in one fourm please), attach the llb you want to convert, and ask if someone can do the version for you. I'm sorry but the latest I can save to is 5.1.
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This thread has 5.1 version http://forums.ni.com/ni/board/message?board.id=170&message.id=73017&query.id=14027 for E3631A.

Close but no banana.

David

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This question has been posted to multiple threads.  Please see additional responses to this question in the following thread:

Driver Needed

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What do you mean by native labview driver for labview 5.0
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You continue to post the same question multiple times in multiple forums. That is, imho, a bit rude and inconsiderate.

Since you asked for help with an IVI driver, I assumed that you might know what you were talking about. I'm not going to get into all of the details (you can look them up) but there is a difference between an IVI driver, which is written in C, and a native LabVIEW driver, which is completely written in LabVIEW. Since 5.0 doesn't support IVI, you would have to use a native LabVIEW driver. Someone has already posted the driver in 5.1 format which means you are most of the way there. Download that driver, and in a new post (in a single forum), attach it and very politely, ask if there is someone who can convert it to 5.0. It will take someone who still has 5.1 installed to do the conversion for you. If no one can do this, then you're left with trying to write some code yourself. Controlling a power supply is usually pretty simple. They don't have a large command set and an experienced programmer could probably write something in a couple of hours. I realize that you are not experienced and it would take you longer. Look at the shipping examples for VISA and GPIB communication and study the instrument programming manual. The basic protocol would be to use a VISA Open. The VISA Open, followed by a VISA Write. For the VISA Write, you send the command that find in the manual. For example, to reset the supply, you send the command *RST. If you send a command that tells the instrument to return a value, you would follow your VISA Write with a VISA Read. For example, you send the command MEAS:VOLT? and then the VISA Read will return tha actual voltage.

 

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Driver for hpe363xa attached in LabVIEW 5.0
 
Have fun!
 
David
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