Reading number from instrument without the driver.

[betelgeuse91]

Hi,

I am using the instument sr830, a lock-in amplifier via LabVIEW. This instrument uses IEEE-488 port, aka GPIB.

Unfortunately, my LabVIEW version is too low to be supported by sr830 driver available here. 

So I think I need to figure this out only with the built in vi`s. 

All I want to do is just reading off the numbers on the lock-in amplifier screen. 

There are two channels for the instrument. I just want to tell Labview to read the number from which channel. 

This looks very easy but I have been stuck for more than a week now.

To be honest, I don't really know what I should do.

Any help will be appreciated, thank you.

[crossrulz]

Pull out the programmer's manual.  It should tell you all of the GPIB commands you need in order to read the data you want.