Does a SERIAL Driver for Agilent 6811B AC source/ Power Analyzer exist?

[cmwharton]

Hello, I’m desperately trying to find a serial driver for an Agilent 6811B AC Source/ Power Analyzer. Also, is there maybe some way that I could take a GPIB driver and somehow modify it to work over the serial port? I’ve tried this myself with no luck with the IEEE488 driver at http://sine.ni.com/apps/we/niid_web_display.download_page?p_id_guid=E3B19B3E9453659CE034080020E74861

Thanks.

[Dennis_Knutson]

Modifying the driver is relatively simple since it uses VISA and not the GPIB functions. You generally just have to add a case statement that configures the serial port and the VISA Write termination character. I've attached an example of what could be done. You probably have to change the serial port case to match what the instrument requires.

[unclebump]

Try the one located here.

http://adn.tm.agilent.com/index.cgi?CONTENT_ID=2396

[cmwharton]

Thank you so very much! You both were extremely helpful and very quick! Thanks for the example Dennis, everything is working now.