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Problem using driver with the 6031A Agilent power supply

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Hello and goodmorning,

 

I was trying to develop my first cvi application in wich i need to use a power supply (model Agilent 6031A). I first use direct GPIB command and i manage to make it work but with some trouble, due to the fact that sometimes the commands are missed.

So i have downloaded the driver, from the NI site, and i was trying to implementing it in my code. I found a problem with the very first instruction, the init one. Below are my code:

ViPSession InstrumentH;  
...
...
... Appoggio=hp6xxxa_init ("GPIB0::5::INSTR", VI_ON, VI_ON, 1, &InstrumentH);

 After the above code was executed i found in "Appoggio" the value "-1073807339"  and InstrumentH is equal to NULL.

 

Any idea and advice would be very appreciated.

 

P.S.

There is a way, like in Labview, to find the explanation of the Error Code?

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Found the problem. The power supply must be switched from SCPI commands to the old ARPS commands using "SYST:LANG" 

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