Agilent E4405B / Points

[Thomas L.]

Hi everyone

I am currently working on a Agilent E4405B. I found the driver from the NI Website. It offers nearly all the functions I need except one which is especially important to me.

I want to be able to set the number of points. I can set the Sweep Time perfectly, but I do not want to set the sweep time - instead I'd like to set the number of points. This can be found on the device if you press:
Sweep -> Points.
The according GPIB command is SENS:SWE:POIN

How can I set this to a value I desire with the driver?

Thanks for any help 🙂

[gagi1]

There are two functions provided in the driver under the Utility Functions>Instrument I/O: Write Instrument Data and Read Instrument Data. You can try to use the Write function to send a user-specified string to the instrument.

I hope this helps.

Vesna

[Thomas L.]

Boy, I forgot about this question 🙂

That's actually what I did. the driver seems to be missing some important functions (at least important to me 🙂 ), therefore I had to stick to the low level functions, but these work properly 🙂

Thanks anyway 🙂