HP82335 HPIB card

[Tims]

Hi All

Has anybody had much luck getting the above HPIB card going using LV VISA drivers.

Tim

[Fabiola]

I have not worked with this board, but there is a knowledgebase entry at the ni site, that might be of help to you:

http://digital.ni.com/public.nsf/3efedde4322fef19862567740067f3cc/e56d3d4866be0a8a86256942006626f0

regards,
Fabiola

[NMSU Professor]

With HP IO Config installed and using NI VISA 2.5 I am able to get the HP82335 to show up in the NI-VISA Interactive Control Utility window as shown in the attached picture file. I cannot figure out how to get the two instruments connected to the HPIB card at address 5 and address 17 to display in the VISAIC window. Nothing related to this HPIB automatically shows up in Measurement and Automation Explorer. How do I get Labview VISA to recognize the the instruments connected to this card?

[Kamran S.]

I'm not sure if any of the NI utilities will work with the HP GPIB card. I know you can use use HP cards through LabVIEW however I haven't seen any indication that that the utilities like VISAIC will work with the HP cards ... haven't ever read that or tried it.

Are you able to use the higher level VISA VIs in LabVIEW to communicate with the instruments by sending a *idn? command? If you can do that then it seems things are set up correctly, it may just be a matter of not being able to use VISAIC with a non NI card.
Kamran

[Nicholas 533]

I have the HP82350(PCI bus #7) and two instuments(#1,#2).
One instrument shows up "GPIB7::1::INSTR" in MAX.
However the other instrument doesn't do and its address is automatically set #1. In MAX only one instrument shows up.
Did you solve your problem? Let me know how you fix this problem.

[Rob Cole]

I use HPIB cards all the time. They never show up in MAX. Load the HP I/O Libraries and HP VISA. Then use the GPIB VISA drivers in Labview with the "standard" naming practices: GPIB0::2::INSTR. This should be card GPIB0 if it is the first GPIB card in the system (not the PCI slot number). GPIB7 should be the 8th GPIB card in the system. Sounds like something is not quite right in the setup you are using. You didn't load NI-VISA with your HP card did you? You need the HP-VISA to get the card to work.

Rob

[Tims]

Hi Rob and to all who replied,

I got the cards going, they are a pain in the ass but they work.
The trick I found that worked for me is to load HP's SICL library and not
their VISA, I then enable the NiVisaTulip.dll passport.
I also found that the devices connected to the HPIB card were not visible
in the early versions of MAX but the in MAX V2.2 they are...

Thankyou

Tim




Rob Cole wrote:

> I use HPIB cards all the time. They never show up in MAX. Load the HP
> I/O Libraries and HP VISA. Then use the GPIB VISA drivers in Labview
> with the "standard" naming practices: GPIB0::2::INSTR. This should be
> card GPIB0 if it is the first GPIB card in the system (not the PCI
> slot number). GPIB7 should be the 8th GPIB card in th
e system. Sounds
> like something is not quite right in the setup you are using. You
> didn't load NI-VISA with your HP card did you? You need the HP-VISA to
> get the card to work.
>
> Rob

[pengwei]

I can see the HP82335 in the NI-VISA Interactive Control Utility window,but can't find the instrument connected to the HPIB card.Can you give me the details how to install this card?

[pengwei]

Can you tell me how solve your question?I installed hp82335b based what you said,but it don't work.In window95 system,I installed agilent IO library G.02.02(only SICL) at first.Then run agilent IO confige,it can find the interface card.But when I run VISA assistant,it can't find it.And after I install NI-VISA2.5,it is still found in the Measurement & Automation Explorer 2.0.

[Ahmed55ra]

i have HP82335 HPIB card i need to install win 2k or win xp

but i need driver for this card

any one know how i get this driver

i search on the internet but no way to find it

thank you.