How to return control to agilent 4980 after making a labview measurement?

[hmar14]

I have been using the driver given by national instruments for the read measurement on the agilent 4980. The measurements are made fine but after the measurement is done, I can no longer control the physical LCR meter. What changes might I make to the program to return control to the physical LCR meter?

[_Bryan]

I know on some instruments there is a local/remote button that needs to be pushed to get back to local control.

[hmar14]

Is there some way to do this from labview?

[_Bryan · Accepted solution]

I don't have any agilent instruments, so I have no idea.  You would need to find and go through the communication manual for the 4980 and see if there is a command.  You should be able to get it from the manufacturers site if you are lucky.

Worst case there may be a reset command and then you would have to stop communicating with it, otherwise it would probably just go back into a remote status.

[hmar14]

Found the button. Thanks!

[Dennis_Knutson]

If you want to do it progamatically as you asked, you just have to use the VISA GPIB Control REN function. You can use it to issue a GTL command.