Keithley 6517B driver error

[JonasO]

Hello,

I'm working with the Keithley 6517b electrometer and wanted to use the LabView driver. However while testing the example "Acquire measurement" the error queue produced the attached errors.

Doing measurements with a selfmade LabView VI works..

Does somebody have an idea?

Thanks a lot.

Regards,

Jonas

[GerdW · Accepted solution]

Hi Jonas,

Does somebody have an idea?

Yes: it's your fault! 😄

You are using a German (?) Windows using German regional settings with a comma as decimal separator.

Almost all device drivers from NI rely on using a point as decimal separator - as well as 99.9% of all external DAQ devices I have seen so far.

So you get an error when you try to scan strings expecting the "wrong" decimal separator…

Solutions:

1. Set your Windows regional settings to use English number formats with points as decimal separator.
2. Write your own device driver handling such regional setting issues…

[JonasO]

Thanks a lot..

That didn't cross my mind. Dumb 😄

Regards

Jonas

[PatrikKaranNI]

Hi JonasO,

on top of GerdW's answer, this may be useful as well: Localization Codes in LabVIEW.

Regards,