Talking to Fireberd 6000A 8000 in labview

[Dennis_Knutson]

By asynch, do you mean Serial/RS-232? The only advantage is that it is cheaper. I believe you would have to make some simple mods to add serial support so that will offset some of the cost savings.

[kdrumm]

Yes I was referring to the Serial/RS-232 interface.  Is the performance the same between RS-232 and GPIB?  Are there any known issues with one or the other?

[Dennis_Knutson]

No, of course the performance is not the same. You should be familiar with the basics of both types of communication. A serial connection might have 115k rate and a standard 488.2 connection is 1MB.

[JChristensen]

Have you tried to add a CTL + C (^C) string to the initial command?

I found that the FireBERD 6000 does not communicate over RS232 until the ^C is entered. Even using HyperTerminal.

I found however that I am unable to get results from the results command via LabVIEW VISA but I can get results from HyperTerminal. Command; RESULTS? DATE returns nothing from the VISA Read but does over HyperTerminal.

Anyone find a solution to get results over Serail RS232?