"103 - invalid separator" on Agilent 34970A

[siva5577]

hi

i am basic to moderate user of labview. i am try to communicate with my Agilent device. each time i am press run button, an error massage appear on agilent screen and the programme stop with an error massage as well.

the labview error message:

Error -1073807339 occurred at VISA Read in HP34970A Initialize.vi->Temp App with control-tolerance-b6.vi

Possible reason(s):

VISA:  (Hex 0xBFFF0015) Timeout expired before operation completed.

the Agilent error message:

103 - invalid separator

what i should do?

Siva

[Dennis_Knutson]

The driver configures VISA to use a line feed as the character to terminate each write. I've only used the 34970 with GPIB but most serial instruments allow you to change the termination character. Make sure that the instrument is set to use a line feed.