I may be beating a dead horse, but I'm wondering if it is possible to program an ancient 6002A power supply. All I really want to do is to be able to set the voltage to 0 V or 48 V. So, I don't need to "program" it as much as I need to be able to turn it on/off remotely.
I have an 82357A USB to HPIB adapter and Agilent I/O suite 16.0. I would like to be able to just use the "Send commands to this instrument" from the "Agilent Connection Expert" gui. I do not see how to do that.
The 6002 manual talks about sending commands from a calculator, the commands are in the form of
CMD "?U%", "2960"
or
cmd 7, "?U%", "2960"
Where:
? is the unlisten command
U is the calculator talk address
% is the 6002 listen address
2999 is the supply's 2nd range (960)(.05V)= 48V output
Thanks,
DJL
I have an 82357A USB to HPIB adapter and Agilent I/O suite 16.0. I would like to be able to just use the "Send commands to this instrument" from the "Agilent Connection Expert" gui. I do not see how to do that.
The 6002 manual talks about sending commands from a calculator, the commands are in the form of
CMD "?U%", "2960"
or
cmd 7, "?U%", "2960"
Where:
? is the unlisten command
U is the calculator talk address
% is the 6002 listen address
2999 is the supply's 2nd range (960)(.05V)= 48V output
Thanks,
DJL
I have never seen one of these supplies but I did some digging and there was a GPIB (HP-IB) option on this instrument. If this does have a interface, you should be able to program it.
This is a very old power supply and I have never used it. Does the connection expert find this power supply when it scans the GPIB instruments? If it does show up, you should be able to select "Send Commands ..." From the example you do no have to worry about the "?U%" line because that is low level GPIB addressing stuff that the IO Libraries will do for you. It is basically freeing up the bus (?) stating the controller (in your case the 82357A) and the listener (6002A). If it does allow you to send commands, you would just need to send the data word.
I gotta see if we have one of these around or if one of the guys that were here back when this product was still being sold can help.