Over the course of a couple of days of trial and error I found that logging a series of frequency measurements from the front panel failed when the frequency option was set to CONT (worked fine with AUTO and REC). Regardless of the setting of the gate, the logging would proceed, save 999 correct values, then rapidly fill the remainder of requested number of measurements with values of 9.91E+37.
The counter originally had firmware revision 1.10, but the behavior was unchanged with updating to 1.12.
The same issue did not occur using remote SCPI commands via Agilent Interactive IO. Using that method, the logging worked properly.
Any suggestions, or should I simply report this as a bug? The ability to log large amounts of gap-free frequency data using only the counter and a USB key is a valuable feature of the instrument when working away from the office/lab. Not having this work is a disappointment.
Mark
The counter originally had firmware revision 1.10, but the behavior was unchanged with updating to 1.12.
The same issue did not occur using remote SCPI commands via Agilent Interactive IO. Using that method, the logging worked properly.
Any suggestions, or should I simply report this as a bug? The ability to log large amounts of gap-free frequency data using only the counter and a USB key is a valuable feature of the instrument when working away from the office/lab. Not having this work is a disappointment.
Mark
Utilty -> Instr Setup -> Time Out Settings -> Time Out (Off)
Or, set a timeout value much larger than the cumulative gate time for all readings in the count. This defect has been fixed and will be available in the next firmware update. The date for this release has not been determined.