[time-nuts] General Purpose Instrument Troubles
Poul-Henning Kamp
phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Fri Nov 26 19:35:29 UTC 2004
In message <000101c4d3ee$01050580$0500a8c0 at darius.domain.actdsltmp>, "Bill Hawk
ins" writes:
>I suspect that my problem is compounded incompatibilities.
>Is 488.2 compatible with the earlier 488?
488.2 is an upgrade, but it is backwards compatible.
The two main causes of trouble are the CR/NL line termination
differences and that some instruments actually want the EOT
bit set.
Consider buying a IEEE488 analyzer, I found my HP59401a very useful.
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