Labview doesn't recognize the 4200-SCS

[joris9]

I am a student in an engineering school and I started working with labview.

I have to develop a labview program in order to control the 4200-SCS. I downloaded the drivers from tektronix website and when I try to run the example given with the drivers, I have this message: " ERROR: KI 4200 not detected. This program will be terminated. Make sure that 4200 is powered on, connected to GPIB bus, KXCI is running, and correct GPIB address is indicated". I verified what it said but everything is correctly connected.

[ChrisK88]

Please attach your code so we can look at it to ensure you're properly initializing the instrument.

[joris9]

This is not my code, but an example available with  the drivers which is supposed to work if connected to the 4200-SCS properly.

I join the .llb where you can find this example. it is called "KI4200.vi"

[Jun']

Hi Joris,

Are you able to communicate with you instrument from MAX?

Why Can't I Communicate with My GPIB Instrument?

Thanks

M-Junior

[joris9]

Hello,

I have a problem with the write fonction but i'm sure that I have the correct GPIB address.

[joris9]

Problem solved!

The problem came from the GPIB-USB cable. I changed it and everything went perfect.

[ethu]

hello, what type gpib-usb cable did you use for you tool?