[time-nuts] Prologix & 3478A

[Grant Hodgson]

Chuck et al

I connected my Prologx 3.12 to the 3478A, ran 7470.exe and the 3478A's 
TLK icon came on straight away, with the RMT icon coming on a few 
seconds later.  Repeated it for good measure with the same result.

7470.exe reported an error saying that it was talking to unsupported 
device '0.43700E.00' or something similar so the Prologix was getting 
some data from the 3478A.

Looks like the Prologix adapter is OK.

regards

Grant


> Hi Grant,
> 
> It is an axiom of the GPIB world that if a device gets addressed, it
> will sit up at attention and wait for commands.  The 3478A shows that
> it is waiting by lighting up a couple of annunciators on the bottom
> row of the LCD that you never see otherwise.
> 
> All you have to do to test whether the Prologix can work with your
> 3478A is address it.  So, if you change the 3478A's address to match your
> HP analyzer's, and then run John's program, you should see these 
> annunciators
> light up.
> 
> The 3478A won't do anything useful that way, but it will prove that
> it hears the Prologix, something mine can't do.
> 
> -Chuck Harris
> 
> Grant Hodgson wrote:
>> Chuck
>>
>> I've got a Prologix 3.12 and a 3478A; I've only ever used the former 
>> with John Ms. s/w and HP analysers.  I'll happily test it with the 
>> 3478A if you give me some simple instructions for a simple XP user.
>>
>> regards
>>
>> Grant
> 
>