[time-nuts] EZGPIB & delay triggers

Ed Palmer ed_palmer at sasktel.net
Mon Jul 13 04:01:04 UTC 2009


Hi Bill,

Is this what you're looking for?

EZGPIB_TimeWaitForMultipleOf(x)

This will pause the program for x seconds.  I use it inside a loop to 
trigger a measurement / report cycle every x seconds.

Ed


Bill wrote:
> I am trying to use EZGPIB with a HP 5370A and I want to trigger a 
> reading on a 10 to 30 second interval.
> I want the use EZGPIB to do long term comparisons of various 
> oscillators, I am not interested (at this time)
> on jitter less than tau < 1 seconds or so
>
> My question is what is the PASCAL code to delay between readings. I am 
> running Windows XP if
> that makes a difference.
>
> I don't have a book (yet) on PASCAL and I am not a programmer. I have 
> EZGPIB displaying readings but at
> what seems to be a random rate
>
> Thanks
> Bill K7NOM
>
> _______________________________________________
> time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts at febo.com
> To unsubscribe, go to 
> https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts
> and follow the instructions there.



More information about the time-nuts mailing list