Agilent Technologies L4400 manual Adding Additional Instruments

2Software Installation and Configuration

‘10’, you can send the *IDN? command and verify the response from the instrument.

Figure 2-21. Connecting to GPIB Address 10 using Interactive IO.

Adding Additional Instruments

Additional instruments are added to the GPIB configuration using the process described earlier. The steps are summarized as follows and assume the GPIB cable has been con- nected between the computer and the new instrument.

1.Turn on the “next” L4400 instrument. Do not turn on those instruments whose addresses are still set to the default address of ‘9’.

2.Open the Agilent Configuration Expert “Add Instrument” window and select the instrument’s GPIB address in the “configurable properties” window (Figures 2-16 and 2-17).

3.Open the Agilent Connection Expert “Interactive IO” window (Figure 2-18). Change the instrument’s GPIB address using the command:

SYSTem:COMMunication:GPIB:ADDRess < address >

4.Change the address in the Agilent Connection Expert’s configuration table to the new instrument address (Figure 2-20).

5.Verify the communication path to the new address.

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