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Subject: RE: Keithley 6485, was: Re: need help
From: "Walters, M \(Malcolm\)" <[email protected]>
To: "TECHTALK Tech-Talk" <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2006 08:33:12 +0100
Personally I would use StreamDevice
http://epics.web.psi.ch/software/streamdevice/ with this you can specify
a format string and match the value you want. The other two values can
be thrown away or read into other records.

Malcolm

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Maren Purves [mailto:[email protected]] 
> Sent: 02 June 2006 19:13
> To: Eric Norum
> Cc: Dalesio, Leo `Bob`; TECHTALK Tech-Talk
> Subject: Keithley 6485, was: Re: need help
> 
> Same here (understood what Eric understood).
> 
> This looks like a good case for using a genSub to me - that 
> way you can put each of the numbers into a different record 
> if you have use for more than one of them. We had similar 
> cases on tech-talk not too long ago.
> 
> Aloha,
> 
> Maren
> 
> On Fri, 2 Jun 2006, Eric Norum wrote:
> 
> > The way I interpreted the original message is that they're 
> interested 
> > in only one of the three values in the string returned from the 
> > instrument, and so wouldn't need to do anything tricky with custom 
> > conversion routines or string calc records.
> >
> > On Jun 2, 2006, at 7:18 AM, Dalesio, Leo `Bob` wrote:
> >
> >> Two options for this would be:
> >> Write a driver that sends the commands to the Keithly and puts the 
> >> values in local variables.
> >> Have the device support read the local variables Have the startup 
> >> file start the task that continuously reads the Keithley.
> >> Put the task to sleep between reads for whatever rate you 
> are trying 
> >> to acieve.
> >> 
> >> Otherwise, use a string Calc record - I am fairly certain that it 
> >> offers format statements for parsing strings from GPIB devices.
> >> 
> >> Bob
> >> 
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
> >> Sent: Friday, June 02, 2006 4:39 AM
> >> To: [email protected]
> >> Subject: need help
> >> 
> >> Hi!
> >> 
> >> I am trying to communicate with Keithley 6485 pA to read the 
> >> current.After sending the command it provides current 
> value and some 
> >> other value separated by comma.but i am only interested to 
> store the current.
> >> The response is like this:
> >> -1.047791E-13A,+4.055828E+03,+0.000000E+00\r
> >> How it can be done?
> >> will i have to use any convert function?
> >> i am attaching the code here
> >> static struct gpibCmd gpibCmds[] = {
> >>     /* Param 0 */
> >>    
> >> 
> {&DSET_AI,GPIBREAD,IB_Q_LOW,"CONF:CURR""\r""READ?""\r",0,0,20,0,0,0,N
> >> ULL,NULL,"\r"}
> >> };
> >> Thanks
> >> tanushyam
> >> 
> >> ****************************************************
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