Hello.
I am a relative newcomer to LabView and I am trying to get some support for a few older Vibrating Sample Magnetometers (VSM) on behalf of my employer. These machines are quite old and, although they have GPIB connectivity, I am having difficulty in being able to control them using LabView. Although they use the IEEE-488 GPIB standard, they were built before the introduction of the Standard Commands for Programmable Instruments (SCPI), rather than the newer 488.2 standard. As such, they work with their own proprietary commands, which are proving impossible to find. I have a working LabView program that was written by a university student for a master's degree in physics. However, I cannot communicate with the individual components, such as the gaussmeter, power supply, etc, using measurement and automation explorer. They don't even respond to an "*IDN?" query without timing out, which I thought was standard. I have tried lengthening the timeout time and tried to use drivers for similar instruments. My question to anyone out there is, do you have the drivers or the programming manual for any of the components listed below? The Vibrating Sample Magnetometers were built by the now defunct DMS/ADE. The current owners of DMS/ADE can offer little support for such old equipment. Likewise, is there something else I can try in lieu of these drivers and commands?
Devices: 1.) DMS Model 1660 VSM, 2.) DMS/ADE VSM Model 4, which includes the DMS/ADE model 32KP gaussmeter with its own GPIB port.
Thank you for your time,
Liam