communications with Keithley 6485, was: Re: need help

[Maren Purves <m.purves@jach.hawaii.edu>]

this is another message I might have deleted unread because of
the subject line - it looks like a Nigeria spam ...

Aloha,

Maren

On Fri, 2 Jun 2006, btanu@veccal.ernet.in wrote:

> 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,NULL,NULL,"\r"}
> };
> Thanks
> tanushyam
>
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