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keysight dmm 34461a data logging problem
robint:
Im with you there bro, Ive had bad experiences in the past from KS. Typical big Corp arrogance and devious business practices, trying to get you into a subscription service and tied into their spider web. They insist on their right to spy on you an check what you are connected to and phone home!!!!!.
I wouldnt sleep at night trying to run a test laboratory using their compost heap of s/w apps. Its all tangled up with IVI (very old GPIB genre from 30-40 years ago?).
I recently bought a DSO from Rigol (very smart) and it came with a fully function desk top app running off USB or RJ45, up and running quickly no sweat.
Path&*((*&wave Benchvue - Ive spent hours over a week trying to get it working reliably - Im not confident I can leave it a week looking a battery bank usage at 1min sample time - all because I invested in a DMM 30461 6.5 dig thinking this would be a quality tool. Jeez :palm:
I think I might revert to my Hantek 4dig DMM slab (£50). I can get 10 days logging at 100s sample int ca9999 sample max. Only downside is the s/w only runs on XP (my little Acer netbook 20 years old still going strong - it presents timestamp log record list as csv save onto a usb thumbdrive then squirt into an Excel Sheet. Its a bit clunky BUT IT WORKS - I trust it (short of a power out). :-DD
coromonadalix:
humm there is or was 3rd partys softwares if i recall ... my mind is blank for now, unless it was in Labview or Mathlab ??
sure you have "testcontroller" here loll but other solutions are hard to find
lucky me for the L4411A and 34410A i had found the old dmm software, it was working ok with slightly old i/o librairies, but newer models ????
robint:
Yup Im struggling with NI Labview app (I loaded the wrong instance - basic view misleading takes you after wasting a morning dl all the bloatware to a subscription model) I should have opted for the Community model - which I thought was for EDU only - but no hidden away its also free for home hobby use). Jeez its clunky old s/w 40 years old and put together by cheap labour students from their little projects etc so full of dead end config problems. I'll give it another couple of hours and then resurrect my Hanteks bless them.
I just want something I can trust to log battery performance for a week that I can run and trust to finish the job. Is that so HARD :rant: Oh FFS bring back strip chart recorders (worst thing is if ink dries out - but they work) :-//
robint:
Hey whadayou say
Nope Ive given up on that absurd waste of time. I finally got Labview to talk to my Keysight DMM only to discover that KS does not (like other makers) provide example programmed hook ups to display its data, you only get the most utter basic display of a readings table, no timestamp, graph display export data log etc, you have to program that all in your self. Ok for students and lab techs with un costed time to play around. Imagine its like playing with VB for macros on Excel!!!!!!!!!!!! :wtf:
If anyone knows any different pls tell us.
If all fails and I simply cant trust BV logger then I'll dig out my trusty Hanteks :box:
Industry wants you to shell out for a "Datalogger" $1200 :-DD
BTW I dont want to do anything smart like set up the DMM buttons from my PC or all that bells and whistles stuff - who would trust that with what Ive seen of KS. I just want to collect data and it seems industry wants to put a strangle hold on the User - they clearly see a choke point to bleed the User. Big Companies will just pay out top dollar and sign up for a Company support agent to solve all the config problems by remote access - been there, seen that in action $$$$$$$
coromonadalix:
KS or any other companies will offer basic NI examples, if they do offer them loll
If so, you have to merge them to get something useful, BUT
you are left with an unfinished software, you need to buy the very expensive creation builder tool to have full excutables
i created 2 software pieces in NI, was hard as h@@$%, no recent and good examples, all old stuff, basic stuff etc ...
it was sheer luck at some point for an oldie like me
Even controlled an KS meter with an Excel sheet with Macro, oh boy now Office does complaint a ton about converting arguments to 64 bit and of declaring them safe blah blah :palm:
No pun
I tried a few things with TestController, but my coding abilities are zits .... not for the Noobs like me
luckily there is help and the maker is here in the threads :-+
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