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HP8643A Displays Result Code 14.020122

 

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I recently acquired an HP8643A.? It *SEEMS* to work ok, although admittedly I have not used it very much yet.?

On initial power on, it displays? --- Calibrating --- for a very long time¡­ perhaps 3 minutes or so.? When the --- Calibrating --- finally goes away, it displays Hardware Failure 14 and Calibration Error 2, along with the Result Code 14.020122 *WITHOUT* a plus or minus sign in front of it.? According to the service data, a result code without a sign in front of it indicates a calibration error and require additional action to return the instrument to working condition.? I haven¡¯t found anything on either the Hardware Failure 14 or the Calibration Error 2 in the manual yet.?

I have checked the P/S voltages and all are in tolerance and the max ripple I see is about 20 mV, although I have not seen a spec in the book for ripple.? There is *SOMETIMES* a P/S fail LED lit on the I/O board, but it always goes away.? Obvious this is suspicious, but I don¡¯t know if it means anything or not.

I pulled the I/O board and looked down at the P/S boards and I don¡¯t see any leaky or swollen caps.?

The Serial Number is 3512A01553 and the device has Options H02 and K01 installed.?

Any advice would be appreciated.? I spent some time getting my HP8924C¡¯s up and running recently, so I¡¯m not afraid to get in up to my elbows, but sure would appreciate some direction.

Mike ¨C WM4B
Re: GPIB Adapter?

 



Hello, here I am using HP 82357B. it is very easy to use with HP's IO suite library. This libraries is free. This HPIB / USB adapter costs less than 80 euros and can drive more than ten devices. I use it in environment W7 and W10, if IO lib installed, eaysy to use with different languages. It works with HPVEE and Matlab automatically see HPIB interface. For C, C ++, C #, python, VBNet you need add librairies. Just a few lines of code to order and read a device. HP works with HP without problems and even with other manufacturers. I do not use LabView because I find it much more complicated than Matlab, especially for working in GPIB or RS232C.

Best regards and enjoys to drive old equipments...

Philippe from France.


Le mardi 27 ao?t 2019 ¨¤ 16:16:26 UTC+2, Chuck Harris <cfharris@...> a ¨¦crit :


HP did invent HPIB, as an answer to the deficiencies of the BCD interface
that they also invented... that had become common among the manufacturers.

They put the design into the public domain, which fostered the development
of GPIB, by manufacturers that competed with HP.

Much later, the IEEE standards committed standardized GPIB to
create the IEEE-488 series of standards.

-Chuck Harris

Tom Holmes wrote:
> I thought that HP invented the HPIB, later GPIB, interface specifically for instrument and computer peripheral control, but GPIO was maybe similar and earlier.
> I believe the 83257A/B is rated to drive up to 12 devices, which is quite a lot for most users. Even 7 would take care of many setups I have seen. The E2050A LAN/GPIB device can probably drive a similar number of instruments so it doesn¡¯t require one per instrument as someone appeared to infer.
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Re: GPIB Adapter?

 

I also have two of and they work fine as long the data rate is low. I.e. I fail to get them working with my HP8753D and KE5FX VNA program. I suspect buffering could be improved in the PIC SW. But with other instruments like my frequency counter there is no issues.

Br
Marcus, SA5PMG
HP 89410A (89441A) is stuck during bootup Help!

 

My trusty HP 89411A unit (rebadged 89410A) refused to start up today.?

It is stuck on the bootup screen with all keyboard indicator lights off and no response to keypresses. HP-IB connection is dead too.

Restarting with "Return" pressed does not seem to make any difference.

Any idea what the next test step would have been for a happy unit?

Cheers
Leo
Re: HP 85044A T/R test set part - Cabinet Trim "zipper" - 08502-20007 - source or 3D printed copy?

 

On 8/26/19 9:09 PM, David Feldman via Groups.Io wrote:
This is *really* primitive, but I did make a clone of the 85044A zipper on tinkercad, and the export files are attached (tinkercad an Autodesk online service). I had a pair printed today at the university library (I'm a student there) at a cost for $3 for the pair, got them home, and pushed them into the 85044A case - they fit pretty well (just a little more insertion pressure needed than I expected, but still not too hard to adjust). The cabinet holds together without rattling and I suspect will be durable as long as I don't try to remove them again (at which point I suspect they'd break at the weak points described below.)

The design has a weak point along the length (every other tooth section in the zipper is a weak point, as using arrow keys to step-and-repeat the base pattern isn't accurate as tinkercad has no x,y,z coordinate editing capability so I had to do this visually). This weak point could be fixed by redoing the step-and-repeat perhaps to have each tooth section slightly overlap, but I'll leave that to a more experienced CAD designer.

The plastic the university library used wasn't as flexible as the original HP part (they had only one choice), but they do suffice to hold the cabinet halves firmly together, which was needed as the 85044A arrived without these parts at all.

The two files I attached are .stl and .zip (compressed .obj file); these appear to be the only export options on tinkercad, and I'm not sure if either of these files would allow one to import back into tinkercad and alter the design. I'm an absolute beginner at 3D printing and CAD (this is my first project); tinkercad (save for the absence of x,y,z coordinates for objects and object groups) is fully on-line (browser-based).

There are a lot of gaps in there. No coordinate entry capability?
Surely Autodesk knows better than that!

If you're of a programming mindset, you might look into OpenSCAD.
(it's free) Stuff like this would take just a couple of lines of code.
Describe the horizontal slabs, describe the vertical stubs, then write
a loop that instantiates the vertical stubs, done.

-Dave

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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
Re: GPIB Adapter?

 

HP did invent HPIB, as an answer to the deficiencies of the BCD interface
that they also invented... that had become common among the manufacturers.

They put the design into the public domain, which fostered the development
of GPIB, by manufacturers that competed with HP.

Much later, the IEEE standards committed standardized GPIB to
create the IEEE-488 series of standards.

-Chuck Harris

Tom Holmes wrote:

I thought that HP invented the HPIB, later GPIB, interface specifically for instrument and computer peripheral control, but GPIO was maybe similar and earlier.
I believe the 83257A/B is rated to drive up to 12 devices, which is quite a lot for most users. Even 7 would take care of many setups I have seen. The E2050A LAN/GPIB device can probably drive a similar number of instruments so it doesn¡¯t require one per instrument as someone appeared to infer.
From Tom Holmes, N8ZM
Re: GPIB Adapter?

 

I meant I can't help because I don't have one.
Peter

On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 6:55 AM Steve Hendrix <SteveHx@...> wrote:
At 2019-08-26 02:59 PM, you wrote:
The KISS you are on your own.

Touche'!

I'm sure no offense intended, and none taken here. I respond directly to any requests for help and the email address I provide in the manual comes directly to me (the designer / first user / etc.). If you have questions before purchasing, email me directly off-list at SteveHx@....

Steve Hendrix
Re: GPIB Adapter?

 

When I started at NCR in 1988, my department (which was word rather than number intensive) had one of I think four in the world Convergent Systems "Worksaver" networked word processing systems.? There was a mainframe unit that provided shared file storage and a couple of back-end applications.

The server connected to 4 strings of up to 16 workstations which were 80186 or 80286 systems with floppy and sometimes small hard drives.?

This is related to the thread because I am pretty sure that network was GPIB, with fat multiconductor cables and daisychained connectors on each string of workstations.? At the time I wasn't familiar with instrument communications, so it didn't ring any bells with me.

The Worksavers were great word processors, with high resolution monochrome screens that could display attributes like bold, underscore, and italics.? It took a long time for PC word processors to become so nice to use.

John
On Aug 27, 2019, at 2:39 AM, "Michael A. Terrell" <terrell.michael.a@...> wrote:

The Commodore PET series of computers used IEEE-488 to connect to their disk drives and printers. A lot of them were used to control test equipment, sice they were affordable, and could be controlled by the built in CBM BASIC. I had a nice collection of those systems, but I lost most of the hardware during a move.

On Mon, Aug 26, 2019 at 10:39 PM Bill Higdon via Groups.Io <willard561= [email protected]> wrote:
Also available on the HP Mini's & some of the HP 982x "calculators" before the micro computers came along

Re: GPIB Adapter?

 

At 2019-08-26 02:59 PM, you wrote:
The KISS you are on your own.

Touche'!

I'm sure no offense intended, and none taken here. I respond directly to any requests for help and the email address I provide in the manual comes directly to me (the designer / first user / etc.). If you have questions before purchasing, email me directly off-list at SteveHx@....

Steve Hendrix

Re: When did the GPIB first appear? (Was GPIB Adapter?)

 

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Re:- When did the GPIB first appear? Was it made for the minicomputers that preceded the PC.

See..

???

For starters.

Dave G0WBX

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Created on and sent from a Unix like PC running and using free and open source software:

Re: GPIB Adapter?

 

And this, Prologix like open source kit.



I have two, both work very well.? Not the quickest, but good enough.?
I've used them with (so far) up to two instruments (MI sig-gen, & power
meter) just fine.

There is no reason why the design can't be "augmented" with "Real" bus
driver chips, if you have a "Full" rack of kit you need to use.

Regards.

Dave G0WBX.

(No affiliation, just a happy user.)

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Created on and sent from a Unix like PC running and using free and open source software:
Re: GPIB Adapter?

 

The Commodore PET series of computers used IEEE-488 to connect to their disk drives and printers. A lot of them were used to control test equipment, sice they were affordable, and could be controlled by the built in CBM BASIC. I had a nice collection of those systems, but I lost most of the hardware during a move.

On Mon, Aug 26, 2019 at 10:39 PM Bill Higdon via Groups.Io <willard561=[email protected]> wrote:
Also available on the HP Mini's & some of the HP 982x "calculators" before the micro computers came along

Re: GPIO-HPIB experiences from the dawn of time

 

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Your story brought back an interesting thing that happened to me at U.S. Instrument Rentals. ?I got a call looking for a Fluke 8500 with GPIB. Not a strange request except the customer was Loveland Instrument division. I asked the engineer why did he wanted the Fluke and his answer was they wanted to test it on HP computers to see how it reacted. I think this why HP stuff always worked well

Regards,

?

Stephen Hanselman

Datagate Systems, LLC



On Aug 26, 2019, at 20:34, Jeff Kruth via Groups.Io <kmec@...> wrote:

As many of you may know, HP started in the 60's with parallel bus interfaces of various types, like used on the 5055 recorder (and earlier 562 recorder, imagine a 4-2-2-1 nybble for the data instead of BCD 8-4-2-1) for data logging. As instruments began to have more "smarts" via SSI & MSI chips, custom bus structures for each instrument evolved to allow control. By the late 60's it got fairly sophisticated.
The HP 1000 Minicomputer (of which I have had several) had GPIO card to allow it to control instrumentation for data logging. (HP3490 DVM?? IIRC was one). I had a complete HP 8542A Vector Network Analyzer (.01-18GHz, $300K in 1968 dollars!) as well as an HP 8580 Automatic Spectrum Analyzer (same range) GPIO driven, custom interfaces on every box, many of the system components modified with H numbers for the custom digital interface (HP8410-H34 was the VNA M/F).
Living near the center of gov allowed me to attend surplus sales where I acquired a LOT of this early hardware, used it, now gone to gold scrap.

The desire for a standard instrument interface to facilitate software development and reuse of S/W led to the HPIB concept (1974 originally?) which became the IEEE-488 standard of 1978 after suitable evolution and IEEE committee agreement amount the various instrument makers. A 8 bit parallel, byte serial interface with dedicated control lines for handshaking. I remember having a lot of trouble making PC's with GPIB cards (BBB, NI, etc.) talk to various non-HP 488 stuff back in the eighties (Narda 2-18 GHz Sig Gen!). Once I bought my first of many 9826 Calculators ($1000.00 used, a princely sum then), all my problems went away. HP stuff spoke properly, right line terminators, etc.? Still love RMB to this day, although used HTB as well on PC platforms.? You guys have it much easier with "plug & play" these days. USB, wow!

I spent a lot of time with that old stuff as I couldn't afford new catalog items ! Made a bag of money using it to do real work though. Gave me capabilities that seemed like fantasy then, common now.? Learned a LOT. "Dems was the good ol" days!"

Brings back a lot of memories.

73
Jeff Kruth
WA3ZKR
HP 54542A

Bob Albert
 

I have one of these and it's terrific.? But recently an anomaly has presented itself.

I try to measure a waveform and it gives me an error msg that the memory is empty.? So I put the wave in memory and now it measures it just fine.

However, it used to work differently.? I could make a measurement without putting the wave in memory.? Am I doing something wrong?
Re: GPIO-HPIB experiences from the dawn of time

 

As many of you may know, HP started in the 60's with parallel bus interfaces of various types, like used on the 5055 recorder (and earlier 562 recorder, imagine a 4-2-2-1 nybble for the data instead of BCD 8-4-2-1) for data logging. As instruments began to have more "smarts" via SSI & MSI chips, custom bus structures for each instrument evolved to allow control. By the late 60's it got fairly sophisticated.
The HP 1000 Minicomputer (of which I have had several) had GPIO card to allow it to control instrumentation for data logging. (HP3490 DVM?? IIRC was one). I had a complete HP 8542A Vector Network Analyzer (.01-18GHz, $300K in 1968 dollars!) as well as an HP 8580 Automatic Spectrum Analyzer (same range) GPIO driven, custom interfaces on every box, many of the system components modified with H numbers for the custom digital interface (HP8410-H34 was the VNA M/F).
Living near the center of gov allowed me to attend surplus sales where I acquired a LOT of this early hardware, used it, now gone to gold scrap.

The desire for a standard instrument interface to facilitate software development and reuse of S/W led to the HPIB concept (1974 originally?) which became the IEEE-488 standard of 1978 after suitable evolution and IEEE committee agreement amount the various instrument makers. A 8 bit parallel, byte serial interface with dedicated control lines for handshaking. I remember having a lot of trouble making PC's with GPIB cards (BBB, NI, etc.) talk to various non-HP 488 stuff back in the eighties (Narda 2-18 GHz Sig Gen!). Once I bought my first of many 9826 Calculators ($1000.00 used, a princely sum then), all my problems went away. HP stuff spoke properly, right line terminators, etc.? Still love RMB to this day, although used HTB as well on PC platforms.? You guys have it much easier with "plug & play" these days. USB, wow!

I spent a lot of time with that old stuff as I couldn't afford new catalog items ! Made a bag of money using it to do real work though. Gave me capabilities that seemed like fantasy then, common now.? Learned a LOT. "Dems was the good ol" days!"

Brings back a lot of memories.

73
Jeff Kruth
WA3ZKR
Re: GPIB Adapter?

 

Also available on the HP Mini's & some of the HP 982x "calculators" before the micro computers came along
Re: GPIB Adapter?

 

Hi Tom, you may be interested in attached document from 1980, which gives a pretty good description of how everything works. There have been a number of refinements
and performance enhancements over the years but this article covers all the key stuff.
Regards Bill Lauchlan

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Tom Holmes
Sent: Monday, August 26, 2019 10:01 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [HP-Agilent-Keysight-equipment] GPIB Adapter?

I thought that HP invented the HPIB, later GPIB, interface specifically for instrument and computer peripheral control, but GPIO was maybe similar and earlier.
I believe the 83257A/B is rated to drive up to 12 devices, which is quite a lot for most users. Even 7 would take care of many setups I have seen. The E2050A LAN/GPIB device can probably drive a similar number of instruments so it doesn¡¯t require one per instrument as someone appeared to infer.
From Tom Holmes, N8ZM

HP Tutorial description of the Hewlett-Packard interface bus.pdf
HP Tutorial description of the Hewlett-Packard interface bus.pdf

Re: GPIB Adapter?

 

I thought that HP invented the HPIB, later GPIB, interface specifically for instrument and computer peripheral control, but GPIO was maybe similar and earlier.
I believe the 83257A/B is rated to drive up to 12 devices, which is quite a lot for most users. Even 7 would take care of many setups I have seen. The E2050A LAN/GPIB device can probably drive a similar number of instruments so it doesn¡¯t require one per instrument as someone appeared to infer.
From Tom Holmes, N8ZM
Re: HP 85044A T/R test set part - Cabinet Trim "zipper" - 08502-20007 - source or 3D printed copy?

 

This is *really* primitive, but I did make a clone of the 85044A zipper on tinkercad, and the export files are attached (tinkercad an Autodesk online service). I had a pair printed today at the university library (I'm a student there) at a cost for $3 for the pair, got them home, and pushed them into the 85044A case - they fit pretty well (just a little more insertion pressure needed than I expected, but still not too hard to adjust). The cabinet holds together without rattling and I suspect will be durable as long as I don't try to remove them again (at which point I suspect they'd break at the weak points described below.)

The design has a weak point along the length (every other tooth section in the zipper is a weak point, as using arrow keys to step-and-repeat the base pattern isn't accurate as tinkercad has no x,y,z coordinate editing capability so I had to do this visually). This weak point could be fixed by redoing the step-and-repeat perhaps to have each tooth section slightly overlap, but I'll leave that to a more experienced CAD designer.

The plastic the university library used wasn't as flexible as the original HP part (they had only one choice), but they do suffice to hold the cabinet halves firmly together, which was needed as the 85044A arrived without these parts at all.

The two files I attached are .stl and .zip (compressed .obj file); these appear to be the only export options on tinkercad, and I'm not sure if either of these files would allow one to import back into tinkercad and alter the design. I'm an absolute beginner at 3D printing and CAD (this is my first project); tinkercad (save for the absence of x,y,z coordinates for objects and object groups) is fully on-line (browser-based).

zipper 2.stl
zipper 2.stl
zipper 2.zip
zipper 2.zip

Re: GPIB Adapter?

 

On 8/26/19 7:01 PM, markhaun2000 wrote:
I personally feel that the network-based adapters are underrated.? I picked up an E2050A for ~ $100 and it has solved by GPIB interface issues once and for all.
Has it solved the problem of 7 or so GPIB instrument loads on one GPIB bus, or
is it only solving the "control one GPIB instrument" over the network problem?

If I had 7 instruments to control that solution would cost $700 + shipping and used machine random failures cost.

Productizing AR-488 to sell at $50 and drive 3-4 instruments and have an ethernet port seems like a maybe viable path.
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