3156B User Manual
Racal Instrument © 2005
Programming Reference 5-15
NOTE: Under normal circumstances the ID Query insures
that the instrument initialized over the bus is the type
supported by this driver. However circumstances may
arise where it is undesirable to send an ID Query to the
instrument. In those cases; set this control to Skip Query
and this function will initialize the bus and the Command
arrays in the driver, without doing an ID Query.
resetDevice
ViBoolean Specifies if the instrument is to be reset to its power-on
settings during the initialization procedure.
Valid Range: 1 = Yes, 0 = No
Default Value: 1 - Yes
NOTE: If you do not want the instrument reset, set this
control to No while initializing the instrument.
instrHandle
ViSession The Instrument Handle is used to identify the unique
session or communication channel between the driver
and the instrument. If more than one instrument of the
same model type is used, this Handle will be used to
differentiate between them. Note that the initialize
function may be used to associate multiple instrument
handles with a single instrument.
NOTE: A new (unique) handle will be returned EACH
time the Initialize function is called. The ri3156B_close()
should be used for EACH handle returned by the
ri3156B_init() function.
Return Values
Displays the return status of the function call. If the function was successful, it will return a status of
VI_SUCCESS, otherwise it will return an error code. Passing the error code into the function
"ri3156B_error_message()" will return a string describing the error.
