Welcome to the Agilent E5810B LAN/GPIB/USB Gateway quick start video
In this short video, I will demonstrate how to quick start the instrument
The E5810B provides a remote access and control of GPIB, USB and RS-232 instruments via LAN in a one-box solution
It provides faster GPIB transfer rate up to 1.2MB/s and supports up to 1GB LAN connection.
It has a password protected web interface for configuration
The E5810B also comes with a built in LCD and web browser for easy set up and use with a power on/off switch for hard reset.
First, let me go through with you the E5810B
It's front panel consist of a built in LCD display which will display the IP address of the controller
These are the LED indicators, this is the preset button and this is the power on/off switch
As for the back panel, the E5810b model consists of the DC power port, the LAN port , the USB port which can be connected to a USBTMC instrument up to 4 connections with a self-powered USB hub
This is the RS232 port and lastly the GPIB port which can be connected up to 14 GPIB instruments
Here I have the Agilent 34450A 5.5 Digit Multimeter connected to the E5810B through a USB cable
And the Agilent 3606B Multimeter DC Power Supply connected to the E5810B through a GPIB cable
Now, we will use the web browser to identify the connectivity between the PC and the instruments
First, display the E5810 welcome page and enter the hostname if known, or the IP address which is displayed on the LCD screen of the E5810B
Select Find & Query from the E5810B welcome page
Enter the default password which is E5810
Click Find to list all the connected instruments
Now, we will query the selected instruments
Here, I will select the remote GPIB instrument and click *IDN?
And select remote USB and click Read STB
A return message here shows that our instruments are connected
Now we have successfully verified our instrument connectivity
We can also connect the remote GPIB or USBTMC compliant instrument to the E5810B by using the Agilent IO Libraries
You will see the IO icon in the windows taskbar notification area after the IO libraries suite is successfully installed.
Now let us launch the Agilent connection expert from the start menu or the start screen
Then, click the Add Interface button and you can either select the Remote GPIB or Remote USB to display the Remote interface dialog box
Insert the hostname or the IP address shown on the LCD display of the E5810B and click Test connection
A message will be displayed on the dialog box once the connection to the interface is established and verified
With this, I conclude the Agilent E5810B LAN/GPIB/USB Gateway quick start video
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