Technical data

Instrument Controls 3
Agilent VEE - Practical Graphical Programming 61
Configuring the interface
Open your VEE program and clear your Work Area and maximize Main.
1 Select Menu Bar => I/O => Instrument Manager… .
2 Select "My configuration" if it is not the default folder.
3 Select AGILENT34970A from the "My configuration" list.
4 Obtain a J- type thermocouple and install it into one of the channels on
the 20- channel multiplexer (34901A). See Figure 3- 3.
Figure 3-3 The 34901A 20-Channel Multiplexer
5 Insert the Multiplexer into the top slot in the rear of the 34970A Data
Acquisition/Switch Unit. See the bottom photograph of Figure 3- 2
above.
6 Prepare the thermocouple setup with its ice bath as shown in
Figure 3- 4 below.
NOTE
We have assumed that the unit for this instrument has been installed on your
computer; see step 2 above.