PeakTech P 4096 Bench Multimeter Installation Guide
- June 4, 2024
- PeakTech
Table of Contents
PeakTech P 4096 Bench Multimeter Installation Guide
DMM Easy Control Software Guide
Install Driver
For P 4095 and P 4096
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Before start DMMEasyControl, please download and install the driver from NIVISA: Open http://[www.ni.com](http://www.ni.com), search “NI-VISA”, click the link of NI-VISA Download. In the download page, select the supported OS and version (the recommended version is 15.0.1), and then download the driver. A warning information will pop out if you didn’t install this driver before start.
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Right click [Computer], you can find it on the desktop, or in [Start] menu. In the drop-down menu, click on [Manage], the “Computer Management” window opens.
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Click on “Device Manager” on the left hand side. On the right hand side, double click on “USB Test and Measurement Devices”.
If “USB Test and Measurement Devices (IVI)” is displayed, that means the driver is installed successfully.
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If “USB Test and Measurement Devices (IVI)” is not displayed, follow the steps below to install the driver manually.
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8. If “USB Test and Measurement Devices (IVI)” is not displayed, follow the steps below to install the driver manually.
Right click the unknown device icon, in the drop down menu, click “Update
Driver Software…”.
Select “Browse my computer for driver software”.
After installing successfully, click “Close”.
In Device Manager, check if “USB Test and Measurement Devices (IVI)” is
displayed under USB Test and Measurement Devices.
For P 4094 (available in COM port)
- Before start DMMEasyControl, please download and install the driver from NIVISA: Open http://[www.ni.com](http://www.ni.com), search “NI-VISA”, click the link of NI-VISA Download. In the download page, select the supported OS and version (the recommended version is 15.0.1), and then download the driver.
- Find “setup.exe” in the installation package, and click to install the software as prompted.
- Drive selection: Find the “My Computer” or “Computer” icon on the computer desktop, right-click the icon, and then click “Manage” to open the Computer Management window.
- Select the serial port driver corresponding to the connection cable of the instruct mint (Note: Use different serial port connection cable, the driver may be differed nit), as shown in the figure below:
- After completing the above installation steps, you can use the multimeter PC software.
How to Connect
The desktop multimeter can communicate with the computer through its own
interface, which is USB, LAN or COM interface .
For P 4095 and P 4096
Connect by USB
- Start DMMEasyControl.
- Connection Use USB cable to connect the bench multimeter USB port with PC USB port.
- Connection Setting： Click Control on left-top side of software menu bar, select Connect on list.
- Select Via USB and choose the corresponding serial number on list(Select the port with the suffix DMM, as shown in the red box in the figure below). Click OK.
How to check serial number in bench multimeter： Press on multimeter front panel, select Next, select System Info, the serial number (Sternum) will display on screen.
Connect by LAN
- Connection Use LAN cable to connect the bench multimeter LAN port with PC LAN port.
- View the network parameters of the computer.
Click on your Start button, and then hitting Run, and type in CMD in the box and hit Enter to bring up your command prompt.
Type in IPCONFIG after the new prompt that is opened in the Dos window. This will bring up the network information on your system.
- Set the network parameters of the multimeter.
Press the front panel key, press the NET Type softkey to select LAN. Press the LAN Setting softkey, set the IP address, subnet mask, gateway, port. IP address: The first three bytes is same as the IP of computer, the last byte should
be different. Here, we set it to 192.168.1.99. Subnet mask and gateway should be the same as the computer. Set port as “3000”. Restart the multimeter for the parameter changes to take effect.
- Set the network parameters of the Software. Start DMMEasyControl. Click Control on left-top side of software menu bar, select Connect.
Select Via LAN, then set the IP to the same as multimeter. Click OK. (The software port is 3000 by default, can not be edited.)
For P 4094 Connect by COM
- Start DMMEasyControl.
- Connection Use RS232 cable to connect the bench multimeter COM port with PC USB or RS232 port.
Note that DB9 male connector is defined as follows:
| Pin | Function |
|---|---|
| 2 | Data transmission TXD |
| 3 | Data receiving RXD |
- After installing “NI-VISA”, check the port of “Device Manager” in Computer
Management of PC, as shown in the red box in the figure below.
- Connection Setting： Click Control on left-top side of software menu bar, select Connect on list.
- Select Via COM, and choose the corresponding serial number on the list(Select the port with the suffix DMM, as shown in the red box in the figure below). Click OK.
Select and Configure Measurement
Click measure button in function area to start measure, they are: DC voltage, AC voltage, DC current, AC current, Frequency, Period, Resistance, Continuity, Diode, Capacitance and Temperature.
Dual Display
After selecting measure subject, click Dual, right side drop down list will
show the supported sub-display subject. Select the sub-display subject and
begin dual display mode.
Note: If Dual is in grey, it means the measure subject doesn’t support
dual display.
Statistics
Click Statistics to start the function, the result display under the button
line, they are Sample amount, Maximum value, Minimum Value, Average value.
Note: If Statistics is in grey, it means the measure subject doesn’t
support statistics mode.
Limit Value Mathematics
Click Limit to start this function. Set the high and low limit value in
parameter area. Limit result displays under the button line, they are: Low
limit, low limit break times, limit mathematics status (Pass means the
readings don’t exceed the limit, Fail means exceeding), High limit, High limit
break times.
Note: If Limit is in grey, it means the measure subject doesn’t support
limit value mode.
dB/dBm Mathematics
Click Math, select dB or dBm in parameter area to begin mathematics.
Note: If Math is in grey, it means the measure subject doesn’t support dB
or dBm mathematic.
Data Record Function
Data could be saved as XLS format after record. Click left-top menu and select
Record, select Save from pull-down menu. Choose the save path, input the
folder name and click save. Data will be saved in this way. Click the Record
and select Stop can stop saving data.
| Item | Configuration |
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| Operating system | Windows XP SP2 / Windows 7 / Windows 10 |
| CPU | Dual-core 2 GHz |
| RAM | 2 GB @ 2.20Hz |
| Storage space occupied by files | 300MB |
| Drive | NI-VISA 15.0.1 |
| GPU | Intel®G41 Express Chipset(Microsoft |
Corporation_WDDM1.1)
Sound card| DirectX® compatible
Computer configuration
The minimum computer configuration is as follows:
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References
- Test and Measurement Systems, a part of Emerson - NI
- Test and Measurement Systems, a part of Emerson - NI
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