From: JoeLabView on
Well said antea06,
Yes, you should be able to communicate to your instruments using MAX, even through your serial port.  It should list all available ports.
You can start by sending the quiery command " *IDN? "to your instrument.  It should respond with it's ID.
 
Here is an explanation of your error code:


"Warning -1073807339 occurred at an unidentified location
Possible reason(s):
VISA:  (Hex 0xBFFF0015) Timeout expired before operation completed."
 
 
From: Jimmie A. on
Hello!
Our discussion forum is awesome. You post a question and pretty much right away you have several things you can try out in order to solve the problem. Please try to increase the timeout value as suggested and also see if you can achieve basic communication with VISA in MAX.
Regards,
Jimmie Adolph
Applications Engineer, National Instruments