Re: [time-nuts] NI GPIB cards

2008-03-23 Thread Jan Fredriksson
There are also some USB versions of the NI GPIB. These are driver compatible with the NI drivers for the other cards, you do not need any extra drivers or software changes. The USB-GPIB from NI are available in at least three versions so far. On Ebay, they seem to be selling at between $250 and

Re: [time-nuts] NI GPIB cards

2008-03-22 Thread Patrick
I too buy a fair number of GPIB cards, about 10-15 a year for use in the equipment I sell. I have bought four NI GPIB PCI cards in the last few months. One did not work as expected. I was horrified when I called NI. They asked that I pay $200 U.S for a support contract so that they could

Re: [time-nuts] NI GPIB cards

2008-03-21 Thread Dr. David Kirkby
Didier Juges wrote: Other than that, in my experience, NI products have been remarkably compatible in the last 10 years, from a 30,000 feet level (plug pretty much anything into anything and it will work with any NI software, even though performance will vary and you may need new drivers).

Re: [time-nuts] NI GPIB cards

2008-03-21 Thread GandalfG8
In a message dated 21/03/2008 02:13:32 GMT Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This group seems to be very GPIB savvy, so I have a question (vaguely related to time and frequency) - is there a real difference between the half sized current one large chip NI PCI-GPIB card and the older

[time-nuts] NI GPIB cards

2008-03-20 Thread David I. Emery
This group seems to be very GPIB savvy, so I have a question (vaguely related to time and frequency) - is there a real difference between the half sized current one large chip NI PCI-GPIB card and the older and larger version with multiple chips that proceeded it ? Which would you

Re: [time-nuts] NI GPIB cards

2008-03-20 Thread Didier Juges
PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David I. Emery Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2008 9:13 PM To: time-nuts@febo.com Subject: [time-nuts] NI GPIB cards This group seems to be very GPIB savvy, so I have a question (vaguely related to time and frequency) - is there a real