> I'll give you a recent example. I have a bunch of AC power > meters in my lab (model: Watts Up PRO) that have RS232 > output and I wrote software that logs and plots the data. A > while back I picked up cheap serial-ethernet converters and > now I get all the same data over my house LAN. If these > were USB devices I'd be stuck with their software, their logs, > their plots, and have to locate a Windows PC near each meter. > > Ironically, like Prologix, the company that makes these AC > meters also just "went USB" so this flexibility is now lost.
TVB - check out the power meters from: <http://www.brandelectronics.com/meters.html> Still RS-232 (or now ethernet ready), and they work great. I'm a happy customer. Tom Frank _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list [email protected] https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts
