On 7/6/09 5:37 AM, "John Ackermann N8UR" <j...@febo.com> wrote:
>
> Of course, an alternative is to assign one USB or LAN GPIB unit to each
> instrument, but that gets expensive.
>
Yes, if you're scrounging old test equipment for $100 a copy. If you have
chunks of gear that cost $10K each, then $100-200 for individual interfaces
might not be a bad thing, especially considering how much new GPIB cables
cost. I'd much rather plug and unplug Cat5 network cables from a hub than
deal with a stack of 3 or 4 of those GPIB connectors.
Now that I think about it, if the LAN-GPIB adapter widgets did PoE, that
would be even slicker.
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