I have successfully used an Agilent 82357B USB adapter - there are plenty on eBay from Chinese sellers...
I got NI Visa to talk to Agilent, er, Keysight IO Libraries and access a 3456A attached to the 82357B. That's the simplified version... the 82357B was on a remote system over a WiFiI link and the Agilent IO Libraries took care of the details. It was painful. Don't try this. At one point, it managed to access the wrong device on the remote system! There was only the 3456A on GPIB and a 34461A on ethernet, but it got them mixed up. However, I'm not sure that NI Visa on its own with an NI adapter is less painful. It refused to find devices after I accidentally deleted the name of a serial port in NI Max (double click the name, hit delete, click somewhere else; easy to do when you are trying to get rid of a phantom COM3 that turned out to be a software modem). Attempts to refresh the device list put "Visa Error" in the device list. Clicking on it gave a useless message about the configuration being incorrect, but no real way of fixing the problem. I'm told uninstalling/reinstalling NI Visa is usually required. For under $200, I think I'd go for the NI USB adapter - hopefully it would come with support. Good Luck, Orin. On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 2:58 PM, Brooke Clarke <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi: > > It's taken a few months to get LabVIEW Home version working so now I'm > looking for a good way to control HP-IB instruments. > I tried to get a computer built that would run DOS, WIN 3.1, WIN 98, WIN > XP and WIN 7 (NI does not yet fully support WIN 10), but the required > motherboard is not longer made so I'm looking for an adapter that runs from > LAN or a USB port. > > NI has the GPIB-USB-HS+ (their latest version) so the prior version > GPIB-USB-HS is available for under $200. > > Can anyone comment on what's available? > > Mail_Attachment -- > Have Fun, > > Brooke Clarke > http://www.PRC68.com > http://www.end2partygovernment.com/2012Issues.html > http://www.prc68.com/I/DietNutrition.html > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe, go to > https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. > _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
