Re: support for DTM-151?

["John A. Priller" <priller@frib.msu.edu>]

Our units are all the serial type, mostly as you say because of the cost 
of GPIB.  I'm not familiar with any similar units, the DTM151's and the 
older DTM133's are what we use here.
They do WORK, they're just fiddly to get going with all the jumper 
settings.  It's not made any simpler by our habit of stringing 3 or 4 of 
them together in a loop connected either by 4-wire copper or fiber 
cables with some odd HP connector on them, with a single serial terminal 
server connected to one unit that's the master and the others in the 
loop being slaves.   And of course nothing communicates at all unless 
every single member of the loop is jumpered correctly...
On 3/30/2015 3:39 PM, Michael Davidsaver wrote:
> Hi John,
>
> We haven't ordered yet.  Any thoughts about the GPIB version?  My first
> thought is to prefer the serial version to avoid the cost of a
> GPIB/ethernet converter.
>
> Also, would you recommend any similar device over the 151?
>
> Thanks,
> Michael
>
>
> On 03/30/2015 03:33 PM, John A. Priller wrote:
> > I've got a few of those with a very basic Stream protocol file, just
> > reading the field.
> >
> > They're a little tricky to work with, you have to pull the bottom cover
> > off and shuffle around a bunch of jumpers to get the serial port working
> > properly.
> >
> > On 3/30/2015 3:29 PM, Michael Davidsaver wrote:
> > > Has anyone integrated a Digital Teslameter 151 from Group3?
> > >
> > > http://www.group3technology.com/index.php/products/product/digital-teslameter-151
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