Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Mark Rivers via Tech-talk <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov> · Thu, 5 Nov 2020 19:11:16 +0000

I have an HP GPIB power supply I want to control remotely.  It was previously connected to an RS-232 to GPIB converter connected locally to a Windows PC, and that worked.  I want to use Ethernet instead of a local serial port, and to use Linux rather than Windows.  So I added a Moxa terminal server in place of the local PC serial port.  So the configuration is

Ethernet -> Moxa -> RS-232 -> RS-232/GPIB converter -> GPIB -> Power supply

This is not working.  I send commands and I don't get a response.  The notes on the RS-232/GPIB converter says it needs full flow control.  My startup script has these commands to talk to the Moxa:

drvAsynIPPortConfigure("serial2", "gsets11:4002 COM", 0, 0, 0)
asynSetOption(serial2,0,baud,19200)
asynSetOption(serial2,0,bits,8)
asynSetOption(serial2,0,stop,1)
asynSetOption(serial2,0,parity,none)
asynSetOption(serial2,0,crtscts,Y)

Any idea why this would not work, when it did work with a local serial port?

An inexpensive alternative would be an Ethernet to GPIB controller, such as this one from Prologix for $180.

http://prologix.biz/gpib-ethernet-controller.html

Does anyone have experience with these.

I have experience with the Agilent LAN/GPIB gateway, but those are expensive and appear to no longer be available.

Thanks,

Mark

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System