Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Michael Davidsaver via Tech-talk <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov> · Thu, 5 Nov 2020 11:42:13 -0800

On 11/5/20 11:29 AM, Eric Norum via Tech-talk wrote:
> I wrote the ASYN driver for the Prologix device you mentioned.  It seemed to work with the few devices I tried.
> It’s been a while since I used one, though.

Does your driver handle their non-standard ++ command escaping?

I can only wish that the firmware for this device were open source.
vxi-11 is not that hard to implement!

> For your Moxa issue, I’d suggest putting a serial line analyzer, or at least one of these pass-through things with LEDs to show the status of the assorted RS-232 lines, between the LAN/Serial and Serial/GPIB devices.  Are you using the same serial line cable as before?
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>> On Nov 5, 2020, at 11:11 AM, Mark Rivers via Tech-talk <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov <mailto:tech-talk at aps.anl.gov>> wrote:
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>> An inexpensive alternative would be an Ethernet to GPIB controller, such as this one from Prologix for $180.
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>> http://prologix.biz/gpib-ethernet-controller.html <http://prologix.biz/gpib-ethernet-controller.html>
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>> Does anyone have experience with these.
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>> I have experience with the Agilent LAN/GPIB gateway, but those are expensive and appear to no longer be available.
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>> Thanks,
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Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System