Learned Gentlemen, I D/L'd the John Miles' toolkit.  It's just what I was looking for! Another question. There are numerous GPIB-USB adapters available on ebay most go for $75 and up. Yet ther is this company UGPlus USB to GPIB controller Made in USA that sells their units for $46 shipped. Does anyone know how well they work or if they need more software or *fiddling around* than the more expensive units? Regards, Perrier

I don't know about the UGPlus, but if you are just getting set up for GPIB then don't overlook the possibility of Ethernet-to-GPIB adapters.  Fewer location and cabling issues (you can even access your instruments remotely if you should ever need to), and you can connect as many GPIB instruments as you want to the same adapter, within reason.  You should be able to pick up something like an E2050A for ~ $100.  Then you never need to futz with poorly supported USB adapters again.  OTOH, there is software which *expects* a USB-GPIB dongle... not sure if John Miles' toolkit falls into that category or not. This seems to be a minority opinion, so my situation may be unusual... but I really like my E2050A, and the ease of doing everything from python without that ugly/bloated VISA layer. Mark On 12-Mar-20 3:12 PM, Perry Sandeen via time-nuts wrote: > Learned Gentlemen, > I D/L'd the John Miles' toolkit.  It's just what I was looking for! > Another question. > There are numerous GPIB-USB adapters available on ebay most go for $75 and up. Yet ther is this company UGPlus USB to GPIB controller Made in USA that sells their units for $46 shipped. > Does anyone know how well they work or if they need more software or *fiddling around* than the more expensive units? > Regards, > Perrier > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@lists.febo.com > To unsubscribe, go to http://lists.febo.com/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts_lists.febo.com > and follow the instructions there.

On 3/12/20 3:32 PM, Mark Haun wrote: > I don't know about the UGPlus, but if you are just getting set up for > GPIB then don't overlook the possibility of Ethernet-to-GPIB adapters. > Fewer location and cabling issues (you can even access your instruments > remotely if you should ever need to), and you can connect as many GPIB > instruments as you want to the same adapter, within reason.  You should > be able to pick up something like an E2050A for ~ $100.  Then you never > need to futz with poorly supported USB adapters again.  OTOH, there is > software which *expects* a USB-GPIB dongle... not sure if John Miles' > toolkit falls into that category or not. > I did find using the ProLogix ethernet/GPIB widgets quite easy. > This seems to be a minority opinion, so my situation may be unusual... > but I really like my E2050A, and the ease of doing everything from > python without that ugly/bloated VISA layer. Yes, that whole interface between software/USB/GPIB is clunky, and makes writing platform independent stuff that can run on Mac/Linux/Windows hard. You fiddle a lot to get it working in one configuration. And then you write little python wrappers that essentially have a long chain of if/elif/else statements that say: If running on configuration A: elif running on configuration B: etc. with a clause for each and every machine you get it up and running on. > > Mark >

Don't buy the 82357B - hardware is fine but the Keysight IO Libraries software is totally dreadful. See recent posts by myself on HP-Agilent-Keysight-equipment@groups.io and EEVBlog David -----Original Message----- From: time-nuts [mailto:time-nuts-bounces@lists.febo.com] On Behalf Of Perry Sandeen via time-nuts Sent: 12 March 2020 22:13 To: time-nuts@lists.febo.com Cc: Perry Sandeen Subject: [time-nuts] HP 5335A counter and GPIB control Learned Gentlemen, I D/L'd the John Miles' toolkit. It's just what I was looking for! Another question. There are numerous GPIB-USB adapters available on ebay most go for $75 and up. Yet ther is this company UGPlus USB to GPIB controller Made in USA that sells their units for $46 shipped. Does anyone know how well they work or if they need more software or *fiddling around* than the more expensive units? Regards, Perrier _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@lists.febo.com To unsubscribe, go to http://lists.febo.com/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts_lists.febo.com and follow the instructions there.