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Flood of new Agilent 82357B GPIB-USB adaptors on eBay the real deal?
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SrS:

--- Quote from: plazma on August 21, 2015, 12:07:14 pm ---I also bought for 51$. Including free shipping.

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Same here, the seller must be wondering why everyone is offering $51 :)
plesa:
I'm curious how long it will take them to clone Prologix GPIB adapter.
http://sigrok.org/wiki/File:Prologix-usb.jpg
macboy:

--- Quote from: Electro Fan on August 12, 2015, 03:37:27 am ---dadler and macboy - does this look like the item you guys purchased?   (Same seller you purchased from?) 

http://www.ebay.com/itm/261397671097?_trksid=p2060353.m2763.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT

Given all the back and forth on these, anyone want to post a link to one that you are still confident is genuine?

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That is the seller that I purchased from for roughly $120 (incl shipping) around two years ago.
After seeing the photos of the genuine one, I can now confirm that mine is a fake. It is a very good fake, and a very functional one, but fake nonetheless. My PCB does not look exactly like any posted here; the word "Agilent" appears on mine but in a font that is not exactly true to the Agilent logo but close (maybe just standard Arial, etc.). The case is not internally metalized. I'll grab a photo or two later. I still have the box for some reason, and now that I look at it with a critical eye, it looks fake. The word Agilent is not using Agilent's font anywhere on there... not on the front of the box, not on the serial number sticker, not on the sealing tape. A real Agilent product would have consistent use of the logo/branding I believe.

One of the things that originally had convinced me it was real was the use of the Agilent branded IC, plus the superficially quite convincing 'factory sealed' package. It appears that Agilent sells that IC as a kind of general purpose GPIB bus controller, making the fakes possible. I wonder why nobody ever faked a $500 NI PCI card using that card's controller IC that was available for $20 or so?
macboy:

--- Quote from: plesa on August 21, 2015, 12:56:05 pm ---I'm curious how long it will take them to clone Prologix GPIB adapter.
http://sigrok.org/wiki/File:Prologix-usb.jpg

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Why would anyone want to do that? It doesn't use proper GPIB bus transceivers, and it doesn't have VISA or GPIB32.dll support... it is (was) a toy for hobbyists. The 82357B clones and compatibles are affordable and available, and are so much more useful that there would be no point. Even hobbyists should opt for the 82357-alikes.
Macbeth:

--- Quote from: SrS on August 21, 2015, 12:37:43 pm ---
--- Quote from: plazma on August 21, 2015, 12:07:14 pm ---I also bought for 51$. Including free shipping.

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Same here, the seller must be wondering why everyone is offering $51 :)

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But the seller isn't offering free shipping. It's $10. So if you offer $51 it costs you $61.

I can't even offer any more as I used my allowance up and ebay will only let me pay full price now :-DD

Ah, I just changed my country from UK to USA, and the shipping is free. Tried a load of other countries too, and it's free for everyone except the English and the Germans. I guess the seller hates anglo-saxons.  :-// Oh, he hates the Ozzie's too. But not the Austrians which is odd considering he doesn't like krauts and limeys. Those dutchies, frogs, and paddys that surround me all get free post too. Very odd.
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