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| Flood of new Agilent 82357B GPIB-USB adaptors on eBay the real deal? |
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| wkb:
I sure hope China start 'producing' their own MBAs that push our homegrown MBAs out of a job. Might be enlightening for those buggers to go and collect food stamps. Blergh |
| Noise Floor:
--- Quote from: Macbeth on August 22, 2015, 08:01:09 pm ---Not helped by the absurd margins Agilent & NI expect on their gear. If it was manufactured in the USA then fair enough, but the corporate scum want to sack all their western staff, pay peanuts to china, then sell it back to us for even more than they used to charge because Danaher, buying out competition, monopolisation, etc... What the MBA dickwads don't understand is when you give your crown jewels to any Tom, Dick or Harry in China, India, etc... don't expect to hold on to them for long. :popcorn: --- End quote --- Is the official adapter made in China? I don't own one. All my Agilent gear was made in Malaysia. I'm looking at a used E3600 but will require an adapter to control it; wondering which to get. |
| Macbeth:
--- Quote from: Noise Floor on August 22, 2015, 09:17:14 pm --- --- Quote from: Macbeth on August 22, 2015, 08:01:09 pm ---Not helped by the absurd margins Agilent & NI expect on their gear. If it was manufactured in the USA then fair enough, but the corporate scum want to sack all their western staff, pay peanuts to china, then sell it back to us for even more than they used to charge because Danaher, buying out competition, monopolisation, etc... What the MBA dickwads don't understand is when you give your crown jewels to any Tom, Dick or Harry in China, India, etc... don't expect to hold on to them for long. :popcorn: --- End quote --- Is the official adapter made in China? I don't own one. All my Agilent gear was made in Malaysia. I'm looking at a used E3600 but will require an adapter to control it; wondering which to get. --- End quote --- By all accounts go for the $85, $51 compatible one. It works with the official drivers, has proper buffers (unlike Prologix), and looks better built than the fakes too. I would have one and I don't have any need for it. But the seller is an idiot if you are English. |
| plesa:
--- Quote from: macboy on August 21, 2015, 01:03:52 pm --- --- 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 --- End quote --- 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. --- End quote --- Prologix clone? Who knows... http://www.ebay.com/itm/PROLOGIX-GPIB-USB-CONTROLLER-/252054027293?hash=item3aaf973c1d Same seller. |
| MarkL:
Similar to SkyMaster in post #121, I also purchased a (purported) Agilent 82357B from nettcy168 on eBay for $115: http://www.ebay.com/itm/261397671097 At first I suspected a possible driver problem, but I eventually discovered that it wouldn't even _start_ enumerating on USB most of the time. And when it did decide to run, it would crash within an hour or two of use and need to have the firmware reloaded. I returned mine for a refund on a "defective" basis, and received a refund for it and the shipping. nettcy168 initially wanted to send me a replacement to preserve the sale. No thanks. I returned it to a US address in Delaware, which was odd since it was shipped from Hong Kong. Also, like SkyMaster, according to Keysight's web page the serial number on the unit and box showed a manufacture date of Nov 28 2009, but the box had a printed date of Oct 16, 2014. What a waste of time. Beware. |
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