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please dont purchase PC controlled test equipment
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graybeard:

--- Quote from: oz2cpu on March 02, 2023, 12:39:53 pm ---Headline : please don't purchase PC controlled test equipment
I mean of course ONLY controllable by pc

It is really driving me nuts, as a collector of funny old test equipment,
every time some stuff is controlled only by a pc, and a bit old,
it is impossible to get software, drivers, support
and operating systems changed 4 versions since...

this means such stuff (pc only control equipment)
come with a very short expected lifetime,
some of it is even just as expensive as real standalone equipment with remote capabilities,
this means in many years when the remote features are no more supported
you still have a working standalone unit, and not trash.

my latest equipment score is a good example :
https://youtu.be/93_Zg-mKWks

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I agree.  I have always refused to buy equipment that will not work in a stand-alone mode, both for my home lab, and at work.
If I want remote capability the equipment must have either a IEEE488 or serial port.   For home eithernet connections work great.  At work I am not allowed to connect anything to a network or USB port that is not supplied by IT, so only IEEE488 and serial are acceptable.
nigelwright7557:
Maybe the answer is to keep the old pc with its version of Windows ?

I sell software and you would be gobsmacked how many people ask if it will work with Windows XP.
tautech:

--- Quote from: graybeard on March 05, 2023, 03:42:06 am ---If I want remote capability the equipment must have either a IEEE488 or serial port.   For home eithernet connections work great.  At work I am not allowed to connect anything to a network or USB port that is not supplied by IT, so only IEEE488 and serial are acceptable.

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:o
Really, in this day and age your work IT are so behind the times ?  :-//

Me thinks you need drop them a link to SDS6000L and watch them go into a spin.  :popcorn:
m k:
Device doesn't matter.
With USB or RJ45 nobody can really say what happens behind the scenes.
Other issue is what IT knows but that's their headache and no salary breaks for others.

For machine years,
maybe somebody should ask Heidelberg how long their GTO 46 or "Windmill" will last.

I think Tiegel is incredible machine.
You just can't believe it before you see it operating.
Wolfgang:
Disagree.

The problem is not that a piece of equipment is only controllable by a PC, the problem occurs when this control is not done in a standard way like SCPI and special, soon outdated software is used. Then I agree, never buy this.

On the other hand, a lot of stuff used in automation will never be operated by hand once the programming is done. This means you dont need a screen, a keyboard, switches, ... all that stuff. What I do is using standard lab equipment (DMMs, generators, scopes, whatnot) during the design phase, and then I make special appliances that are SCPI controlled to do the automated stuff. With an Arduino its possible to make quite smart stuff that costs only a fraction of all the fancy gear with GUIs. That works great and its fun.

regards
  Wolfgang
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