There are also some USB versions of the NI GPIB. These
are driver compatible with the NI drivers for the other cards,
you do not need any extra drivers or software changes.
The USB-GPIB from NI are available in at least three versions
so far. On Ebay, they seem to be selling at between $250 and $
I too buy a fair number of GPIB cards, about 10-15 a year for use in the
equipment I sell. I have bought four NI GPIB PCI cards in the last few
months. One did not work as expected. I was horrified when I called NI.
They asked that I pay > $200 U.S for a "support contract" so that they
could pr
H Dave,
Over the past 6 years I have bought 15 or more NI GPIB cards for use in PCs.
Nearly all of them have been bought on eBay. They have all worked fine.
National Instruments is the Rolls Royce of GPIB cards. Technical support and
driver support is first rate for all sorts of operating systems
In a message dated 21/03/2008 02:13:32 GMT Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
This group seems to be very GPIB savvy, so I have a question
(vaguely related to time and frequency) - is there a real difference
between the half sized current one large chip NI PCI-GPIB card and the
older
Didier Juges wrote:
> Other than that, in my experience, NI products have been remarkably
> compatible in the last 10 years, from a 30,000 feet level (plug pretty much
> anything into anything and it will work with any NI software, even though
> performance will vary and you may need new drivers).
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David I. Emery
> Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2008 9:13 PM
> To: time-nuts@febo.com
> Subject: [time-nuts] NI GPIB cards
>
> This group seems to be very GPIB savvy, so I have a
> question (vaguely related to ti
This group seems to be very GPIB savvy, so I have a question
(vaguely related to time and frequency) - is there a real difference
between the half sized current one large chip NI PCI-GPIB card and the
older and larger version with multiple chips that proceeded it ?
Which would you