[time-nuts] Prologix GPIB/USB converter help...

[Thomas A. Frank]

> I'll give you a recent example. I have a bunch of AC power
> meters in my lab (model: Watts Up PRO) that have RS232
> output and I wrote software that logs and plots the data. A
> while back I picked up cheap serial-ethernet converters and
> now I get all the same data over my house LAN. If these
> were USB devices I'd be stuck with their software, their logs,
> their plots, and have to locate a Windows PC near each meter.
>
> Ironically, like Prologix, the company that makes these AC
> meters also just "went USB" so this flexibility is now lost.


TVB - check out the power meters from:

<http://www.brandelectronics.com/meters.html>

Still RS-232 (or now ethernet ready), and they work great.

I'm a happy customer.

Tom Frank