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

Didier Juges didier at cox.net
Wed Apr 18 03:40:30 UTC 2007


John,

You are too late by about a week or two, we had a rental for about 6 
months and just sent it back last week... Forgot which model exactly, 
but it was the 40 or 50 GHz model. Very spiffy.

I have a new Prologix controller on the way and I intend to check it on 
everything I can lay my hands on :-) The two older models I already have 
have been getting good use as a HP 8566B plotter emulator for one (at 
work), and a Tek 494P plotter emulator (at home) for the other.

Didier KO4BB


John Miles wrote:
> The "public beta" of the Windows configuration app for Prologix boards is
> here:
> http://www.ke5fx.com/gpib/setup.exe
>
> This is actually a complete GPIB Toolkit release, but you can run the
> PROLOGIX.EXE app independently of anything else.  It's a standalone program
> with no dependencies on the rest of the package.  (Parenthetically, if
> anyone on the list has access to an Agilent PSA-class spectrum analyzer with
> a Prologix or NI GPIB interface and is interested helping test the new SCPI
> support in this release, please drop me a note offline.)
>
> PROLOGIX.EXE should be a very handy tool for Prologix users running Windows,
> at least once it's fully debugged.  I'd appreciate any comments/bug reports
> on it.
>
> -- john, KE5FX
>
>
>   
>> The new Win32 configuration program is actually looking pretty
>> sharp; if anyone with a version 3.xx or 4.xx board wants to help
>> beta-test it, drop me a line offlist at jmiles at pop.net and I'll
>> send a copy.
>>
>> -- john, KE5FX
>>
>>     
>>> John Miles said the following on 04/15/2007 04:37 PM:
>>>
>>>       
>>>> You can try sending the command ++rst to force the Atmel chip
>>>>         
>>> to cold-boot
>>>       
>>>> itself.  That takes about 5 seconds.
>>>>         
>>> Hmmm... that command isn't documented in the on-line manual.  I'm
>>> getting the feeling that one of the problems with this device is that
>>> the docs are quite incomplete.
>>>
>>> For example, according to email I got today from the developer, the
>>> latest version no longer cares at all about the serial params.  Which
>>> makes sense because the docs that are on the web site don't mention the
>>> port settings at all.  But if you read any of the google hits, you'll
>>> find a bunch of messages (mainly on time-nuts!) about the need to get
>>> the 115200, N81 settings correct.
>>>
>>> John
>>>
>>>       
>
>
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