Digital Multimeter Interface?

External Since: Feb 27, 2004 Posts: 134

I'm looking for an inexpensive solution to interface a Digital
Multimeter to a Mac. I have found several brands of DMM's with Serial
Interfaces, but of course they only come with Windows software Sad

Ideally, I'd like a DMM with a USB interface and a Mac driver. Can
anyone give me a pointer to some possible alternatives?

Alternately, I'd settle for a USB A to D Converter with some driver
software. Last choice would be a PCI card with the appropriate
drivers.

Thanks

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Nelson

External Since: May 09, 2004 Posts: 4

In article ,
Nelson <nelson.TakeThisOut@nowhere.com> wrote:

> I'm looking for an inexpensive solution to interface a Digital
> Multimeter to a Mac. I have found several brands of DMM's with Serial
> Interfaces, but of course they only come with Windows software Sad

>
> Ideally, I'd like a DMM with a USB interface and a Mac driver. Can
> anyone give me a pointer to some possible alternatives?

The DMM vendors offer a programming manual. I have one from Tek. The
control codes for a DMM are not complex, so one needs only the ability
to read and write short serial strings to a serial port. The serial
port can be on a PCI card, or one can use one of the many USB-serial
converter pods, such as the one from Keyspan.

Joe Gwinn