Agilent E5810A for upgrading older GC/MS systems to LAN
Posted: Sat Sep 07, 2013 2:52 am
I was wondering if anybody has used the E5810 LAN/GPIB gateway for upgrading the older GC/MS systems to LAN communications? I would like to use the newer version of Chemstation E.00 with our 5972 mass specs but they use the GPIB connectors and the newer chemstation only supports LAN communications. I requested a quote from Agilent about a year ago for upgrading a GC/MS system with a JetDirect LAN Smart Card and it was very expensive, I can't remember the exact amount but I believe it was close to 10,000 dollars. I see the E5810 gateways on Ebay for about 800 dollars and getting two of them, one for the GC the other for the MS, seems like a much cheaper, and easier to set up, option. Anybody know if this will work?