Agilent HP 35900B Interface

[wally]

We are using a HP35900C via GPIB/HPIB and it works fine
with Chemstation 4.
We also have a HP35900B interfacebox in the lab, but no documentation at all. On agilents webpages i can not find any hint how to connect/ use the 35900B type.
It does not have any GPIB/HPIB connector. Only 2 RS232C connectors for analog Channel A/B and some remote connectors.
Does anyone have experience with the HP35900B Interface ?

thx wally

[Consumer Products Guy]

We also have a HP35900B interfacebox in the lab, but no documentation at all. On agilents webpages i can not find any hint how to connect/ use the 35900B type.
It does not have any GPIB/HPIB connector. Only 2 RS232C connectors for analog Channel A/B and some remote connectors.
Does anyone have experience with the HP35900B Interface ?

thx wally

We've got a few 35900D internal cards available that go in the computers and interface to external detectors. Those do have HPIB/GPIB connectors. We have found that they work with Windows 95 and NT4 and Chemstation at least up to A.06. We haven't been able to get those to work in a computer that has Windows 2000 however, not sure exactly why, might be incompatible with that software (the same computer was using it when that computer was Windows 95, but we updated to Windows 2000 to get USB capability); so with the Windows 2000 units we use external 35900E boxes.

If you are interested in one of the 35900D cards (and/or HPIB cables), supply your E-mail address. Some like to write that as name -at- abc.com so they don't get picked up by fishing or spam.

[wally]

Thanks for the offer. I assume you are in the US.
This would be too much customs trouble to get the card to EU.
(i made this experience recently )

[KM-USA]

We've got a few 35900D internal cards available that go in the computers and interface to external detectors. Those do have HPIB/GPIB connectors. We have found that they work with Windows 95 and NT4 and Chemstation at least up to A.06. We haven't been able to get those to work in a computer that has Windows 2000 however, not sure exactly why, might be incompatible with that software (the same computer was using it when that computer was Windows 95, but we updated to Windows 2000 to get USB capability); so with the Windows 2000 units we use external 35900E boxes.

Agilent's compatibility chart shows 35900D good through A.08 - maybe your Chemstation revision was higher there than the A.06.

Anybody know whether those 35900D boards fit in a Pentium 3, Pentium 2, Pentium 1 computer? We also have some non-used 35900D, so I may just try with A.06 software. I wonder if level of Windows matters...maybe with Windows 2000 he loaded up too-new a revision of Chemstation.

[KM-USA]

Anybody know whether those 35900D boards fit in a Pentium 3, Pentium 2, Pentium 1 computer? We also have some non-used 35900D, so I may just try with A.06 software.

Not so fast (grasshopper). I'm no computer genius, so I took one of the 35900D boards and opened up some of our old computers sitting on the shelf. I think it would fit in ... none of those. It apparently does fit in the Pentium 1 computer running our 5890, but swapping that computer to the 1050 system, and its computer to the 5890 would be a pain. See, that 35900D board not only has the old style interface, it's pretty long too.

It looks like Agilent still sells the MIO card that changes the 35900E to GPIB interface so it would work with the 1050 stack. Bet the boss will like a new part from Agilent over a used 35900E/GPIB off Ebay.

Moderator - feel free to move to the Data Systems section

[KM-USA]

It looks like Agilent still sells the MIO card that changes the 35900E to GPIB interface so it would work with the 1050 stack.

Good luck: I found the old MIO board in one of the LAN interface boxes in the cabinet, so I plugged that in to the 35900E, and set the Configuration Editor to address 13, and it looks that it does recognize the 35900E. Now to check out the entire 1050 HPLC system, as I added a 1050 autosampler after changing its GPIB address so there wouldn't be a conflict (2 HPLC systems running off one computer).