GPIB Communication with a soft PLC (beckhoff)

[Velodromo]

Hello,

I would like to setup an easy connection between my GPIB-ENET/1000 ethernet adapter and a soft-PLC running on the same windows computer. It is a beckhoff industrial PC with TwinCAT PLC.

I would like to send and receive a string from the GPIB instrument.

Is it possible to emulate the GPIB instrument as a seriel COM port or are there a better solution? 

Thanks

[YusufD_UK]

Hi,

Thanks for your post.

Are you trying to convert GPIB to Serial?

If so, have you seen this addon:

GPIB Serial Converter Software 1.0 - Windows XP, Windows 2000 - National Instruments

http://www.ni.com/download/gpib-serial-converter-software-1.0/306/en/

Cheers,

YD

[Velodromo]

Hi,

The link you suggest is for the GPIB-RS232 box.

What I ask for is a way to get a similar functionality but with the GPIB-ENET box, because I already got the GPIB-ENET box and the ethernet connection is more stable than the old rs-232 connection.

But I need a way to connect to the GPIB instrument from Beckhoff TwinCat software on my PC, which would be easy if it 'looked like' a serial port in windows.

[YusufD_UK]

Hi,

Have you had a chance to contact Beckhoff on this?

Thanks,

YD