Tag: dac

LabJack U6 Pro (and others) self-test script (#P53)

On the eternal quest of de-cluttering the living room, I picked up a bunch of stored “defective” LabJack units the other day. These are USB DAQ modules with generally very decent specs, in the case of the U6 Pro a 24bit (22bit effective) DAC with 14-port multiplexing (so 14 analogue ports, or 7 differential analogue ports), fixed 10µA and 200µA sources, two 12bit DACs, internal temperature compensation for temperature probes, 20 GPIOs and a bunch of miscellaneous stuff over the DA15 and DC37 Sub-D ports. All of them were discarded with AIN failure…and that didn’t add up. […]


Mellanox ConnectX-3 MCX311A-XCAT 10GbE and Solaris 11.3 (WHL #42)

The heat. F*ck me.

I think post #42 deserves something nerdy. More nerdy than usual. Glad to report that I just bought something suitable – two Mellanox SFP+ cards (MCX311A-XCAT), capable of 10GbE over fibre (IEEE 802.3ae) and per DAC cables (not even sure which 802 that is – 802.3ak is Twinax as used in DAC, but thats quad-Twinax as used in CX-4 connectors, like Infiniband does). 55.00€ delivered from the Netherlands, as fast network connections are “Neuland” in Germany and therefore carry a heavy premium. Slap on some 1.5m of compatible FS.com […]