![]() ![]() Why fake such a product, which is certainly a low-volume, niche item? There would be no way you could expect to recoup the cost of investment on tooling and exactly duplicating the included documentation/product look and feel. I have examined my unit in detail, and there are just too many tiny details that would be so very difficult and expensive to clone. That could be, but so could it be with any product then. If they are "fake", then they are made on the same tooling and assembly line as the real ones. I doubt they were ever intended to be sold in the West. The disc does have some Asian text on it in addition to English, so I suspect these were intended for the Asian market. The included disc and documentation is exactly what you would expect to get with any other Agilent product. They are manufactured in Malaysia and come in boxes that are themselves made in Malaysia. The plastics and hardware are high quality. They have serial numbers that match the high-quality labels on each box. They are screenprinted with Agilent logos, the enclosure has the molded Agilent logo. I've used a Beiming clone before, and it worked fine for me. That said, I've heard that Agilent adapters aren't 100% compatible with older gear in some situations (more a hardware than software issue), so I guess you just can't win. I wouldn't trust Beiming to have been so thorough. Agilent probably tested their USB GPIB adapters with a huge range of equipment during development. ![]() It'll definitely be against the license of IO Libraries to use one of the freeloading clone adapters. It's also the thing that makes them really useful, compared to something like a Prologix. A big chunk of the development cost of these devices is the PC software, Agilent IO Libraries.For people who ask what's wrong with the clones / counterfeits, here my view: There has been clones around by Beiming and others for a while, I'm not really surprised to see someone take the next step and put Agilent labels onto them. The boxes and packaging are really convincing, but there's tonnes of counterfeits out there with as much attention to detail. ![]()
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