{"id":14096,"date":"2016-05-26T21:31:41","date_gmt":"2016-05-26T21:31:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iacdrive.com\/2016\/05\/26\/what-is-the-best-laptop-for-field-work\/"},"modified":"2016-05-26T21:31:41","modified_gmt":"2016-05-26T21:31:41","slug":"what-is-the-best-laptop-for-field-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iacdrive.com\/?p=14096","title":{"rendered":"What is the best laptop for field work?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span id=\"__kindeditor_bookmark_start_4__\" style=\"display:none;\"><\/span>Dell D630 &#8211; it is the best laptop for field use I have used. And for some applications standard RS232 port is a must. We have Freja 300 test set which totally refuses to communicate with PC via widely available cheap USB-to-serial adapters. The only usable adapter I have found is semi-industrial type, costing about 50 Euro. Not that a price is so much concern, but it is not very convenient to deal with additional boxes, power supply units for them, etc. when commissioning at field.<span id=\"__kindeditor_bookmark_end_5__\" style=\"display:none;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>But I do not expect you will have problems connecting Omicron via converters. We have been used CPC256 via various USB-RS232 converters without serious problems. <br \/>\nFor communication with relay protections from Siemens and AREVA never had problems too. Cannot remember how it was with older ABB relays (last case we used them was 4 years ago), but newer ABB series are all with Ethernet communications. <\/p>\n<p>So my advice will be &#8211; by special laptop for field work, not mix it with that for everyday office use. Load it with the minimal necessary software &#8211; MS Word, Excel, Adobe Reader, Omicron&#8217;s Test Universe and software for relays which will test. <br \/>\nFor all these needs most older type laptops (4-5 years older) would be sufficient and you can buy for 200-300 Euro solid business class laptop. And also very important: look for non-glossy displays only!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span id=\"__kindeditor_bookmark_start_4__\" style=\"display:none;\"><\/span>Dell D630 &#8211; it is the best laptop for field use I have used. And for some applications standard RS232 port is a must. We have Freja 300 test set which totally refuses to communicate with PC via widely available cheap USB-to-serial adapters. The only usable adapter I have found is semi-industrial type, costing about 50 Euro. Not that a price is so much concern, but it is not very convenient to deal with additional boxes, power supply units for them, etc. when commissioning at field.<span id=\"__kindeditor_bookmark_end_5__\" style=\"display:none;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>But I do not expect you will have problems connecting Omicron via converters. We have been used CPC256 via various USB-RS232 converters without serious problems. <br \/>\nFor communication with relay protections from Siemens and AREVA never had problems too. Cannot remember how it was with older ABB relays (last case we used them was 4 years ago), but newer ABB series are all with Ethernet communications. <\/p>\n<p>So my advice will be &#8211; by special laptop for field work, not mix it with that for everyday office use. Load it with the minimal necessary software &#8211; MS Word, Excel, Adobe Reader, Omicron&#8217;s Test Universe and software for relays which will test. <br \/>\nFor all these needs most older type laptops (4-5 years older) would be sufficient and you can buy for 200-300 Euro solid business class laptop. And also very important: look for non-glossy displays only!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iacdrive_blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iacdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iacdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iacdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iacdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/iacdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14096\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iacdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iacdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iacdrive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}