by ICEAV » Sun Jan 06, 2013 10:11 pm
I have written a short article about using the XNotes Stop Watch external triggers with the adaptor USB>RS232 cable. We needed to ensure that the external sensors would work well as this feature is an important element to use with our new series of Plas480 LED Timers. Like some of you we found that at first the adapter cable we purchased to test the timing switch with our LED timing screens, it would not work, despite everything seemed to have installed correctly. This caused a certain degree of frustration and thus began a number of hours of research as we had not previously needed to consider using USB>RS232 cables since our computers have always had a RS232 port.
I spent some time researching the situation re USB>RS232 adapter cables and found their is quite a lot of diversity from low grade solutions to robust high end solutions including cables built with counterfeit chips out of China. Added to this variances in drivers and OS systems, I can understand that many folk can hit a brick wall.
The article here
http://iceledscreens.wordpress.com/gene ... r-screens/ includes the Prolific User Sheet plus driver download, chip test and cable tester. Once we installed these drivers we found our problems were solved immediately and pleasantly delighted to say that our LED screens are work well using the XNotes Timer software.
I have written a short article about using the XNotes Stop Watch external triggers with the adaptor USB>RS232 cable. We needed to ensure that the external sensors would work well as this feature is an important element to use with our new series of Plas480 LED Timers. Like some of you we found that at first the adapter cable we purchased to test the timing switch with our LED timing screens, it would not work, despite everything seemed to have installed correctly. This caused a certain degree of frustration and thus began a number of hours of research as we had not previously needed to consider using USB>RS232 cables since our computers have always had a RS232 port.
[img]http://iceledscreens.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/ice-plas480-103_02-timersm.jpg[/img]
I spent some time researching the situation re USB>RS232 adapter cables and found their is quite a lot of diversity from low grade solutions to robust high end solutions including cables built with counterfeit chips out of China. Added to this variances in drivers and OS systems, I can understand that many folk can hit a brick wall.
The article here http://iceledscreens.wordpress.com/general/usb-rs232-adapter-enables-any-pc-computer-to-be-used-with-our-led-timer-screens/ includes the Prolific User Sheet plus driver download, chip test and cable tester. Once we installed these drivers we found our problems were solved immediately and pleasantly delighted to say that our LED screens are work well using the XNotes Timer software.
[img]http://iceledscreens.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/2beam.jpg[/img]