WILLIS COOKE-2 wrote: > > I never heard of anyone frying any hardware with a USB adapter Joe. If > you are connecting to Vista or Win 7 computers, you may have trouble > accessing all the features, but I don't think you will fry anything. If > you are buying an adapter try to get one that uses the FTDI chip set > rather than the Prolific chip set. It is difficult to find out which chip > set is used, but some of the on line vendors will tell you if they are > using FTDI. The ones using Prolific will try to hide it. >
I would go further and say it is essential to use an adapter with an FTDI chip set with the K2. The KIO2 works at a fixed baud rate of 4800bps and some of the adapters that work OK at higher speeds will garble the data at that speed. I would also emphasize the advice that you *must* use a properly wired (as per the KIO2 manual) cable between the loose end of the adapter and the K2. ----- Julian, G4ILO. K2 #392 K3 #222. * G4ILO's Shack - http://www.g4ilo.com * KComm - http://www.g4ilo.com/kcomm.html * KTune - http://www.g4ilo.com/ktune.html -- View this message in context: http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/K2-and-USB-to-Serial-for-Radio-Control-tp5232156p5233993.html Sent from the [K2] mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
