a few weeks ago was in October and to my dismay, the Dolphin converter was useless but the Belkin worked on downloading a Colibri.
PeterS ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Borgelt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia." <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, January 20, 2006 6:15 PM Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring]USB to serial > A few weeks ago there was some discussion here about USB to serial > convertors and downloading loggers to PC's with USB ports only which > requires the use of USB to serial convertors. > > I got a EW Model D in for calibration and I thought I'd check the > downloads on the various serial ports on the lab machine. > It is a 2.4 Ghz Celeron with serial ports on the motherboard. They were > a joke and I switched to a card with 2 serial ports which seems to work > OK. I also have a 4 way USB port expander and have a Belkin USB to > serial on on USB port(Hardly Normal's or other outlets $50 to $80), a > "Prolific" USB to serial on another(Jameco in California US$18) as well > as the Com1 and Com 2 serial ports. There is also a nother USB to serial > RS485 convertor for setting up and calibrating B400's > > Results: > > Worked perfectly on all 3 USB to RS232 devices. > > Possible trap: > After physical connection and pushing the button and holding it down, > the Model D auto selects the port and you get "putting Model D in IO > mode" on screen. After a few seconds the changes to "awaiting > connection". Release the button at this time as otherwise it seems to > stay on this message. > > Mike > > > _______________________________________________ > Aus-soaring mailing list > [email protected] > To check or change subscription details, visit: > http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring _______________________________________________ Aus-soaring mailing list [email protected] To check or change subscription details, visit: http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring
