I also wanted to mention that I can't get the Lucent to communicate at all with the TBoltMon program so that's why I decided to try LadyHeather. I do hope I connected the cable pins right, I connected Lucent RS 422 TX pins to the USB to 422 adapters RX pins and the Lucent 422 RX pins to the adapters TX pins.
Chris > On Sep 14, 2016, at 00:05, Mark Sims <hol...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > Yes. The device supports a SCPI command set. The next version of Lady > Heather supports it... well at least my modified Z3812A does. > > You probably don't need an RS422 converter. You can cobble an RS-232 > connection into the RS-422 port. This usually works, but some hardware > serial ports have voltage threshold issues reading data from the device (the > RS-422 signals don't swing as much as the RS-232 ones do). All my USB-serial > dongles work well, but I have had some issues with genuine hardware serial > ports. > > ------------ > >> If I build or buy a 422 to 232 converter can I expect to be able to view the >> unit's data output with something like Lady Heather or Tboltmon? Or at least >> see an output with Hyperterminal? > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com > To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
