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Is there anything more complicated than this for using a USB-RS232 cable to communicate with a piece of equipment?

Is there anything more complicated than this for using a USB-RS232 cable to communicate with a piece of equipment?

‎04-28-2016 04:57 PM

Hi, we have a piece of equipment that is controlled by RS232. Unfortunately, my PC only has USB ports. If I use a USB-RS232 convertor like this one, will it essentially just be plug-and-play? Or, do I need something more 'active' (meaning, has some sort of chip in the convertor) ?

 

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Re: Is there anything more complicated than this for using a USB-RS232 cable to communicate with a piece of equipment?

‎04-28-2016 05:16 PM

Just plug it in.  You may have to install a driver for it.  But then it should just show up as a COM port and you can just send/recieve data via whatever COM port interface you use.

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