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Offline - Registered: 9/23/2015
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Serial to USB?
Maybe it's just me (?), but all my serial-to-USB adapters tend to stop working at the worst possible moment. Usually, a driver re-install is needed... and then it works for a while until something changes. Use it to get a MOB event into Expedition.
Are there a bulletproof way to do this in Windows 10? Brands? Drivers? Industrial adapters? Other pointers?
///Peter
- barne
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- Registered: 9/01/2017
- Posts: 58
Re: Serial to USB?
I’d say best quality and reliability would be in the FTDI devices such as USB-RS422-WE-1800-BT or other variants from them. Available through most major resellers as Mouser, Digi-key. Use drivers from
Remember obvious thing to use correct protocol: RS232 or RS422 (such as NMEA0183 normally).
Most elegant is to avoid any usb-to-db9 adapter and wire the USB-adapter open-ended straight into the serial device or -feed.
- Chriggel
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- Registered: 11/13/2015
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Re: Serial to USB?
Peter, get the Digi Edgeport adapter. They and the Moxa are by far the most reliable ones. Usually the FTDI Adapters get a new COM Port everytime you swap the USB port - very annoying. The Digi driver checks the serial number of each adapter and assigns the old COM port number.
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