• Summa Cutters

  why do i get cannot ‘detect baud rate’ error with summa?

  Posted by Pazz on 9 February 2008 at 20:37

  Hi guys, this is a new area of work for me. I have just purchased a d1220 cutter for £50 (cheap I think), have downloaded s/ware from summa website and have had no luck getting work to the cutter. The summa will initialize it will do a test cut (right arrow when powering on it will also plot settings on board cutter to a sheet of paper) so things cant be too bad.
  When I load the cutter tools on my PC everything looks ok until I try to access any settings on the cutter, it comes back with "cannot detect baud rate" in a box on the screen.
  please any ideas gentlemen.

  ps with an osccilloscope on pin 3 of the circuit board in the end of the cutter there is data coming from my pc!!! (while it is trying to auto-detect baud rate)

  Karl Williams replied 17 years, 10 months ago 5 Members · 7 Replies
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  Chris Wool

  Member

  9 February 2008 at 20:44

  if serial connection it must be the correct cable.
  pin 2 -3 crossed over if i remember.
  if you connect via lpt port the plotter can not be polled as to its set up width.

  chris

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  Karl Williams

  Member

  9 February 2008 at 22:09

  Check your settings in winplot. The baud rate settings should be 9600.

  You’d better introduce yourself before someone chews your leg off. 😉

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  Nicola McIntosh

  Member

  9 February 2008 at 22:11

  quote Karl Williams:

  You’d better introduce yourself before someone chews your leg off. 😉

  :lol1: :lol1: you have a lovely way with words karl 😉

  nik

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  Karl Williams

  Member

  9 February 2008 at 22:14

  Just thought I’d warn him before Stormin’ Norman gets to him! 😉 😀

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  Mike Grant

  Member

  10 February 2008 at 19:01

  I think it will only give you the baud rate info AFTER you have loaded the machine with media.

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  Pazz

  Member

  10 February 2008 at 21:01

  Thank you very much Chris Wool, So obvious, tried a "null modem cable " and BINGO it all spings to life. Completely forgot that 2&3 pins needed to be swapped !!!(should have known that from my years as a computer engineer)
  I have never used a vinyl cutter before and I am amazed at how fast and accurate they are.
  Can anybody recommend a budget piece of cutting s/ware (am currently using a trial version of signblazer!)
  Again thank you very much for your help

  Pazz.

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  Karl Williams

  Member

  10 February 2008 at 21:05

  Hi Pazz.
  Glad you got it working mate. If you use coral 11 – 12 or X3 you can down load winplot from the Summa site for free. Works a treat.

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