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has anyone experience with usb- serial port adapters?
Hi all, has any one had any experiance of useing these adaptors? Just been out today to get a new laptop and found out that they no longer have serial ports provided, as my cutter only works from serial com1 port I am in a bit of a muddle. mark
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Hi Mark
http://www.jigsaw24.com/proddesc.asp?ITEM=X127ADA
That is what you want. I have tried it with my serial plotter on WinXP and it works great. I use it on my Apple Mac mainly but I will be upgrading to a laptop soon so glad I have it.
David -
just bought 1 off ebay. £8 inc postage
make sure you get the right way round lead first time 😳
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We have been using a couple of the Keyspan adaptors for some years now to connect our USB Macs to serial cutters.
Never a minutes bother. Fit and forget.
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Hi I use a USB to serial connector for hooking up to computer switches the connector shows in windows as com4
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Another vote for Keyspan here too.
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thanks for all your replies, helpfull as usual. might go and treat myself tomorrow and pray that it will work with my cutter. have heard all sorts of stories involving the Pcut and usb. connections.
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I recently bought a Dell lap top Latitude D510 and that has a serial port, works fine,
as for the usb to serial adapters they work fine but a couple that I have tried don’t ebay specials, its a bit pot luck with cheap versions.
Keyspan usually very reliable,
Jeff
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thanks for reply jeff, just been out and got an adaptor from a local computer store, havn’t had achance to try it yet as I only picked up the laptop today, I will post results once I test it out…………..Mark
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Hi
does any one of you know if the KEYSPAN HIGH SPEED USB SERIAL ADAPTER thats on
http://www.jigsaw24.com/proddesc.asp?ITEM=X127ADA
will work on the summa d series and windows xp as i desperatly need one of these and dont want to get the wrong one.Many thanks Owen
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just a quick update, have now installed the drivers etc for usb-serial and all seems to be working ok. so far I have only cut a couple of small logo’s will try some bigger stuff tomorrow. for any one interested I am using an adaptor from anglia internet around £16-£17 they do have a website and mail order. hooked up to my creation PCUT. had to make a few adjustments and alter the port com number to 1 it first installed as com5, and slow down the transmit and receive speed! hope fully this info may help some one else. if any one needs to know the settings I have used let me know.
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