Hi folks.
Just a quicky hopefully.
I've ordered a Texecom RS232 PC-COM cable to link my laptop (running Wintex) to my Texecom Premier Elite 24 panel (I have a bit of a mammoth thread on that subject).
This cable has a 9 pin female end (the laptop end) but the port on the laptop (in fact any laptop in the house) is a female 15 pin VGA.
Has anybody successfully managed to just use an adaptor (VGA to RS232 male-male) to connect the cable up?
Something like this:
There are also RS232 top USB adaptors...
The other option would be to try and return it and replace with the more costly USB COM cable, but I'm hoping I don't have to use that.
I'm fairly sure an adaptor would be fine, but you never know...especially as this isn't an ordinary RS232 cable.
Mank thanks.
Just a quicky hopefully.
I've ordered a Texecom RS232 PC-COM cable to link my laptop (running Wintex) to my Texecom Premier Elite 24 panel (I have a bit of a mammoth thread on that subject).
This cable has a 9 pin female end (the laptop end) but the port on the laptop (in fact any laptop in the house) is a female 15 pin VGA.
Has anybody successfully managed to just use an adaptor (VGA to RS232 male-male) to connect the cable up?
Something like this:
There are also RS232 top USB adaptors...
The other option would be to try and return it and replace with the more costly USB COM cable, but I'm hoping I don't have to use that.
I'm fairly sure an adaptor would be fine, but you never know...especially as this isn't an ordinary RS232 cable.
Mank thanks.