Re: Serial Port madness

["Dr John Tankard" <jtankard@xxxxxxx>]

I cannot help you with the serial card, but why do you need 8 ports, you could use a RS485/RS422 network instead, it is easy to implement with pic's, you could also consider waiting a month of two for the CAN chips from microchip. Just thinking aloud

 

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-----Original Message-----
From: James Traynor [mailto:James@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 13 December 1999 17:48
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxxSubject: [ukha_d] Serial Port madness

I am trying to build my own Ha system based on a network of PICs and various other processors with a PC athe main controller,  The PC software is in Vbasic 6 using MSComm32 v6 to talk to the serial ports( OS=NT4).  For the system to work fully I need at least 8 serial ports.  This is the problem ,I bought a 8 port rs232 serial card from Chase Research but after a month of trying and talking to their technical support the card was found to be incompatible with MScomm, back to square one.  Does anyone out there have any multi port serial cards working with mscomm and vbasic??

 

Here hoping

 

 

 

James

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