RE: rs232/USB relay control

[Frost Neil <Neil.Frost@xxxxxxx>]

Also on that site there was one of these...

RSIP-7100 Ethernet to RS232/485 Converter looks very interesting....

-----Original Message-----
From: Shaf Ali [mailto:shaf@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 11 September 2003 14:19
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] rs232/USB relay control


Cheers Rob,

> Have you looked at his from Quasar ?
> http://www.electronic-kits-and-projects.com/3108.htm

Yeh also found http://www.audon.co.uk/relay.html#som1

>
> If USB is hard requirement then you look at marrying the above up with
> something like http://www.dontronics.com/giga.html#io24
assuming
> you're handy with a soldering iron (or know a man who can).

Hell no : Writting USB device drivers is a pain in the **** (Oh yeh I
should
stop surfing and get back to writting that piece of junk)..... Mind you
this
one does look VERY interesting pity it's USB.

>
> It's something I was looking at a while back...but still haven't
> gotten to yet. (As usual, too many ideas, not enough time)

Seems there is a selection of people doing these units so I think I'll
pursue it further.

Many thanks again Rob.

Shaf