RE: Alarm I/O --> Serial Port

["Paul Gordon" <paul_gordon@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sounds like a job for the Phaedrus VIOM board....

http://www.phaedrusltd.co.uk/system/index.html

That will happily report up to 16 I/O lines out a COM port as a binary
string, and will IIRC also meet your requirement of operating switched
outputs as well...

HTH

Paul G.



>From: "Philip Coombes" <philip.coombes@xxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
>To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
>Subject: [ukha_d] Alarm I/O --> Serial Port
>Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 10:24:59 +0100
>
>Hi,
>
>I'm helping with a project which needs to access several, up to 12,
>switched
>binary type inputs. The board we are using, which is the canine cajones
in
>every other respect, doesn't really support this but does have a spare
>serial port. Ideally I'd like to be able to knock something up that
muxes
>all the inputs into a parseable serial output. Does anyone know if such
a
>thing exists? Or if not how difficult would it be to knock up? As an
added
>bonus, conversion of serial output to switched output would be even
better
>as well.
>
>Cheers,
>
>Phil,
>
>
>
>
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