Ctouch leads

Having a problem with the programming leads (3) for B/W touch, in the last few weeks have leads that will not connect to the ctouch but when used on other ctouchs work fine, and the reverse is true. My big problem is trying to find the combination that works and dose not work.

dave

 

Dave,

I've been having this problem for years. Every time I ask someone from CIS if other people have reported this problem they tell me no!

 

Ashleigh
More info as requested.
This has only started in the last few months and can be reproduced every time which should help, There is some combination of lead and touch that always work and some combination that never work, swapping the bad lead to a different touch and it will work every time and the reverse is also true.
I have a touch on deck that was made 29 June 2005 and lead that does not work here at moment if there is any more info you require.

Hardware.
Dell Tower or Acer Laptop
Belkin FSU409 USB to serial lead

Piced gives Error 14603
Toolkit Error 3051
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dave

 

Just as a side note, don't mean to hijack the thread but.... I have been looking at getting a new laptop, my old PIII Toshiba is getting tired and has an intermittent LCD display fault.
I was amazed to find that an entry level Toshiba Tecra A3, ~$1500 actually has a serial port and a printer port and Windows XP Professional!!
The computer dealer said that Toshiba had responded to customer concerns and started bringing back serial ports on some of their laptop computers.
So to everyone out there looking at getting a laptop for C-Bus programming, don't despair and put up with a USB to serial adapter, do some shopping around and see if you can find one with a built in serial port.
Regards,
Michael.

 

I can change the ctouch lead(s) till get one that works ok every time - change back to bad one(s) and fails every time again.
But this in not true if I take the bad leads to different ctouchs, they work on some and not others

dave