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Discussion in 'C-Bus Toolkit and C-Gate Software' started by carlg, May 9, 2014.

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    carlg

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    Having problem connecting to a Serial PCI using a USB to Serial (Prolific USB to Serial) convertor with toolkit 1.13.0.
    Toolkit keeps coming back with unable to reset PCI. When it tries to connect you can see the Unit/Coms light flashing so there is activity on the serial side.

    It worked fine before I upgraded to Toolkit 1.13.00 (was 1.11.10).

    It does work if I use the 5500PCU

    I have upgraded the USB to Serial Driver but still does not work.

    Any suggestions please :)
     
    carlg, May 9, 2014
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    If you search the forum you will see people a few people have had problems with Prolific USB to serial adapters.
     
    DarylMc, May 9, 2014
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    Oh no!

    Please please don't use a prolific based converter. They are terrible. The drivers are awful, buggy, and keep changing. To make matters worse, they re-use their USB product ID's so that new products have the same IDs as old - therefore the drivers think an older product is a newer one (or vice versa) - but the old and new are not software compatible.

    If you want an easy life, for about $20 more, use one of the FTDI based converters that you can get from Dontronics.
     
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