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Old 12-22-2009, 08:28 PM   #2791 (permalink)
NiHaoMike
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Originally Posted by jackbauer View Post
Have to agree that usb is rubbish. Was at an arizona microchip training course a few years ago when they were first bringing out pics with onboard usb. Took the guys a day to get it to send simple ascii characters. Best bet is to get a pci rs232 card if you have a desktop or pcmcia card for a laptop. I have both and work fine with my own projects and rtd explorer. Trouble with most usb to rs232 adaptors is that they are implemented in software.
All of my USB to RS-232 adapters work great, but they're all based on the PL2303 or FTDI chips.

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