Usb to serial kit

The USB to serial adapter provides an external plug and play RS serial connection with your computer, which allows you to free up your existing serial port. Users have the capability to utilize the adapter with serial port interface in an easy to use environment.

Features: - Supports automatic handshake mode. The driver for Vista is available for download from Microsoft's site. You save. If you find such an adapter your problem will be fixed.

TheSnowman New Member. I had to put a card in mine and it worked great once I did that. I never had any luck with the adapters. Jase New Member.

It takes some fiddling, have you updated the driver from the Omega 5 disk? You'll need to go into the folder and locate it, did you have any instructions with the cable? If not I can scan my set in for you?

Usb to serial conversion I would prefer to to to get the USB connection to work, but If not I will have to get a serial card. I have tried to update the driver from the Omega 5 disk. Using the instructions sent with the adapter, which appear to be for windows 7, I connected the USB to serial adapter but it doesn't show up as new hardware or show up as another USB port. The instructions say to load the drivers from the disk once the new hardware shows on the screen. If you have any different instructions for windows 10 then I would like to get a copy.

Jester Premium Subscriber. What plotter? I know Graphtec plotters take specialized crossover cable to work. I'm guessing you don;t have the Gerber lead which is straight to USB, no adapter. I'd recommend the Gerber lead or as everyone has said buy a serial card for a few dollars and pop it in, very easy, we bought a few of these from Amazon and they work well on our other machines, no hassle, plug and play. Just a datapoint Not all USB-serial converters are created equal, so I've tested different ones for several purposes and found that this one works well for everything so far, including my GSXPlus plotter with the Gerber serial cable Bcrawf New Member.

Is their a driver update for Windows 10 or a work around? Thanks, Bruce Crawford. Automatically found the driver on the 5. The installation manual was more confusing that the actual task was. Omega driver had two choices. Usb to serial, or usb to parallel. Lorie New Member. I have just loaded Omega 3. My Gerber HS15 plus plotter and Edge 2 are not communicating can someone enlighten me as to what I need to do.

Peter Corp said:. Click to expand Dan Murdoch New Member. Omega 6 does not support parallel port just USB, I still have not been able to get the system to run , fortunately I also have a 5 and key as a backup. Will keep you posted as asap. Joe House New Member. With the Gerber USB to serial adapters, you have to go into the device manager and see what port number it is assigned to, then in the Add plotter box, make sure that you're selecting the correct port.

If the port number doesn't show as available in the Add plotter box, go back to the device manager and look under the advanced settings. You should be able to change the assigned port number there.

Many people try to set up the plotter as communicating via USB in Gerber - it doesn't work that way. Select the appropriate com port and you're good to go - this applies to any USB to Serial port adapter for plotters without USB connectivity that I've seen out there.