We have an electrical test device that measures electrical capacitance. It has a RS-232 port. The device unconditionally broadcasts (spits out) test results at 9600,N,8,1 at about 1hz. The original intent of the device is to be tied to a computer running compatible software.
We need this information to be available in an Allen Bradley Micrologix.
There is a repetitive pattern observed using RS-232 sniffing programs similar to “Hyper-Terminal” but more In-Depth. The data is easily recognizable in HEX or BINARY mode, but the 10 bytes have values above the simple ASCII characters.
We have used the ASCII mode on Micrologix in the past to successfully read in ASCII data, or send out ASCII data, but we cannot read in the data from this electrical tester that falls outside standard ASCII characters.
Any ideas?
Thank you,
Plastic
We need this information to be available in an Allen Bradley Micrologix.
There is a repetitive pattern observed using RS-232 sniffing programs similar to “Hyper-Terminal” but more In-Depth. The data is easily recognizable in HEX or BINARY mode, but the 10 bytes have values above the simple ASCII characters.
We have used the ASCII mode on Micrologix in the past to successfully read in ASCII data, or send out ASCII data, but we cannot read in the data from this electrical tester that falls outside standard ASCII characters.
Any ideas?
Thank you,
Plastic