USB to Serial Port Converters

[sdavmor]

Knute Johnson wrote:
> On 2/27/2010 4:53 AM, Karl F. Larsen wrote:
>> A year or two ago I bought one of these, with CE  FC as the maker
>> of this device. It does not work well at all.
>> 
>> I need one that reliably puts 5 volts from the USB onto the 
>> proper serial port pin. I also need to use the serial port 
>> XON/XOF flow control.
>> 
>> Can anyone give me a clue as to what to buy? My old one provides
>> the 5 volts for about 15 seconds and quits.
>> 
>> 
>> 73 Karl
>> 
>> 
>> 
> 
> Unless you have a laptop, why don't you just buy a real serial port
> for your computer.  It will have the appropriate 15 volts on the
> signal pins too.

LAVA out of Canada does a fine range of PCI & PCI Express cards for
genuine serial / parallel and combo ports. I've used them for several
years.

<http://www.lavalink.com/>
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