The serial tower stays on for 3 seconds after the last transmit, during which it can recieve messages. It is woken up when you send data. There is a hack to make it stay on when the RTS pin is on.
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Originally Posted by Gamer2028
I do not have the software in front of me could someone tell him how to switch to Serial using RIS 1.5??
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In RIS 2, it's in the options screen, or when you install the software. If it isn't there and the help file won't tell you, it might not support USB (Though the drivers for the COM/USB thing should set up a virtual COM port).
Try using CommTest from my site. (
http://endeavour.zapto.org/astro73/programs/) The current version has some bugs, I'll tell you in it's fixed.
Send anything out the COM ports (try each one) and look for the green light.