Have you tried this? I think you'll find that your USB -> RS232
convertor isn't going to just listen to a usb stream and output it as
RS232. USB devices need to be enumerated. I don't think just giving
one of these dealies +5V will be enough.

Josh
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On 11/2/05, Andre Abelian <aabelian@dnfcontrols.com> wrote:
> have you try USB to serial converters. They are like 30-40 $
> and there are lots of free rs232 software to capture data.
> in between usb just add buffer like 7407. why pay $400

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