Re: (ET) AllTrex On

["Steve Richardson" <scr echoweb net>]

Hi John,

I don't know what the interface is except I know it's not very smart.
Damon wrote the communications software in the controller and we had 
another
programmer write the ControllerPro software.  I'll ask him on Monday how
much info he will release..

Thanks for your input...

Steve


----- Original Message -----
From: "John B Reinhard" <reinharj frontiernet net>
To: "Steve Richardson" <scr echoweb net>
Sent: Saturday, April 10, 2004 10:49 AM
Subject: Re: (ET) AllTrex On


> Hi Steve,
> Typically, the software downloaded is fairly simple - a table of values.
> So, maybe the existing user interface is via Windows XP, but it may be
that
> a simple terminal type program can communicate with your controller ?
> Ask the guy who wrote the software for the controller - not the guy who
did
> the Windows interface software.
>
> Is it simple RS-232 interface?
> Does Windows do a lot of the work to calculate the values for a new data
> table for the controller?
> Or does the controller tell windows what its table data is, and take a
ramp
> rate, or other new parameter, and change its own data table?
>
> I hear a Successful E-20 installation - that means I am closer to 
> ordering
!
> (I also have to swap transmissions and a few other parts (front axle?,
sheet
> metal, batteries, lifts?, etc) between my E-20's - so the controller is
not
> the only thing.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Steve Richardson" <scr echoweb net>
> To: "David Roden (Akron OH USA)" <roden ald net>;
> <elec-trak cosmos phy tufts edu>
> Sent: Saturday, April 10, 2004 12:05 PM
> Subject: Re: (ET) AllTrex On
>
>
> > David,
> >
> > I have tried it on 98 and it won't work .  It's suppose to work on NT.
> I'll
> > be installing NT on my laptop this weekend if my Honey Do list gets
caught
> > up.
> > I am still lobbying for Alltrax to make it usable on all windows
products,
> > but that requires a large investment in capitol to have the software
> > created.  I understand the companies point,  they had to decide on a
> > platform and decided on XP.  But don't give up, I was hoping that a 
> > Palm
> > Pilot or some other small inexpensive hand held could be made to work.
> >
> > Mabey some of our software gurus on the list could help !
> >
> > Steve
> > Alltrax Inc.
> >
>
>
>