Re: (ET) AllTrex On

["Steve Richardson" <scr echoweb net>]

Hi John again...

I'm sorry, yes it is a RS232 protocol ..

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.
> >
>
>
>