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Tripp Lite U209-008 manual

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    Owner’ s Manual W ARRANTY REGISTRA TION: register online today f or a chance to win a FREE T ripp Lite product— www .tripplite.com/warranty U209-004 USB to 4-P or t Serial Adapter U209-008 USB to 8-P or t Serial Adapter 1111 W . 35th St., Chicago, IL 60609 USA Customer Support: (773) 869-1234 www .tripplite.com Copyright © 2006 T ripp Lite. Al[...]

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    2 T ab le of contents T able of contents .............................................................................................................. ........................2 Figures ........................................................................................................................ ..........................2 Intr oduction .[...]

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    3 Intr oduction This manual describes how to set up and install your USB-to-Serial Adapter . U209-004 and U209-008 provide four or eight independent RS-232 serial interfaces to the host PC via the Universal Serial Bus (USB) port. Each adapter uses high-speed UAR T s and deep FIFOs, allowing each channel to obtain data rates up to 921.6 kbps. The ad[...]

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    4 Installing the USB-to-Serial Adapter (continued) 4. Insert the installation CD into the CD-ROM drive. This is the CD that shipped with the product. 5. Select the "Advanced" option. Click the Next button. The Choose your search and installation options prompt displays (figure 2). 6. Select Search removable media (floppy , CD- ROM). If ne[...]

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    5 Installing the USB-to-Serial Adapter (continued) 9. Press the Finish button to continue. The USB adapter installation is complete. Figur e 5 - W indows XP Finished installing prompt indicates that the adapter has been successfully installed. Installing under Windows 2000 Follow these steps to install the USB-to-Serial adapter under W indows 2000.[...]

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    6 Installing the USB-to-Serial Adapter (continued) 5. Insert the installation CD into your CD- ROM drive. This is the CD that shipped with the adapter . 6. Select Search for a suitable driver for my device (recommended). 7. Click the Next button. The Locate driver files prompt displays (figure 8). 8 Select CD-ROM drives. Y ou can also choose to spe[...]

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    7 Installing the USB-to-Serial Adapter (continued) Uninstalling under Windows 2000 or Windows XP Follow these steps in the event that you need to uninstall or reinstall the USB-to-Serial software. 1. From the Control Panel, select System. 2. Press the Hardware tab. 3. Click on Device Manager . 4. Scroll down to Multi-port serial adapters and expand[...]

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    8 Making external connections (continued) T esting DB-9 serial ports in HyperT erminal This section explains how to test the functionality of your USB-to-Serial adapter using HyperT erminal. An RS-232 loopback connector is included with the USB-to-Serial adapter . Running HyperT erminal 1. Attach the loopback connector to the DB-9 Connector . 2. La[...]

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    9 Using Device Mana ger (continued) 1. With Device Manager open, expand the Multi-port serial adapters device group. Y our USB-to-Serial adapter should appear in the list. 2. Double click the USB-to-Serial adapter . The Properties dialog box opens and displays the General tab (figure 14). 3. Click the USB Serial Ports Advanced Options tab to view t[...]

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    10 Figur e 16 - USB Ports Settings box, which lets you set the default port settings, view the advanced options, and restor e the default settings. Using Device Mana ger (continued) 8. Click the Port settings tab. The Port Settings dialog box displays (figure 16). 9. This Port Settings tab allows you to set default values for the following: • Bit[...]

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    11 Using Device Mana ger (continued) 14 . Click the Driver Details button to view detailed driver information. The Driver File Details dialog box opens (figure 19). 15 . Driver File Details dialog box displays the following information: • Provider • File version • Copyright • Digital Signer (W indows XP only) This is the version of the inst[...]

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    12 Appendix A Specifications Bus interface USB Specification 2.0, high speed 480 Mbps. Backward compatible with USB 1.1 full speed 12 Mbps. Baud rates Up to 921,600 bps. Factors impacting performance include: • Hardware flow control • Horsepower of the host computer • Quality of and length of cables • Continuous or "bursty" data P[...]