Hello,

What are you guys doing for serial connection? Can you use a USB adapter on either scanning software or romulator (TTS DATAMASTER) and not run into any software conflicts?

seems like a fatal flaw, you get real changes but lose datalog

 

I've heard with a USB to 9 pin serial you can use Turbolink, and still have R_T running. As I recall R_T likes the real serial port thou.

No One around here even carries a USB to 9 pin serial thou....

 

I have used USB to serial adapters for both winALDL and Romulator, but not both at the same time (yet). I am running windows XP.

Is Turbolink a windows program or dos? If dos, I don't know if it will work or not, but if you are running it in a dos window on windows XP, I would expect that it would.

R_T definately works with USB to serial on XP.

You can get USB to serial adapters on Ebay for $15-$20 including shipping. I now have three (one for winALDL, one for R_T, and one for wideband O2).

 

you can order them online, or thru your local radioshack or any good computer store should be able to order one...

 

So far I have a maybe RS part no of 26-185.
Do you happen to have any parts no.s?.
One guy mentioned a PalmPilot adapter but it costs like $30.

Anyone have any real part nos. and store?.
TIA

 

If you don't mind ebay,

http://search.ebay.com/search/search...t&BasicSearch=

Watch out for the shipping/handling charges, they are often more than the price of the item. I bought a USB to serial for $0.01 once, and paid $6.95 for shipping. Heck of a deal.

 

I got mine from computer geeks online for $9.99.

 

Found a radio shack 26-183, USB to 9 pn serial adapter, today.
$40, but now I can use the Romulator with the USB port now. Well, at least all seems to read correctly on the ecm bench.
Whew.

Now with Turbolink, I can have a virtual dash, data logging, and R_T all in one laptop.