ADDER AdderLink Enhanced Features

AdderLink Enhanced Features

The performance and specification of your AdderLink model ALTX/ALRX has been
enhanced with the addition of a 'transparent' serial port. This serial port will
automatically configure itself to the baud rate used by your computer and does not
require configuration. It supports all baud rates and protocols up to 57,600 baud. In
addition, the connector on the XR unit has been changed to enable devices that
would normally have been plugged directly into the computer to be plugged directly
into the XR unit. This enhanced serial port provides improved compatibility with
touch-screens, mice, PLCs and modems.

Summary of Enhanced Features

• Plug devices that would normally be plugged into the computer's 9-way male
COM port connector directly into the 9-way male connector on the AdderLink XR
unit.

• Use a 'straight-through' all lines connected cable (pin 1 to pin 1, pin 2 to pin 2
etc.) from the 9-way female connector on the XL unit to the 9-way male
connector on the computer.

• There is no need to configure the baud rate and protocol of the serial connection
because it will automatically follow the protocol used by the computer and the
peripheral device.

• The enhanced 'transparent' serial port will operate at baud rates up to 57,600
baud.

All AdderLinks fitted with the enhanced serial port have serial numbers preceded by
the letters ALE.

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