Systems Enhancement Corporation Power Administrator 800

From: Tothwolf <tothwolf_at_concentric.net>
Date: Wed Jun 4 18:56:00 2003

On Wed, 4 Jun 2003, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
> On Wed, 4 Jun 2003, Geoff wrote:
>
> > have tried to connect to the device using 9600/8/N/1 over the two
> > serial ports (DB-9) using both a straight and null-modem cable, but my
> > terminal emulator senses nothing. A bank of 8 dip switches exists
> > with the label "config." I
>
> Have you considered trying settings other than 9600/8/N/1?

I have some gear that speaks 1200/7/E/2 on the serial port that is used
for configuration. I've found 1200 seems to be very common for simple
configuration or switching type gear, such as UPS and power distribution
devices. I guess this could be due to the fact you can often get away with
much longer cable runs at lower speeds.

Have you opened up the device to see what kind of microcontroller/EPROM(s)
it might contain? I've managed to figure out how to control a few devices
by looking at their EPROM contents.

-Toth
Received on Wed Jun 04 2003 - 18:56:00 BST