CONTENTS I. Summary................2 II. Functions................2 III. Hardware installment and application......2 IV. Performance parameters..........3 V. Connector and signal............3 VI. Communication Connection Chart......4 VII. Problems and troubleshooting.........5 VIII. Product image...............5 IX. Driver installation............13...
USB of a computer to RS-232 equipments. UT-860 is a universal USB/RS-232 interface converter. No external power supply needed. Compatible with USB and RS-232 standards, UT-860 is capable to perform the conversion from single-ended USB signal into UART signal of RS-232.
VII. Problems and troubleshooting 1. Data communication failure A. Check to make sure USB cable is OK. B. Make sure RS-232 output interface connection is correct. C. Make sure power supply is OK. D. Make sure the wire terminal connection is OK. E.
IX. Driver installation Once a UT-860 converter is connected with the USB port, the following window will pop up. Select Install from a list or specific location (Advanced), , then click Next to continue. Then a window pops up to choose search and installation options as the following, please select Don't search.
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Then a window pops up for Hardware Type listing, pull the scroll bar to select Universal Serial Bus Controllers and click Next to continue. In the following Select the device driver you want to install for this hardware, click Have Disk to continue.
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In the Install From Disk window, click Browse to select the path of the device driver. In the Locate File window, select CD path, then choose the directory Driver and click the button Open or double click to open.
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Select the driver model as the following, then click the directory UT-860 to open, select PC Driver directory. Select the applicable operation system, e.g. select and double click to open WINXP.2003.2000 for Windows XP.
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Select the file FTDIBUS.INF, then click Open. In the following Install From Disk window, just click OK.
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Installation information has been located by the system as the following, just click Next to continue. USB installation information. The following shows that the USB Serial Converter installation is finished, then the system wizard will detect USB Serial Port automatically.
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The following is the Found New Hardware Wizard for USB Serial Port, click Next as for USB Serial Converter, the same steps are omitted here. Installation information has been located by the system as the following, just click Next to continue. USB installation information.
The following shows the USB Serial Port installation is finished. Up to now, all the drivers for UT-860 are installed. After installation, you can open Device Manager to check it there are COM ports available now, if no USB drivers have been installed previously. System default COM ports are COM 3, 4, 5 and 6 as illustrated below.
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