Yaskawa DriveWizard AC Drive - Manual (Page 54)

Selecting serial comm
method selection sets DriveWizard
™ to
connect to the drive through a PC COM port. Listed below are the possible connection types and
how to set the communication configuration.
Serial Communications
unications in the communication
1. RS232C through PC Port: This is the most common method (only available method in
previous versions of DriveWizard
™) and is used to connect to the drive via its keypad
port. Set the Com port selection to the com port number you have made the physical
connection from the PC to the drive. Leave the Slave Address to 1 unless the slave
address on the drive has been changed such as the communications adapter for
GPD305/J7. The baud rate should also remain at 9600 unless it has been changed.
The keypad ports of G5, V7, and J7 are fixed at 9600 for
baud rate selection. Do not use the 19200 selection if you
2.
s these
devices
s on the market available
in electronics stores and over the Internet. We have tested 2 adapters that are commonly
available and they function 100% with DriveWizard
™:
(a) Dynex P/N DX-UBD9 available at Best Buy stores
(b) Radio Shack P/N 26-183 available at Radio Shack Stores
The USB to serial adapter always comes with a CD of the drivers required to
properly operate the adapter on your particular operating system. Follow the installation
instructions provided with the adapter. It would be a very good idea to go to the
manufacturer’s website to check for the latest driver’s for your operating system.
When the adapter is successfully installed, it will appear in the Windows Device
Manager as another serial port. Refer to Figure 4.27 for how the Dynex adapter appears.
The adapter appears under the PORTS (COM & LPT). In Figure 4.28 you can see that it
is assigned to COM 5. Therefore, to use this device in DriveWizard
™ you would select
COM 5 on the Communications setting window (Figure 4.27).
L
are connected to the keypad port.
RS232C through USB Adapter: This method is becoming more popular as newer PC’s
do not have a hardware serial port but only USB serial ports. DriveWizard
™ treat
the same as a PC hardware RS232C port so that DriveWizard
™ does not know
the difference between a USB to serial adapter or a PC hardware port. The USB to serial
adapter will be assigned a new PC COM port number (usually above 4) when it is
installed in the PC.
There are many manufacturers of USB to serial adapter
Important !
Communications Menu
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