SERIAL TO ETHERNET CONVERTER: LEARN THE WORKING PROCESS

by Shonai Moxa Moxa Distributors

A Serial to Ethernet converter is a little electronic gadget which can change over Ethernet IP/TCP bundles to either RS232, RS485 or RS422 serial information signs or the other way around. It is likewise once in a while called a sequential gadget server, and it comes in a few distinct shapes and sizes.

A Serial Ethernet converter can have one sequential port, or it can have various sequential ports, up to 25 ports or more. The standard board mounts Serial Ethernet converter is most normal, yet it is additionally accessible with DIN mounts so it can without much of a stretch be introduced on a standard DIN rail. It is additionally accessible as a remote converter in which case the IP/TCP bundles are transmitted over an IEEE 802.11a/b/g arrange interface.

Some Serial Ethernet converters have an RS232 interface and some have an RS232 and an RS485 interface, yet others have each of the 3 interfaces (RS232, RS485, and RS422) worked in.

Uses of serial Ethernet converter

Most regularly it is utilized for associating a sequential RS232, RS485 or RS422 gadget, for example, a sequential printer, standardized identification scanner, scale, GPS, sensor or some other purchaser or modern gadget with a sequential interface, to a PC over a standard LAN organize. The benefit of this is self-evident; you will almost certainly control, screen and speak with your sequential gadget remotely from a focal PC. No compelling reason to walk right down to the opposite end of the manufacturing plant to check your sequential gadget.

Working process of serial Ethernet converter

The hardware inside the converter can change over IP/TCP bundles to sequential information and furthermore convert sequential information to IP/TCP parcels, so it works in the two headings.

Before you can begin utilizing the converter, you have to introduce driver programming on your PC. This driver programming is likewise called virtual COM programming since it makes a virtual COM port in your PC's Device Manager when the converter is associated with your PC. Virtual COM programming is generally included with the converter, at any rate in the event that you purchase from a legitimate dealer.

Once the virtual COM port has been made by the Serial to Ethernet converter driver programming the COM port will appear in your PC's Device Manager as though it was a standard worked in COM port, be that as it may, it really is the COM port in the converter at the opposite end of the Ethernet.